'Core-to-pore' workflow

摘要

FEI Company has announced a 'core-to-pore' imaging workflow for shale gas reservoirs. The petrographic workflow includes novel automated, high-resolution imaging of cores at scales ranging from centimeters to nanometers. Multi-scale imaging is key to relating the fracture network observed in core samples to the nanometer-scale distribution of pores. Paul Scagnetti, VP of FEI's Natural Resources unit explained, 'The large data sets generated in the analysis preserve thespatial relationships between features at all scales. The relationship between permeability and pore network connectivity determines how hydrocarbon will flow to a fracture for production.'