Hydrocarbon production from unconventional resources and the use of reservoir stimulation techniques, such as hydraulic fracturing, has grown explosively over the last decade. However, concerns have arisen that reservoir stimulation creates significant environmental threats through the creation of permeable pathways connecting the stimulated reservoir with shallower freshwater aquifers, thus re...

Completion design for horizontal wells is typically performed using a geometric approach where the fracturing stages are evenly distributed along lateral length of well. However, this ignores intrinsic vertical and heterogeneity unconventional reservoirs, resulting in uneven production from hydraulic stages. An alternative to selectively complete intervals with similar superior reservoir qualit...

Characterisation of the heterogeneous naturally fractured reservoirs is an essential and significantly challenging task, especially due to the limited data availability. This paper presents a foundation relationship between P-wave / S-wave velocity and formation resistivity for improved fracture characterisation. Rock matrix and fluid volumetrics are combined with the basic correspondence betwe...