Volume : III, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Shale Gas an Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resource: Overview

A. Boruah, Dr Md Abdul Rasheed, Dr Syed Z. Hassan

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The commercial shale gas exploration requires exhaustive investigations of all the shale rock properties of hydrocarbon beå shale beds having significant organic matter and maturity. This paper presents the systematic approach using integrated methodology of geological, geophysical, geochemical, geomechanical etc for shale gas resources evaluation. It also attempts to discuss the sedimentology of shale rock, gas generation and retention mechanisms within the shale rock. Thermal maturity, sorbed gas fraction, reservoir thickness and geographic extent, total organic content, mineralogy, water saturation, fracture types, reservoir heterogeneity etc which are the primary controlling factors of shale gas production. But all the parameters may show wide variations in different shale gas systems and even most of the world’s commercial shale gas reservoirs exhibit wide range of these parameters which makes it difficult for establishing the sweet spots for shale gas exploration and exploitation.

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A. Boruah, Dr Md Abdul Rasheed, Dr Syed Z. Hassan Shale Gas an Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resource: Overview International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 9 September 2014

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