Unconventional Shale Gas Reservoirs

Level: Intermediate

Upcoming Sessions:

To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructor: Dr. Tarek Ahmed

Designed for:

Petroleum engineers and other professionals involved in the exploration, production, and evaluation of unconventional resources.

Course Overview:

The Course is designed to present a comprehensive discussion of the traditional and modern decline and type curves analysis, basic modeling of rich/retrograde shale gas reservoirs and newly developed Shale Gas MBE

Course Content:
  • Introduction to Shale Gas
    • Introduction
    • Unconventional Reservoirs Worldwide
    • Shale Gas & CBM Characteristics
      • Relative Permeability and the Concept of Permeability Jail
      • Langmuir Isotherms
      • MBE for Coal Bed Methane
  • Decline and Type Curves Analysis Models
    • Traditional Decline Curves Analysis
    • Arps decline curves
    • Use of type curves for estimating reserves
    • Modified Hyperbolic Function
    • Duong’s Method
    • Weibull Growth Model
    • Power Law Function
    • Approximation of the Complete and Incomplete Gamma Function
    • Stretched Exponential Function
    • Comparison of Different Methodologies
  • Class Problems Using Participants Field Data
  • Generating Type Curves
    • Decoupling Well Stream Type Curves
    • Probability-Log Scale Performance of Shale
    • P10, P50, and P90
    • EUR
  • Retrograde Shale Gas Reservoirs
  • Combining the MBE with Decline Curve Analysis
  • Shale Gas Hydrocarbon Windows
    • The Eagle Ford Example
  • Retrograde Shale Gas Plays
  • Modeling and Analysis of Unconventional Gas Production with a Skin Effect
  • Linear Flow Analysis to Shale and Tight Gas Wells
  • Difference Between Condensate Yield and Condensate Gas Ratio
  • Generating Relative Permeability Ratio from CCE Tests For Modeling Retrograde Gas Reservoirs
  • Laboratory Relative Permeability Ratio as a function of Pressure
  • Analytical Modeling
    • SRV
    • Modeling and Analysis of Unconventional Well Production with a Skin Effect
    • Linear Flow Analysis to Unconventional Gas Wells
    • Analytical Methods of Analyzing Production Data from Shale Gas Reservoirs
    • MBE for Unconventional Gas Plays
  • Optimizing Transverse Fractures using an in-house Model
    • Determining Optimum Number of Stages