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Shale Natural Resources--Stephen Ingram
Pages 91-96

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From page 91...
... These qualities can lead to uneconomic flow rates under natural conditions, hence the justification for the use of hydraulic fracturing. Most industry professionals identify permeability as the key formational attribute that distinguishes an unconventional formation from a conventional one.
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From page 92...
... Differing carbon chain lengths determine whether the well is gas, condensate, or oil, each of which is traded on the open market and will deliver different financial returns to the well owner. A leading indicator of quality shale reservoirs, measured early in the exploration phase, is total organic content, typically measured as the percentage of kerogen, which is a mixture of organic chemical compounds.
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From page 93...
... Drilling involves top-drive flexible drilling rigs, automated pressure-whiledrilling control systems, downhole rotary steerable systems, drill bit design advances, fluid chemistry, telemetry systems (mud pulse technology for data delivery) , and mud motor systems.
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From page 94...
... After this early economic success, there was interest in expanding US shale development, but progress was limited by the slow ramp-up of the Bakken shale in North Dakota and the constrained growth of the Marcellus and Utica shales in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Examples of the constraints included but were not limited to existing highways and road systems, permitting restrictions of pipelines, lack of local competent and trained human resources, limited rail infrastructure, and sufficient industrial scale water distribution infrastructure.
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From page 95...
... Paper SPE 115258 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Sep tember 21–24. Sondergeld CH, Newsham KE, Comisky JT, Rice MC, Rai CS.
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Key Terms

  • hydraulic fracturing
  • mineral rights
  • shale gas
  • differing carbon
  • technical conference

  • gas handling
  • data acquisition
  • fluid chemistry
  • chain lengths
  • carbon chain

  • flow rates
  • shale development
  • rights ownership
  • seismic monitoring
  • seismic data

  • economic production
  • shale reservoirs
  • annual technical
  • organic matter
  • potential resources

  • subsurface conditions
  • rotary steerable
  • equipment design
  • reservoir attributes
  • subsurface data

  • condition support
  • complex nanofluids
  • north dakota
  • existing highway
  • data delivery


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