In this talk, I will present the petrophysical properties of kerogen from the study of more than 50 global shale samples. The determined kerogen properties include measured chemical composition and absolute density, as well as calculated nuclear properties such as apparent log density, hydrogen index, thermal and epithermal neutron porosities, photoelectric factor, macroscopic capture cross-section (Sigma), and fast neutron cross-section. For kerogen samples relevant to the petroleum industry (predominantly type II with thermal maturity ranging from immature to dry gas), it is found that petrophysical properties are controlled mainly by thermal maturity, with differences between basins/formations having relatively little effect on kerogen properties. As a result, universal curves can be established that relate kerogen properties to thermal maturity. This thermal maturity-adjusted log interpretation (TMALI) establishes a consistent framework to evaluate organic shales globally, requiring only knowledge of the thermal maturity of the play of interest, and provides more accurate, robust, and confident estimates of critical formation parameters including porosity, saturation, and hydrocarbon-in-place.