This course will help you understand the controls on gas-in-place, resource distribution, and productivity. You’ll learn how to collect, analyze, and interpret critical data from multiple disciplines and why reservoir characterization and drilling/completion practices play key roles. It will help you understand why various shale gas (and shale oil) reservoirs perform differently, know the key questions to ask, steps to take in assessing a shale accumulation, and be able to apply appraisal and development strategies that are most cost-effective.

Topics include:

• Review the origin of shales and shale gas
• Discuss the various core, log, and seismic datasets needed to characterize them
• Review the mechanisms of shale gas production and key drilling/completion practices
• Discuss how to estimate resources and reserves
• Review of factors controlling commercial success
• Apply what’s been learned to case studies including the Antrim, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Horn River, Lewis, Marcellus, Montney, and Woodford shales

Intermediate

1 Day

This course provides practical insights and tools for use in appraising and developing shale gas reservoirs.

Geoscientists, engineers, and managers who want to learn more about how to evaluate these accumulations, what controls their productivity, which techniques should be used for forecasting well performance, and how to estimate resources and reserves.

.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded for this 1-day course.

To receive a full refund, all cancellations must be received in writing no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Send cancellation requests by email to trainingcourses@spe.org; by fax to +1.866.460.3032 (US) or +1.972.852.9292 (outside US); or mail to SPE Registration, PO Box 833836, Richardson, TX 75083.

For more details, please contact us at trainingcourses@spe.org.

Creties Jenkins is with Rose & Associates in Dallas, TX. He was previously with DeGolyer and MacNaughton where he specialized in the characterization. He has conducted integrated studies, resources/reserves work, and training for numerous companies around the world. Jenkins began his career with Tenneco Oil in 1986 as a geological engineer and worked for ARCO from 1988–2000, in various roles as a reservoir engineer, development geologist, and petrophysicist. He has been named a Distinguished Lecturer (2000), Outstanding Technical Editor (2003), and Distinguished Author (2008) by SPE. He is also a past president of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG and served on the steering committee for the 2010 AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on shales.

Jenkins received an MS in geology and a BS in geological engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines. He is a registered professional engineer and a registered professional geologist in Texas.

Dilhan Ilk is a reservoir engineer at DeGolyer and MacNaughton in Dallas, Texas. Ilk’s interests include analysis of well test and production data, reservoir engineering, and inverse problems. In particular, he focuses on well performance analysis in unconventional reservoirs and has extensive field experience in well performance assessment of unconventional reservoirs. He has made several contributions to petroleum engineering literature, and to date, has prepared more than 30 articles in well test analysis, analysis/interpretation of production data, and general reservoir engineering.

Ilk holds a BS from Istanbul Technical University, and MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University—all in petroleum engineering.

• Appraising and Developing Shale Gas and Shale Oil Reservoirs