T01: Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Their Role in Tight Gas Sands, Shale Gas and Coal Bed Methane
Instructor:
Roberto Aguilera, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor and ConocoPhillips-NSERC-AERI Chair, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Calgary
Who should attend:
Development/exploitation engineers, production engineers and engineering technologists
Tutorial Description:
Unconventional gas reservoirs have come of age in the United States. They will also come of age in Canada within the next few years, and the rest of the world within the next few decades. The common denominator for successfully producing these types of reservoirs is to drill wells that intercept natural fractures. This half-day course concentrates on practical aspects and potential pitfalls associated with the following topics:
- Geologic aspects: tectonic, regional, contractional and surface related fractures
- Petrophysics: single vs. dual vs. triple porosity reservoirs
- Well testing: single vs. dual vs. triple porosity reservoirs
- Decline analysis: single vs. dual vs. triple porosity reservoirs; radial vs. linear decline analysis; boundary dominated vs. transient analysis
Instructor Biography:
Roberto Aguilera, Ph.D., P. Eng., is Professor and ConocoPhillips-NSERC-AERI Chair at the Schulich School of Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Calgary, Canada, and a Principal of Servipetrol Ltd. He is a petroleum engineering graduate from the Universidad de America at Bogota, Colombia and holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He was an AAPG instructor on the subject of naturally fractured reservoirs from 1984 through 1996. He has lectured, presented his course entitled Naturally Fractured Reservoirs and has rendered consulting services in 50 countries throughout the world. He was a Distinguished Author for the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (1993 and 1999), a recipient of the Outstanding Service Award (1994) and the Distinguished Service Medal (2006) from the Petroleum Society of CIM and was a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecturer on the subject of naturally fractured reservoirs for the 2000-2001 Season.
