carbonate content utica shale play book study - canonsburg, pa - july 14, 2015 taury smith –...
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74NY-5 Mineral core from Northeast part of play area Core gamma ray and TOC logs to right - more thanTRANSCRIPT
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CARBONATE CONTENT
Utica Shale Play Book Study - Canonsburg, PA - July 14, 2015
Taury Smith – Smithstrat LLC
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SEM Images from 74NY5
• Have had 8 samples ion-milled and imaged by Juergen Schieber
• His assessment is that almost all of the porosity is organic porosity with much less common intra-clay porosity
• He said these are some of the best-developed organic pores he has seen
• High thermal maturity in this area (Ro>3)
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74NY-5 Mineral core from Northeast part of play area
Core gamma ray and TOC logs to right - more than
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170 ft Organic Pores from Lower Indian Castle 2% TOC
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240 feet – Lower Indian Castle - SEM shows that these rocks that look like shale are actually very grainy – this too has organic pores (2.3% TOC)
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292 feet - More well developed organic pores in Lower Indian Castle (=Point Pleasant in OH) (1.8% TOC)
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380 feet well developed organic pore from upper Dolgeville Formation thin organic-rich bed (1.9% TOC)
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566 feet Flat Creek (=Lexington in OH) has organic pores but also some minor porosity between clay particles (1.5% TOC)
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710 feet - Organic pores between clasts in Logana Equivalent (2% TOC)
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730 feet – clastic looking rock in Logana equivalent with well developed organic pores (2.5% TOC)