Hutch Jobe, SM Energy - Tight Oil From Shale Plays World ...
Hutch Jobe, SM Energy - Tight Oil From Shale Plays World ...
Hutch Jobe, SM Energy - Tight Oil From Shale Plays World ...
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1970’s<br />
<strong>Tight</strong> Gas Sands (TGS)<br />
Confined to deep basin areas<br />
Recognize no distinct LKG<br />
Recognized perm as a driver<br />
Recognized pervasive Sw<br />
Unconventional pay concept born<br />
1980’s<br />
TGS plays expanded/evolved<br />
Recognition of over pressuring<br />
Basin Center Gas concept<br />
<strong>Tight</strong> Gas tax credits<br />
Improvements in 2D and 3D<br />
Role of natural fractures emerges<br />
Evolution of the Resource Play<br />
1990’s<br />
CBM become vogue<br />
Realization of sorbed & absorbed gas<br />
Recognition of coal composition<br />
Fractures and cavitation in coals<br />
Dewatering concept<br />
Pattern & high density drilling<br />
Antrim & Barnett <strong>Shale</strong> play emerge<br />
Image logging is greatly enhanced<br />
2000’s<br />
<strong>Shale</strong> Resource <strong>Plays</strong> explode<br />
Source rocks become reservoirs<br />
Horizontal drilling becomes an art form<br />
Horizontal logging and frac’ing evolve<br />
Multi-stage completions<br />
3D is a “must”<br />
Micro-Seismic becomes very popular<br />
Natural fractures are key to perm<br />
2010’s<br />
Resource play targets not lithodependent<br />
Brittleness, TOC, natural fractures are key<br />
Designer frac’s optimize induced fractures<br />
Source and carrier bed relationships<br />
Sequence stratigraphic framework<br />
Aggregate development drilling<br />
Surface array/Buried array micro-seismic<br />
Simal-fracs and Zipper-fracs<br />
Go horizontal in produced TGS fields<br />
Vertical drilling phases out to horizontal<br />
<strong>Shale</strong> oil and oil resource play focus
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