Date of Award
4-2013
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Geological and Environmental Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. G. Michael Grammer
Second Advisor
Dr. Robert Gillespie
Third Advisor
Dr. William B. Harrison III
Fourth Advisor
Robert K. Garrison
Keywords
Eagle Ford, Eagleford, Texas, characterization, stratigraphy
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The Mid-to-Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas is a mixed siliciclastic/carbonate, unconventional resource play with considerable oil and natural gas. Characterization of Eagle Ford reservoir quality and potential is made difficult by complex, small-scale heterogeneities.
The limited availability of subsurface data constrains previous subsurface Eagle Ford investigations. As a result, the internal variability of depositional facies and reservoir attributes remain poorly understood for these Eagle Ford rocks.
This investigation incorporates a representative group of four Eagle Ford cores, and core data, from within the current play area in order to: 1) determine facies successions, 2) establish a hierarchal classification of vertical stacking patterns constrained within a sequence stratigraphic framework, and 3) relate intervals of reservoir-quality porosity-/permeability with specific facies-/units.
Results of this investigation demonstrate how techniques of identifying, and linking depositional facies to reservoir quality, and then tying these to wire-line log data assist in the evaluation of unconventional reservoirs and, ultimately, enhance the predictability of reservoir potential away from core observations.
Recommended Citation
Workman, Seth Jordan, "Integrating Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy in Characterizing Unconventional Reservoirs: Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas" (2013). Masters Theses. 148.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/148