Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoir Simulation

There are still many challenges facing reservoir engineers as the industry focuses on more complex unconventional reservoirs. Shale and tight reservoir simulations along with complex fractures are still a new phenomenon and there is a lack of basic understanding on the numerical approaches in order to properly analyze the simulation results.

Reservoir Simulation of Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs delivers the latest research and applications used to better manage and interpret simulating production from shale gas and tight oil reservoirs. Starting with basic fundamentals, the most valuable aspect of the book is the probabilistic workflow for history matching and production forecasting. Based on real field data, the workflow will not only generate reliable reserve estimation but also predict the effective range of reservoir and fracture properties through multiple history matching solutions, which is important to help operators characterize fracture treatment effectiveness and guide the future field development optimization. Also included are new insights into numerical modelling of CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery in tight oil reservoirs, providing a better understanding of the impacts of key reservoir properties and complex fractures on the CO2 injection strategy and new insights about removing the condensate blockage in gas condensate reservoirs through numerical modelling, delivering an effective data-driven tool to perform big data analysis in shale gas and tight oil reservoirs. Rounding out with geomechanics modelling and data mining, Reservoir Simulation of Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs helps reservoir and petroleum engineers gain better understanding and application of today’s unconventional reservoirs.

Model well performance of shale gas and tight oil reservoirs with complex fracture geometriesPerform sensitivity study, history matching, production forecasts, and economic optimization for shale gas and tight oil reservoirsInvestigate data mining techniques to better with nonparametric smoothing models introduced, backed by shale play data demonstrations from Bakken and Marcellus formationsUnderstand CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery in tight oil reservoirs

1. Introduction of Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs
2. Numerical Model for Shale Gas and Tight Oil Simulation 
3. Semi-Analytical Model for Shale Gas and Tight Oil Simulation
4. Modeling Gas Adsorption in Marcellus Shale Using Langmuir and BET Isotherms
5. Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM) for Complex Fracture Geometry
6. An Integrated Framework for Sensitivity Analysis and Economic Optimization in Shale Reservoirs
7. An Assisted History-Matching Workflow Using a Proxy-Based Approach for Shale Reservoirs
8. CO2 Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Oil Reservoirs
9. Phase Behavior Modelling by Considering Nanopore Confinement