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Appraising and Developing Unconventional Gas Reservoirs
Appraising and Developing Unconventional Gas
Reservoirs 5 days training program conducted from April 26-29, 2010 at Royal
Rodale Club, Karachi by Prof. Dr.
Rafiq-ul-Islam, Dalhousie Univ., Canada
Who
should attend?
Geoscientists, engineers, policy makers, and managers who want to learn how to
locate, appraise, and develop these unconventional reservoirs.
Course Description
Only recently it has become evident that natural gas provides one with great
value with minimum impact on the environment. With the ongoing crisis in Europe
with Russian gas supplies and steep energy needs of China and India, the
importance of natural gas is increasing tremendously in the global market.
Unconventional gas reservoirs are responsible for about one-third of annual U.S.
natural gas production. In the global scale, unconventional gas reserves can add
60-250% to the proven gas reserve. The potential of unconventional gas reserves
is far greater than any enhanced oil recovery scheme designed to-date. The
purpose of this course is to provide one with practical insights and tools that
can be used to efficiently identify, appraise, and develop these types of
reservoirs. Initially, the participants will be familiarized with both
engineering and marketing aspects of natural gas. The mechanisms of gas
production and reservoir engineering will be summarized. We will review the
origin and mechanisms of gas production, discuss the various techniques used to
analyze reservoir parameters and performance, and understand how these have been
applied to numerous projects. Specific features of unconventional gas reserves
and the means of capitalizing on these features in order to maximize long-term
benefit will be discussed. Various case studies will be presented in order to
enable participants conduct their own appraisal of unconventional reserves.
Latest information on emerging technologies will be presented with lucid
discussion of key features of reservoir characterization and development.
Participants will analyze case studies to determine the effectiveness of
different appraisal and development strategies and how these can be applied
to new opportunities.
Course
Outline
Day 1:(Morning) Introduction and Important Features
of Unconventional Gas Reserves
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Introduction
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World gas reserve and the role of
unconventional reserve
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Future potentials of unconventional gas
reserves
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Opportunities and challenges
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Introduction to gas reservoir
characterization
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Difficulties associated to unconventional
gas reserves
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Scientific characterization of
unconventional gas resources
Day 1: (Afternoon) Coal Bed Methane Reservoir
Description
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Overview and importance
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Origin of coal, coalbed gas, and cleating
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Field procedures and laboratory analyses of cores
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The importance of gas under-saturation
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Open-hole log suites and analyses
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Hydrogeology
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Geocellular modeling
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Emerging technologies
Day 2:Coal Bed Methane Engineering and Case Studies
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Numerical simulation overview
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Special features of coal bed methane modeling
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Well testing and performance
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Drilling and completions
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Appraisal and piloting strategies
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Reservoir characterization
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Quantifying resources and reserves
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Case studies
Day 3: Shale Gas Reservoir Description
Day 4: Shale Gas Engineering and Case Studies
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Well testing and performance
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Drilling and completions
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Stimulation and frac mapping technologies
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Quantifying resources and reserves
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Reservoir characterization
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Case studies
Day 5: (Morning) Tight Gas Sands
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Overview and importance
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Geology and reservoir continuity
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Petrophysics
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Well testing and performance
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Drilling and completions
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Appraisal and development strategies
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Quantifying resources and reserves
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Case studies exercise
Day 5: (Afternoon) Gas hydrate reservoirs
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World reserve
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Future potentials
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Production strategies
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Emerging technologies
Training Facilities & Methodology
A
course notebook/manual will be provided with copies of Power point slides, class
notes, and key publications.
This will be an interactive session including discussions, exercises and case
studies.
Course Feasibility
Course
fee for this 5 day course will be US$ 2000/head, payable in Pak Rupees.
This course would be conducted either in Islamabad or
Karachi depending upon from which city we get more participants.
In-House Session Feasibility
This training program can be conducted in-house as well
for the companies having ten or more participants.
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