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| Increasing production with better well placement in unconventional shale reservoirs - challenges and solutions
added: 07th March 2016
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Poland Section of Society of Petroleum Engineers want to invite you for lecture given by SPE Distinguished Lecturer Jason Pitcher, from Cameron.
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| The Lecture will be given at AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Al. Mickiewicza 30, building A-4, room 3, on 09 March 2016 at 13:00. |
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| The idea that the stimulation process will take care of the geology in unconventional reservoirs is proving false. Unconventional reservoirs are often regarded as resource plays with little demand for reservoir analysis beyond simple geosteering techniques during the development campaign. This leads to the common practice of stimulating wells with equally spaced stages and treating all the stages exactly the same, with no regard to the nature of the rock being treated. Clearly the stimulation process alone cannot mitigate the impact of geology in unconventional reservoirs; however, mechanisms do exist for improving results in them. Given a map of geo mechanical properties along the wellbore, completion engineers can optimize the position of plugs or packers, and stimulation engineers can fine-tune the design of the treatment applied to the rock. By re-establishing the link between production and geology, these methods can decrease the exploitation costs of unconventionalreservoirs. |
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| Jason Pitcher is the director of consulting practice at Cameron. He has more than 24 years of experience in drilling, completions, and production solutions delivery. Pitcher holds a BS in geology from the University of Derby and an MS in mineral exploration from Imperial College London. He has coauthored more than 25 papers and articles on logging while drilling tools, petrophysics, geosteering, and unconventional reservoirs. He was a Distinguished Lecturer during the 20122013 lecture season. |
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| Distinguished Lecturer Program started in 1961 with three lecturers the Distinguished Lecturer Program is funded primarily by the SPE Foundation through member donations and a contribution from Offshore Europe. We also appreciate the companies that allow their professionals to serve as lecturers and the additional support from AIME. More than 450 presentations are offered each year, and each section can receive up to three lectures per year. |
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