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Integrating Data Obtained on Source-Rock and Reservoir Fluid Samples to Evaluate Shale Resources Across the E&P Life Cycle

INSTRUCTOR S :

Alan S. Kornacki, Weatherford Labs, Houston, TX, and Christopher D. Laughrey, Weatherford Labs, Golden, CO

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DATES:

May 18 - 19, 2013

LOCATION:

Pittsburgh, PA, with AAPG Annual Meeting

TUITION:

Member: $995.00 • Nonmember $1,195.00

(increases to $1095/$1295 after 4/19/2013), includes course notes and refreshments. No refunds for cancellations after 4/19/2013.

LIMIT:

40 people

CONTENT:

1.5 CEU What is a CEU?

Who Should Attend

Geologists and petroleum engineers responsible to assess oil- and gas-shale resources in petro-leum basins; drill and evaluate oil- and gas-shale exploration and appraisal wells; or develop and manage oil- and gas-shale reservoirs. Participants should be familiar with principles of source-rock deposition, and interpreting geo-chemical data obtained on source rock, oil, and gas samples.

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• Integrate legacy data from E&P wells and interpret new data obtained on rock and fluid samples to evaluate the resource potential of shale formations in proven petroleum basins.
• Apply sequence stratigraphic principles, source-rock characterization methods, and HC charge modeling results to reduce uncertainty about the scope of new oil- and gas-shale plays.
• Interpret geochemical data obtained on well cuttings, conventional cores, desorption canister and mud-gas samples, and produced oil and gas samples to identify shale reservoir intervals with good commercial potential.
• Use geochemical data obtained on produced oil and gas samples to support well and reser-voir management and surveillance programs.
• Understand how to use HC fingerprinting technology to evaluate horizontal wells com-pleted in shale reservoirs and to allocate commingled oil and gas production.

Content

This course includes lectures and several exercises that incorporate geochemical data measured on rock and fluid samples obtained from oil- and gas-shale exploration, appraisal, and production wells to illustrate the value of integrating those data with other types of sub-surface information to screen, evaluate, and manage shale reservoirs. The training course material is presented in the same sequence that geologists and petroleum engineers typically access the same kind of information and data. The course includes multi-disciplinary case studies describing the evaluation of a marine source rock inferred to have generated the gas produced from overlying tight gas sands, and the use of gas fingerprinting to refute an alle-gation that an E&P company contaminated a shallow aquifer by drilling horizontal gas wells.