Time: 11:30 am Virtual Social Icebreaker, Noon Speaker Presentation

Speakers: Dr. Michael Grammer and Post Doc Researcher Yulun Wang, Oklahoma State University

Title: Facies Architecture and Reservoir Characteristics of the Caney Shale, Ardmore Basin, Southern Oklahoma, USA

Abstract: The late Mississippian Caney Shale in the Ardmore Basin (southern Oklahoma, USA) has organic-rich intervals and is in the oil window, but its production is sparse and unpredictable. To assess the production potential of the Caney Shale, we are characterizing depositional facies, reservoir properties, and pore system architecture within a sequence stratigraphic frameworkdefined from core. Preliminary results reveal a variety of mudstone, siltstone, and carbonate facies associated with various depositional processes on a slope or ramp system. These processes include low energy background sedimentation of siliciclastic-rich facies and intermittent high energy event deposition (turbidity current, debris flow, longshore current, storm) of carbonate-rich facies sourced from a shallower water platform. Vertically, these facies…