The Onnagawa shale is a middle Miocene deposit that extends along the Akita coastal area. This formation contains organic carbon enriched siliceous mudstones deposited in the basins during the early stages of the Japanese sea opening. Some researchers in petroleum geochemistry have demonstrated that these organically enriched rocks possess attributes common to oil source rocks. JOGMEC has previously perfomed shale oil reservoir characterization of the Onnagawa shale, pilot hydraulic fracturing tests, and coring through the Onngawa shales sequence. The main goal of this paper is to use methods to estimate rock properties characterized by porosity and permeability to develop an understanding of fraccability based on lithofacies and mineral composition and their distribution in the Onnagawa Formation.
Core sample from the Onnagawa shale were drilled at the Unosaki coast in the Oga peninsula. Rock property, mineral composition, and lithofacies were analyzed by CMS-300, QEMSCAN, and FIB-SEM in JOGMEC-TRC. The study results identify successes or fail parts of hydraulic fracturing depending on lithofacies and mineral compositions and indicate that 1)the lihofacies of the Onnagawa shale are dark gray to light gray colored massive, bedded, and laminated. 2)the porosity and permeability values in the light gray colored facies are relatively higher than dark gray colored facies. 3)the QEMSCAN shows the Onnagawa Formation is characterized by layered carbonate concretions with dolomite and calcite and consists chiefly of quartz with clay minerals and framboidal pyrite. 4)hydraulic fracturing tests succeeded in dolomite and calcite composed carbonate concretion layers.
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