Pore structure characterization for organic-rich Lower Silurian shale in the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China: A possible mechanism for pore development

L Chen, Z Jiang, K Liu, J Tan, F Gao, P Wang - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Silurian shale in the Upper Yangtze Platform has become one of the
main targets of the exploration and development of marine shale gas in South China. This …

Trends in thermal maturity indicators for the organic sulfur-rich Eagle Ford Shale

KL French, JE Birdwell, MD Lewan - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermal maturity is critical to evaluate petroleum systems and to interpret biomarker results
for paleoenvironmental and geobiology studies. Many thermal maturity indices were …

Transfer learning with recurrent neural networks for long-term production forecasting in unconventional reservoirs

S Mohd Razak, J Cornelio, Y Cho, HH Liu, R Vaidya… - Spe Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
Robust production forecasting allows for optimal resource recovery through efficient field
management strategies. In hydraulically fractured unconventional reservoirs, the physics of …

Characterization of organic-rich shales for petroleum exploration & exploitation: A review-Part 3: Applied geomechanics, petrophysics and reservoir modeling

DA Wood, B Hazra - Journal of Earth Science, 2017 - Springer
Modeling geomechanical properties of shales to make sense of their complex properties is
at the forefront of petroleum exploration and exploitation application and has received much …

[HTML][HTML] A Methane Emission Estimation Tool (MEET) for predictions of emissions from upstream oil and gas well sites with fine scale temporal and spatial resolution …

DT Allen, FJ Cardoso-Saldaña, Y Kimura… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In comparing observation based methane emission estimates for oil and gas well sites to
routine emissions reported in inventories, the time scale of the measurement should match …

Rural light pollution from shale gas development and associated sleep and subjective well-being

A Boslett, E Hill, L Ma, L Zhang - Resource and energy economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The shale oil and gas boom has had large economic, environmental, and social impacts on
rural communities in the United States. This study provides novel estimates of the impacts of …

Consistent metrics needed for quantifying methane emissions from upstream oil and gas operations

DT Allen, Q Chen, JB Dunn - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Methane emissions from oil and natural gas sources are often characterized as a methane
emissions intensity, which is typically defined as methane emissions divided by natural gas …

Production forecasting for shale gas well in transient flow using machine learning and decline curve analysis

D Han, S Kwon, H Son, J Lee - Asia Pacific Unconventional …, 2020 - library.seg.org
Decline curve analysis (DCA) is widely used to predict the future productivity for a transient
flow (TF) regime in a shale gas well. However; when a production profile and productivity …

Residual learning to integrate neural network and physics-based models for improved production prediction in unconventional reservoirs

J Cornelio, S Mohd Razak, Y Cho, HH Liu, R Vaidya… - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
The flow and transport processes that take place during hydrocarbon production from
hydraulically fractured unconventional reservoirs are not well understood. As a result …

Modeling gas relative permeability in shales and tight porous rocks

B Ghanbarian, F Liang, HH Liu - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate modeling of gas relative permeability (k rg) has practical applications in oil and gas
exploration, production and recovery of unconventional reservoirs. In this study, we apply …