Recovering Commercial Hydrocarbons

Omschrijving

Natural gas and oil production from shale reservoirs has reshaped the petroleum industry in North America and is posed to have a major impact in other locations around the world. Traditionally shale has been seen as a source rock, a trap or a drilling hazard within the petroleum industry. Today, however, many of these source rocks have proven to yield commercial production of hydrocarbons when the correct technologies are applied to understand the reservoir potential of a given formation and proper drilling and completion techniques are used.
This presentation will examine some of the basic geological requirements that need to be assessed to determine if a particular shale reservoir has good production potential. It will then look at drilling and completion solutions have proven successful in different shale reservoirs. Guidelines to optimize the completion design based on specific reservoir properties will be discussed.
New validation technologies, including microseismic fracture mapping will be discussed showing their significance in maximizing the productive capacity from a given well and improving our understanding in the production mechanisms.
New technology in the area of stimulation fluids and equipment development will also be discussed.

Spreker(s)

Ron Dusterhoft is a Solutions Director for the Digital Asset® within Halliburton. His current responsibilities are focused on the creation of full field development workflow solutions for unconventional reserves including both oil and gas. He has worked in the Petroleum Industry for 26 years in several locations around the world and has experience in fracture stimulation, acidizing, oil well cementing and sand control completions. Dusterhoft holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and has taken a very active roll in new technology development and implementation in the petroleum industry holding several related patents and several technical publications.

Locatie

KIVI NIRIA

Prinsessegracht 23, Den Haag

Organisator

Olie- en Gastechnologie

Naam en contactgegevens voor informatie

Voor meer informatie kunt u contact opnemen met Govert Baak

govert.baak@shell.com