期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
卷 125, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020JB020435
关键词
atomic force microscopy; geomechanics; Young' s modulus; organic matter; shale
资金
- Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas [NEM00578X/1]
- Newcastle University
- NERC [NE/R018057/1]
- EPSRC [EPN5095281]
- Bureau of Economic Geology, Texas
- NERC [NE/R018057/1, bgs06003] Funding Source: UKRI
Quantification of risk to seal integrity in CCS, or gas extraction from hydraulic fracturing, is directly affected by the accessibility of organic pores within organic rich mudrocks. Knowledge of the host organic matter's mechanical properties, which are influenced by depositional environment and thermal maturity, are required to reduce operational risk. In this study we address the effect of both depositional environment and maturity on organic matter Young's modulus by means of Atomic Force Microscopy Quantitative Imaging(TM), which is a nondestructive technique capable of nanomechanical measurements. Shales from varying marine depositional environments covering kerogen Types II (Barnett), IIS (Tarfaya), and II/III (Eagle Ford/ Bowland) are analyzed to capture variance in organic matter. The findings show organic matter has a Young's modulus ranging between 0.1 and 24 GPa. These marine shales have a bimodal distribution of Young's modulus to some degree, with peaks at between 3-10 and 19-24 GPa. These shales exhibit a trend with maturity, whereby Young's modulus values of <10 GPa are dominant in immature Tarfaya shale, becoming similar to the proportion of values above 15 GPa within the oil window, before the stiffer values dominate into the gas window. These peaks most likely represent soft heterogeneous aliphatic rich kerogen and stiff ordered aromatic rich kerogen, evidenced by the increase in the stiffer component with maturity and correlated with C-13 NMR spectrocopy. These findings enable increased realism in microscale geomechanical fracture tip propagation models and may allow direct comparison between Young's modulus and Rock-Eval parameters.
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