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- Sedimentology: facies character, distribution and their controls
- Stratigraphy: regional and reservoir-scale facies architecture
- Diagenesis: clay and silica diagenesis, compaction, cementation, and fracturing
- Pore systems: imaging, size, abundance, and distribution
- Petrophysics: wireline log calibration and upscaling
- Organic geochemistry: kerogen type and distribution
- Inorganic geochemistry: chemostratigraphy, depositional and diagenetic controls on elemental composition
- Hydrocarbon chemistry: origin, storage, distribution, saturation, and flow
- Fluid flow: measurement and modeling of nano-scale permeability and flow
- Rock physics: controls on variations in rock strength
- Engineering: analysis of completion practices, and their relation to rock attributes
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| Sample prep by Ar-ion milling and imaging by FE-SEM allows characterization of pores systems at the nano-scale. From Ruppell and Loucks (2008) |
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| Basin-scale stratigraphic and depositional models provide key context for up-scaling of results at smaller scales. From Loucks and Ruppel (2007) |
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Systems Being Studied
Paleozoic
- Atoka
- Bakken
- Barnett
- Bone Spring
- Marcellus
- New Albany
- Smithwick
- Spraberry/Dean
- Wolfcamp
- "WolfBerry"
- Woodford
- Zechstein Permian
Mesozoic
- Eagle Ford
- Haynesville
- Pearsall
- Tuscaloosa
Cenozoic/Recent
- Frio
- Wilcox
- Nankai accretionary prism
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- Nano-pore analysis: Field-emission SEM microscopy, Ar-ion milling, Atomic force microscopy
- Elemental and mineralogical composition: Field-emission SEM, cathodoluminescence, X-ray mapping, and light microscopy; electron microprobe, XRD, XRF, stable isotope analysis
- Fluid-flow modeling: atomic force microscopy
- Organic matter and hydrocarbon analysis: Rock Eval, GC, GCMS,
- δ13C, SARA, vitrinite reflectance, kerogen analysis
- Attribute distribution: integrated outcrop, core, and geophysical analysis, X-ray CT
- Rock mechanics and fractures: integrated core study and basin history modeling.
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