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Uncovering potential of seismic for reservoir characterization in Canadian oil sands 揭示地震对加拿大油砂储层表征的潜力
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.35767/GSCPGBULL.67.4.283
O. Babak, J. Gallop
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引用次数: 0
Utilizing sedimentary process-based models as training images for multipoint facies simulations 利用基于沉积过程的模型作为多点相模拟的训练图像
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.35767/GSCPGBULL.67.4.217
I. Aarnes, H. Vegt, R. Hauge, B. Fjellvoll, K. Nordahl
{"title":"Utilizing sedimentary process-based models as training images for multipoint facies simulations","authors":"I. Aarnes, H. Vegt, R. Hauge, B. Fjellvoll, K. Nordahl","doi":"10.35767/GSCPGBULL.67.4.217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/GSCPGBULL.67.4.217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.35767/GSCPGBULL.67.4.217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49624790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Bayesian artificial intelligence for geologic prediction: Fracture case study, Horn River Basin 地质预测中的贝叶斯人工智能:以合恩河流域裂缝为例
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.141
S. Agar, W. Li, R. Goteti, Dawn Jobe, Shuo Zhang
{"title":"Bayesian artificial intelligence for geologic prediction: Fracture case study, Horn River Basin","authors":"S. Agar, W. Li, R. Goteti, Dawn Jobe, Shuo Zhang","doi":"10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.141","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A Bayesian Belief Network (BN) has been developed to predict fractures in the subsurface during the early stages of oil and gas exploration. The probability of fractures provides a first-order proxy for spatial variations in fracture intensity at a regional scale. Nodes in the BN, representing geologic variables, were linked in a directed acyclic graph to capture key parameters influencing fracture generation over geologic time. The states of the nodes were defined by expert judgment and conditioned by available datasets. Using regional maps with public data from the Horn River Basin in British Columbia, Canada, predictions for spatial variations in the probability of fractures were generated for the Devonian Muskwa shale. The resulting BN analysis was linked to map-based predictions via a geographic information system. The automated process captures human reasoning and improves this through conditional probability calculations for a complex array of geologic influences. A comparison between inferred high fracture intensities and the locations of wells with high production rates suggests a close correspondence. While several factors could account for variations in production rates from the Muskwa shale, higher fracture densities are a likely influence. The process of constructing and cross-validating the BN supports a consistent approach to predict fracture intensities early in exploration and to prioritize data needed to improve the prediction. As such, BNs provide a mechanism to support alignment within exploration groups. As exploration proceeds, the BN can be used to rapidly update predictions. While the BN does not currently represent time-dependent processes and cannot be applied without adjustment to other regions, it offers a fast and flexible approach for fracture prediction in situations characterized by sparse data.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49018729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Revised biostratigraphic and thermal alteration interpretations for the Paleozoic of the Hopedale Basin, offshore Labrador, Canada 加拿大拉布拉多近海Hopedale盆地古生代生物地层和热蚀变订正解释
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.185
N. Bingham-Koslowski, M. Miller, T. McCartney, J. Carey
{"title":"Revised biostratigraphic and thermal alteration interpretations for the Paleozoic of the Hopedale Basin, offshore Labrador, Canada","authors":"N. Bingham-Koslowski, M. Miller, T. McCartney, J. Carey","doi":"10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.67.3.185","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Paleozoic rocks occur in seven wells in the Hopedale Basin, offshore Labrador (Hopedale E-33, South Hopedale L-39, Tyrk P-100, Gudrid H-55, Roberval K-92, Indian Harbour M-52, and Freydis B-87), where they represent erosional remnants primarily associated with Cretaceous syn-rift half grabens. Previous palynological studies have reported a range of ages for the Paleozoic in these wells, including Ordovician, Devonian, Carboniferous, and undifferentiated Paleozoic. Palynological analyses in the present study confirm that recovery is limited, primarily due to the predominance of lithologies that hinder palynomorph preservation, specifically dolostones. Palynomorphs (predominantly acritarchs and chitinozoans) have been analyzed from new and archived samples from the seven wells and have, for the first time, produced consistent age determinations for the Paleozoic strata in all wells: palynomorph assemblages considered in place indicate a Middle to Late Ordovician age. Thermal maturity was determined from Ordovician acritarchs and leiospheres observed in the Gudrid H-55, Roberval K-92, Indian Harbour M-52, and Freydis B-87 wells, with thermal alteration indices (TAI) ranging from approximately 5+ to 6+ (dry gas). Carboniferous miospores are present from Paleozoic strata in the southern Hopedale Basin wells, where their TAI values range from 3+ to 4. These miospores are interpreted as contaminants introduced into the samples via cavings or as drilling mud contamination. The data presented here provides new biostratigraphic constraints for the Paleozoic of the Hopedale Basin (Middle to Late Ordovician), facilitates the correlation of the Paleozoic intervals in these wells, and enables the consideration of Labrador margin Lower Paleozoic strata in regional studies as well as in paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46335297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Facies associations and depositional environments of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate marginal marine succession: The Lower Carnian (Upper Triassic) middle Charlie Lake Formation, Kobes-Blueberry area, British Columbia, Canada 混合硅质碎屑碳酸盐岩边缘海相层序的相组合和沉积环境:加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省科贝斯蓝莓地区下卡尼阶(上三叠纪)中查理湖组
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.117
Simone Booker, S. Hubbard, C. Rommens, J. Zonneveld
{"title":"Facies associations and depositional environments of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate marginal marine succession: The Lower Carnian (Upper Triassic) middle Charlie Lake Formation, Kobes-Blueberry area, British Columbia, Canada","authors":"Simone Booker, S. Hubbard, C. Rommens, J. Zonneveld","doi":"10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.117","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Upper Triassic (Carnian) Charlie Lake Formation in northeastern British Columbia, Canada is a heterolithic mixed siliciclastic-carbonate succession of dolomite dolomitic siltstone, well-sorted sandstone, bioclastic sandstone, and anhydrite. This succession is unusual in that it records the only significant non-marine interval in the Triassic of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. In the Kobes-Altares-Blueberry area, moderately abundant core are available through the middle members of the Charlie Lake Formation. All available core were analyzed in order to interpret the depositional setting of constituent members and identify reservoir quality lithofacies and horizons.\u0000 The middle Charlie Lake Formation in the Kobes-Altares-Blueberry area was deposited in an arid coastal setting. Sixteen lithofacies were identified and placed in three lithofacies assemblages and the latter characterize three depositional settings: coastal salina/playa, aeolian dune, and proximal marine ramps. The coastal salina/playa lithofacies assemblage is heterolithic, and is dominated by dolomitic and anhydritic facies. Depositional subenvironments include intertidal flat, ephemeral lagoon, shore proximal ephemeral lake, sabkha and supratidal paleosol. Potential reservoir lithofacies in this assemblage includes peloidal to stromatolitic dolomitic siltstone deposited in lagoonal and intertidal flat settings. The aeolian dune lithofacies assemblage preserves the movement of small, shore-proximal dunes and associated interdune successions. Well-sorted, fine-grained sandstone beds comprise the best reservoir lithofacies in this assemblage. The proximal marine ramp facies assemblage records several marine transgressions that punctuate the dominantly nonmarine/marginal marine Charlie Lake Formation. Bioclastic packstone, bioclastic sandstone and peloidal dolomitic siltstone to sandstone beds, all exhibit good porosity and are potential hydrocarbon reservoir units within this lithofacies assemblage.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45480614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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High-frequency sequences, paleogeography, and syn-depositional tectonism on a shallow clastic ramp: Doe Creek and Pouce Coupe members of the Late Cenomanian Kaskapau Formation, Western Canada Foreland Basin 加拿大西部前陆盆地晚Cenomanian Kaskapau组Doe Creek和Pouce Coupe段的高频层序、古地理和浅碎屑斜坡上的同沉积构造
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.71
A. Plint, Michael A. Kreitner
{"title":"High-frequency sequences, paleogeography, and syn-depositional tectonism on a shallow clastic ramp: Doe Creek and Pouce Coupe members of the Late Cenomanian Kaskapau Formation, Western Canada Foreland Basin","authors":"A. Plint, Michael A. Kreitner","doi":"10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.67.2.71","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The great Late Cenomanian transgression of the Greenhorn Sea is recorded in western Alberta and adjacacent British Columbia by shallow-marine deposits of the lower Kaskapau Formation that blanket underlying deltaic deposits of the Dunvegan Formation. Overlying the basal ‘A-X unit’ of the Kaskapau are the allostratigraphically-defined Doe Creek and Pouce Coupe units, each of which forms a SW-thickening wedge up to about 100 m thick. The Doe Creek and Pouce Coupe units comprise, respectively, 10 and 8 allomembers, each defined by a marine flooding surface. Doe Creek facies are organized in upward-shoaling successions less than about 10 m thick. Shallow-water marginal-marine facies prevail in the west and north, with transgressive mudstones overlain by thin, sharp-based shoreface sandstones that, in places, contain roots and dinosaur tracks. In some instances, marine mudstone grades directly upward into a rooted, muddy paleosol. Mapped regionally, these facies define a broad, shallow, SE-facing embayment approximately 200 x 200 km. Trace and molluscan fossils suggest that salinity was below normal marine level, and benthic fauna were, at times, stressed by high turbidity and sedimentation rate. The central part of the embayment is dominated by offshore mudstone that encloses isolated, sharp-based lenticular bodies of clean sandstone up to 9 m thick. Sandstones are ovoid to elongate in plan view, and commonly extend many tens of km N-S or NE-SW. These sandstones are interpreted as top-truncated lowstand delta and strandplain deposits that became isolated on the outer ramp following marine transgression. The sharp base of most shoreface sandstones implies that deposition took place during relative sea-level fall. All Doe Creek allomembers thicken into the foredeep, with the tectonically-flexed surface inclined to the SW. Palaeogeographic maps show, however, that lowstand shorelines were oriented approximately NE-SW, and that the depositional surface sloped to the SE. This geometric relationship implies that, despite tectonic subsidence increasing to the SW, the rate of sediment supply and efficiency of redistribution were able to maintain a wave-graded surface sloping to the SE. Because shorelines migrated across, rather than up and down tectonic dip, allomembers are interpreted to have been controlled primarily by high-rate, high-frequency eustatic cycles, rather than by tectonic movements. The Pouce Coupe unit represents a complete reversal of basin paleogeography relative to the Doe Creek. Pouce Coupe shoreface sandstones are stacked in a linear belt just west of 120°W and grade westward into offshore muddy facies that thicken to the WSW. The entire unit is truncated eastward by the K1 unconformity and is absent over most of Alberta. It is postulated that the Proterozoic Kiskatinaw domain acted as a crustal weak zone, forming a hinge that defined the eastern margin of the Pouce Coupe flexural depocentre.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48281864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
An Alternative Interpretation for the Origin of Black Shale in the Bakken Formation of the Williston Basin 威利斯顿盆地巴肯组黑色页岩成因的另一种解释
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.1.47
D. Petty
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引用次数: 5
Anatomy of a late Cenomanian transgressive shelf system: The influence of high-frequency eustasy and crustal flexure on stratigraphy and paleogeography, basal Kaskapau Formation, Western Canada Foreland Basin 加拿大西部前陆盆地基底Kaskapau组高频海侵和地壳弯曲对地层古地理的影响
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.35767/gscpgbull.67.1.1
A. Plint
{"title":"Anatomy of a late Cenomanian transgressive shelf system: The influence of high-frequency eustasy and crustal flexure on stratigraphy and paleogeography, basal Kaskapau Formation, Western Canada Foreland Basin","authors":"A. Plint","doi":"10.35767/gscpgbull.67.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35767/gscpgbull.67.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The late Cenomanian Kaskapau Formation records transgression of the Greenhorn Sea over deltaic strata of the Dunvegan Formation. However, stratigraphic and paleogeographic details of the initial stages of this profound reorganization of basin geography have not previously been determined. The basal Kaskapau strata above the Dunvegan Formation are assigned to the informal allostratigraphic ‘A-X unit’. Subsurface and outcrop correlation shows that five regionally-mappable allomembers, bounded by marine flooding surfaces, can be mapped within the A-X unit which, as a whole, forms a wedge that thickens south-westward from <5 to 60 m over approximately 300 km. Within each allomember, three main depositional environments can be distinguished. Sandy heterolithic facies in the north and west form few-metre scale, upward-shoaling successions that contain abundant brackish-water molluscs and are capped by paleosols and dinosaur-trampled surfaces. These rocks represent river-dominated deltas that prograded into a low-energy embayment, about 200 x 200 km, and open to the SE. The central part of the embayment accumulated mud-dominated heterolithic successions with a restricted fauna of lingulid brachiopods and inoceramids, suggestive of turbid, low-energy and reduced salinity conditions. The muddy facies enclose isolated units of well-sorted fine- to very fine-grained sandstone that form NE-SW elongate bodies up to 170 km long, 50 km wide and 11 m thick. Each sandstone body is interpreted to represent the shoreface of one or more strandplains and/or wave-dominated deltas that developed across the mouth of the embayment at sea-level lowstand. Isopach mapping shows that the A-X unit, as a whole, forms a prismatic wedge, thickest adjacent to the fold and thrust belt in the SW. This geometry indicates that accommodation was created by spatially uniform flexural subsidence in response to a linear tectonic load striking NW-SE. Isopach maps of individual allomembers, however, show that subsidence took place in a more complex pattern, with localized depocentres of approximately 100 km radius that suggest brief periods of subsidence before being superseded by a new depocentre along-strike. This pattern may reflect temporally and spatially discontinuous deformation in the adjacent orogenic wedge. During each relative sea-level cycle, the shoreline oscillated by about 150–200 km in a NW-SE direction. Shoreline movement was perpendicular to the direction that would be expected (i.e. SW-NE), if flexural subsidence had been the dominant control on relative sea-level change. This geometric relationship suggests that allomembers were generated by high-frequency, high rate eustatic changes that were superimposed on a lower rate of flexural subsidence. Isopach maps spanning Dunvegan allomembers C, A+B, and the Kaskapau A-X unit show a near 90° anticlockwise rotation of isopleths. This abrupt re-orientation of the axis of flexure marks a new phase of subsidence linked to the ","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41603546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
U-Pb zircon ages of volcanic ashes integrated with ammonite biostratigraphy, Fernie Formation (Jurassic), Western Canada, with implications for Cordilleran-Foreland basin connections and comments on the Jurassic time scale 加拿大西部Fernie组(侏罗纪)火山灰的U-Pb锆石年龄与菊石生物地层学相结合,对科迪勒兰前陆盆地连接的影响和对侏罗纪时间尺度的评论
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.5604/17313708.1148657
D. Pană, T. Poulton, L. Heaman
{"title":"U-Pb zircon ages of volcanic ashes integrated with ammonite biostratigraphy, Fernie Formation (Jurassic), Western Canada, with implications for Cordilleran-Foreland basin connections and comments on the Jurassic time scale","authors":"D. Pană, T. Poulton, L. Heaman","doi":"10.5604/17313708.1148657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/17313708.1148657","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Jurassic system of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin records the transition in its tectonic setting from a “passive” back-arc platformal basin to a foreland basin at the western margin of ancient North America. We report new U-Pb zircon ages from bentonite layers and from probable volcanic ash components of clastic detritus in other strata of the Fernie Formation, which encompasses most of the Jurassic in the western portions of the basin and which is now deformed in the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt. The bentonite ages come from the lower Nordegg Member (Pliensbachian) and an equivalent ash layer in the Lower Fernie phosphatic shale. Detrital zircon spectra from the Bathonian Gryphaea Bed silty limestone and the zircon ages from the mainly Oxfordian Green Beds glauconitic sandstone also are likely indicative of contemporaneous ash-falls. In addition, we review previously published U-Pb bentonite ages from the Fernie Formation and comment on the Jurassic time scale as represented on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. We have compiled an updated local stratigraphic correlation chart against a time scale that incorporates ages for some of the Middle and Upper Jurassic stage boundaries, from the literature, that differ from those on the current standard charts. The presence of multiple volcanic ashes throughout the Jurassic system in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin supports tectonostratigraphic models with relatively nearby western magmatic activity. The southeastern Omineca crystalline belt and Quesnellia terrane contain magmatic rocks with ages that could account for all of the Fernie ashes, and are closest to the depositional basin, but source terranes farther afield cannot be ruled out.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49533415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Organic petrography and scanning electron microscopy imaging of a thermal maturity series from the Montney tight-gas and hydrocarbon liquids fairway 蒙特尼致密气和烃类液体通道热成熟度系列的有机岩石学和扫描电镜成像
Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.1306/13391705M1023583
J. M. Wood, H. Sanei, O. Haeri-Ardakani, M. Curtis, Takashi Akai
{"title":"Organic petrography and scanning electron microscopy imaging of a thermal maturity series from the Montney tight-gas and hydrocarbon liquids fairway","authors":"J. M. Wood, H. Sanei, O. Haeri-Ardakani, M. Curtis, Takashi Akai","doi":"10.1306/13391705M1023583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1306/13391705M1023583","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although shale gas systems constitute a new target for commercial hydrocarbon production, only a little attention has been paid to the evolution of these unconventional systems with increasing thermal maturation. This study reports the characterization of samples of the Lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Posidonia Shale from northern Germany at varying levels of thermal maturity (0.5–1.45%Ro [vitrinite reflectance]). Observations were made using an original combination of focused ion beam–scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We document the formation of microfracture-filling bitumen in close association with kerogen residues with increasing maturity. Porosity evolves from mostly submicrometric interparticle pores in immature samples to intramineral and intraorganic pores (irregular-shape pores of about 1 to 200 nm occurring within the macromolecular structure of pyrobitumen masses) in overmature (gas mature) samples. This intraorganic nanoporosity has most likely come about by the exsolution of gaseous hydrocarbon and been hydrocarbon wet during the thermal maturation processes. The mineralogical assemblage of the investigated samples strongly evolves with increasing thermal maturity. The formation of most of the mineral phases within the oil and gas mature samples is interpreted as resulting from the percolation of sulfate-rich evaporite-derived brines at temperatures of about 140 to 180°C. Although FIB-SEM and TEM images are small compared to field size, the present study emphasizes the need for nanoscale imaging to better constrain hydrocarbon generation processes in gas shale systems.","PeriodicalId":56325,"journal":{"name":"Bullentin of Canadian Petroleum Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43054998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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