Ingrain Digital Rock Lab
Shale
Digital Rock Physics for Shale Plays: From Whole Core to Pore Space
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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. Ingrain has experience with the following shale plays:
Unique capabilities for shale include:
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*3D vRock® Eagle Ford shale sample |
Ingrain's Shale Digital Rock Physics Workflow
The 3D SCAL analysis begins with nanometer-scale pore and matrix imaging. This process uses a focused ion beam SEM (FIB-SEM) system that acquires an SEM image of an ion-beam polished surface, then uses the ion beam to slice away a few nanometers of rock and takes another SEM image.
Download literature related to Ingrain's work in shale:
Digital Rock Physics Provides New Insight into Shale Reservoir Quality - Hart's E&P, August 2011
Eagle Ford Shale Reservoir Properties from Digital Rock Physics - First Break, June 2011
Digital Rock Physics Provide Critical Insights to Characterize Eagle Ford February 2011
Technology Reveals "Inevitable Surprises" in Shale Plays November 2010