Geologic characteristics, exploration and production progress of shale oil and gas in the United States: An overview

TP Mcmahon, TE Larson, T Zhang, M Shuster - Petroleum Exploration and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a systematic summary of the geological characteristics, exploration and
development history and current state of shale oil and gas in the United States. The …

Production optimization using machine learning in Bakken shale

G Luo, Y Tian, M Bychina… - … , Houston, Texas, 23-25 …, 2018 - library.seg.org
Researchers from both industry and academia have studied the tight oil resources
intensively in the past decade since the successfully development of Bakken Shale and …

Production-strategy insights using machine learning: application for Bakken shale

G Luo, Y Tian, M Bychina… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Researchers from both industry and academia have intensively studied tight oil resources in
the past decade since the successful development of Bakken Shale and Eagle Ford Shale …

Formation Evaluation Challenges of Tight and Shale Reservoirs. A Case Study of the Bakken Petroleum System

I Mellal, V Rasouli, A Dehdouh, A Letrache… - ARMA US Rock …, 2023 - onepetro.org
Several challenges are associated with enhancing oil and gas recovery from tight and shale
reservoirs, which make up a significant portion of hydrocarbon production worldwide …

Evaluating hydrocarbon-in-place and recovery factor in a hybrid petroleum system: Case of Bakken and three forks in North Dakota

SA Gherabati, HS Hamlin, KM Smye… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An integrated workflow to estimate the hydrocarbon-in-place and recovery factor is applied
in the Bakken-Three Forks petroleum system. Evaluating factors that control the generation …

Stress-Dependent Petrophysical Properties of the Bakken Unconventional Petroleum System: Insights from Elastic Wave Velocities and Permeability Measurements

P Pothana, G Ifrene, K Ling - Fuels, 2023 - mdpi.com
The net-effective stress is a fundamental physical property that undergoes dynamic changes
in response to variations in pore pressure during production and injection activities …

Sequence sets and composite sequences

K Bohacs, R Lazar, T Demko, J Ottmann, K Potma - 2022 - archives.datapages.com
This chapter presents definitions, recognition criteria, and examples of sequence sets and
composite sequences within a sequence-stratigraphic framework. This stratigraphic scale …

Using data analytics to assess the impact of technology change on production forecasting

F Male, C Aiken, IJ Duncan - SPE Annual Technical Conference and …, 2018 - onepetro.org
The nature of well completions in the oil and gas industry continues to evolve. Although the
effects of completions and spacing on initial production are well reported, how they affect …

Concerns and clarifications for drilled uncompleted (DUC) wells in the Williston Basin

K Srinivasan, J Krishnamurthy… - SPE Reservoir Evaluation …, 2019 - onepetro.org
The recent slump in oil prices has resulted in new terminology:“drilled uncompleted wells,”
often referred to as DUC wells by the industry. In 2013 and 2014, when oil prices were more …

Constraining faults and stratigraphic zones in shale and tight oil basins via 3D geocellular models

R Dommisse - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The validity of regional and basin-wide geomodels for unconventional and tight-oil plays
depends on the accuracy and precision of the available structural and stratigraphic …