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