Table 4: Calculated correlative grade of every target shale gas reservoir.

Parameters Shale Gas Reservoirs
Bakken Barnett Duvernay Eagle Ford New Albany Niobrara Utica/Point Pleasant WolfBone Woodford Fayett
-eville
Haynesvil
le/Bossier
Marcellus Montney
/Doig
Muskwa
Depth 0.4412 0.5088 0.4279 0.4588 1.0000 0.4832 0.5193 0.4699 0.4341 0.8140 0.4279 0.5312 0.4341 0.4699
Thickness 0.3591 0.5994 0.4011 0.4279 0.4084 0.6201 0.4279 0.6917 0.4449 0.4084 0.5287 0.4493 0.4449 1.0000
Clay Content 0.5549 0.4660 0.5549 0.5994 0.5796 0.5231 0.4660 0.5549 0.7773 0.4660 0.4438 0.6661 1.0000 0.6661
Reservoir Pressure 0.5066 0.4177 0.6725 1.0000 0.3517 0.4877 0.4193 0.4970 0.4279 0.4279 0.4063 0.6436 0.6365 0.4279
Matrix Permeability 1.0000 0.3503 0.3557 0.3425 0.3333 0.3744 0.3344 0.3791 0.3523 0.3890 0.3791 0.4405 0.7495 0.3346
Porosity 0.6464 0.4776 0.5634 0.6869 1.0000 0.6464 0.4776 0.5231 0.4993 0.4776 0.7328 0.5493 0.5783 0.4393
Young’S Modulus 0.5399 0.4471 0.5582 0.7123 0.8618 0.6394 1.0000 0.4891 0.8563 0.8907 0.5926 0.4615 0.4772 0.5049
TOC 0.6836 0.4476 0.4993 0.4187 1.0000 0.4636 0.3719 0.4476 0.4993 0.5193 0.3762 0.4993 0.4476 0.4476
Thermal Maturity 0.4160 0.5428 0.6404 0.5256 0.4466 0.4498 0.5946 0.4379 0.5095 1.0000 0.7808 0.5807 0.6487 0.6751
Adsorbed Gas 0.4539 0.4111 1.0000 0.5994 0.5994 0.4111 0.4993 0.3994 0.4539 0.3840 0.5994 0.3840 0.4993 1.0000
Water Saturation 0.5783 0.5448 0.7996 0.6244 0.4699 0.4993 0.9472 0.4993 0.6917 0.5193 1.0000 0.6244 0.5448 0.4993
Horizontal Length 0.6532 0.4885 0.5756 0.6290 0.4041 0.5708 0.9187 0.8189 0.5660 0.4716 0.7723 0.5068 0.8715 1.0000
Fracturing Density 1.0000 0.4582 0.7720 0.5100 0.4084 0.4672 0.4187 0.4171 0.4695 0.4730 0.4671 0.4279 0.4637 0.4507
Frac Half Length 1.0000 0.4199 0.4539 0.5049 0.6332 0.4405 0.5690 0.4279 0.4362 0.8821 0.7622 0.4493 0.5415 0.4832
Frac Conductivity 0.5807 0.3900 0.4092 0.5312 0.3565 0.4231 0.5095 0.4539 0.3962 1.0000 0.6573 0.4160 0.6404 0.4092
BHP 0.4160 0.8886 0.3697 0.3605 0.7773 0.5549 0.8664 0.5410 0.7773 0.7773 0.7773 0.3840 0.5549 1.0000
1st Year Decline Rate 0.6836 1.0000 0.8458 0.6357 0.7495 0.5708 0.6357 0.7495 0.6836 0.7495 1.0000 0.6951 0.8707 0.6277