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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Shale Gas Reservoirs"”.
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Gas-condensate flow modelling for shale gas reservoirs.
In the last decade, shale reservoirs emerged as one of the fast growing hydrocarbon resources in the world unlocking vast reserves and reshaping the landscape of the oil and gas global market. Gas-condensate reservoirs represent an important part of these resources. The key feature of these …
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Fracture Modeling and Flow Behavior in Shale Gas Reservoirs Using Discrete Fracture Networks
Fluid flow process in fractured reservoirs is controlled primarily by the connectivity of fractures. The presence of fractures in these reservoirs significantly affects the mechanism of fluid flow. They have led to problems in the reservoir which results in early water breakthroughs, reduced …
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General screening criteria for shale gas reservoirs and production data analysis of Barnett shale
Shale gas reservoirs are gaining importance in United States as conventional oil and gas resources are dwindling at a very fast pace. The purpose of this study is twofold. First aim is to help operators with simple screening criteria which can help them in making certain decisions while going after …
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Flow Mechanisms and Transient Pressure Analysis Study For Multi-Stage Fractured Horizontal Wells In Shale Gas Reservoirs
Compared with conventional natural gas resources, shale gas reservoir, as a typical unconventional natural gas resource, has the characteristics of low porosity and low permeability. Therefore, the fractured horizontal well technology has been widely used in shale gas reservoir development. At the …
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Simulation of Multi-Component Gas Flow and Condensation in Marcellus Shale Reservoir
The Marcellus shale formation, with more than 463 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of recoverable gas in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, will play a critical role in providing clean energy, environmental sustainability, and increased security for our nation. However, due to recent low gas prices, most of …
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Poroelastic Effect on Gas Transport and Storage in Organic Rich Shale Reservoir
… on the effect of poroelastic properties of the shale matrix on storage and transportation mechanism in multi-scale organic rich shale gas reservoirs. Over last decades shale gas research widen significantly, however, the behavior and properties of shale formation still need more investigation. …
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Production Analysis in Tight/Shale Reservoirs Via Machine Learning Approaches
The development of unconventional tight/shale gas reservoirs has undergone a revolutionary transformation, primarily fueled by advancements in horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technologies. These innovations have enabled the economical extraction of hydrocarbons from …
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Some rock mechanics problems with application for hydraulic fracturing
… essential tool used to enhance connectivity in shale gas reservoirs by maximizing the intersection between the hydraulic fracture (HF) and pre-existing natural fractures (NF) or faults. The technique is most effective when the hydraulic fracture crosses natural fractures rather than arresting on …
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Accounting for Remaining Injected Fracturing Fluid
… of horizontal wells made the development of shale gas reservoirs become greatly successful during the past decades. A large amount of fracturing fluid, usually from 53,000 bbls to 81,400 bbls, is injected into the reservoir to create the fractures. However, only a small fraction of injected …
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Multi-scale Real Gas Transport in Shale Matrix
As one of the clean energy resources, shale gas significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The description of the gas transport behavior in shale rocks is one of the numerous challenges for further studies on economically developing shale gas reservoirs. In this work, real gas transport in the …
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Analysis of Production Data from Horizontal Shale Wells Using Decline Curves
Recent interest in the exploitation of Marcellus shale play, using horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing, has increased the demand for reliable estimation of recoverable reserves from ultra-low permeability shale gas formations. Due to the limited field experience, the production …
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Flow mechanisms and numerical simulation of gas production from shale reservoirs
<p>"Shale gas is one kind of the unconventional resources which is becoming an ever increasing component to secure the natural gas supply in U.S. Different from conventional hydrocarbon formations, shale gas reservoirs (SGRs) present numerous challenges to modeling and understanding due to complex …
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Investigation of fluids flow behavior in nano-scale channels by using optic imaging system
"Tight gas and shale gas reservoirs are characterized to have small pores with diameters in nanometer (nm) range. The physics of fluid flow in nanopores is poorly understood. Knowing the fluid flow behavior in the nano-range channels is of major importance for stimulation design, gas production …
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Characterization of Filter Cake Buildup and Cleanup under Dynamic Fluid Loss Conditions
… is a popular stimulation method in tight gas and shale gas reservoirs that uses a viscous fluid to fracture the reservoir rock and uniformly transport proppant to create a highly conductive path that is kept open by the proppant after fracturing. This method is used to improve the …
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Synthetic geomechanical logs and distributions for marcellus shale
… Geomechanical Logs for a specific Marcellus Shale asset using Artificial Intelligence and Data mining Technology. Geomechanical Distributions (Map and Volume) for the entire Marcellus Shale asset was completed. In order to accomplish the objectives, conventional well logs such as Gamma Ray …
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Pore-scale Interfacial and Transport Phenomena in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
Exploring unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs and enhancing the recovery of hydrocarbon from conventional reservoirs are necessary for meeting the society's ever-increasing energy demand and requires a thorough understanding of the multiphase interfacial and transport phenomena in these …
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Inversion of azimuthal velocity and amplitude variations for seismic anisotropy
… fluid flow especially for unconventional reservoirs of low matrix permeability. Thus, knowledge related to fracture orientation and intensity is vital for the development of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs, such as tight sand oil and shale gas reservoirs. The most productive …
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Modeling Storage and Flow of Fluids in Shale Reservoirs
Recent development of shale gas reservoirs has led to a revolution in the global energy market. The shale gas industry has expanded rapidly through the application of new drilling and completion technologies, particularly horizontal wells completed in multiple hydraulic fracture stages. While these …
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3D Geomechanical Modeling of Shale Formations and its Application in Borehole Stabilization
The issue of borehole instability as seen in shale formation drilling is a major problem currently facing the industry. In recent years, deep exploration and more intensive development of hard and brittle shale gas reservoirs has shown that borehole instability is a widely occurring issue present …