DE0390 : Unconventional Resource Development

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of unconventional resources and reserve evaluation. It covers the important definitions and the differences between conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources; the unconventional hydrocarbon resources and global unconventional resources; the petroleum resources definitions, classifications and categorization guidelines; and the reserves and resources including the geological characteristics of unconventional hydrocarbon resource.
Further, this course will also discuss the hydrocarbon source rock and unconventional hydrocarbon source rocks assessment; the wireline logs for TOC measurement and hydrocarbon reservoir rock characteristics; the unconventional resources estimation and shale gas types; the characteristics of shale gas source rock; the classification of shale according to mechanical properties; and the characteristics of shale gas reservoir, micro-fractures, exploration and development of shale gas.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the coalbed methan; how hydrocarbon can be generated from coal; the geologic characteristics of coalbed reservoirs and the global outlook of coalbed methane reserves; the tight-sandstone oil and gas including the differences between conventional and tight sandstones; the geological characteristics of tight sandstone; the exploration potentials of tight-sandstone gas; the natural gas hydrate and its concept; the structure, formation and occurrence of natural gas hydrate; the natural gas hydrate stability zone; the gas hydrate delineation from seismic data; and the global potential outlook of the natural gas hydrate.