Overview
- Fills a major gap in the literature on reservoir engineering aspects of shale hydrocarbon production
- Provides in-depth coverage of the fundamentals and applications of shale reserve estimation techniques
- Supplies with problems and interactive questions to facilitate deep learning and engagement
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences (BRIEFSEARTH)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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The main focus of this book is to show the challenges specific to shale hydrocarbon recovery and the practices to overcome these challenges. This book starts with an overview to the technological evolution that led to successful production of shale plays, and the implications of the shale being a source rock for its hydrocarbon recovery. The second chapter presents the operations of well drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and monitoring activities. Chapter 3 provides an overview of the available methods for reserve estimation of shale resources followed by comprehensive coverage of decline curve analysis (DCA). In a departure from the mostly empirical rate-time DCA methods covered in Chapter 3, advanced rate-time-pressure analysis – often referred to as rate transient analysis (RTA) - methods are presented in Chapter 4. Chapter 4 ends with discussing the complications of fluid flow in shale reservoirs and the required modeling improvements.
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Book Title: Shale Hydrocarbon Recovery
Book Subtitle: Basic Concepts and Reserve Estimation
Authors: Mehdi Zeidouni
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23559-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23558-0Published: 31 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23559-7Published: 29 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2191-5369
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5377
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 78
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Sedimentology