Springer Evaluation of Shale Source Rocks and Reservoirs (Petroleum Engineering)

This book details the analytical processes, and interpretation of the resulting data, needed in order to achieve a comprehensive source-rock evaluation of organic-rich shales. The authors employ case studies on Permian and Cretaceous shales from various Indian basins and other petroleum-bearing basins around the world to illustrate the key features of their organic-rich shale characterization methodology. These case studies may also help to identify potential zones within shale formations that could be exploited for commercial gas and/or oil production.  Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all researchers working in the field of source-rock analysis. In addition, the source-rock evaluation techniques – and the various intricacies associated with them – discussed here offer valuable material for postgraduate geology courses.  From the Back Cover This book details the analytical processes, and interpretation of the resulting data, needed in order to achieve a comprehensive source-rock evaluation of organic-rich shales. The authors employ case studies on Permian and Cretaceous shales from various Indian basins and other petroleum-bearing basins around the world to illustrate the key features of their organic-rich shale characterization methodology. These case studies may also help to identify potential zones within shale formations that could be exploited for commercial gas and/or oil production. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all researchers working in the field of source-rock analysis. In addition, the source-rock evaluation techniques – and the various intricacies associated with them – discussed here offer valuable material for postgraduate geology courses. About the Author Dr. Bodhisatwa Hazra is currently working as a Scientist at the CSIR- Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India. His main areas of research interests are Petroleum Geochemistry, Petrophysics, CO2 geological storage, and Organic Petrology. He has expertise in handling Rock-Eval, optical microscope, FE-SEM, high-pressure and low-pressure gas adsorption equipment, TGA-DTA, and X-ray CT. Dr. Hazra received his doctoral degree from the Department of Applied Geology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, for his research work on the shale-gas assessment of Raniganj basin, India. Following his doctoral research, and brief post-doctoral research at IIT Bombay, India, he received the prestigious DST Inspire Faculty award, and served briefly at IIT Kharagpur, India through it. Beyond his immediate areas of research interest, Dr. B. Hazra also has expertise in carbonization, artificial maturation of organic-sedimentary rocks. Beyond reviewing articles for several leading journals, he has also served as a guest editor in the special issue for Advances in Geo-Energy Research (AGER) on Shale Thermal Maturity Issues and Modelling. In his career so far, Dr. Hazra has authored 29 articles in leading international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. David Wood has more than thirty-five years of broad international oil and gas experience including technical and commercial evaluations and research as part of exploration and production operations around the world. He has conducted source-rock interpretation and thermal-maturity modelling since the early 1980s including the development of practical models to match burial histories and pyrolysis data. This work has expanded in recent years to focus on shales and tight organic-rich rocks as exploitable petroleum systems in their own right. Having worked for several oil and gas companies in the 1980s and 1990s (Phillips petroleum, Amoco, Lundin Oil and Canadian Independents), he has worked as an independent consultant since 1998. As well as providing evaluation, advice and training to international and national oil and gas on a range of technical and commercial issues, his consultancy, DWA Energy Limited, actively part