Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Wayne K. Camp, Elizabeth Diaz and Barry Wawak
  • An introduction to SEM operational principles and geologic applications for shale hydrocarbon reservoirs / Jason Huang, Timothy Cavanaugh and Boaz Nur
  • Integrated preparation and imaging techniques for the microstructural and geochemical characterization of shale by scanning electron microscopy / Natasha Erdman and Nicholas Drenzek
  • Enhancing SEM grayscale images through pseudocolor conversion : examples from Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Marcellus shales / Wayne K. Camp and Barry Wawak
  • Multiscale imaging of shale samples in the scanning electron microscope / Herman Lemmens and Dennis Richards
  • Microfabrics related to porosity development, sedimentary and diagenetic processes, and composition of unconventional resource shale reservoirs as determined by conventional scanning electron microscopy / Roger M. Slatt and Neal R. O'Brien
  • SEM characterization of shale gas reservoirs using combined secondary and backscatter electron methods : an example from the Haynesville Shale, Texas and Louisiana / David R. Spain and Ryan McLin
  • FIB-SEM and TEM investigations of an organic-rich shale maturation series from the Lower Toarcian Posidonia Shale, Germany : nanoscale pore system and fluid-rock interactions / Sylvain Bernard, Leon Brown, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber, Hans-Martin Schulz, Brian Horsfield, Andrew C. Aplin, and Eliza J. Mathia
  • Pore size distribution and morphology in the Horn River Shale, Middle and Upper Devonian, Northeastern British Columbia, Canada / Tian Dong and Nicholas B. Harris
  • Porosity characterization of various organic-rich shales from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada / Raphael A.J. Wüst, Brent R. Nassichuk, and R. Marc Bustin
  • Petrographic characterization of the Eagle Ford Shale, south Texas : mineralogy, common constituents, and distribution of nanometer-scale pore types / Debra S. Jennings and Jonathan Antia
  • Applications of SEM imaging to reservoir characterization in the Eagle Ford Shale, south Texas, U.S.A. / Brian Driskill, Joel Walls, Juliana DeVito, and Steven W. Sinclair
  • Comparison of porosity distribution within selected North American shale units by SEM examination of argon-ion-milled samples / James M. Rine, Erin Smart, William Dorsey, Kultaransingh Hooghan, and Michael Dixon
  • SEM observations on ion-milled samples of Devonian black shales from Indiana and New York : the petrographic context of multiple pore types / Juergen Schieber
  • Appendices.