Past Virtual Events

This webinar provides new insights around hydrocarbon migration and an overview from U.S. unconventional perspectives through produced oil geochemistry. Director of Geoscience at Impac Exploration Services in Houston, Texas, Wahid Rahman, uses a case study in the Anadarko Basin to forecast the extent of self-sourced petroleum, its migration, areal extent, hydrocarbon phase behavior and key reservoir engineering properties evaluations for reservoir geochemistry-based exploration.

Featured speaker Jim Puckette of Oklahoma State University dives into silica enrichment in the Woodford and Caney Shales. In the Woodford Shale, silica enrichment is manifested as distinct silica-cemented bands that contain tests of radiolarians, the likely biogenic source of most silica in silica cement. Silica enrichment in the Caney Shale occurs without an obvious biogenic source of Si or developing the banding and beds evident in the Woodford Shale. Puckette notes identifying differences between reservoir and non-reservoir intervals, including density porosity, clay mineral content and resistivity.