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AAPG BULLETIN
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages 355-374Publisher
AMER ASSOC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST
DOI: 10.1306/05181110171
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Tight gas reservoirs are notoriously difficult to characterize; routine methods developed for conventional reservoirs are not appropriate for tight gas reservoirs. In this article, we investigate the use of nonroutine methods to characterize permeability heterogeneity and pore structure of a tight gas reservoir for use in flow-unit identification. Profile permeability is used to characterize fine-scale (<1 in. [<2.5 cm]) vertical heterogeneity in a tight gas core; more than 500 measurements were made. Profile permeability, although useful for characterizing heterogeneity, will not provide in-situ estimates of permeability; furthermore, the scale of measurement is much smaller than log scale. Pulse-decay permeability measurements collected on core plugs under confining pressure were used to correct the profile permeability measurements to in-situ stress conditions, and 13-point averages of profile permeability were used to relate to log-derived porosity measurements. Finally, N-2 adsorption, a new method for tight gas was used to estimate the pore-size distribution of several tight gas samples. A unimodal or bimodal distribution was observed for the samples, with the larger peak corresponding to the dominant pore-throat size, as confirmed by independent methods. Furthermore, the adsorption-desorption hysteresis loop shape was used to interpret the dominant pore shape as slot-shaped pores, which is typical of many tight gas reservoirs. The N-2 adsorption method provides rapid analysis and does not suffer from some of the same limitations of Hg injection. In the future, we hope that the N-2 adsorption method may prove useful for flow-unit characterization (based on dominant pore size) of fine-grained (siltstone-shale) tight gas reservoirs.
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