Browsing by Subject "Shale"
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(2018-10-24)The purpose of type wells is to portray the range of production profiles of a predetermined geological subset in a resource play. Most type well construction workflows rely on the creation of “average” profiles by simply ...
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(2016-12-06)The multiscale heterogeneity of ultratight shale rocks leads to the interesting yet pragmatic question of whether or not its microscale features may be used to predict macroscopic fracture behavior. Understanding the ...
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(2019-04-03)According to the 2015 Energy Information Administration (EIA) global assessment (EIA 2015), Argentina ranks third among countries in shale-gas resources and fourth in shale-oil resources. The Vaca Muerta formation in the ...
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(2021-12-06)This study demonstrates a comparison of a High-Resolution Gas Chromatography (HRGC) analysis of drilling cuttings and sidewall cores from the same oil well, with the purpose of determining how well the two sample types are ...
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(2017-07-30)The Middle Cretaceous Del Rio Formation is a calcareous shale interbedded with a few thin sandstone and limestone beds. The extreme variability within this unit makes it difficult to correlate regionally. However, analyzing ...
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(2012-10-19)A proper understanding of reservoir connectivity is essential to understanding the relationship between the porosity and the permeability within it. Additionally, the construction of an accurate reservoir model cannot be ...
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(2015-05-12)Adsorbed hydrocarbons, stored along the walls of kerogen pores and capillaries of organic-rich shale, are generally considered unrecoverable until desorption at low pressure is induced. Consequently, production from these ...
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An Efficient Method for Fractured Shale Reservoir Simulation & History Matching: The cEDFM Approach (2018-11-28)The intricate physics of unconventional reservoir fluid transportation has posed great challenges to traditional simulation approaches. Resources such as shale are usually associated with complex fracture networks generated ...
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(2012-10-19)Over 18 billion barrels of waste fluids are generated annually from oil and gas production in the United States. As a large amount of water is used for oilfield operations, treating and reusing produced water can cut the ...
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(2022-07-21)Gas and oil production performance in shale oil wells is fundamentally different from the conventional reservoirs. The difference is more pronounced in the producing gas-oil-ratio (GOR) trends. In the conventional case, ...
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(ACS PUblications, 2017-05-08)Shale gas is an unconventional source of energy, which has attracted a lot of attention during the last years. Kerogen is a prime constituent of shale formations and plays a crucial role in shale gas technology. Significant ...
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(2019-05-15)Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO) inversion is an effective method to estimate elastic parameters of target subsurface layers. However, most conventional AVO inversions are based on linear approximations of Zoeppritz ...
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(2020-01-30)This dissertation is on measuring the permeability of the unconventional rock samples in the laboratory in order to understand the flow of single-phase and multi-phase fluids in these rocks. Steady-state flow measurements ...
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(2015-05-01)This thesis is an analysis of the effect of shale nanopore confinement on fluid phase behavior using Monte Carlo molecular modeling. Research conducted so far in this area in the oil and gas industry mainly encompasses ...
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(2017-12-12)The shale oil/gas is one of the most prospective natural resources due to its huge amount of reserves, and, thus, its development plays a role in making a great contribution to resolve the problem of energy deficiency all ...
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(2017-07-05)The purpose of hydraulic fracturing in low permeability shales is to maximize surface contact area with the reservoir and create conductive flow paths for the hydrocarbons to be economically produced through. Fracture ...
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(2012-07-16)The role of surface chemical effects in hydraulic fracturing of shale is studied using the results of unconfined compression tests and Brazilian tests on Mancos shale- cored at depths of 20-60 ft. The rock mineralogy, total ...
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(2014-08-10)The fundamental behavior of fluid production from shale/ultra-low permeability reservoirs that are produced under a constant wellbore pressure remains difficult to quantify, which is believed to be (at least in part) due ...
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(2019-03-21)Kerogen is a micro-porous amorphous solid, which consist the major component of the organic matter scattered in the potentially lucrative shale formations hosting shale gas. Deeper understanding of the way kerogen porosity ...
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(2015-08-10)In this work, our purpose is to create a "performance-based reservoir characterization" using production data (measured rates and pressures) from a selected gas condensate region within the Eagle Ford Shale (S. Texas). We ...