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Fundamentals of Gas Shale Reservoirs

ISBN: 978-1-119-03922-8

July 2015

424 pages

Description
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.