ShalePay™ Technology

Digital Rock Physics for Shale Plays: From Whole Core to Pore Space

The nanometer-scale features and heterogeneities that make up the transport mechanisms in oil and gas shale pose a major challenge to physical core analysis tests.  Using key, patented technology, Ingrain provides special core analysis services (SCAL) that helps maximize hydrocarbon recovery and reduce risk in technically challenging reservoirs.

 

The ShalePay™ Advantage

  • Understand reservoir quality and potential for better reservoir productivity 

  • Significantly shorter turnaround time: days not months

  • Characterize the pore volume in 3D

  • Understand pore types and their effect on porosity & permeability

  • Por/Perm trends for multiple wells in your AOI

  • Relative permeability behavior of key facies in your shale play

  • Identify rock properties that are most critical to well performance

  • Understand production variations

  • Create a digital "fingerprint" of your shale to compare them to your most productive zones
Ingrain's ShalePay™Technology

sololink.png CoreHD®: CT Imaging of Whole Core (Logs of bulk density, PE)  
CoreHD® is Ingrain's breakthrough technology platform for high-definition, dual-energy CT imaging and logging of whole core.
  • Characterize rock types and flow units
  • Quickly optimize the number and location of core plugs for advanced rock properties analysis


2D Analysis of Plugs & Chunks  (Porosity, TOC, Mineralogy)

Screening process to ensure representative samples for the subsequent 3D fluid flow analysis.

3D Analysis of Rock Volumes (Directional permeability, SCAL)

  • Nanometer-scale 3D imaging of pores and matrix.
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  • Simulate fluid flow through the pore space using computational fluid dynamics method.
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  • Characterize pore space & organic matter
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Ingrain has experience with the following shale plays:

  • Bakken
  • Baltic Shale in Poland
  • Barnett
  • Collingwood
  • Duvernay
  • Eagle Ford
  • Haynesville
  • Horn River Marcellus
  • Montney
  • New Albany
  • Niobrara
  • Saudi Arabia shales
  • Tunisia shale
  • Utica
  • Wolfcamp
  • Woodford

sololink.pngDownload literature related to Ingrain's work in shale:

2013 Digital Rock Physics for Shale Plays - trifold brochure

Shale Reservoir Evaluation Improved by Dual-Energy X-Ray CT Imaging, Nov 2012

Digital Rock Physics Provides New Insight into Shale Reservoir Quality, Aug 2011

Eagle Ford Shale Reservoir Properties from Digital Rock Physics - First Break, June 2011

Digital Rock Physics Provide Critical Insights to Characterize Eagle Ford, Feb 2011

Technology Reveals "Inevitable Surprises" in Shale Plays, Nov 2010


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Tags: carbonates, core analysis, CoreHD, digital rock physics, reservoir characterization, Reservoir Typing, shale, whole core scanning
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