COURSE CONTENT
1. DRILLING, COMPLETION AND STIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES
- Horizontal well drillingTechnical
- Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing
- Micro-seismic monitoring
2. RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
- Laboratory measurements of shale gas storage and transport properties
- Gas-in-place calculations
- Gas transport calculations
- Pressure transient regimes in hydraulically-fractured horizontal wells
- Formation linear flow modeling
- Pressure transient analysis
3. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- Environmental considerations in developing shale gas reservoirs
- Enhanced shale gas recovery
Lecture and exercise material is supplemented with integrated case history information on the Barnett Shale, from which the instructor has considerable experience.