With the increasing interest in unconventional resource plays, there have been important
changes in the way how reservoirs and their attributes are assessed and characterized. Of …

This paper provides a brief summary of the history, development and variety of applications
of electron microscopy techniques to analyze coals, organic-rich shales, and carbonaceous …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been widely used in materials science and chemistry
research since it was invented in the 1980s. It is a relatively new tool for geosciences and is …

This review examines new techniques and applications of organic petrography in source-
rock reservoir petroleum systems that have occurred along with development of the global …

The oil-prone maceral bituminite (and its equivalents:'amorphous organic
matter','sapropelinite','amorphinite', etc.) converts to petroleum during thermal maturation of …

The rapid development of shale oil and gas promotes the plentiful research and
characterization of micro-nano pore structure, and accumulates massive data, which is vital …

油气勘探理论与技术的进步使非常规油气勘探开发不断取得新的突破. 复杂的微-
纳米级孔隙体系与特殊的流体赋存方式是页岩有别于常规储层的显著特征 …

Porosity within organic matter (OM) is considered to be the main site for gas storage (via
fluid phase saturation of the pores and sorption on the pore walls) and thus its presence or …

The influence of thermal maturity on porosity in shale samples from the Upper Devonian
Duvernay Formation is examined. The samples span a maturity range from immature to the …

Characterizing the thermal maturation of organic matter is essential to oil and gas resource
evaluation and generation mechanisms, but is extremely challenging in nanoscale vitrinite …