Provides comprehensive information about the key exploration, development and optimization concepts required for gas shale reservoirs
Includes statistics about gas shale resources and countries that have shale gas potential
Addresses the challenges that oil and gas industries may confront for gas shale reservoir exploration and development
Introduces petrophysical analysis, rock physics, geomechanics and passive seismic methods for gas shale plays
Details shale gas environmental issues and challenges, economic consideration for gas shale reservoirs
Includes case studies of major producing gas shale formations
About the Author
Reza Rezaee is a Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University, Australia. He is the winner of Australian Gas innovation research 2012 award for introducing a new method to enhance natural gas production from tight gas reservoirs. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and is the author of 3 books. His current research has been focused on integrated reservoir characterization, formation evaluation and petrophysics. He is a former “Research Fellow”, School of Geology and Geophysics, Oklahoma University.
