Integrated Study of an Eagle Ford Shale Play Using a Variety of Seismic Attributes

Joanne Wang
Paradigm

Today the shale plays represent sources of opportunity for oil and gas companies and the global oil and gas economy. The major challenge for shale reservoir exploration and production is to increase profitability by increasing drilling, stimulation and completion success and reducing cost. To do so we must drill at the targets favorable in fluid content, in-situ stress and rock properties.

Seismic data carries information on stress and rock properties and provides much needed information to support sweet spot identification, fracturing stimulation and completion design.

This paper focuses on how the current technologies can be applied to shale plays to determine fracture/stress intensity and orientation; to estimation shale brittle/ductile quality and to map shale spatial distribution, seismic scale discontinuity and its heterogeneity using the examples from the Barnett shale and the Eagle Ford shale.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90185 © AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, Revisiting Reservoir Quality Issues in Unconventional and Conventional Resources, Austin, Texas, November 12-13, 2013