MA Xinhua, LI Xizhe, F Liang, WAN Yujin… - Petroleum Exploration …, 2020 - Elsevier
Weiyuan shale gas play is characterized by thin high-quality reservoir thickness, big horizontal stress difference, and big productivity differences between wells. Based on …
L Zuo, W Yu, K Wu - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
In the past several decades, in order to have quick and direct methods to perform production forecasting and reserves estimation in practice, petroleum engineers have designed various …
S Ikonnikova, J Browning, G Gülen, K Smye… - Economics of Energy & …, 2015 - JSTOR
This paper reviews major findings and insights from a series of integrated geologic, engineering, economic, and econometric analyses performed on the four largest US shale …
The water footprint of oil production, including water used for hydraulic fracturing (HF) and flowback-produced (FP) water, is increasingly important in terms of HF water sourcing and …
Production of oil from shale and tight reservoirs accounted for almost 50% of 2016 total US production and is projected to continue growing. The objective of our analysis was to …
We develop a new method of predicting fieldwide gas or oil production from unconventional reservoirs, using the Barnett shale as an illustration. First, we divide the qualifying 13 141 …
Discussion on shale gas production sustainability raises the question of shale gas well profitability. The study presents a well economics model incorporating key geologic and …
Over the past decade, technological advancements in horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing enable natural gas to be economically produced from tight shale formations …