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glaciermanon Feb 27, 2013 6:24am
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JPT Article - Alaska
JPT Article - Alaska Interesting read from the Journal of Petroleum Technology. Here's some of the hi-lights:
"The Shublik appears to offer the most potential based on its organic content—the kerogen which can produce oil or gas depending on its age and environment—and the layer’s mineral makeup that suggests it is brittle and easily fractured.
The Shublik is rich in organic carbon, most of the kerogen is oil prone and not diluted by gas-prone kerogen, and it has the magical combination of organic-rich shale interbedded with brittle lithologies, like limestone,” Houseknecht said. “A lot of people have used the Eagle Ford as an analogy and that is fair based on the lithology.”
The research is based on what has been learned as these source rocks were penetrated while drilling conventional oil wells, but the information there is scant compared to US formations in places such as Oklahoma and Texas where so many more wells have been drilled. “There is a real lack of data over much of the area,” said Houseknecht.