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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: advisory system for selecting drilling technologies and methods in tight gas reservoirs
  name:
    name part: Pilisi, Nicolas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Holditch, Stephen A.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Teodoriu, Catalin
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The supply and demand situation is crucial for the oil and gas industry during the first half of the 21st century. For the future, we will see two trends going in opposite directions: a decline in discoveries of conventional oil and gas reservoirs and an increase in world energy demand. Therefore, the need to develop and produce unconventional oil and gas resources, which encompass coal-bed methane, gas-shale, tight sands and heavy oil, will be of utmost importance in the coming decades. In the past, large-scale production from tight gas reservoirs occurred only in the U.S. and was boosted by both price incentives and well stimulation technology. A conservative study from Rogner (1997) has shown that tight gas sandstone reservoirs would represent at least over 7,000 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in place worldwide. However, most of the studies such as the ones by the U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) and Kuuskraa have focused on assessing the technically recoverable gas resources in the U.S. with numbers ranging between 177 Tcf and 379 Tcf. During the past few decades, gas production from tight sands field developments have taken place all around the world from South America (Argentina), Australia, Asia (China, Indonesia), the Russian Federation, Northern Europe (Germany, Norway) and the Middle East (Oman). However, the U.S. remains the region where the most extensive exploration and production for unconventional gas resources occur. In fact, unconventional gas formations accounted for 43% of natural gas production and tight gas sandstones represented 66% of the total of unconventional resources produced in the U.S. in 2006. As compared to a conventional gas well, a tight gas well will have a very low productivity index and a small drainage area. Therefore, to extract the same amount of natural gas out of the reservoir, many more wells will have to be drilled and stimulated to efficiently develop and produce these reservoirs. Thus, the risk involved is mu…
  note: by Nicolas Pilisi.
  note: "Major Subject: Petroleum Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-659
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Petroleum Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Casing Drilling
  subject:
    topic: Drilling Technology
  subject:
    topic: Coiled Tubing Drilling
  subject:
    topic: Managed Pressure Drilling
  subject:
    topic: Decision Chart
  subject:
    topic: Underbalanced Drilling
  subject:
    topic: Advisory System
  subject:
    topic: Driling Method
  subject:
    topic: Tight Gas Reservoirs
  subject:
    topic: Conventional Drilling
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-659
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100428
    record change date: 20151201150154.0
    record identifier: in00002575536