About
Shale reservoirs are not new. The first commercial hydrocarbon production in the United States was from a well drilled in 1821 in a shale gas reservoir. By 2000, more than 28,000 wells had been drilled in shale gas reservoirs. Rising gas prices and technological advancements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing associated with the development of the Barnett Shale led to a boom in shale gas development in the early years of the 21st century. Now the exploitation of shale reservoirs is turning to natural gas liquids, condensate, and oil.
Far from being isotropic and homogeneous, as once naively envisioned, shale reservoirs are complexly layered accumulations of fine-grained sediment. Geologic variation on scales ranging from that of stratal architecture to that of lamination within individual beds must be understood in order to locate and exploid areas of higher production within shale reservoirs. Shale reservoirs remain largely geologic plays - notmerely lease plays or strictly engineering plays made possible by improvements in drilling and completion technology.
Content
The printed material is made of extended abstracts of the papers available on the CD-ROM. The indexing in the CD-ROM starts at the page 69.
69-88 | Shale Resource Systems for Oil and Gas: Part 1—Shale-gas Resource Systems |
89-126 | Shale Resource Systems for Oil and Gas: Part 2—Shale-oil Resource Systems |
127-150 | Pore-to-regional-scale Integrated Characterization Workflow for Unconventional Gas Shales |
151-171 | A Method for Evaluating the Effects of Confining Stresses and Rock Strength on Fluid Flow along the Surfaces of Mechanical Discontinuities in Low-permeability Rocks |
172-200 | The Appalachian Basin Marcellus Gas Play: Its History of Development, Geologic Controls on Production, and Future Potential as a World-class Reservoir |
201-204 | Resource Assessment of the Marcellus Shale |
205-257 | Geologic Model for the Assessment of Technically Recoverable Oil in the Devonian–Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin |
258-289 | Ancient Microbial Gas in the Upper Cretaceous Milk River Formation, Alberta and Saskatchewan: A Large Continuous Accumulation in Fine-grained Rocks |
290-321 | Carbonate Lithologies of the Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas |
322-343 | Lithology of the Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Southern Fort Worth Basin, Texas |
344-367 | Shale Wedges and Stratal Architecture, Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Southern Fort Worth Basin, Texas |
368-381 | Lithologic and Stratigraphic Variation in a Continuous Shale-gas Reservoir: The Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Fort Worth Basin, Texas |
382-402 | Outcrop-behind Outcrop (Quarry): Multiscale Characterization of the Woodford Gas Shale, Oklahoma |
403-418 | Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Barnett Shale and Ellenburger Unconformity Southwest of the Core Area of the Newark East Field, Fort Worth Basin, Texas |
419-451 | Petrophysics in Gas Shales |