NMR Study of Permeability and Kerogen in Organic-Rich Chalk
Northside Houston
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Seminar Date: Aug 28 2025
Registration Opens: Aug 13 2025 - Aug 28 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (US CDT)
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Contact: Ali Eghbali (VP Northside, SPWLA Houston Chapter)
Corresponding: vpnorthside@spwla-houston.org
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Speaker : Dr. Philip Singer (Rice University)
Date : Thursday, August 28th, 2025
Time : 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (US CDT)
Venue : Baker Hughes, 2001 Rankin Rd, Houston, TX 77073
Admission : This event is proudly sponsored by Baker Hughes. Lunch is provided.
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Contact : Ali Eghbali
Corresponding : vpnorthside@spwla-houston.org
ABSTRACT:
NMR relaxation and diffusion are exceptional techniques for studying the petrophysics of unconventional formations. In this talk, I present some unique petrophysical insights into Type II-S (i.e., marine origin with high organic-sulfur content) organic-rich chalk, including: (a) Micro/macro pore-size and tortuosity anisotropy from restricted diffusion obtained from D-T2 maps at 2.3 MHz, permeability and permeability anisotropy from the Carman-Kozeny model, and insights into paleo-deposition cycles in the late Cretaceous. (b) Quantification of solids (kerogen, bitumen, clay hydroxyls) and liquids (pore fluids, fluids dissolved in kerogen, clay bound water) using T1-T2 maps with solid-echo at 20 MHz, integration with RockEval data, H/C ratio of kerogen, kerogen swelling ratio, and kerogen nanopore size, all as a function of thermal maturity (i.e., depth).
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Philip Singer is an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University in Houston TX. He joined Rice University in 2015 as a research scientist in the Hirasaki group, then became a faculty member in 2021. He received his master’s degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 1997 and earned his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. He completed his postdoctoral research from the Université Paris-Sud in 2005, after which he worked for 10 years as a research scientist at Schlumberger. His areas of interest are NMR in porous media, hydrogen geostorage, carbon dioxide utilization/geostorage, MD simulations, MRI contrast agents, and NMR in quantum materials.