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Blach, T. | Radlinski, A.P. | Edwards, D.S. | Boreham, C.J. | Gilbert, E.P.
Abstract
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements were performed on 32 rock samples from the southern Georgina Basin, central Australia to assess nanopore anisotropy. Anisotropy can only be determined from oriented core material, hence the samples were cut perpendicular to bedding in cores selected from three wells that intersect the base of the hydrocarbon-bearing, organic-rich middle Cambrian Arthur Creek Formation; the latter is the source rock for both unconventional and conventional plays in the basin. The evolution of anisotropy of two-dimensional SANS intensity profiles with depth (for pore diameters ranging from 10 nm to 100 nm) was quantified and correlated with SANS intensity and total organic carbon (TOC) content. Our results confirm hydrocarbon generation at the base of the Arthur Creek Formation. The nanopore anisotropy in the basal Arthur Creek Formation at the well locations CKAD0001 (oil generation window) and MacIntyre 1 (late oil generation window) varies roughly according to normal compaction. When the Arthur Creek Formation is in the gas window, as sampled at Baldwin 1, there is a strong (negative) correlation between the average vertical-to-horizontal pore shape anisotropy and SANS intensity. The results indicate that unconventional gas production from organic-rich regions of over mature shale may be adversely affected by abnormal pore compaction.
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- EARTH SCIENCESGEOCHEMISTRY
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- unconventional hydrocarbons
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- source rock
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- nanopore anisotropy
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- Georgina Basin, middle Cambrian Arthur Creek Formation
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- SANS
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