Evaluation method for hydrogen-bearing components, porosity and pore size distribution of organic-rich shale
11378509 · 2022-07-05
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Inventors
- Min WANG (Shandong, CN)
- Jinbu Li (Shandong, CN)
- Zhiqiang Guo (Shandong, CN)
- Chuanming Li (Shandong, CN)
- Shuangfang Lu (Shandong, CN)
Cpc classification
G01R33/448
PHYSICS
G01N15/08
PHYSICS
G01N15/088
PHYSICS
G01N24/081
PHYSICS
International classification
Abstract
An evaluation method for hydrogen-bearing components, porosity and pore size distribution of organic-rich shale is provided, relating to a technical field of oil and gas development. The evaluation method includes steps of: according to differences among NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale sample and water-saturated shale sample, establishing a classification scheme for each hydrogen-bearing component and a quantitative characterization method for fluid components of the organic-rich shale; with a T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as a target and a T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as a basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining a T.sub.2 distribution of oil in pores; and based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, evaluating the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale. Compared with a conventional method, the present invention shows relatively high innovativeness and credibility, which is beneficial to perfecting analysis of NMR in shale petrophysical measurement.
Claims
1. An evaluation method for hydrogen-bearing components, porosity and pore size distribution of organic-rich shale, comprising steps of: according to differences among NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale sample and water-saturated shale sample, establishing a classification scheme for each hydrogen-hearing component and a quantitative characterization method for fluid components of the organic-rich shale; and because NMR signals of organic matters and clay mineral structural water exist in the organic-rich dry shale sample, with a T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as a target and a T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as a basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining a T.sub.2 distribution of oil in pores; and, based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, evaluating the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale.
2. The evaluation method for the hydrogen-bearing components, the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, as recited in claim 1, particularly comprising steps of: through contrastive analysis of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, and organic-rich shales of different oil-containing/water-containing conditions, determining relaxation features of each hydrogen-bearing component, and establishing the classification scheme for signals of each hydrogen-bearing component and the quantitative characterization method for the fluid components of the organic-rich shale; processing the organic-rich shale with oil extracting and drying, and obtaining the dry shale sample; dividing the dry shale sample into two parts, wherein one part is processed with pressurization and oil saturation for an NMR experiment, and the other part is for experiments of porosity with a helium method, low temperature nitrogen adsorption, high-pressure mercury injection, and scanning electron microscope; and with the T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as the target and the T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as the basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores; based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, combined with a relationship between an NMR signal intensity and a volume of oil, evaluating the porosity of the organic-rich shale; and, combined with the experiments of low temperature nitrogen adsorption, high-pressure mercury injection, and scanning electron microscope, establishing an NMR characterization method for the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale.
3. The evaluation method for the hydrogen-bearing components, the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, as recited in claim 2, wherein: the kerogen and the oil-adsorbed kerogen are prepared through steps of: crushing an organic-rich shale sample to above 100 meshes; immersing in distilled water for 4 hours; successively processing with an acid treatment, an alkali treatment, and a pyrite treatment; thereafter adding dichloromethane, and stirring; after the dichloromethane is volatilized, obtaining the oil-adsorbed kerogen; processing the oil-adsorbed kerogen with chloroform extraction for 24 hours, and obtaining the kerogen; the clay minerals of different water-containing conditions are prepared through steps of: firstly saturating the clay mineral with water, and then drying for 24 hours respectively at 121° C. and 315° C., wherein: under a water saturation condition, a free water-containing clay mineral is obtained; after drying at 121° C. for 24 hours, an adsorbed water-containing clay mineral is obtained; and, after drying at 315° C. for 24 hours, a clay mineral merely containing structural water is obtained; and the organic-rich shales of different oil-containing/water-containing conditions are prepared through steps of: firstly processing an as-received shale sample with chloroform extraction for 24 hours; then extracting the shale sample after chloroform extraction with a ternary organic solution MAB having a relatively strong polarity for 24 hours, wherein a ratio of methyl alcohol, acetone and benzene in the tenary organic solution MAB is 15:15:70, so as to remove residual oil in the pores of the shale as far as possible; after ternary extraction, processing the shale sample with a high-temperature drying experiment until reaching a constant weight, wherein a drying temperature is set to he 315° C. and kept for 24 hours, so as to remove residual free water in the pores of the shale and residual bound/adsorbed water at surfaces of the pores, thereby obtaining the dry shale sample; and preserving the dry shale sample in a dryer at a room temperature.
4. The evaluation method for the hydrogen-bearing components, the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, as recited in claim 2, wherein: the quantitative characterization method for the fluid components in the organic-rich shale comprises steps of: 1) calibrating an NMR signal intensity and a volume of free/bulk oil/water, particularly comprising steps of: configuring standard samples of oil and water with different volumes of 0.2 ml, 0.4 ml, 0.6 ml, 0.8 ml and 1.0 ml, and respectively processing with an NMR T.sub.2 distribution test; according to the volume and a corresponding NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the free/bulk oil/water, establishing calibration formulas between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of the free/bulk oil and water that:
V.sub.O=k.sub.1×A.sub.O (1);
V.sub.w=k.sub.2×A.sub.w (2); wherein: in the formulas, V.sub.O is the volume of the free/bulk oil, and V.sub.w, is the volume of the free/bulk water, both in unit of ml; A.sub.O is the NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the free/bulk oil, and A.sub.w, is the NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the free/bulk water, both in unit of a.u.; k.sub.1 is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of the free/bulk oil: and k.sub.2 is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of the free/bulk water; and 2) calibrating an NMR signal intensity and mass of adsorbed oil, particularly comprising steps of: processing different dry shale samples; fitting relationships between the mass (m.sub.a-m.sub.0) and the NMR signal intensity (T.sub.2a-T.sub.20) of the adsorbed oil, wherein: m.sub.a and T.sub.2a are respectively mass and NMR T.sub.2 distribution signal intensit of the dry shale sample with the adsorbed oil; and, m.sub.0 and T.sub.0 are respectively mass and NMR T.sub.2 distribution signal intensity of the dry shale sample; and obtaining a calibration formula between the MIR signal intensity and the mass of the adsorbed oil that:
m.sub.a0=k.sub.a×A.sub.a0 (3); wherein: in the formula (3), m.sub.ao is the mass of the adsorbed oil, in unit of mg; A.sub.ao is an NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the adsorbed oil, in unit of a.u.; and k.sub.a is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the mass of the adsorbed oil.
5. The evaluation method for the hydrogen-bearing components, the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, as recited in claim 2, wherein: evaluation for the porosity of the organic-rich shale comprises steps of: acquiring an NMR T.sub.2 distribution of saturating oil and calculating the porosity, particularly comprising steps of: processing the oil-saturated shale sample with an NMR T.sub.2 distribution test, and obtaining an NMR T.sub.2 decay curve (S(t, sat)) of the oil-saturated shale sample; subtracting an NMR T.sub.2 decay curve (S(t, dry)) of the dry shale sample from the NMR T.sub.2 decay curve (S(t, sat)) of the oil-saturated shale sample, and obtaining a T.sub.2 decay curve (ΔS(t, oil)) of the saturating oil that:
d=C×T.sub.2 (7); wherein: in the formula (7), d is the pore diameter, in unit of nm; T.sub.2 is an NMR transverse relaxation time, in unit of ms; and C is the calibration coefficient; with a horizontal axis of pore diameter and a vertical axis of dV/(dlogD), graphing a pore size distribution curve R.sub.NMR converted from the NMR T.sub.2 distribution of the saturating oil; superimposing a pore size distribution curve R.sub.MICP of high-pressure mercury injection with a pore size distribution curve R.sub.LTNA of low-temperature nitrogen adsorption; selecting a connection pore diameter r.sub.p at a pore diameter range of 10-100 nm, wherein dV/(dlogD) values of two pore size distribution curves at the point of connection pore diameter r.sub.p, are required to be roughly the same, ensuring that the pore number measured by a low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and a high-pressure mercury injection method is almost identical at the pore diameter r.sub.p; remaining data points which are smaller than r.sub.p in the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and larger than r.sub.p in the high-pressure mercury injection method, and constructing a full pore size distribution curve R.sub.LTNA-MICP of the shale; superimposing curves of R.sub.LTNA-MICP and R.sub.NMR, and calculating an error value thereof through a formula of:
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(19) In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer and more understandable, the present invention is further described in detail with the preferred embodiment. It should be understood that: the preferred embodiment described herein is merely for explaining the present invention, not for limiting the present invention.
(20) There exist deficiencies in the identification of the hydrogen-bearing components in the shale by the MnCl.sub.2-immersed shale or D.sub.2O-saturated shale, and the T.sub.2-D technology; the organic-rich shale expands after being saturated with water, and the pore structure is distorted; there exist deficiencies in the fluid detection of the micro-nano pores with the relatively short relaxation time in the organic-rich shale; and, the influences of the solid organic matter (kerogen) and mineral structural water on the porosity and pore size distribution characterization of the organic-rich shale are ignored.
(21) The present invention is further illustrated in detail as follows.
(22) The present invention provides an evaluation method for hydrogen-bearing components, porosity and pore size distribution of organic-rich shale, comprising steps of:
(23) with considering complexity of the hydrogen-bearing components in the organic-rich shale, according to differences among NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale sample and water-saturated shale sample, establishing a classification scheme for each hydrogen-bearing component (kerogen, adsorbed oil, free oil, adsorbed water, free water, and mineral structural water) and a quantitative characterization method for fluid components of the organic-rich shale; and because NMR signals (enriched in organic matters and clay mineral structural water) which are relatively strong exist in the organic-rich dry shale sample, with a T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as a target and a T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as a basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining a T.sub.2 distribution of oil in pores; and based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, evaluating the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale.
(24) The present invention is further illustrated in detail as follows.
(25) The evaluation method for the hydrogen-bearing components, the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale based on the NMR can be divided into three parts, respectively the establishment of the NMR classification scheme for hydrogen-bearing components in the organic-rich shale, the NMR porosity evaluation of the organic-rich shale, and the NMR pore size distribution characterization of the organic-rich shale, particularly comprising steps of:
(26) through contrastive analysis of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, and organic-rich shales of different oil-containing/water-containing conditions, determining relaxation features of each hydrogen-bearing component, and establishing the classification scheme for signals of each hydrogen-bearing component in the organic-rich shale;
(27) processing the organic-rich shale with oil extracting and drying, and obtaining the dry shale sample; dividing the dry shale sample into two parts, wherein one part is processed with pressurization and oil saturation for an NMR experiment, and the other part is for experiments of porosity with a helium method, low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, high-pressure mercury injection, and scanning electron microscope; and
(28) with the T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as the target and the T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as the basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores; based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, combined with a relationship between an NMR signal intensity and a volume of oil, evaluating the porosity of the organic-rich shale; and, combined with the experiments of low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, high-pressure mercury injection, and scanning electron microscope, establishing an NMR characterization method for the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, as shown in
(29) The used NMR device in the present invention is a MicroMR23-060H-1 NMR analyzer of Shanghai Niumag Corporation, wherein: a resonance frequency is 21.36 MHz; a magnet intensity is 0.28 T; a coil diameter is 25.4 mm; and a magnet temperature is 32° C. The test of T.sub.2 distribution adopts a CPMG sequence; and the test of T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map adopts an IR-CPMG sequence. Test parameters of the device are that: waiting time (TW) is 1000 ms; number of echoes (NECH) is 6000; echo time (TE) is 0.07 ms; P90 is 5.4 us; P180 is 10.6 us; number of scans (NS) is 64; and inversion time number (NTI) is 16.
(30) The present invention is further illustrated in detail as follows.
(31) Identification of Each Hydrogen-Bearing Component in Organic-Rich Shale
(32) With taking lacustrine organic-rich shale as an example and adopting a separation method, according to test results of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample after extraction and drying, water-saturated shale, and oil-saturated shale, establishing the classification scheme for the signals of each hydrogen-bearing component in the shale; extracting NMR signal intensities of organic matters, oil and water in the shale; and, based on the relationship between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of oil/water, estimating a oil/water saturation value of the shale. Detailed technical solutions are described as follows.
(33) (1) Preparation of Kerogen and Oil-Adsorbed Kerogen
(34) Crushing the organic-rich shale sample to above 100 meshes; immersing in distilled water for 4 hours; successively processing with an acid treatment (successively with 6 mol/L hydrochloric acid, 6 mol/L hydrochloric acid and 40% hydrofluoric acid), an alkali treatment (with 0.5 mol/L sodium hydroxide), and a pyrite treatment (with 6 mol/L hydrochloric acid and arsenic-free zinc powder); thereafter adding dichloromethane, and stirring; after the dichloromethane is volatilized, obtaining the oil-adsorbed kerogen; processing the oil-adsorbed kerogen with chloroform extraction for 24 hours, and obtaining the kerogen.
(35) (2) Preparation of Clay Minerals of Different Water-Containing Conditions
(36) Because a content of illite-montmorillonite mixed-layer mineral in the organic-rich shale is relatively high, with montmorillonite as an example, firstly saturating the montmorillonite with water (free water and adsorbed water); and then drying for 24 hours respectively at 121° C. and 315° C.; wherein: under a water saturation condition, free water-containing montmorillonite is obtained; after drying at 121° C. for 24 hours, adsorbed water-containing illite is obtained; and, after drying at 315° C. for 24 hours, illite merely containing structural water is obtained.
(37) (3) Preparation of Shales of Different Oil-Containing/Water-Containing Conditions
(38) Because residual oil in the organic-rich shale is relatively heavy, firstly processing an as-received shale sample with chloroform extraction for 24 hours; then extracting the shale sample with a ternary organic solution MAB (a ratio of methyl alcohol, acetone and benzene is 15:15:70) having a relatively strong polarity for 24 hours, so as to remove the residual oil in the pores of the shale as far as possible; after ternary extraction, processing the shale sample with a high-temperature drying experiment until reaching a constant weight, wherein a drying temperature is set to be 315° C. and kept for 24 hours, so as to remove residual free water in the pores of the shale and residual bound/adsorbed water at surfaces of the pores, thereby obtaining the dry shale sample; and preserving the dry shale sample in a dryer (at a room temperature).
(39) According to the present invention, the dry shale sample after extraction and drying is placed into a vacuum pressurization saturation device; the dry shale sample is firstly vacuumized for 24 hours with a vacuum degree of 1×10.sup.−4 Pa; and, after finishing vacuumizing, processing the dry shale sample with pressurization and oil saturation or water saturation, wherein a pressurization saturation time is 36 hours.
(40) (4) NMR Relaxation Features of Each Hydrogen-Bearing Component in Shale
(41) The kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, water-saturated montmorillonite, adsorbed water-containing illite, structural water-containing illite, shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale and water-saturated shale, which are prepared through the above steps of (1)-(3), are processed with the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map test.
(42) The NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen and oil-adsorbed kerogen are showed in
(43) Features of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map of free water in the pores of montmorillonite after being saturated with water are showed in
(44) The NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale sample, and water-saturated shale sample are showed in
(45) Classification Scheme for Signals of NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 Maps of Organic-Rich Shale
(46) According to the features of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample after extraction and drying, oil-saturated shale sample, and water-saturated shale sample, the present invention provides the distribution range of each hydrogen-bearing component of the organic-rich shale in the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map, as shown in
(47) (5) Quantitative Characterization for Fluid Content in Organic-Rich Shale
(48) 1) Calibrating NMR Signal Intensity and Volume of Free/Bulk Oil/Water
(49) Configuring standard samples of oil and water with different volumes (0.2 ml, 0.4 ml, 0.6 ml, 0.8 ml and 1.0 ml), and respectively processing with an NMR T.sub.2 distribution test, wherein the T.sub.2 distributions of free/bulk oil and free/bulk water are showed in
V.sub.O=k.sub.1×A.sub.O (1);
V.sub.w=k.sub.2×A.sub.w (2);
(50) wherein: in the formulas, V.sub.O is a volume of the free/bulk oil, and V.sub.w is a volume of the free/bulk water, both in unit of ml; A.sub.O is an NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the free/bulk oil, and A.sub.w is an NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the free/bulk water, both in unit of a.u.; k.sub.1 is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of the free/bulk oil; and k.sub.2 is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of the free/bulk water.
(51) As shown in
(52) 2) Calibrating NMR signal intensity and mass of adsorbed oil Crushing the above dry shale sample to 80-100 meshes; then placing into the vacuum pressurization saturation device, and vacuumizing for 24 hours, wherein the vacuum degree is 1×10.sup.4 Pa; after finishing vacuumizing, processing the powdery dry shale sample with pressurization and oil saturation, wherein the pressurization saturation time is 36 hours.
(53) Heating the powdery dry shale sample after being saturated with oil with a constant temperature, wherein the heating temperature is 50° C.; weighing samples of different heating time periods, processing with the NMR T.sub.2 distribution test, and recording changes of the sample mass and the NMR T.sub.2 distribution, wherein: when the sample mass and the NMR T.sub.2 distribution is stable, it is considered that the dry shale sample with adsorbed oil is obtained; the current sample mass m.sub.a is recorded, and the NMR T.sub.2 distribution signal intensity thereof is T.sub.2a; heating the dry shale sample with adsorbed oil with a temperature of 315° C. for 48 hours, and obtaining the dry shale sample, wherein the current sample mass is recorded to be m.sub.0, and the current NMR T.sub.2 distribution signal intensity of the dry shale sample is T.sub.20.
(54) Processing different dry shale samples as above; fitting the relationships between the mass (m.sub.a-m.sub.0) and the NMR signal intensity (T.sub.2a-T.sub.20) of the adsorbed oil; and
(55) obtaining a calibration formula between the NMR signal intensity and the mass of the adsorbed oil that:
m.sub.a0=k.sub.a×A.sub.a0 (3);
(56) wherein: in the formula (3), m.sub.a is mass of the adsorbed oil, in unit of mg; A.sub.ao is an NMR T.sub.2 distribution area of the adsorbed oil, in unit of a.u.; and k.sub.a is a conversion coefficient between the NMR signal intensity and the mass of the adsorbed oil.
(57) As shown in
(58) 3) Calculating Fluid Content in Organic-Rich Shale
(59) According to the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map test results of shale, the classification scheme for the signals of the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of shale is established; the organic matter signal intensities are extracted from the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map, and contrasted with the pyrolysis experiment; the NMR signal intensities of free oil and free water are extracted from the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map, and the volumes of free oil and free water in the pores are respectively obtained through the formulas (1) and (2); combined with the sample porosity, the oil/water saturation value of shale is estimated; the NMR signal intensity of adsorbed oil is extracted from the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map, and with the formula (3), the content of adsorbed oil in the organic-rich shale is obtained.
(60) The evaluation for the porosity of the organic-rich shale is further described as follows.
(61) Evaluation for Porosity of Organic-Rich Shale
(62) In the evaluation of the porosity of the organic-rich shale, according to the differences between the NMR T.sub.2 distributions of the dry shale sample and the oil-saturated shale sample, with the T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as the target and the T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as the basement, subtracting the basement, and obtaining the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores; and, based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, combined with the relationship between the NMR signal intensity and the volume of oil (formula (1)), evaluating the porosity of the organic-rich shale. Detailed technical solutions are described as follows.
(63) (1) Preparation of Dry Shale Sample
(64) For the original shale taken back from the core library, because of the adsorption effect of rock mineral/kerogen and the accommodation effect of small pores, some water and oil which is relatively heavy are still remained in the pores. Therefore, if want to directly perform the helium porosity test and the pressurization saturation fluid processing, there mainly exist following problems. Firstly, the residual water and oil occupy the volume of pores, causing that the porosity obtained by the helium porosity test is smaller than the actual porosity. Secondly, the fluid-saturated shale sample is not saturated with the single fluid; the response features of the NMR signals of different fluids are different, and it will generate an error during conversion between the NMR signal and the fluid volume, resulting in the distortion of porosity. Thus, it is required to process the original shale with oil washing/extracting and drying.
(65) The preparation process of the dry shale sample has been illustrated in detail at the preparation of the shales of different oil-containing and water-containing conditions, and thus is not repeated herein.
(66) The dry shale sample after processing is made with the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map test, for checking whether the residual oil and water are completely removed from the dry shale sample after extraction and drying. As shown in
(67) The dry shale sample is processed with the NMR T.sub.2 distribution test, and the NMR T.sub.2 decay curve (S(t, dry)) of the dry shale sample is obtained.
(68) (2) NMR Porosity Calculation
(69) 1) Helium Porosity Measurement
(70) Placing the regular columnar dry shale sample (with a diameter of 2.5 cm) into the overburden pressure porosity and permeability measurement device, introducing helium into the device, and performing the helium porosity test in the common way, wherein the test process refers to the petroleum and natural gas industry standard, SY/T 6485-1999 Measurement method for porosity and permeability of rock under overburden pressure.
(71) 2) Pressurization and Oil Saturation Experiment of Dry Shale Sample
(72) In order to eliminate the hydration influence of water saturation on the shale sample, processing the dry shale sample after extraction and drying with pressurization and oil saturation, particularly comprising steps of: placing the dry shale sample into the vacuum pressurization saturation device; vacuumizing the dry shale sample for 24 hours with a vacuum degree of 1×10.sup.−4 Pa; after finishing vacuumizing, processing the dry shale sample with pressurization and oil saturation (with the example of n-dodecane, similarly hereinafter) for 60 hours, wherein a pressurization saturation pressure is 20 MPa; weighing the oil-saturated shale sample at different pressurization saturation time periods (12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours, 48 hours and 60 hours); and, when the weight is stable (the change range of weights measured at two adjacent time periods is lower than 1%), obtaining the 100% oil-saturated shale sample.
(73) 3) Acquirement of NMR T.sub.2 Distribution of Saturating Oil and Calculation of Porosity
(74) Under the premise that the NMR test parameters of the oil-saturated shale sample are consistent with that of the dry shale sample, processing the oil-saturated shale sample with the NMR T.sub.2 distribution test, and obtaining the NMR T.sub.2 decay curve (S(t, sat)) of the oil-saturated shale sample, as shown in
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(76) wherein: in the formulas (4)-(6), S(t, dry) is an echo amplitude of the dry shale sample; S(t, sat) is an echo amplitude of the oil-saturated shale sample; ΔS(t, oil) is an echo amplitude of saturating oil; A.sub.i is an amplitude of the dry shale sample when T.sub.2=T.sub.2i; A.sub.j is an amplitude of the oil-saturated shale sample when T.sub.2=T.sub.2j; ΔA.sub.k is an amplitude of saturating oil when T.sub.2=T.sub.2k; t=n*TE, wherein n is number of echoes; i, j and k respectively represent orders of signal collection points, with a value of 1, 2, 3 . . . n.
(77) According to the T.sub.2 decay curve ΔS(t, oil) of saturating oil, through mathematical subtracting, the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the shale sample is obtained. As shown in
(78) According to the NMR T.sub.2 distribution curve of saturating oil, the T.sub.2 distribution area of saturating oil is calculated; combined with the calibration formula (formula (1)) between the volume and the NMR signal of free oil, the volume of saturating oil is calculated, namely the pore volume of the shale sample; and the porosity is obtained through dividing the sample volume by the pore volume. The porosity of the organic-rich shale obtained by the NMR method is contrasted with the porosity tested by the helium method, so as to verify the accuracy and feasibility of the method.
(79) The present invention is further illustrated with the NMR characterization method for the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale.
(80) NMR Characterization Method for Pore Size Distribution of Organic-Rich Shale
(81) In the pore size characterization and evaluation of the organic-rich shale, according to the differences between the NMR T.sub.2 distributions of dry shale sample and oil-saturated shale sample, with the T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as the target and the T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as the basement, the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores is obtained through subtracting the basement; and, based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores, combined with experiments for pore size characterization of dry shale sample, such as low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, high-pressure mercury injection and large-area high-resolution electron microscope imaging, the NMR characterization method for the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale is established.
(82) (1) Low-Temperature Nitrogen Adsorption and High-Pressure Mercury Injection Experiments
(83) Cutting and crushing the dry shale sample; firstly preparing into a sample with length, width and height of 1 cm 1 cm 1 cm, and performing the high-pressure mercury injection test (400 Mpa); according to the Washburn model, obtaining the pore size distribution curve R.sub.MICP of the pores with a diameter larger than 7.2 nm (with a horizontal axis of pore diameter and a vertical axis of dV/(dlogD), similarly hereinafter), wherein the operation process refers to the industry standard of SY/T 5346-2005; utilizing the powdered sample (80-100 meshes) after uniformly mixing, and performing the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption experiment; according to the BJH adsorption isotherm, obtaining the pore size distribution curve R.sub.LTNA of the pores with a diameter smaller than 100 nm, as shown in
(84) (2) Large-Area High-Resolution Electron Microscope Imaging Experiment
(85) Processing the surface of the vertical bedding of the regular sample block (1 cm×1 cm×1 cm) with mechanical polishing by the precise cutting-grinding integrated machine; fixing the sample after mechanical polishing on the aluminum T-shaped sample stage by the paraffin, polishing for 20 minutes at conditions of 5 KV and 2 mA with the argon ion polishing machine, then polishing at conditions of 2 KV and 2 mA for 10 minutes, alternately repeating for four times, and finishing polishing of the sample surface, wherein an included angle between the polished surface and the argon ion beam is 3°. In order to solve the problems of small vision filed of scanning electron microscope and heterogeneous sample, the present invention adopts the large-area high-resolution electron microscope imaging technology (AMICSCAN), for imaging of the polished surface of the sample at the low voltage of 1.2-0.8 KV and the low current of 200-80 pA, wherein the area of the imaging vision field is 300 um×800 um, as shown in
(86) (3) Determining Calibration Coefficient C
(87) The pore size distribution curve of the present invention adopts the horizontal axis of pore diameter (width) and the vertical axis of dV/(dlogD), wherein the physical meaning of the vertical axis indicates the pore number corresponding to a certain pore diameter.
(88) Superimposing the pore size distribution curve R.sub.MICP of high-pressure mercury injection with the pore size distribution curve R.sub.LTNA of low-temperature nitrogen adsorption; selecting a connection pore diameter r.sub.p at a pore diameter range of 10-100 nm, wherein dV/(d log D) values of two pore size distribution curves at the point of connection pore diameter r.sub.p are required to be roughly the same, ensuring that the pore number measured by the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and the high-pressure mercury injection method is almost identical at the pore diameter r.sub.p; remaining data points which are smaller than r.sub.p in the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and larger than r.sub.p in the high-pressure mercury injection method, and constructing the full pore size distribution curve R.sub.LTNA-MICP of the shale.
(89) According to the formula (1), converting the signal intensities corresponding to every T.sub.2 point in the NMR T.sub.2 distribution of saturating oil (
d=C×T.sub.2 (7);
(90) wherein: in the formula (7), d is the pore diameter, in unit of nm; T.sub.2 is the NMR transverse relaxation time, in unit of ms; and C is the calibration coefficient;
(91) with the horizontal axis of pore diameter and the vertical axis of dV/(dlogD), graphing a pore size distribution curve R.sub.NMR converted from the NMR T.sub.2 distribution of the saturating oil; superimposing curves of R.sub.LTNA-MICP and R.sub.NMR, and calculating an error value thereof through a formula of:
(92)
(93) wherein: in the formula (8), Q is the error value; n is a number of data points in the R.sub.LTNA-MICP pore size distribution curve; R.sub.LTNA-MICP-i is an i.sup.th data point in the R.sub.LTNA-MICP pore size distribution curve; and R.sub.NMR-i is R.sub.NMR data corresponding to the i.sup.th data point in the R.sub.LTNA-MICP pore size distribution curve;
(94) when similarity of the curves of R.sub.LTNA-MICP and R.sub.NMR is closest, namely the error value is smallest, recording a current value of the calibration coefficient C as a pore diameter calibration coefficient value of the NMR transverse relaxation time.
(95) Combined with the large-area high-resolution electron microscope imaging experiment, through analyzing and contrasting the NMR pore diameter conversion results calibrated by the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption and the high-pressure mercury injection with the curve diagram of pore area verse the pore diameter (dS/(dlogD)) obtained by the large-area high-resolution electron microscope imaging, the effect of NMR pore diameter calibration is verified.
(96) The present invention is further described combined with effects as follows.
(97) In the hydrogen-bearing component identification and fluid quantitative characterization of the organic-rich shale, the present invention takes 16 shale samples from Shahejie formation in Damintun Sag of Bohai Bay Basin, China as examples. Based on the above signal classification scheme for each hydrogen-bearing component in the shale and the quantitative characterization method for the fluid content in the organic-rich shale, the organic matter signal intensity of every sample is extracted from the T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map, and contrasted with the organic geochemical parameters (TOC, S1 and S2), as shown in
(98) In the porosity evaluation of the organic-rich shale, the present invention takes 11 shales from Shahejie formation in Damintun Sag of Bohai Bay Basin, China as the examples. According to the above NMR measurement method for the porosity of the organic-rich shale, as shown in
(99) In the characterization of pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, the present invention takes the shale examples from Shahejie formation in Dongying Sag of Bohai Bay Basin, China as the examples. According to the above NMR characterization method for the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale, the conversion coefficient of the NMR T.sub.2 time is calibrated together with the low-temperature nitrogen adsorption method and the high-pressure mercury injection method, as shown in
(100) The identification and quantitative characterization for hydrogen-bearing components and the evaluation for porosity and pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale have great significance in the exploration of shale oil and gas. Conventionally, in view of the deeper microscope research of the organic-rich shale reservoir and the accuracy improvement of the NMR device, the present invention utilizes the low echo time (TE=0.07 ms), considers the complexity of hydrogen-bearing components in the shale, establishes the classification scheme for each hydrogen-bearing component in the shale according to the differences among the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 maps of kerogen, oil-adsorbed kerogen, clay minerals of different water-containing conditions, shale, dry shale sample, oil-saturated shale sample and water-saturated shale sample, and proposes the identification and quantitative characterization method for the hydrogen-bearing components in the organic-rich shale based on the NMR T.sub.1-T.sub.2 map. With considering the relatively high NMR signal intensity of the organic-rich dry shale sample (enriched in organic matters and mineral structural water), the present invention adopts the T.sub.2 distribution of the organic-rich shale after being saturated with oil as the target and the T.sub.2 distribution of the dry shale sample as the basement, obtains the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores through subtracting the basement, and evaluates the porosity and pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale based on the T.sub.2 distribution of oil in the pores. The present invention provides the identification and quantitative characterization method for the hydrogen-bearing components and the evaluation method for the porosity and the pore size distribution of the organic-rich shale based on the NMR, which shows relatively high innovation and reliability in comparison with the conventional method. Therefore, the present invention is beneficial to perfecting the analysis of NMR in shale petrophysical measurement.
(101) The above-described is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, not for limiting the present invention. Modifications, equivalent replacements, and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are all encompassed in the protection scope of the present invention.