New methods for shale gas prospect analysis
Abstract
In this thesis a new six-stage prospect analysis and development methodology
(PADEM) is discussed. Tools are developed in this work to assist with several stages of
the PADEM including: prospect type-curve generation; prospect screening; exploration
and pilot location selection. The tools developed in this work couple flow regime
analysis and an analytical simulator with Monte Carlo simulation and economics to
account for risk and uncertainty, while allowing direct comparison of prospect areas.
Validating examples of each tool are given, using both simulated and field data.
In addition, material balance techniques for shale gas are investigated with
application to both static and flowing material balance for two conceptual gas storage models. A new material balance, which treats free and adsorbed gas as dependent
components of gas-in-place, and a new transient productivity index, which is used to correctly identifying boundary-dominated flow in flowing material balance analysis, are also derived and tested.
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Keywords
Engineering--Petroleum
Citation
Williams-Kovacs, J. (2012). New methods for shale gas prospect analysis (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27094