A Technique to Determine the Breakthrough Pressure of Shale Gas Reservoir by Low-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Juanjuan Xiao, Yufeng Xiao (), Xinmin Ge and Tianqi Zhou
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Juanjuan Xiao: PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration Development, Beijing 100083, China
Yufeng Xiao: PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration Development, Beijing 100083, China
Xinmin Ge: School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China
Tianqi Zhou: PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration Development, Beijing 100083, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 19, 1-15

Abstract: The porous and low-permeability characteristics of a shale gas reservoir determine its high gas storage efficiency, which is manifested in the extremely high breakthrough pressure of shale. Therefore, the accurate calculation of breakthrough pressure is of great significance to the study of shale gas preservation conditions. Based on a systematic analysis of a low-field NMR experiment on marine shales of the Longmaxi Formation in the Sichuan Basin, a shale gas breakthrough pressure determination technique different from conventional methods is proposed. The conventional methods have low calculation accuracy and are a tedious and time-consuming process, while low-field NMR technique is less time-consuming and of high accuracy. Firstly, the NMR T 2 spectrum of shale core sample in different states is measured through low-field NMR experiment. The NMR T 2 spectra of sample in water-saturated state and dry state are combined to model the mathematical relationship between shale gas breakthrough pressure and NMR T 2 spectrum. It is found that the gas breakthrough pressure is power-exponentially related to the geometric mean of NMR T 2 spectrum and positively related to the proportion of micropores. Accordingly, the shale gas breakthrough pressure is quickly and accurately calculated using continuous NMR logging data and then the sealing capacity of the shale caprocks is evaluated, providing basic parameters for analyzing unconventional hydrocarbon accumulation, preservation and migration. This technique has been successfully applied with actual data to evaluate the sealing capacity of shale caprock in a shale gas well in the Sichuan Basin. It can provide a good basis for the evaluation and characterization of shale oil and gas reservoirs.

Keywords: gas breakthrough pressure; low-field NMR; shale caprock; unconventional reservoir; sealing capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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