Handbook of Hydraulic Fracturing [Hardcover]

• Details Emerging Technologies such as Fracture Treatment Design, Open Hole Fracturing, Screenless Completions, Sand Control, Fracturing Completions and Productivity
• Covers Environmental Impact issues including Geological Disturbance; Chemicals used in Fracturing; General Chemicals; Toxic Chemicals; and Air, Water, Land, and Health impacts
• Provides many process diagrams as well as tables of feedstocks and their respective products

Preface vii

1 Definitions 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Definitions 3

1.2.1 Petroleum 5

1.2.2 Oil and Gas from Tight Formations 8

1.2.3 Opportunity Crudes 13

1.2.4 High-Acid Crude Oil 14

1.2.5 Foamy Oil 15

1.2.6 Heavy Oil 15

1.2.7 Extra Heavy Oil 16

1.2.8 Tar Sand Bitumen 16

1.2.9 Natural Gas 17

1.2.10 Shale Gas 19

1.2.11 Coalbed Methane (CBM) 21

1.2.12 Other Sources of Gas 22

1.3 Unconventional Oil 23

References 23

2 Reservoirs and Reservoir Fluids 27

2.1 Introduction 27

2.2 Sedimentary Rocks 30

2.2.1 Types 30

2.2.2 Characteristics 31

2.3 Reservoir Evaluation 32

2.3.1 Structural Types 35

2.3.2 Heterogeneity 36

2.3.3 Porosity and Permeability 37

2.4 Tight Formations 40

2.5 Evaluation of Reservoir Fluids 42

2.5.1 Sampling Methods 46

2.5.2 Data Acquisition and QA/l£9