There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence technology have developed rapidly and are now widely used in fields of geophysics, well logging, and well test analysis in the exploration and development of oil and gas. The development of shale…
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in…
Diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFIT's), or "mini-fracs" are often used to gauge many reservoir and fracture design parameters. However, DFITs are not always conducted in conjunction with the main completions work. This paper proposes a novel…
Natural gas produced from shale formations in the United States over the past decade have altered the oil and gas industry remarkably. The Marcellus shale was considered to be one of the highest producing natural gas fields in the United States.…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence technology have developed rapidly and are now widely used in fields of geophysics, well logging, and well test analysis in the exploration and development of oil and gas. The development of shale…
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in…
Diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFIT's), or "mini-fracs" are often used to gauge many reservoir and fracture design parameters. However, DFITs are not always conducted in conjunction with the main completions work. This paper proposes a novel…
Natural gas produced from shale formations in the United States over the past decade have altered the oil and gas industry remarkably. The Marcellus shale was considered to be one of the highest producing natural gas fields in the United States.…
Based on analysis of horizontal well data characteristics, the differences of data distribution and variogram between vertical and horizontal wells in MPE3 oil field of Orinoco heavy oil belt were compared, and modeling strategies were proposed to…
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the quantity of data generated from monitoring technologies for subsurface operations such as permanent downhole sensors, as well as cross-hole and seismic surveys. Traditional models and…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence technology have developed rapidly and are now widely used in fields of geophysics, well logging, and well test analysis in the exploration and development of oil and gas. The development of shale…
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in…
Shale oil&gas development, fields development with horizontal wells and complexity of green and brown fields dramatically increase demands for high resolution and accuracy of reservoir characterization. Standard attribute analysis and acoustic…
Based on analysis of horizontal well data characteristics, the differences of data distribution and variogram between vertical and horizontal wells in MPE3 oil field of Orinoco heavy oil belt were compared, and modeling strategies were proposed to…
Diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFIT's), or "mini-fracs" are often used to gauge many reservoir and fracture design parameters. However, DFITs are not always conducted in conjunction with the main completions work. This paper proposes a novel…
Natural gas produced from shale formations in the United States over the past decade have altered the oil and gas industry remarkably. The Marcellus shale was considered to be one of the highest producing natural gas fields in the United States.…
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the quantity of data generated from monitoring technologies for subsurface operations such as permanent downhole sensors, as well as cross-hole and seismic surveys. Traditional models and…
Shale oil&gas development, fields development with horizontal wells and complexity of green and brown fields dramatically increase demands for high resolution and accuracy of reservoir characterization. Standard attribute analysis and acoustic…
Based on analysis of horizontal well data characteristics, the differences of data distribution and variogram between vertical and horizontal wells in MPE3 oil field of Orinoco heavy oil belt were compared, and modeling strategies were proposed to…
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the quantity of data generated from monitoring technologies for subsurface operations such as permanent downhole sensors, as well as cross-hole and seismic surveys. Traditional models and…
Shale oil&gas development, fields development with horizontal wells and complexity of green and brown fields dramatically increase demands for high resolution and accuracy of reservoir characterization. Standard attribute analysis and acoustic…
Using fiber-optic coiled tubing (CT) to perform distributive temperature sensing (DTS) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) logging to identify multiple points of leak detection is discussed using a case study. The case study provides an in-depth…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence technology have developed rapidly and are now widely used in fields of geophysics, well logging, and well test analysis in the exploration and development of oil and gas. The development of shale…
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in…
Diagnostic fracture injection tests (DFIT's), or "mini-fracs" are often used to gauge many reservoir and fracture design parameters. However, DFITs are not always conducted in conjunction with the main completions work. This paper proposes a novel…
Natural gas produced from shale formations in the United States over the past decade have altered the oil and gas industry remarkably. The Marcellus shale was considered to be one of the highest producing natural gas fields in the United States.…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence technology have developed rapidly and are now widely used in fields of geophysics, well logging, and well test analysis in the exploration and development of oil and gas. The development of shale…
With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the Chinese petroleum industry has ushered in the era of big data. In this study, by collecting fracturing data from 303 horizontal wells in the Fuling Shale Gas Demonstration Area in…
Prior to 2008, shale gas reservoirs were deemed uneconomical to produce. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have shifted this perspective, reducing the flow resistance from the reservoir to the well. Notwithstanding the thousands of shale…
The natural gas industry in Western Canada, has seen tremendous changes in the last decade, resulting in significantly increased horizontal well initial production rates. It is of interest to review some of the history of "allowables" and…
The article presents an assessment of the effective use of directional wells as a way to increase the productivity of underground gas storage. It analyzes the solutions to the problem of gas inflow to a horizontal well based on the use of a flat…
The U.S. Geological Survey assessed undiscovered unconventional hydrocarbon resources reservoired in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale (TMS) of southern Mississippi and adjacent Louisiana in 2018. As part of the assessment, oil-source rock…
In recent years, the greenhouse gas control has been a hot issue. A solution of injecting supercritical CO2 (scCO2) in Longmaxi shale gas formation (in Southwest China) is proposed in this study. To evaluate the feasibility of this method that…
Developing and deploying commercial-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage at a site requires operational strategies to manage pressure and CO2 plume distribution. In the natural gas storage and oil and gas industries, fluid extraction has been…
The objective of this work is to improve the geostatistical understanding of vertical (bed-normal) permeability (kz) and its influence on reservoir performance during CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and storage. kz is scrutinized far less often than…
With the rapid development of the global economy and the adjustment of energy structure, the demand for underground salt cavern gas storage is particularly urgent. The technology of double-well cavity creation with small well spacing is a relatively…
To promote adaptation of logging evaluation technologies to the development trend of unconventional oil and gas exploration and development era in China, the current situation and challenges of logging evaluation technologies in China are analyzed…
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) stores energy as compressed air in underground formations, typically salt dome caverns. When electricity demand grows, the compressed air is released through a turbine to produce electricity. CAES in the US is…
Shales are generally treated as non-porous formations and are frequently considered as the source rock and the cap layer. Over the past decades, technical breakthroughs in the US such as horizontal drilling, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing,…
Improved oil recovery from tight oil reservoirs to fulfill the fossil fuel requirements and the CO2 storage to meet the net carbon zero objectives are the two motivations of this work. CO2 is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas and its emission to…
A heavy oil sample from Dagang Oilfield was used to study the EOR mechanisms of CO2 huff and puff process using a PVT device and a sand-pack displacement set-up. The properties and interactions of the CO2-crude oil system were measured under high…
South part of NN reservoir, located at Bohai Bay of China, has reservoir characteristics of complex oil-water contact system, thin single pay zones of 6~8 m and heavy oil viscosity with 413~741mPas. At initial natural energy production stage, daily…
With the help of large-scale physical simulation experiment technology, the physical simulation experiments of the CO2 huffn-puff with the staged-fracturing horizontal well could be acheived. We studied the production process of CO2 huffnpuff and…
Natural gas hydrates, crystalline solids whose gas molecules are so compressed that they are denser than a typical fluid hydrocarbon, have extensive applications in the areas of climate change and the energy crisis. The hydrate deposit located in the…
A new geothermal energy-assisted natural gas hydrate recovery method (GEAN) that can simultaneously exploit geothermal energy and natural gas hydrates (NGHs) by injecting water into a geothermal heat exchange well was proposed in this paper. GEAN…