Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Lessons Learned gives engineers the latest research developments and practical applications in today's operations. Comprised of both academic and corporate contributors, a balanced critical review on technologies utilized are covered. Environmental topics are presented, including produced water management and sustainable operations in gas systems. Machine learning applications, well integrity and economic challenges are also covered to get the engineer up-to-speed. With its critical elements, case studies, history plot visuals and flow charts, the book delivers a critical reference to get today's petroleum engineers updated on the latest research and applications surrounding shale gas systems.
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Table of Contents
1. Field development and asset management2. Geological characterization of unconventional shale-gas reservoirs
3. Construction and completion of multifractured horizontal wells
4. Well control challenges in unconventional shale plays
5. Wellbore/borehole stability in shale formation
6. Advances in formation evaluation of shale systems
7. Advances in interpretation of diagnostic fracture injection tests
8. Fracture diagnostic testing
9. Proppant placement
10. Advances in geomechanical modeling
11. Advances in flowback analysis: fracturing water production obeys a simple decline model
12. Application of molecular dynamics simulations for shale gas systems
13. Wettability modifiers for enhanced oil recovery from tight and shale reservoirs
14. Scale considerations during petrophysical characterization of shales
15. Challenges associated with lifting and loading in shale gas wellbore systems
16. Production data analysis for shale gas wells
17. Machine learning applications in unconventional shale gas systems
18. Experimental evaluation of enhanced oil recovery in unconventional resource plays: a new screening protocol
19. Spatial data analytics for optimum data declustering in shale systems
