Shale Resource Play Toolkit

Not only is it nearly impossible to locate areas of sub-seismic enhanced fracture density to optimize well path and maximize production, but it also seems impossible to identify facies changes in shale. 

 

TerraSpark’s Shale Resource Play Toolkit helps our users locate areas of enhanced fracture density and optimize the well path for maximum production.  By mapping microseismic data together with seismic and well data, our Shale Resource Play Toolklit helps interpreters better identify areas of enhanced fractures/permeability and reduce drilling risk. 

 

 

 

 

 

When used as a tool in interpreting shale plays, our clients have used stratal Domain Transformation to successfully map the extent and thickness of the shale sweet spot.  Stratal Domain Transformation allows interpreters the ability to remove all of the structural displacements from the entire 3D volume creating a stratal volume where every slice is now a paleo-depositional slice.

 

Our clients are no longer merely flattening on one horizon at a time- now they have the ability at their fingertips to flatten on every interpreted horizon throughout the entire 3D volume simultaneously.  Once done, viewing the volume in the stratal domain reveals lateral and vertical stratigraphic relationships never before seen. 

 

In the past, it has only been after much expensive and time-consuming drilling that they’ve been able to find that sweet spot - that we now understand is the most productive zone of the shale reservoir.  The resulting geo-body can be “shrink wrapped” using our Surface Wrapping™ technology to yield a shale reservoir volume map which can be inverse transformed back into your time or depth volume for use in future leasing and drill-well positioning and planning.

 

Co-rendering the shale reservoir volume map with other seismic attribute volumes such as Terraspark’s micro-fracture detection volume can further refine and prioritize the development drilling plan.

 

Our clients are under pressure every day to provide management with the maps necessary to beat the competition to the best leases and then efficiently chase a rig schedule with the best priority drill locations identified.  They don’t have the time to use the old interpretation methods that produce less than optimal results.  Terraspark’s clients now produce this work in a matter of days rather than months using Insight Earth® software – the next generation of interpretation tools in use today.