Tight and Unconventional Gas Reservoir Evaluation and Optimization

PRESENTER: Dr. Brant Bennion
Director of the Flow in Porous Media Group, Weatherford Laboratories

DATE: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

TIME:12:00 PM
(Cocktails at 11:30)

PLACE: FAIRMONT PALLISER HOTEL
133, 9TH AVE. S.W. CALGARY

Abstract:

Unconventional gas reservoirs fall into three broad categories:
1. Gas Shales (e.g. - Muskwa, Barnett, etc.)
2. “Tight” gas with sub-normally low initial water
saturations (e.g. – Montney, Jean Marie)
3. “Tight” gas with normal capillary equilibrium
saturations (e.g. – Milk River, Med Hat, 2WSS)
The challenges in these reservoirs commonly include:
1. Determining the exact type of reservoir, initial gas
in place and determine the potential ability to
produce the gas.
2. Optimizing the completion and production strategy to
most effectively and economically produce the maximum
amount of the resource in place.
This presentation reviews methods and techniques to understand and delineate the type and quality of these various different types of unconventional gas reservoirs, including the crucial parameter of proper evaluation of the initial water and gas saturations that are present, and reviews methods and current technology to best effectively exploit and economically produce the reserve.

Biography:

Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng., has over 30 years of experience in the areas of multiphase flow in porous media, formation damage, phase behaviour, drilling, completions and enhanced oil recovery operations. Brant has been a distinguished lecturer for both the SPE and the Petroleum Society on the topic of formation damage. He lectures as an adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, is the author/co-author of almost 250 technical papers and has presented talks in over 40 countries in recent years. He has been employed by Weatherford Laboratories (formerly Hycal Energy Research) in various capacities since 1979 and is currently the Director of the Flow in Porous Media Group. He is a registered Professional Engineer with APEGGA and holds BSc. and Ph.D degrees in Chemical and Petroleum engineering from the University of Calgary.