Shale gas reservoirs have extremely low porosity and permeability, making them challenging to exploit. The best method for increasing recovery in shale is horizontal well fracturing technology. Hence, parameter optimization necessary enhance production. Traditional methods, however, cannot meet the requirements overall of parameters. As intelligent algorithms, most excellent global search capab...

Injection of carbon dioxide into shale reservoirs is a promising technology for enhancing natural gas recovery and reducing greenhouse emissions. Nanoscale phenomena contribute to significant difference in mass transfer processes within shale-gas compared conventional reservoirs. Previous investigations have shown the significance surface diffusion mechanisms. Surface was added an established a...

This article is motivated by a conundrum: How can shale gas development be encouraged and managed without complete knowledge of the associated risks? To answer this question, we used back propagation (BP) neural networks and expert scoring to quantify the relative risks of shale gas development across 12 provinces in China. The results show that the model performs well with high predictive accu...

In April 2011, we published the first peer-reviewed analysis of the greenhouse gas footprint (GHG) of shale gas, concluding that the climate impact of shale gas may be worse than that of other fossil fuels such as coal and oil because of methane emissions. We noted the poor quality of publicly available data to support our analysis and called for further research. Our paper spurred a large incr...

Stress damage of shale during the uniaxial loading process will cause the change of permeability. The study of stress sensitivity of shale has focused on the influence of confining pressure on shale permeability and the change of shale permeability during the loading process of axial stress is lacking. The permeability of gas shale during loading process was tested. The results show that shale ...

The discovery of hydrocarbons (mainly gas) in commercial quantities from Gondwanan sediments in the Mandapeta ®eld of Krishna-Godavari Basin, India, provided impetus for intensi®ed exploration in Mandapeta and the adjoining Kommugudem, Draksharama and Endamuru ®elds. Both oil and gas have been found in the reservoirs of Mandapeta (Triassic) and Golapalli (Early Cretaceous) formations. Mature, l...

We investigate the health impacts of unconventional natural gas development of Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania between 2001 and 2013 by merging well permit data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with a database of all inpatient hospital admissions. After comparing changes in hospitalization rates over time for air pollution-sensitive diseases in counties with unconven...

As a representative of emerging unconventional energy, shale gas has the characteristics large reserves, long production cycle, and environmental protection. However, due to complex geological reservoirs, economic development reservoirs is difficult. In this paper, on basis full investigation relevant literature, according permeability mechanism productivity horizontal wells in low-permeability...

Estimation of net-to-gross (N/G) on a field wide scale was accomplished by integrating rock property trends and high quality 3D seismic data. Edited and anisotropy-corrected sonic logs from deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) were used in combination with core velocity measurements and Biot-Gassmann modeling to determine shale and oil sand trends in low-frequency Vp-Vs space. These trends equally ap...