The Key Directions of the Shale Oil Study in Terms of «Rock Fabric

Currently, this is actual the study of shale oil in terms of creating artificial permeability (i.e. “rock fabric”). Usually the study of oil-bearing objects is limited to valuation the standard geological parameters, which are called ‘volumetric’ (net pay, porosity, permeability, oil and gas saturation, area, etc.), but they are not enough to describe the possibilities of shale oil development with using well stimulation techniques. For this purpose, it proposed to supplement the standard research methods to identify movable hydrocarbons, valuation of geomechanical parameters, lateral and vertical reservoir variability for purposes of drilling long horizontal wellbores. This article focuses on methods that can be used for these case