Indonesia Shale Gas Potential:

An Insight from Shale Gas

Properties
Dewi Rahmalia
Bagus Priyanto
Statoil Indonesia
JCM HAGI-IAGI 2013

Contents :
Shale Gas Project in U.S

Shale Gas comparison between U.S

and
Indonesia

Potentiality of Shale Gas in Indonesia

Backgrounds:
Indonesia has numerous shale gas basins
that are only
now starting to be evaluated.
Eastern Indonesia and Sumatra (Western
Indonesia)
have been identified as the main
development areas
for Shale Gas.
Source(s):
Indonesian shale
Ministry gas
of Energy
& Mineral
Resources
2010,
Indonesian
resource
to reach
570
Indonesian Ministry of Upstream Oil&Gas 2010, IGA 2010 Panel Discussion
3
TCF
Presentation at IGA Jan 26, 2011; Petromindo,2011

Comparison of Conventional Gas and

Unconventional Gas

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Shale gas drilling & completion

Hydraulic fracturing
Natural gas
flows out of
well

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2

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b

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7

6a

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4
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Shale class name for all

fine-grained argillaceous
sediment, including
mud, clay, mudstone
Defined by grain size
-Clay -< 4 microns
-Silt 4-62 microns

Factors Controlling Gas Reservoir Quality

Shale
Gas
System
Residual Oil
Gas

Adsorbed
Gas
Pore Gas

Gas Filled
Fracture

Kerogen
Gas

Mineral
Composition of
Shale Gas
Reservoir

Schlumberger

Marcell
us
45-50
tcf

Fayettevill
e
15-20 tcf

Barnett
25-252
tcf

Haynesvi
lle
30-40 tcf
Devonian
Shale
Fairway

Source: Energy Information Administration based on data from various published studies. Updated :
March 10, 2010.

Geological Age and Silica Content

Comparisons to Other U.S. Shale
plays
Parame
Barnett
Fayettevil Haynesvi Marcellu Woodford
ter

le

lle

Geologic
al Age

Upper
Mississippi
an

Upper
Mississippi
an

Jurassic

Lower
Devonian

Devonian

Silica
Content

40-60%

40-60%

<40%

40-60%

60-80%

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Courtesy of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co

Indonesia Shales Database

Plover
Marin
e

Modified from Corelab Map

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Pleistocene

PI ACENZIAN
ZANCLEAN

M
E

RUPELIAN

L
M

LUTETIAN
YPRESIAN

Eocene
Paleocene

LATE
i

EARLY

Barracouta
Oliver
Prion
Hibernia
Johnson
Wangarlu

ALBIAN

Jamieson

APTIAN

? CONDENSED ?

BARREMIAN
HAUTERVIAN

Echuca Shoals

VALANGINIAN

BERRIASIAN

TITHONIAN

LATE

KIMMERIDGIAN
OX FORDIAN
CALLOVIAN

.
.

BATHONIAN

MIDDLE

MESOZOIC

DANIA N

CAMPANIAN
SANTONIAN
CONIACIAN
TURONIAN
CENOMANIAN

150

THANETIAN

LITHOLOGY &
FORMATION NAME

MAASTRICHTIAN

Cretaceous

. r

CHATTIAN

PRIABONIAN
BARTONIAN

100

MESSINIAN
RORTONIAN
SERRAVALLIAN
LANGHIAN
BURDIGARIAN
AQUITANIAN

Oligocene

Pliocene

Miocene

CENOZOIC

50

NEOGENE Q

STANDARD
CHRONOSTATIGRAPHY

PALEOGENE

AGE
in MA

Jurassic

BAJOCIAN
AALENIAN

TOARCIAN

Plover

EARLY

PLIENSBACHIAN

200
Jurassic
Shale (INA)
SINEMURIAN

HETTANGIAN

Pematang Shale (INA)

Gumai/Telisa Shale (INA)

Cooper basin (AUS)

Marcellus Gas Shale (USA)

Barnett Shale (USA)

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Kaolinite
Group

Clay
Minera
l

Smectite
Group

Al2Si2O5(OH)

Smectite
Transformation

(Ca, Na, H)(Al, Mg,

Fe, Zn)2(Si,
Al)4O10(OH)2-xH2O

Illite Group

(K, H)Al2(Si,
Al)4O10(OH)2-xH2O

Chlorite
Group

(Al, Fe, Li, Mg, Mn,

Ni)4-6(Al, Si,
Fe)4O10(OH, O)8

Illite-Smectite

Smectite
Illite-smectite
can be a
problem for
slick water
fracs is over
abundant
(>10%
approx)

-will swell
during slick
water fracs!!
- Made high
bound water,
which will
reduce the
effective
porosity. Thus,
making poor
reservoir

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Mineralogy of the Reservoir Rock Greatly Influence the

Effectiveness of Hydraulic Stimulations

Upper Mississippian
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CONCLUSION
Need more study in details for Shale core, to
determined the
Indonesians Shale Gas reservoir properties
especially in
Petrophysical properties.
In Western Indonesia, Gumai Shale and Baong
Shale have
potential for shale reservoirs.
Jurassic shale in Masela area could be an
analogue for other
old higher potential shales in Eastern Indonesia.

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