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Petroleum Industry Overview
Evaluating and Developing Shale Resources
This course reviews current approaches to evaluating, drilling and completing shale reservoirs, with the aim of showing how each discipline contributes within an integrated team. It also considers the limitations of current tools and technologies and looks at a range of shale plays around the world.
- Discipline
- Petroleum Industry Overview
- Level
- Foundation
- Duration
- Flexible length
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Reservoir, production and completion engineers, petrophysicists, geologists, geophysicists and other professionals wanting a thorough overview of shale gas and shale oil development.
What participants will be able to do
- Describe the resource potential and economic significance of shale
- Compare shale gas, tight gas and coalbed methane
- Identify critical reservoir properties and sweet spots
- Estimate hydrocarbons in place for resource plays
- Evaluate the merits of different resource assessment methods
Topics covered
- Shale resource potential
- Sweet spot identification
- Resource in place estimation
- Shale drilling practices
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Integrated team workflows