Fundamentals of Gas Shale Reservoirs [Hardcover]

• Includes statistics about gas shale resources and countries that have shale gas potential
• Addresses the challenges that oil and gas industries may confront for gas shale reservoir exploration and development
• Introduces petrophysical analysis, rock physics, geomechanics and passive seismic methods for gas shale plays
• Details shale gas environmental issues and challenges, economic consideration for gas shale reservoirs
• Includes case studies of major producing gas shale formations

Contributors xv

Preface xvii

1 Gas Shale: Global Significance Distribution and Challenges 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Shale Gas Overview 1

1.2.1 Shale Gas Geology 2

1.2.2 Characteristics of a Producing Shale Gas Play 3

1.3 The Significance of Shale Gas 4

1.4 Global Shale Gas Resources 5

1.4.1 Sources of Information 5

1.4.2 Resource Estimation Methodologies 5

1.5 Global Resource Data 7

1.5.1 China 7

1.5.2 The United States 7

1.5.3 Mexico 7

1.5.4 Southern South America 7

1.5.5 South Africa 8

1.5.6 Australia 8

1.5.7 Canada 8

1.5.8 North Africa 8

1.5.9 Poland 9

1.5.10 France 9

1.5.11 Russia 9

1.5.12 Scandinavia 9

1.5.13 Middle East 9

1.5.14 India 9

1.5.15 Pakistan 10

1.5.16 Northwest Africl¾