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Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Shale Plays

Online Live Streaming Course

July 7 to 11, 2025

Duration : 20 hours

Objective:

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the reservoir engineering principles applied to shale plays. Participants will learn about the unique characteristics of shale reservoirs, production mechanisms, decline curve analysis, and advanced modeling techniques. The course will equip professionals with the knowledge to optimize hydrocarbon recovery in shale formations.

Who Should Attend:

  • Petroleum engineers
  • Reservoir engineers
  • Completion and production engineers
  • Geoscientists working on shale plays
  • Energy professionals interested in unconventional resources
  • Graduate students in petroleum engineering

Course Outline (20 Hours Total)

Module 1: Introduction to Shale Reservoirs (2 Hours)

  • Overview of shale plays and their global significance
  • Key differences between conventional and unconventional reservoirs
  • Geological and geochemical characteristics of shale formations

Module 2: Rock and Fluid Properties in Shale Plays (3 Hours)

  • Pore structure, permeability, and porosity in shale
  • Organic content and kerogen maturity
  • Fluid phase behavior in nanopores

Module 3: Flow Mechanisms in Shale Reservoirs (3 Hours)

  • Single-phase and multi-phase flow in ultra-tight formations
  • Adsorption and desorption effects
  • Diffusion, Darcy flow, and non-Darcy flow in shale

Module 4: Production Decline and Forecasting (3 Hours)

  • Decline curve analysis methods for shale reservoirs
  • Rate-transient analysis (RTA)
  • Factors influencing estimated ultimate recovery (EUR)

Module 5: Hydraulic Fracturing and Well Performance (3 Hours)

  • Fundamentals of hydraulic fracturing in shale
  • Well completion design and optimization
  • Impact of fracture networks on production

Module 6: Reservoir Simulation for Shale Plays (3 Hours)

  • Numerical modeling and history matching in shale
  • Simulation approaches for complex fracture networks
  • Case studies in reservoir simulation

Module 7: Economic and Environmental Considerations (3 Hours)

  • Cost analysis and break-even economics for shale development
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Future trends and innovations in shale reservoir engineering
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7 July 2025

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USD 1950 + IVA

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Starts: 7 July 2025

Ends: 11 July 2025

  • Duration

20 Hours

  • Location

Live Streaming

  • Discipline

Reservoir Engineering, Data Science

  • Valoration
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  • Price

USD 1950

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  • Erdal Ozkan

    • He is a professor of Petroleum Engineering. He has BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tulsa, all in Petroleum Engineering. He has over twenty years of teaching and research experience at Istanbul Technical University, The University of Tulsa, and Colorado School of Mines. His main research interests are horizontal and multilateral well technology, pressure-transient analysis, modeling fluid flow in porous media, and unconventional reservoirs. He joined the PE Department at Colorado School of Mines in 1998 and he is a co-director of Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies (MCERS) Dr. Ozkan is a Distinguished Member of SPE and the recipient of the SPE Formation Evaluation Award (2007). He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, and The Mathematical Association of America.

    Erdal Ozkan has published and presented over 100 papers in prestigious refereed journals and technical meetings, co-authored a book, and contributed to several others. Dr. Ozkan is also actively involved in the organization of technical conferences; some examples include the Steering Committee of the SPE Forum on Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Multilateral and Advanced Wells (1999), Chair of the Organizing Committee for the SPE Advanced Technology Workshop on Unconventional Gas (2006), Steering Committee of the SPE Advanced Technology Workshop on Advances in Performance Diagnostics for Fractured and Horizontal Wells (2007), and Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of the SPE Technical Conference on Shale Gas Production (2008 and 2010).

    Dr. Ozkan serves in the editorial boards of the key technical journals. He was the Executive Editor of the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, Chief Editor of Elsevier Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, and Associate Technical Editor of ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology. He also serves as a referee for several US and international research foundations. He is a member of the SPE Reservoir Description and Dynamics Advisory Committee and a Technical Director of the SPE Research and Development Technical Section

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