Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook : Evaluation and Development

Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook: Evaluation and Development is a must-have, helpful handbook that brings a wealth of information to engineers and geoscientists. Bridging between subsurface and production, the handbook provides engineers and geoscientists with effective methodology to better define resources and reservoirs. Better reservoir knowledge and innovative technologies are making unconventional resources economically possible, and multidisciplinary approaches in evaluating these resources are critical to successful development. Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook takes this approach, covering a wide range of topics for developing these resources including exploration, evaluation, drilling, completion, and production. Topics include theory, methodology, and case histories and will help to improve the understanding,integrated evaluation, and effective development of unconventional resources.

• Presents methods for a full development cycle of unconventional resources, from exploration through production
• Explores multidisciplinary integrations for evaluation and development of unconventional resources and covers a broad range of reservoir characterization methods and development scenarios
• Delivers balanced information with multiple contributors from both academia and industry
• Provides case histories involving geological analysis, geomechanical analysis, reservoir modeling, hydraulic fracturing treatment, microseismic monitoring, well performance and refracturing for development of unconventional reservoirs
   

List of Contributors
Preface

Part 1 : General Topics
Chapter 1 : Unconventional Resources from Exploration to Production
Chapter 2 : World Recoverable Unconventional Gas Resources Assessment
Chapter 3 : Geochemistry Applied to Evaluation of Unconventional Resources
Chapter 4 : Pore-Scale Characterization of Gas Flow Properties in Shale by Digital Core Analysis
Chapter 5 : Wireline Log Signatures of Organic Matter and Lithofacies Classifications for Shale and Tight Carbonate Reservoirs
Chapter 6 : The Role of Pore Proximity in Governing Fluid PVT Behavior and Produced Fluids Composition in Liquids-Rich Shale Reservoirs
Chapter 7 : Geomechanics for Unconventional Reservoirs
Chapter 8 : Hydraulic Fracture Treatment, Optimization, and Production Modeling
Chapter 9 : The Application of Microseismic Monitoring in Unconventional Reservoirs
Chapter 10 : Impact of Preexisting Natural Fractures on Hydraulic Fracture Simulation

Part 2 : Special Topics
Chapter 11 : Effective Core Sampling for Improved Calibration of Logs and Seismic Data
Chapter 12 : Integrated Hydraulic Fracture Design and Well Performance Analysis
Chapter 13 : Impact of Geomechanical Properties on Completion in Developing Tight Reservoirs
Chapter 14 : Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoirs, Part 1 : Overview and Lithofacies
Chapter 15 : Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoirs, Part 2 : Petrophysical Analysis and Reservoir Modeling
Chapter 16 : Granite Wash Tight Gas Reservoir
Chapter 17 : Coalbed Methane Evaluation and Development : An Example from Qinshui Basin in China
Chapter 18 : Monitoring and Predicting Steam Chamber Development in a Bitumen Field
Chapter 19 : Glossary for Unconventional Oil and Gas Resource Evaluation and Development

Index