Investigation of the relationship between organic porosity and thermal maturity in the Marcellus shale

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Gas Conference 2011, UGC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 764-767

  Curtis, Mark E ^a   Ambrose, Ray J ^a,b   Sondergeld, Carl H ^a   Rai, Chandra S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Devon Energy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; HYDROCARBONS; ION BEAMS; ORGANIC CARBON; POROSITY; REFLECTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; MARCELLUS SHALES; NANO-SCALE PORES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC POROSITIES; THERMAL MATURITY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

SHALE GAS;

EID: 80052398960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/144370-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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