The large amount of produced oil and gas come from conventional resources all over the world and
these resources are being depleted rapidly. This fact and the increasing oil and gas prices force the
producing countries to find and search for new methods to recover more oil and gas. In order to meet
the demand, the oil and gas industry has been turning towards to unconventional oil and gas reservoirs
which become more popular every passing day. In recent years, they are seriously considered as
supplementary to the conventional resources although these reservoirs cannot be produced at an
economic rate or cannot produce economic volumes of oil and gas without assistance from massive
stimulation treatments, special recovery processes or advanced technologies.
The vast increase in demand for petroleum and gas has encouraged the new technological development
and implementation. A wide range of technologies have been developed and deployed since
1980. With the wellbore technology, it is possible to make use of highly deviated wellbores, extended
reach drilling, horizontal wells, multilateral wells and so on. All of the new technologies and a large
number of new innovations have allowed development of increasingly complex economically
marginal fields where shale gas and coal bed methane are found.
In this study, primary target is to compare different production methods in order to obtain better well
performance and improved production from different types of reservoirs. It is also be given some
technical information regarding the challenges such as hydraulic fracturing and multilateral well
configuration of the unconventional gas reservoir modeling and simulation. With the help of advances
in algorithms, computer power, and integrated software, it is possible to apply and analyze the effect
of the different well trajectories such as vertical, horizontal, and multilateral well on the future
production performance of coal bed methane, shale gas, and tight gas reservoirs. A commercial
simulator will be used to run the simulations and achieve the best-case scenarios. The study will lead
the determination of optimum production methods for three different reservoirs that are explained
above under the various circumstances and the understanding the production characteristic and profile
of unconventional gas systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615510/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 February 2013 |
| Creators | Erturk, Mehmet Cihan |
| Contributors | Sinayuc, Caglar |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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