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Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis

  • 1st Edition - June 15, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Christopher R. Clarkson
  • Language: English

Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis provides petroleum engineers and geoscientists with the first comprehensive review of rate-transient analysis (RTA) methods as app… Read more

Description

Unconventional Reservoir Rate-Transient Analysis provides petroleum engineers and geoscientists with the first comprehensive review of rate-transient analysis (RTA) methods as applied to unconventional reservoirs. Volume One—Fundamentals, Analysis Methods, and Workflow is comprised of five chapters which address key concepts and analysis methods used in RTA. This volume overviews the fundamentals of RTA, as applied to low-permeability oil and gas reservoirs exhibiting simple reservoir and fluid characteristics.Volume Two—Application to Complex Reservoirs, Exploration and Development is comprised of four chapters that demonstrate how RTA can be applied to coalbed methane reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs, and low-permeability/shale reservoirs exhibiting complex behavior such as multiphase flow. Use of RTA to assist exploration and development programs in unconventional reservoirs is also demonstrated. This book will serve as a critical guide for students, academics, and industry professionals interested in applying RTA methods to unconventional reservoirs.

Key features

  • Gain a comprehensive review of key concepts and analysis methods used in modern rate-transient analysis (RTA) as applied to low-permeability ("tight") oil and gas reservoirs
  • Improve your RTA methods by providing reservoir/hydraulic fracture properties and hydrocarbon-in-place estimates for unconventional gas and light oil reservoirs exhibiting complex reservoir behaviors
  • Understand the provision of a workflow for confident application of RTA to unconventional reservoirs

Readership

Petroleum engineers; Production engineers; Reservoir engineers; Graduate-level petroleum engineering students

Table of contents

Volume One

1. Introduction to the Concept of RTA, RTA Methods, and the RTA workflow

2. Preparing and Assessing Data for Use in Quantitative RTA

3. Flow Regime Identification

4. Straight-line (Flow-Regime) Analysis Methods

5. Type-Curve Analysis Methods

Volume Two

6. Modification of RTA Methods for Unconventional Reservoirs, Part 1: Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

7. Modification of RTA Methods for Unconventional Reservoirs, Part 2: Shale Gas Reservoirs

8. Modification of RTA Methods for Unconventional Reservoirs, Part 3: Tight and Shale Reservoirs Exhibiting Multi-phase Flow

9. Rate-Transient Analysis as a Tool to Assist with Exploration and Field Development Optimization

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 30, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Christopher R. Clarkson

Christopher R. Clarkson is a professor and holder of the Ovintiv/Shell Chair in Unconventional Gas and Light Oil Research in the Department of Geoscience and an adjunct professor with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He leads the industry- and government-sponsored Tight Oil Consortium, which focuses on advanced reservoir characterization and evaluation of unconventional light oil reservoirs. Clarkson holds a PhD in geological engineering from the University of British Columbia. He is also a certified professional engineer with 11 years of industry experience as a petroleum (reservoir) engineer.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Ovintiv/Shell Chair in Unconventional Gas and Light Oil Research, University of Calgary, Canada

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