Full Title: Shale Resource Systems for Oil and Gas: Part 1—Shale-gas Resource Systems
Author(s): Daniel M. Jarvie
Publisher(s): AAPG
Publication Date: August 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
Shale resource systems have had a dramatic impact on the supply of oil and especially gas in North America, in fact, making the United States energy independent in natural gas reserves. These shale resource systems are typically organic-rich mudstones that serve as both source and reservoir rock or source petroleum found in juxtaposed organic-lean facies. Success in producing gas and oil from these typically ultra-low-permeability (nanodarcys) and low-porosity (<15%) reservoirs has resulted in a worldwide exploration effort to locate and produce these resource systems. Successful development of shale-gas resource systems can potentially provide a long-term energy supply in the United States with the cleanest and lowest carbon dioxide-emitting carbon-based energy source.