Courses

Shale reservoirs are generally fine grained organic rich sedimentary rocks that act as both the source and the reservoir for the hydrocarbon. A large number of shale plays have been identified in the US and other countries that are believed to contain a vast amount of hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas). Remarkable success has been seen in the US in successfully extracting gas from shale reservoirs over the last decade by employing horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing techniques.

Rapidly assessing shale resource plays to make investment decisions is essential to oil and gas companies and investment firms. Once such a decision is made, the next step is to establish a Field Development Plan (FDP) to develop the shale play.

 The objective of this two days training is to provide participants a practical exposure to a Rapid FDP process. Participants will be working in teams of 2 or 3 to prepare an FDP for a given shale play considering sweet spot maps, surface restrictions, lateral spacing, orientation, pad configurations, type curves & stimulation options.

 Participants will use the Pad Placement and Pad Well Design applications of the SLB’s Petrel Shale suite along with the RapidPlan FDP application to come up with an optimum FDP. Uncertainty analysis, Economic analysis and ranking of FDP options will be carried out by the teams as part of the class.