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Fuxin Basin is a continental faulted lacustrine basin in northeast China with significant shale gas resources. The shale reservoir mainly developed in the sedimentary environment of the deep and semi-deep lake, swamp, and the interdistributary bay. Deep and semi-deep lake shale has considerable thickness, high clay content, dominant type II1 kerogen, and more pyrite framboid pores; swamp shale has the highest TOC content, type III kerogen, high clay content, and more organic pores; interdistributary bay shale shows high brittle mineral contents, type II2 kerogen, and more intergranular pores. The methane adsorption capacity is highest in swamp shale, followed by the deep and semi-deep lake and interdistributary bay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shale gas, as an important unconventional resource, has drawn global attention. It is mainly composed of adsorption gas and free gas. Adsorption gas content could play an important guiding role on both the selection of favorable perspective area and the exploration and exploitation of shale gas resources. In order to accurately measure adsorption gas content, a new approach was established to predict the adsorption isotherm of methane on shale. Based on the simplified local-density (SLD) method, both the adsorption isotherms of illite, illite/smectite mixed-layer, cholorite and type III kerogen and the total shale rock could be well fitted. The fitting results show good coincidences with the true experimental test data, which proves the method is reasonable and dependable and the prediction results are effective and credible. In addition, the good simulation results show that the SLD parameters can reflect the pore structure characteristics and corresponding adsorption characteristics of the shale samples, which can be used for the quantitative characterization of shale pore system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]