About
This course will cover current practices for evaluating, drilling, and completing these challenging reservoirs with the primary goal that all participants come away with a clear understanding of the role and value of every discipline in an integrated team. Discussions and exercises will include a focus on the limitations of many of the current tools and technologies. Information and opportunities for many current and international shale plays will be described. The participant should leave the course with a foundational understanding of value-adding shale gas resource practices and an insight into determining the critical reservoir and stimulation parameters used to predict a potential commercial resource play.
Target Audience
You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe the resource potential and economic importance of shale gas and shale oil resources
- Describe the similarities/differences between shale gas, tight gas, and coalbed methane
- Recognize and describe shale play differences and critical reservoir properties to identify the sweet spots
- Estimate gas and oil in place for resource plays
- Apply different resource evaluation techniques recognizing the advantages and disadvantages of each technique
- Apply drilling, completion, and stimulation technology to shale gas and shale oil formations
- Evaluate and forecast individual well and reservoir performance
- Determine how to estimate well reserves in both PDP (proved developed producing) and PUD (proved undeveloped) categories