Welcome to Petroleum Geology Forums

This is a free online community that aims to bring petroleum professionals and geologists together and share valuable knowledge. Registration is easy so become a member now for instant free access.
  • Petroleum Geologists can stay up to date with industry related topics and exchange ideas and concepts.
  • Upstream Oil and Gas Consultants get a chance to share their expertise and gain exposure to land future projects.
  • Geology students and graduates can join the discussion and get into contact with potential future employees.

  >> Register Now





Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 
Log response in Shale Gas 
Author Message

Joined: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:13 pm
Posts: 20
Post Log response in Shale Gas
Can someone tell me what Shale Gas is ? Does it a gas trapped in Shale ? How Neutron, density and sonic, resistivity logs behave in shale gas zone. ??


Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:16 am
Profile

Joined: Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:11 pm
Posts: 3
Post Re: Log response in Shale Gas
High GR, should be above 100 API (400-5000)
Density: Low (< 2.58)
Neutron: High
Sonic: High transit time
Resistivity: Higher than in normal shales


Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:13 am
Profile

Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:33 am
Posts: 6
Post Re: Log response in Shale Gas
to the first part of your question:
Shale gas is gas that has been generated in organic rich shales due to burial (high temperatures and pressures), and has not all been expelled out of the shale into more permeable rocks, such as reservoir sandstones or limestones. Such shales often give good gas shows on mud logs while drilling through them. In the past, when tested, they would give a short blow of gas because their permeability is very very low.
To be able to produce at economic rates, they need to be extensively fractured by high pressure fracking methods. However, once the gas in the artificial fractures has been depleted, the initial production declines rapidly, due to lack of permeability in the matrix.
There is an ongoing debate among geologists about whether the full life-cycle economics are profitable. Government regulators (e.g. SEC) are reviewing gas shale projects to find out if investors are being misled or not.
There“s a lot been written about gas shales. Let me know if you would like me to send you some references.


Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:30 am
Profile

Joined: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:24 pm
Posts: 19
Post Re: Log response in Shale Gas
agganitk wrote:
Can someone tell me what Shale Gas is ? Does it a gas trapped in Shale ? How Neutron, density and sonic, resistivity logs behave in shale gas zone. ??


Shale gas refers to in situ hydrocarbon gas present in organic rich, fine grained, sedimentary rocks (shale and associated lithofacies) . Gas is generated and stored in situ in gas shales as both sorbed gas (on organic matter) and free gas (in fractures or pores). As
such, gas shales are self-sourced reservoirs. This is a class of continuous petroleum system in which shale that generated the gas also functions as low matrix permeability and low porosity reservoir rock. In terms of its chemical composition, shale gas is
typically a dry gas composed primarily of methane (at least 90 percent methane), but some formations do produce wet gas.

_________________
SHAKEEL AHMAD
EXPLORATION GEOLOGIST
My Blogs:
Latest Petrophysics: http://petphy.blogspot.com
G & G Software Videos: http://petroleumsoft.blogspot.com
Petroleum Geology Downloads: http://geoilam.blogspot.com/


Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:42 pm
Profile WWW
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 


Related topics 
 Topics   Author   Replies   Views   Last post 
There are no new unread posts for this topic. Attachment(s) Den & Neu log response

agganitk

1

662

Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:08 am

PetroBoss View the latest post

There are no new unread posts for this topic. Modeling sonic log from resistivity log

Kris_10

7

1523

Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:19 am

Kris_10 View the latest post

There are no new unread posts for this topic. porosity in gas shale calculation

Anulacp

5

1584

Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:28 pm

naveedtells View the latest post

There are no new unread posts for this topic. Log normalization

bezoarb

0

18

Fri May 17, 2013 10:43 pm

bezoarb View the latest post

There are no new unread posts for this topic. Attachment(s) Density & Neutron log

agganitk

5

3634

Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:32 am

Aliyev View the latest post

 



Search for:
Jump to:  


Contact || © EPGeology.com. || Powered by phpBB

phpBB SEO