Stratigraphy, geochemistry and reservoir quality of Middle and Upper Devonian shale formations in British Columbia and Alberta

我们建议对不列颠哥伦比亚省东北部（霍恩河页岩序列）和阿尔伯塔（Duvernay组）的泥盆纪页岩进行综合地层学、地球化学和岩石物理分析。 本研究的目标是开发（1）加拿大西部泥盆系页岩的储层模型和岩石物理数据库，以及（2）可应用于其他地方的页岩储层勘探和开发模型。 这些地层具有大量的长岩心、密集的威尔斯井网和现代测井曲线，以及明确的盆地结构，提供了一个出色的研究机会。 页岩储层现在被认为是天然气和石油的主要资源，足以大大重塑加拿大的资源基础。 然而，控制碳氢化合物如何储存在这些储层中以及如何从这些储层中流动的性质-孔隙度、渗透率、流体饱和度和岩石机械强度-知之甚少，并且石油和天然气的回收相对低效、昂贵且有风险。 这项研究的主要目的是开发地质和岩石物理模型，使这些资源的开发更有效，并减少环境和社会足迹。 这项研究也将有助于我们了解古海洋学和沉积在地球历史的关键时刻，括号中的五个主要分支之一，并与陆地植物的主要传播相一致。 该研究将有五个主要组成部分，涉及地球科学，物理学和工程学的教师和学生。 我们将：（1）建立地层沉积模型;（2）建立详细的地球化学和岩石物理数据库，为预测井控区以外的岩石特性提供合理的方案;（3）建立孔隙系统地质统计模型，预测井控区以外的储层属性;（5）建立地质力学模型。

We propose to carry out a integrated stratigraphic, geochemical and petrophysical analysis of Devonian shale formations in northeastern British Columbia (the Horn River shale sequence) and Alberta (Duvernay Formation). The objectives of this research are to develop (1) reservoir models and petrophysical databases of the western Canada Devonian shales and (2) exploration and development models for shale reservoirs that can be applied elsewhere. These formations, with numerous long cores, a dense network of wells with modern well logs suites, and a well-defined basin architecture, provide an outstanding research opportunity. Shale reservoirs are now recognized as major resources of natural gas and oil, sufficient to substantially reshape Canada's resource base. However the properties that control how hydrocarbons are stored in and flow from these reservoirs - porosity, permeability, fluid saturations and rock mechanical strength - are poorly known, and recovery of oil and gas is relatively inefficient, expensive, and risky. The major aim of this research is to develop geological and petrophysical models that will make development of these resources more effective and reduce the environmental and social footprint. This research will also contribute to our understanding of paleoceanography and sedimentation during a critical time in earth history, bracketing one of the five major extinctions and coincident with the major spread of land plants. The research will have five major components, involving faculty and students in earth science, physics, and engineering. We will: (1) Develop depositional models for the formation; (2) Create a detailed geochemical and petrophysical databases that will provide a rational scheme for projecting rock properties away from areas of well control; (3) Develop geostatistical models for pore systems and for projecting reservoir attributes away from wellbore control; (5) Develop geomechanical models.