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Organo-petrographic and pore facets of Permian shale beds of Jharia Basin with implications to shale gas reservoir

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The shale deposits of Damodar Valley have received great attention since preliminary studies indicate their potential for shale gas. However, fundamental information allied to shale gas reservoir characteristics are still rare in India, as exploration is in the primary stage. In this study, Barakar shale beds of eastern part of Jharia Basin are evaluated for gas reservoir characteristics. It is evident that Barakar shales are carbonaceous, silty, contains sub-angular flecks of quartz and mica, irregular hair-line fractures and showing lithological variations along the bedding planes, signifying terrestrial-fluviatile deposits under reducing environment. The values of TOC varies from 1.21 wt.% to 17.32 wt.%, indicating good source rock potentiality. The vitrinite, liptinite, inertinite and mineral matter ranging from 0.28 vol.% to 12.98 vol.%, 0.17 vol.% to 3.23 vol.%, 0.23 vol.% to 9.05 vol.%, and 74.74 vol.% to 99.10 vol.%, respectively. The ternary facies plot of maceral composition substantiated that Barakar shales are vitrinite rich and placed in the thermal-dry gas prone region. The low values of the surface area determined following different methods point towards low methane storage capacity, this is because of diagenesis and alterations of potash feldspar responsible for pore blocking effect. The pore size distribution signifying the micro to mesoporous nature, while Type II sorption curve with the H2 type of hysteresis pattern, specifies the heterogeneity in pore structure mainly combined-slit and bottle neck pores.

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The authors are indebted to Dr. P. K. Singh, CSIR-Central Institute of Miningand Fuel Research, Dhanbad for his constant encouragement to take up this research work and publication. We are also grateful to Ministry of Coal for funding support of the project entitled “Shale gas potentiality evaluation of Damodar Basin of India” (Coal S & T grant: CE(EoI)/30) under the research work has been carried out. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-017-0779-8.

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Mendhe, V.A., Mishra, S., Khangar, R.G. et al. Organo-petrographic and pore facets of Permian shale beds of Jharia Basin with implications to shale gas reservoir. J. Earth Sci. 28, 897–916 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-017-0779-8

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