Clay minerals in the oil and gas industry

Clay minerals are present in hydrocarbon source, reservoir and seal rocks and therefore characterizing their presence and properties plays an important role in understanding petroleum systems.  For this session, we call, in particular, on papers that bridge the gap between research and everyday ‘Exploration and Production’ applications and issues - for both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations – related to: rock characterization, log response calibration, drilling, diagenesis, reservoir performance, seal integrity, provenance, shale brittleness, fracture properties, organic-matter interaction, palaeo-thermometry, basin modelling, seismic response, rock physics modelling, oil sands bitumen recovery, oil-sands tailings processing, and enhanced oil recovery processes etc.