Unconventional gas reservoirs : evaluation, appraisal, and development /

Natural gas, especially unconventional gas, has an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. Experts estimate that it has the potential to add anywhere from 60-250% to the global proven gas reserve in the next two decades. To maintain pace with increasing global demand, U...

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Main Authors: Islam, M. Rafiqul
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Gulf Professional Publishing,
Publisher Address: Waltham, Massachusetts ; Oxford, England :
Publication Dates: 2015.
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128003909
Summary: Natural gas, especially unconventional gas, has an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. Experts estimate that it has the potential to add anywhere from 60-250% to the global proven gas reserve in the next two decades. To maintain pace with increasing global demand, Unconventional Gas Reservoirs provides the necessary bridge into the newer processes, approaches and designs to help identify these more uncommon reservoirs available and how to maximize its unconventional potential. Loaded with reservoir development and characterization strategies, this book will sho.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (633 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780128005941
0128005947
0128003901
9780128003909
Index Number: TN880
CLC: TE37
Contents: Front Cover; UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVOIRS; Copyright; CONTENTS; AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; 1.1 SUMMARY; 1.2 UNCONVENTIONAL TO MAINSTREAM: A NECESSARY PARADIGM SHIFT; 1.3 THE PARADOX OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS; 1.4 GREENING THE FUTURE OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS; 1.5 PARADIGM SHIFT IN RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; 1.6 THE SCIENCE OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS; 1.7 DEPICTING THE FUTURE; 1.8 THE END GAME; Chapter 2 -- World Gas Reserve and the Role of Unconventional Gas; 2.1 SUMMARY; 2.2 PETROLEUM IN THE BIG PICTURE; 2.3 PETROLEUM RESERVE AROUND THE WORLD; 2.4 WORLDWIDE GAS RESERVE.
2.5 UNCONVENTIONAL GAS AROUND THE WORLD2.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3 -- Important Features of Unconventional Gas; 3.1 SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION; 3.2 OVERVIEW OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVOIRS; 3.3 SPECIAL FEATURES OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVOIRS; 3.4 GLOBAL WARMING AND NATURAL GAS; 3.5 DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS; Chapter 4 -- Future Potentials of Unconventional Gas: Challenges and Opportunities; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 LESSONS LEARNT FROM ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; 4.3 CARBON SEQUESTRATION ENHANCED GAS RECOVERY; 4.4 ENHANCED GAS RECOVERY; 4.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIO
Chapter 5 -- Reservoir Characterization of Unconventional Gas Formations5.1 SUMMARY; 5.2 INTRODUCTION; 5.3 ORIGIN OF FRACTURES; 5.4 SEISMIC FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; 5.5 RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION DURING DRILLING; 5.6 RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION WITH IMAGE LOG AND CORE ANALYSIS; 5.7 MAJOR FORCES OF OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS; 5.8 RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; 5.9 SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR SHALE; 5.10 SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR COALBED METHANE; Chapter 6 -- Scientific Characterization of Unconventional Gas Reservoirs; 6.1 SUMMARY; 6.2 INTRODUCTION; 6.3 SCIENCE OF NATURE VERSUS NATURAL SCIENCE.
6.4 DELINEARIZED HISTORY OF CHARACTERIZATION OF MATTER AND ENERGY6.5 CHARACTERIZATION OF EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE; 6.6 ORGANIC AND MECHANICAL FREQUENCIES; 6.7 REDEFINING FORCE AND ENERGY; 6.8 WHAT IS A NATURAL ENERGY SOURCE?; 6.9 THE SCIENCE OF WATER AND PETROLEUM; 6.10 ORGANIC ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM; 6.11 PLACEMENT OF UNCONVENTIONAL GAS IN THE ENERGY PICTURE; Chapter 7 -- Overview of Reservoir Simulation of Unconventional Reservoirs; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 ESSENCE OF RESERVOIR SIMULATION; 7.3 RECENT ADVANCES IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION; 7.4 COMPREHENSIVE MODELING.
7.5 TOWARDS SOLVING NONLINEAR EQUATIONSChapter 8 -- Economic Outlook and Conclusions; 8.1 SUMMARY; 8.2 ECONOMICS OF UNCONVENTIONAL AND ECONOMICS OF INTANGIBLES; 8.3 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX.