Shale reservoir engineering

[layibiyi]

Anybody here doing research in any aspect of shale reservoir engineering? Relatively new exciting field.

[06pg22]

I want to do that as well. Much interested.
06pg22@gmail.com

[samuelektro]

I'm doing a research in Shale Gas... Hope to share some books and information useful for our projects...

Regards !

[REGI_MAX]

Dears,
FYI, most of research was finalized years ago.... in US there was a research program since 1920ties...., shale reservoirs is property of US government, therefore the 'others' property owner against shale development and trying to put bad light on this technology, especially fracing.....
For us is important to have some tools how we can optimize the shale reservoirs development. So far the best soft (i 'believe') to adjust the proposal plans (multilateral wells with multiple fracs) is newest FracPro. It is providing an optimization of the frac number per drain/well to estimate the best drainage of HC in the shale volume. If you have this tool please put for the community, I am also interested to have a look how it works.
Best regards,
Regi

[layibiyi]

Dears,
FYI, most of research was finalized years ago.... in US there was a research program since 1920ties...., shale reservoirs is property of US government, therefore the 'others' property owner against shale development and trying to put bad light on this technology, especially fracing.....
For us is important to have some tools how we can optimize the shale reservoirs development. So far the best soft (i 'believe') to adjust the proposal plans (multilateral wells with multiple fracs) is newest FracPro. It is providing an optimization of the frac number per drain/well to estimate the best drainage of HC in the shale volume. If you have this tool please put for the community, I am also interested to have a look how it works.
Best regards,
Regi

What do you mean that most of the research was finalized years ago, what aspect of the research?

[REGI_MAX]

layibiyi,
i mean, research for the suitable technology to produce from low poro-low perm reservoirs. For your information, even nuclear devices were used to stimulate this kind of reservoirs. Last but not least... different kinds of fracing in multilaterals is the most economic for the shale reservoirs... of course the number of the fracs per lateral and frac design should be optimized. For this purpose FracPro can be used

[layibiyi]

layibiyi,
i mean, research for the suitable technology to produce from low poro-low perm reservoirs. For your information, even nuclear devices were used to stimulate this kind of reservoirs. Last but not least... different kinds of fracing in multilaterals is the most economic for the shale reservoirs... of course the number of the fracs per lateral and frac design should be optimized. For this purpose FracPro can be used

Hey regimax, check the original post, its about reservoir engineering aaspects`, not production. What you just said is common knowledge

[kochichiro]

So, what do you mean by reservoir engineering aspects?
From my side, as far as I know, Schlum planning CO2 flood in Bakken, when production from fracking would finally decline and repetitive fracking would not help. But you should understand that Bakken and so-called shale oil reservoirs actually are low permeability siltstones and conglomerates.

The real shale reservoirs are only some of gas shale reservoirs in black marine shales, mudstones and argillites. Only possible drive mechanism in shale gas reservoirs (as for normal volumetric gas reservoirs) is depletion drive.

Besides stimulation with previously mentioned multiple fracking, you should properly choose the location of future well. It must be piece of reservoir with maximum porosity, natural fractures density and permeability, i.e. maximum reserves concentration – so called sweet spots. There are plenty of methods for identification of sweet spots – for low depths electromagnetic surveys proven to be successful, for greater depths modified 2D and 3D seismic surveys are employed.

[g.prakhar]

DCA maybe an area of interest to many