Unconventional hydrocarbon resources : techniques for reservoir engineering analysis /: techniques for reservoir engineering analysis. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Reza Barati, Mustafa M. Alhubail.
• Authors: Barati, Reza; Alhubail, Mustafa M
• Contents: List of contributors Preface 1 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON RESOURCES 14 1.1 BACKGROUND 14 1.2 OVERVIEW OF SHALE REVOLUTION 15 1.3 BASIC DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS 20 1.4 U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL UNCONVENTIONAL PLAYS 27 1.5 UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES INTERPRETATION WORKFLOW 63 1.6 FUTURE PROJECTION AND CHALLENGES 65 1.7 GENERAL REMARKS 66 1.8 PROBLEMS 67 1.9 REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL READING 68 2 CHAPTER TWO: PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS 78 2.1 BACKGROUND 78 2.2 PETROPHYSICS 78 2.3 LITHOLOGY EVALUATION 89 2.4 POROSITY 98 2.5 POROSITY MEASUREMENT 101 2.6 NMR CORE POROSITY FOR SHALES 119 2.7 PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTION 125 2.8 PERMEABILITY 134 2.9 SATURATION 164 2.10 WETTABILITY 173 2.11 HYDROCARBON PORE VOLUME AND RESERVE ESTIMATION 181 2.12 PROBLEMS 191 2.13 REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL READING 196 3 CHAPTER THREE: PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY IN ORGANIC-RICH SHALE RESERVOIRS 224 3.1 BACKGROUND 224 3.2 EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC MATTER 224 3.3 TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC) 227 3.4 KEROGEN, BITUMEN AND/ OR PYROBITUMEN 228 3.5 VITRINITE REFLECTANCE 235 3.6 SOLID BITUMEN REFLECTANCE 237 3.7 ORGANIC POROSITY 238 3.8 METHODS OF DETERMINING SOURCE ROCK POTENTIAL (TOC) 242 3.9 ORIGINAL TOC AND HYDROCARBON YIELD DETERMINATIONS 272 3.10 THERMAL MATURITY AND SOURCE ROCK ASSESSMENT 281 3.11 RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS OF THERMAL MATURITY IN KEROGEN 291 3.12 DRIFTS ANALYSIS OF KEROGEN MATURITY 300 3.13 PROBLEMS 304 3.14 REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS 308 4 CHAPTER 4: APPLICATION OF IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANIC-RICH SHALES 320 4.1 X-RAY MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (X-RAY MICRO-CT) 321 4.2 X-RAY NANO-CT 361 4.3 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 367 4.4 BROAD ION BEAM-SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (BIB-SEM) 417 4.5 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 420 4.6 PRACTICE QUESTIONS ON MICRO- AND NANO-CT 420 4.7 PRACTICE QUESTIONS ON ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 421 4.8 REFERENCES 429 5 CHAPTER FIVE: GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS 439 5.1 BACKGROUND 439 5.2 BASIC CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 439 5.3 STRESSES AND PRESSURE GRADIENTS 445 5.4 WELL LOGGING MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE THE ELASTIC PARAMETERS 458 5.5 IDENTIFYING THE GEOMECHANICAL SWEET SPOTS 466 5.6 GENERAL REMARKS 477 5.7 PROBLEMS 480 5.8 REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS 484 6 CHAPTER SIX: HYDRAULIC FRACTURING 493 6.1 BACKGROUND 493 6.2 FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING 495 6.3 FRACTURING FLUIDS 536 6.4 PROPPANT 552 6.5 MODELING OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURES 567 6.6 PROBLEMS 585 6.7 REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS 587 7 CHAPTER 7 PHASE BEHAVIOR OF SHALE OIL AND GAS 601 7.1 INTRODUCTION 601 7.2 COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSES OF SHALE FLUIDS 601 7.3 PHASE BEHAVIOR AND PVT EXPERIMENTS 615 7.4 EQUATION OF STATE (EOS) 630 7.5 EOS REGRESSION TO EXPERIMENTAL DATA 653 7.6 MINIMUM MISCIBILITY PRESSURE 657 7.7 CHAPTER PROBLEM 668 7.8 REFERENCES 673 8 FLUID FLOW THROUGH NANO-SIZED PORES 682 8.1 INTRODUCTION 682 8.2 PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTION 683 8.3 ADSORPTION 684 8.4 FLOW REGIMES 691 8.5 MODELING TECHNIQUES 694 8.6 LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODEL (LBM) 705 8.7 APPENDIX 719 8.8 REFERENCES 728 9 CHAPTER NINE: DECLINE CURVE AND RATE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS 739 9.1 BACKGROUND 739 9.2 PURPOSE OF DECLINE CURVES 739 9.3 DECLINE CURVE ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 740 9.4 TRADITIONAL DECLINE CURVE MODELS 742 9.5 ARPS' MODELS 742 9.6 MODERN DECLINE CURVE MODELS 758 9.7 RATE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS 772 9.8 PROBLEMS 796 9.9 REFERENCES 817 10 CHAPTER 10: PETROLEUM ECONOMICS OF UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE RESERVOIRS 825 10.3 FUNDAMENTALS OF PETROLEUM ECONOMICS 832 10.4 FISCAL REGIMES AND CONTRACTS 848 10.5 DECISION, UNCERTAINTY AND RISK ANALYSIS 853 10.6 CHAPTER PROJECT 855 10.7 PROBLEMS 868 10.8 REFERENCES 869 11 ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF SHALE HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENTS 871 11.1 INTRODUCTION 871 11.2 WATER MANAGEMENT AND REUSE 872 11.3 CHEMICALS USED IN FRACTURING FLUIDS 889 11.4 POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON DRINKING WATER RESOURCES 900 11.5 INDUCED SEISMICITY 901 11.6 AIR POLLUTION 903 11.7 REFERENCES 905
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : American Geophysical Union
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 622.3383; Oil-shales; Oil shale reserves; Shale gas; Oil-shale mines and mining; Hydraulic fracturing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119420675; 9781119420491
• Related ISBNs: 9781119420323
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