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Tight gas is the term commonly used to refer to low permeability reservoirs that produce mainly dry natural gas. Many of the low permeability reservoirs that have been developed in the past are sandstone, but significant quantities of gas are also produced from low permeability carbonates, shales, and coal seams. Production of gas from coal seams is covered in a separate chapter in this handbook. In this chapter, production of gas from tight sandstones is the predominant theme. However, much of the same technology applies to tight carbonate and to gas shale reservoirs.
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Distinguished Author Series articles are general, descriptive representations that summarize the state of the art in an area of technology by describing recent developments for readers who are not specialists in the topics discussed. Written by individuals recognized as experts in the area, these articles provide key references to more definitive work and present specific details only to illustrate the technology. Purpose: to inform the general readership of recent advances in various areas of petroleum engineering. Introduction Tight gas is the term commonly used to refer to low-permeability reservoirs that produce mainly dry natural gas. Many of the low-permeability reservoirs developed in the past are sandstone, but significant quantities of gas also are produced from low-permeability carbonates, shales, and coal seams. In this paper, production of gas from tight sandstones is the predominant theme. However, much of the same technology applies to tight-carbonate and gas-shale reservoirs. In general, a vertical well drilled and completed in a tight gas reservoir must be successfully stimulated to produce at commercial gas-flow rates and produce commercial gas volumes. Normally, a large hydraulic-fracture treatment is required to produce gas economically. In some naturally fractured tight gas reservoirs, horizontal wells can be drilled, but these wells also need to be stimulated. To optimize development of a tight gas reservoir, a team of geoscientists and engineers must optimize the number and locations of wells to be drilled, as well as the drilling and completion procedures for each well. Often, more data and more engineering manpower are required to understand and develop tight gas reservoirs than are required for higher-permeability conventional reservoirs. On an individual-well basis, a well in a tight gas reservoir will produce less gas over a longer period of time than one expects from a well completed in a higher-permeability conventional reservoir. As such, many more wells (closer well spacing) must be drilled in a tight gas reservoir to recover a large percentage of the original gas in place compared with a conventional reservoir. Definition of Tight Gas Reservoir In the 1970s, the U.S. government decided that the definition of a tight gas reservoir is one in which the expected value of permeability to gas flow would be less than 0.1 md. This definition was a political definition that has been used to determine which wells would receive federal and/or state tax credits for producing gas from tight reservoirs. Actually, the definition of a tight gas reservoir is a function of many physical and economic factors. The physical factors are related by Darcy's law, as shown in the stabilized, radial-flow equation, Eq. 1, (Lee 1982).
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Abstract With the increased global demands on oil and gas, operators strive to maximize production by conducting more advanced drilling operations, such as extended reach, horizontal and high-pressure/high-temperature (HP-HT) drilling and are expanding globally into drilling unconventional resources. Unconventional gas resources offer significant gas production growth potential in the coming years, currently accounting for 43% of the US gas production. Tight Gas Sands (TGS) represents approximately 70% of the unconventional production and significant reserves are yet to be developed. Although "tight gas sands" are an important type of basin-centered gas reservoir characterized by low permeability, abnormal pressure, gas saturated reservoirs and no down dip water leg., not all of the TGS are Basin-centered gas (BCGAs). An intensive technology effort to both better understand tight gas resource characteristics and develop solid engineering approaches is necessary for significant production increases from this low-permeability, widely dispersed resource. Gas production from a tight-gas well will be low on a per-well basis compared with gas production from conventional reservoirs. A lot of wells have to be drilled to get most of the oil or gas out of the ground in unconventional reservoirs However, economical production of TGS is very challenging as it exists in reservoirs with micro-Darcy range permeability and low porosity but has a huge potential for production in the future. Poor permeability results in lower gas production rates from TGS reservoirs. In order to economically develop TGS resources an advanced technology has to be developed and implemented. Most of the TGS reservoirs are characterized by being thick (hundreds to thousands of feet thick) and multilayered where their gas production rates can be enhanced by hydraulic fracturing. Although service companies have large capabilities for conventional/unconventional reservoirs but the used technology to drill, complete and stimulate tight gas reservoir is quite complex and the results are often unexpected and unforeseen. The appropriate completion methods and stimulation techniques in these reservoirs are dependent on many parameters and variables, such as depth, pressure, temperature, capillary and overburden pressures and the number of sand layers. This paper provides a technical overview of the state of the art technology used to develop those reservoirs. This work takes a multidisciplinary approach to better understand how gas can be produced from tight gas sand reservoirs. Two real case histories will be presented and discussed; Travis Peak formation in eastern Texas, USA; and Risha gas field in eastern Jordan.
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Increasing the World's Gas Reserves by the Exploitation of Unconventional Tight Gas Reservoir
Khlaifat, Abdelaziz (1Weatherford Oil Tool Middle East Ltd., Dubai, UAE) | Qutob, Hani (1Weatherford Oil Tool Middle East Ltd., Dubai, UAE) | Barakat, Naiem (2Weatherford Oil Tool Gmbh, Said Hamdine, Hydra, Algiers)
Abstract With the increased global demands on oil and gas, operators strive to maximize production by conducting more advanced drilling operations, such as extended reach, horizontal and high-pressure/high-temperature (HP-HT) drilling and are expanding globally into drilling unconventional resources. Unconventional gas resources offer significant gas production growth potential in the coming years, currently accounting for 43% of the US gas production. Tight Gas Sands (TGS) represents approximately 70% of the unconventional production and significant reserves are yet to be developed. However, economical production of TGS is very challenging as it exists in reservoirs with micro-Darcy range permeability and low porosity but has a huge potential for production in the future. Poor permeability results in lower gas production rates from TGS reservoirs. In order to economically develop TGS resources an advanced technology has to be developed and implemented. Most of the TGS reservoirs are characterized by being thick (hundreds to thousands of feet thick) and multilayered where their gas production rates can be enhanced by hydraulic fracturing. Although service companies have large capabilities for conventional/unconventional reservoirs but the used technology to drill, complete and stimulate tight gas reservoir is quite complex and the results are often unexpected and unforeseen. The appropriate completion methods and stimulation techniques in these reservoirs are dependent on many parameters and variables, such as depth, pressure, temperature, capillary and overburden pressures and the number of sand layers. This paper provides a technical overview of the state of the art technology used to develop those reservoirs. This work takes a multidisciplinary approach to better understand how gas can be produced from tight gas sand reservoirs. Two real case histories will be presented and discussed; Travis Peak formation in eastern Texas, USA; and Risha gas field in eastern Jordan.
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Shale Gas Resources: Energy Potential And Associated Exploitation Challenges For Coupled Geomechanics And Transport Characteristics
Liu, Chunlei (Florida International University) | Sharma, Ravi (Florida International University) | Tutuncu, Azra (Petroleum Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines)
ABSTRACT: Natural gas systems are of great value in terms of providing clean energy solution to the growing energy demand in the world. From the statistical analysis carried out by the US National Petroleum Council, Department of Energy in 2009, both natural gas and coal will meet around 25% of the energy demands of the world by the year 2030. Such sharp increase in demands especially from fast growing economies many influences the geopolitical scenario of the world. To maintain a level play field for sustainment of the world economies, it is necessary to look into unconventional resources that are available in plenty on the earth in almost all the continents and may offset the energy dependence of countries on outer sources. Natural gas from unconventional resources like Coal Bed Methane (CBM), Tight Gas Sands, and Shale Gas has been identified to be economically exploitable. From the speculative studies carried out by Energy information Agency that looked into 48 basins in 32 countries totaling around 70 shale formations was an exhaustive study and provides a lot of new information about the resource potential of these shales in term of the extent, maturation, generation and technical recoverability of the gas from these basins. However, there are certain environmental issues associated with development of natural gas from these unconventional resources like contamination of natural resources. 1. INTRODUCTION Shale gas systems have been explored and produced from over a decade and will continue to be around for foreseeable future. Even as more and more understanding is being gained into the exploration, maturation and stimulation of these systems, there are many shale gas fields that the main mechanisms of gas production like desorption and the associated extra porosity generation, pore scale integration into reservoir flow simulation, and are not well understood.
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