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Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir

The Search for new sources of energy has always been motivated by both economical and political reasons. This made the oil and gas industry look into resources that was overlooked before. Shale gas reservoirs represent a huge potential for gas reserves. However, the production process from shale...

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Main Author: MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2015
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T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16686/1/HAMDY_FYP_FINAL%20REPORT.pdf
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.166862017-01-25T09:36:09Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16686/ Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY T Technology (General) The Search for new sources of energy has always been motivated by both economical and political reasons. This made the oil and gas industry look into resources that was overlooked before. Shale gas reservoirs represent a huge potential for gas reserves. However, the production process from shale gas is very complex due to the low permeability and the dual porosity nature of shale formation. Many parameters affect the process which in turn make the optimization of these parameters a very complex process. This project aims to create a matlab program to solve for a model of equations to arrive at the optimal parameters for the fracturing stimulation. This program uses the unified fracture design model to calculate the optimum fracture width and length for maximum fracture conductivity. In this project, the fracturing process of the reservoir is analyzed while explaining the role of the proppant agent selection and the fracture width for an optimal productivity after the process. The selection of the proppant is also discussed to arrive to the best proppant selection based on the type, size and concentration of the proppant. IRC 2015-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16686/1/HAMDY_FYP_FINAL%20REPORT.pdf MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY (2015) Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir. IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Submitted)
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Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
description The Search for new sources of energy has always been motivated by both economical and political reasons. This made the oil and gas industry look into resources that was overlooked before. Shale gas reservoirs represent a huge potential for gas reserves. However, the production process from shale gas is very complex due to the low permeability and the dual porosity nature of shale formation. Many parameters affect the process which in turn make the optimization of these parameters a very complex process. This project aims to create a matlab program to solve for a model of equations to arrive at the optimal parameters for the fracturing stimulation. This program uses the unified fracture design model to calculate the optimum fracture width and length for maximum fracture conductivity. In this project, the fracturing process of the reservoir is analyzed while explaining the role of the proppant agent selection and the fracture width for an optimal productivity after the process. The selection of the proppant is also discussed to arrive to the best proppant selection based on the type, size and concentration of the proppant.
format Final Year Project
author MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY
author_facet MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY
author_sort MOHAMED, HAMDY FATHY
title Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
title_short Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
title_full Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
title_fullStr Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
title_full_unstemmed Investigation on the Relationship between Fracture dimensions and Proppant Selection for Shale Gas Reservoir
title_sort investigation on the relationship between fracture dimensions and proppant selection for shale gas reservoir
publisher IRC
publishDate 2015
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16686/1/HAMDY_FYP_FINAL%20REPORT.pdf
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