2022 Meeting Resources

Annual Meeting

Meeting Highlights

  • Delaware Basin - focused studies highlighting geological controls on porosity and fluid saturations
    across Wolfcamp and Bone Spring Formations. 2nd Bone Spring Lime characterization in Reeves and
    Pecos County, Delaware Basin
  • Hydrocarbon geochemistry, expulsion, migration and oil saturation studies in Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford
    Shale, Wolfcamp and Bone Spring Formations
  • Fluid flow in nanopore systems
  • Water imbibition, wettability, and gas relative permeability in mudrock systems

Meeting Agenda
Day 1: Monday, April 11th, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Technical Session
Reservoir Architecture and Attributes I: Permian Basin I

  
  Video
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction and focus of MSRL Permian Basin Research projects – Toti Larson
Document Video 9:00 – 9:30 Third Bone Spring and Wolfcamp XY - Loving, Ward and Reeves Counties. Machine learning core to wireline reservoir characterizations and integration of porosity into chemofacies models - Toti Larson, Tongwei Zhang, Rob Reed, Sheng Peng, and James Greene
Document Video 9:30 – 10:00 Pore systems analysis – Petrography, SEM pore systems, and mineralogy across a transect of the Third Bone Spring Sand - Rob Reed
Document Video 10:15 – 10:45 Mobile oil estimate with integrated method of geochemistry and N2 adsorption in mudrocks of Third Bone Spring Sand and Wolfcamp X, Delaware Basin - Tongwei Zhang
Document Video 10:45 – 11:15 Southern Delaware Basin - Lithofacies characterization of the Third Bone Spring Sand and Wolfcamp A&B, Pecos County, Texas - Lucy Ko
Document Video 11:15 – 11:45 Comparative studies of gas geochemistry and oil migration in Third Bone Spring Sand and Wolfcamp A, Delaware Basin - Tongwei Zhang

Reservoir Architecture and Attributes II: Permian Basin II

  Document
  Video
2:30 – 3:00 Characterization of the 2nd and 3rd Bone Spring Lime, Delaware Basin - Lucy Ko
Document Video 3:00 – 3:45 Pore systems and diagenesis in 2nd and 3rd Bone Spring Lime - Lucy Ko, Rob Reed, and Priyanka Periwal
Document Video 3:45 – 4:15 Informing drill cuttings analysis with core-based measurements – a cost effective approach to expand reservoir characterizations where core is unavailable – Toti Larson, Lucy Ko, Evan J. Sivil, and Walaa Ali

Day 2: Tuesday, April 12th, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Technical Session
Porosity, Permeability, Fluid flow. Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Produced Oil Geochemistry and Chemofacies

  
  Video
8:30 – 8:45 Introduction and focus of MSRL permeability and fluid flow studies – Toti Larson
Document Video 8:45 – 9:15 Nano-to-cm-scale imaging study on water imbibition in shale oil rocks – Sheng Peng
Document Video 9:15 – 9:45 Wettability and thermal maturity – Sheng Peng and Lucy Ko
Document Video 9:45 – 10:15 Gas relative permeability under different pressures and saturations – Sheng Peng
Document Video 10:30 – 11:00 Produced oil geochemistry results Part I: Eagle Ford Shale – Xun Sun
Document Video 11:00 – 11:30 Geochemistry of produced oil from Austin Chalk and oil sources, south Texas – Tongwei Zhang
Document Video 11:30 – 12:00 CorePy: Machine learning integration of core and wireline data from the Eagle Ford Group and Austin Chalk along a transect across the Maverick Basin and Stuart City Reef margin – Toti Larson, J. Evan Sivil, and Priyanka Periwal

Permeability, Fluid Flow Modeling, and Role of Clay Minerals

  Document
  Video
2:00 – 2:30 Pore scale two phase water gas flow in shale – Farzam Javadpour
Document Video 2:30 – 3:00 CO2-oil interactions at the nanoscale – Farzam Javadpour
Document Video 3:00 – 3:30 The effects of trapped bubbles on water slip flow – Farzam Javadpour
Document Video 3:30 – 4:00 Pore Systems in Mudrocks Involving Clay Minerals: What We Know, Where We Can Go – Rob Reed

Posters

  Poster 1 Larson - Delaware Basin Bone Spring - 2022
Poster 2 Reed - Haynesville
Poster 3 Ko - 2022 MSRL poster LEF cores
Poster 4 Zhang - Midland basin crude project
Poster 5 Zhang - Experimental simulations of CH4 and CO2 storage
Poster 6 Ko - 2022 EF Pore and OM Evolution
Poster 7 Eagle Ford Cross Section
Poster 8 Delaware Basin Cross Section

Short Courses

Short Course I: Characterization of Mudrock Systems Series I - December 1, 2022

Document
Video
8:00 – 9:15

A workflow to upscale core characterizations to basin scale models – Toti Larson

  • Tools to build core-based training datasets for machine learning workflows
  • Techniques to predict rock facies and their attributes from wireline log models
  • Case study: Wolfcamp and Third Bone Spring Sand, northern Reeves and Ward Co.
Document
Video
9:30 – 10:15

Characterizing grains, cements, and pores in fine-grained sedimentary rocks – Robert Reed

  • Characterizing authigenic and detrital grain types in mudrocks
  • The effect of cement type and diagenesis on rock mechanics in mudrocks
  • Characterizing pore types and their distribution to better understand permeability
Document
Video
10:30 – 11:45

Quantitative thin-section and SEM petrography in mudrocks – Lucy Ko

  • Defining representative areas of interest and approaches to scale measurements
  • The impact of grain size and distribution, and fabric on porosity and permeability
  • Identifying the impact of clay mineralogy and OM content and their distributions
Video  

Invited lecture – Kitty Milliken

  • Mudrock heterogeneity, rock properties, and reservoir quality – two decades of advances

Short Course II: Characterization of Mudrock Systems Series II - December 2, 2022

Document
Video
8:00 – 9:30

Pore system and permeability characterization of mudrock systems – Sheng Peng

  • Characterizing and measuring pore connectivity, size distribution, and porosity
  • Permeability and porosity measurements and relationships
  • Understanding wettability in mixed carbonate siliciclastic systems
Document
Video
9:45 – 10:45

Measuring oil and water saturation in mudrock core samples – Tongwei Zhang

  • Core-based workflow to determine mobile and immobile oil using programmed pyrolysis
  • Calculating lost oil and water by integrating N2 adsorption techniques
  • Case study: Third Bone Spring Sand and Wolfcamp XY, Loving County
Document
Video
11:00 – 11:45

Liquid hydrocarbon geochemistry – Xun Sun

  • Organic-matter source, depositional history and thermal maturity
  • Time-lapse oil geochemistry and production allocation
  • Produced fluids geochemistry to constrain basin modeling
Video  

Invited lecture – Kitty Milliken

  • Mudrock heterogeneity, rock properties, and reservoir quality – two decades of advances

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