Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and Source Rocks

About the Editors ............................................... v
Financial Acknowledgments ........................................ vii
Introduction ................................................... ix
Chapter 1 ..................................................... 1
Applications of Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) to Organic Matter in
the North American Shale Petroleum Systems
B. J. Valentine and P. C. Hackley
Chapter 2 ..................................................... 19
High-Resolution Multispectral Analysis of Organic-Rich Mudstones
T. Dawn Jobe, Sebastian Csutak, Shannon L. Eichmann, and Jordan Kone
Chapter 3 ..................................................... 33
Compactional and Mass-Balance Constraints Inferred from the Volume of Quartz
Cementation in Mudrocks
Kitty L. Milliken
Chapter 4 ..................................................... 49
A Comparison of Silica Diagenesis in the Devonian Woodford Shale (Central Basin
Platform, West Texas) and Cretaceous Mowry Shale (Powder River Basin, Wyoming)
Mark W. Longman, Kitty L. Milliken, Terri M. Olson, and William R. Drake
Chapter 5 ..................................................... 69
Diagenetic Pyrite Morphology in Mudstones of the Upper Ordovician Point Pleasant
Limestone, Appalachian Basin: Evidence for Dysoxic Deposition
David R. Blood, Steve Schlaegle, Christopher M. Hefferan, Alexa Vazquez, and Darlene McAllister
Chapter 6 ..................................................... 83
Pyritization History in the Late Cambrian Alum Shale, Scania, Sweden: Evidence for
Ongoing Diagenetic Processes
Neil S. Fishman, Sven O. Egenhoff, Heather A. Lowers, Adam R. Boehlke, and Per Ahlberg
Chapter 7 ..................................................... 103
Compositional and Diagenetic Controls on Brittleness in Organic Siliceous Mudrocks
Craig D. Hall
Chapter 8 ..................................................... 121
Impact of Depositional and Diagenetic Heterogeneity on Multiscale Mechanical Behavior
of Mancos Shale, New Mexico and Utah, USA
Hongkyu Yoon, Mathew D. Ingraham, Joseph Grigg, Benjamin Rosandick, Peter Mozley, Alex Rinehart,
William M. Mook, and Thomas Dewers
Chapter 9 ..................................................... 149
Porosity-Deformation Relationships in Organic-Rich Shale
Han Jiang, Hugh Daigle, Kitty L. Milliken, and Nicholas W. Hayman
Chapter 10 .................................................... 165
Petrographic and Micro-FTIR Study of Organic Matter in the Upper Devonian New
Albany Shale During Thermal Maturation: Implications for Kerogen Transformation
Bei Liu, Juergen Schieber, and Maria Mastalerz
Chapter 11 .................................................... 189
Pore-Scale Imaging of Solid Bitumens: Insights for Unconventional Reservoir
Characterization
Tim E. Ruble, Kultaransingh (Bobby) Hooghan, William Dorsey, Wayne R. Knowles, and
Christopher D. Laughrey
Chapter 12 .................................................... 209
Diagenetic Evolution of Organic Matter Cements: Implications for Unconventional Shale
Reservoir Quality Prediction
Wayne K. Camp
Chapter 13 .................................................... 225
A Diagenetic Study of the Wolfcamp Shale in the Southeast Midland Basin, West Texas:
A Petrographic and SEM Study of Two Cores
Alyssa K. Wickard, R. Douglas Elmore, and Gerhard W. Heij
Chapter 14 .................................................... 241
Controls on Production in the Eagle Ford: Permeability, Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, and
Fractures
Tobi H. Kosanke, John A. Breyer, Richard Denne, Ronald Nelson, Richard L. Rosen,
Munir Aldin, and Anne Warren