Flow units: From conventional to tight-gas to shale-gas to tight-oil to shale-oil reservoirs

R Aguilera - SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 2014 - onepetro.org
Core data from various North American basins with the support of limited amounts of data
from other basins around the world have shown in the past that process speed or delivery …

Naturally fractured reservoirs and their link to tight and shale petroleum reservoirs

R Aguilera - SPE Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum …, 2020 - onepetro.org
There is a very extensive amount of information and learnings from naturally fractured
reservoirs (NFRs) around the world collected throughout several decades. This paper …

Value-of-information analysis of a fracture prediction method

A Almansour, SE Laubach, JE Bickel… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2020 - onepetro.org
A core‐based fracture prediction method is used to illustrate a value‐of‐information (VOI)
decision‐analysis protocol to inform completion decisions in tight gas sandstones. The ratio …

3D modeling of multistage hydraulic fractures and two-way-coupling geomechanics/fluid-flow simulation of a horizontal well in the nikanassin tight gas formation …

L Gonzalez, G Nasreldin, J Rivero, P Welsh… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2014 - onepetro.org
Unconventional gas is stored in extensive areas known as basin-centered continuous-gas
accumulations. Although the estimated worldwide figures differ significantly, the consensus …

Hydraulic fracturing optimization for unconventional reservoirs-the critical role of the mechanical properties of the natural fracture network

NB Nagel, X Garcia, B Lee… - SPE Canada …, 2012 - onepetro.org
The success of many shale plays depends on the optimal stimulation of natural fractures,
and the characterization of the natural fracture systems is a key issue often leading to the …

A new index used to characterize the near-wellbore fracture network in naturally fractured gas reservoirs

H Deng, Y Liu, X Peng, Y Liu, HA Li - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of the near-wellbore fracture network greatly affects the production
potential of naturally fractured gas reservoirs. In this work, we develop an index to …

The relationship between geomechanical response of natural fractures and reservoir productivity in keshen tight sandstone gas field, Tarim Basin, China

H Yang, H Zhang, Z Cai, S Chen, F Yuan… - SPE Asia Pacific …, 2015 - onepetro.org
Reservoir performance in tight sandstone is influenced by geomechanical behavior of
natural fractures profoundly. Keshen gas field, located in Kuqa Depression of Tarim Basin …

Fracture characteristics and their influence on gas seepage in tight gas reservoirs in the Kelasu Thrust Belt (Kuqa Depression, NW China)

Y Dong, X Lu, J Fan, Q Zhuo - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Natural fractures were generally accepted as a key factor influencing the gas seepage
performance in tight gas reservoirs in Kelasu Thrust Belt (KTB). However, the mechanism …

GFREE Research Program

R Aguilera, TG Harding - SPE Annual Technical Conference and …, 2011 - onepetro.org
GFREE stands for a multi-disciplinary target-oriented research program into unconventional
gas technology that includes geoscience (G), formation evaluation (F), reservoir drilling …

Integrated Reservoir Characterization and 3D Modeling of the Monteith Formation: Tight Gas Sandstones in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Alberta, Canada

L Zambrano, JF Ramirez, PK Pedersen… - SPE Canada …, 2014 - onepetro.org
Abstract The Monteith Formation is an important tight gas reservoir in the Deep Basin,
Alberta, and consists of a progradational succession of shallow marine sediments, non …