Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook: Evaluation and Development

Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook: Evaluation and Development is a must-have, helpful handbook that brings a wealth of background information to the engineer and geologist alike. Bridging between subsurface and production, the handbook extends your reservoir's potential by providing multiple layers of methods to lead you to a better defined reservoir. Better reservoir knowledge and more sophisticated technology are making unconventional resources economically possible, but for young and even experienced engineers, this kind of reservoir is new and complex, making identification and characterization difficult and confusing. Topics include: integrating seismic data to better find the production sweet spot in shale reservoirs; understanding transport properties in shale gas reservoirs from nano-pores to reservoir scale; meeting the challenges and recent advancements in modeling natural and hydraulic fracture networks; and evaluating completion effectiveness and prediction of well performance. Explores how to identify reservoir characterization methods to improve your unconventional reservoir's production capabilitiesHighlights the technical challenges in exploiting all types of unconventional resources, including hydratesDelivers balanced information with multiple contributors from various backgrounds such as academia, service providers, and oil and gas operatorsBrings a wealth of background information to the engineer and geologist alike, bridging between subsurface and production INDICE: Chapter 1: Introduction: Unconventional resources from exploration to production Chapter 2: Worldwide recoverable unconventional gas resources evaluation Chapter 3: Geochemistry applied to evaluation of unconventional resources Chapter 4: Characterization of shale by laboratory experimentations Chapter 5: Lithofacies and rock type classifications in unconventional formations Chapter 6: Resource assessment and ranking for unconventional plays Chapter 7: Finding production sweet spot in shale reservoirs by integrating seismic data and geology Chapter 8: Seismic anisotropy and fracture detections in unconventional resource plays Chapter 9: Pressure prediction in unconventional formations and impact on reservoir development Chapter 10: Geomechanics for unconventional reservoirs Chapter 11: Hydraulic fracturing in transverse isotropic media Chapter 12: Production data analysis in shale gas reservoirs Chapter 13: Transport properties in shale gas reservoirs: from nano-pores to reservoir scale Chapter 14: The challenges and recent advances in modeling transport, storage and PVT behavior in shale oil and gas reservoirs Chapter 15: Integrated reservoir modeling workflow for unconventional reservoirs Chapter 16: Integrated modeling of natural and hydraulic fracture networks Chapter 17: Microseismicity in unconventional reservoirs Chapter 18: Completion optimization in producing oil and gas from tight formations Chapter 19: Evaluating completion effectiveness and predicting well performances Chapter 20: Gas hydrate reservoir characterization and development Chapter 21: Fractured reservoirs in tight basement formations: From basin analysis to fracture modeling Chapter 22: Uncertainty analysis and pitfalls in developing unconventional reservoirs

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802238-2
• Editorial: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 440
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés