Kashy Aminian
West Virginia University, USA
Title: Experimental Evaluation of the Marcellus Shale Properties
Biography
Biography: Kashy Aminian
Abstract
Unconventional shale reservoirs play an enormous role in hydrocarbon production in the United States. Among the shale gas producing plays, Marcellus shale has a growing contribution due to advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques. Even though the advances in these technologies have unlocked the gas contained in Marcellus shale, the quantification of the petrophysical properties remain challenging due to complex nature of the shale. Reliable values of the shale petrophysical properties including permeability and porosity are necessary for accurate estimation of the original gas-in-place, prediction of the production rates, and optimization of the hydraulic fracturing treatments. Unsteady state methods have been extensively used to estimate permeability of the shale samples because the shales typically have permeability values in Nano-Darcy range. However, the permeability values by determined by these techniques have been found often to have large margin of uncertainty which are attributed to the lack of consistent experimental protocols and the interpretations issues.
Figure 1. Schematic of PPAL
Recent Publications:
- Elsaig, M., Aminian, K., Ameri, S. and M. Zamirian, 2016: “Study Analyzes Marcellus Shale Petrophysics,” American Oil & Gas Reporter, November Issue, pp. 63-65.
- Zamirian, M., Aminian, K. and S. Ameri, 2016: “Measuring Marcellus Shale Petrophysical Properties,” Paper SPE-180366, Proc. SPE Western Regional Conf., Alaska.
- Zamirian, M., Aminian, K., Ameri, S., 2015. “Measurement of Key Shale Petrophysical Properties.” Paper SPE 174968 Proc. SPE ATCE, Houston, Texas.
- Zamirian, M., Aminian, K., and Ameri, S., 2015. “Experimental Investigation of Geomechanical Impacts on Organic-Rich Shales Matrix-Fracture Characterization,” Paper SPE-1733028, Proc. SPE Eastern Regional Conference, Morgantown, WV.
- Zamirian, M., Aminian, K., Ameri, S., 2014. “New Steady-State Technique for Measuring Shale Core Plug Permeability.” Paper SPE-171613, Proc. Unconventional Resources Conference, Calgary, Canada.