Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs: Theories, Operations, and Economic Analysis

Hydraulic fracturing continues to remain active in today's oil and gas market, but petroleum engineers need to search through multiple sources to keep up with the technology and newest studies. Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs, Second Edition continues to keep engineers up to date on the latest operations and applications in all facets of fracturing. Enhanced to include today's newest technology such as machine learning as well as monitoring of field performance using pressure and rate transient analysis, this reference still gives engineers the full spectrum of information needed to run unconventional field developments. Covering key aspects, including fracture clean-up, expanded material on refracturing, and discussion on economic analysis in unconventional reservoirs, Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs, Second Edition keeps today's petroleum engineers updated on all the critical aspects of unconventional activity. Get up to speed in fracturing optimization with machine learning applications and well spacing analysis Understand the drilling and production technology and operations in shale gas through real field examples Utilize all the various topics on fractured wells and exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons from one complete reference INDICE: 1. Introduction to Unconventional Reservoirs 2. Advanced Shale Reservoir Characterization 3. Shale Initial Gas-in-Place Calculation 4. Multiscale Fluid Flow and Transport in Organic-Rich Shale 5. Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Systems 6. Proppant Characteristics and Application Design 7. Unconventional Reservoir Development Footprints 8. Hydraulic Fracturing Chemical Selection and Design 9. Fracture Pressure Analysis and Perforation Design 10. Fracture Treatment Design 11. Horizontal Well Multistage Completion Techniques 12. Completions and Flowback Design Evaluation in Relation to Production 13. Rock Mechanical Properties and In Situ Stresses 14. Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test 15. Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Propagation 16. Operations and Execution 17. Decline Curve Analysis 18. Rate Transient Analysis and Application in Unconventional Reservoirs 19. Well Spacing Analysis in Relations to Completions Design 20. Application of Machine Learning in Hydraulic Fracture Optimization 21. Economic Evaluation 22. Numerical Simulation of Real Field Marcellus Shale Reservoir Development and Stimulation

• ISBN: 978-0-12-817665-8
• Editorial: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 520
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés