13: A Diagenetic Study of the Wolfcamp Shale in the Southeast Midland Basin, West Texas: A Petrographic and SEM Study of Two Cores
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Published:January 31, 2020
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Alyssa K. Wickard, R. Douglas Elmore, Gerhard W. Heij, 2020. "A Diagenetic Study of the Wolfcamp Shale in the Southeast Midland Basin, West Texas: A Petrographic and SEM Study of Two Cores", Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks, Wayne K. Camp, Kitty L. Milliken, Kevin Taylor, Neil Fishman, Paul C. Hackley, Joe H. S. Macquaker
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ABSTRACT
The lower Permian Wolfcamp Shale in the Permian Basin is a major unconventional resource play composed of organic-rich, siliceous and calcareous mudstones interbedded with carbonate turbidites and debrites. Using two cores that comprise the Wolfcamp Shale near the eastern margin of the Midland Basin, this study reconstructs the complex diagenetic history of both the mudstone and carbonate facies. These cores were analyzed using petrographic and SEM techniques to test if the Wolfcamp Shale was an open or closed system and to characterize diagenetic processes that impact reservoir characteristics, such as porosity types, porosity distribution, permeability pathways, and mechanical brittleness....
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Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks
GeoRef
- allochems
- authigenic minerals
- brittleness
- burial
- calcareous composition
- carbonates
- cementation
- clastic rocks
- cores
- diagenesis
- early diagenesis
- electron microscopy data
- fluid inclusions
- fractures
- framboidal texture
- inclusions
- Lower Permian
- matrix
- mechanical properties
- Midland Basin
- migration
- mudstone
- New Mexico
- Paleozoic
- paragenesis
- Permian
- Permian Basin
- petrography
- petroleum
- porosity
- pyrite
- sedimentary rocks
- SEM data
- shale
- siliceous composition
- solution
- sulfides
- Texas
- textures
- thin sections
- turbidite
- United States
- West Texas
- whole rock
- Wolfcampian
- debrites