Homework, ENPE 573 and ENCH 619, Unconventional Gas exploitation

Instructor: Roberto Aguilera

Due: Wednesday January 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Get familiar with the website of CSUR (www.csur.com). They have

some Understanding Booklets on unconventional resources that

will be of your interest for this course. These are free. You do not
have to turn these booklets in to the TAs. These are for your own
information.
Download from onepetro and get familiar with SPE papers:
165360-PA (Aguilera), 114174-MS (Aguilera) and 2007-208
(Aguilera and Harding). These papers are free for students
registered in this course. You do not have to turn these papers in
to the TAs. These are for your own information
Get familiar with the most recent website of BP statistical review

of world energy (2014). Develop a crossplot of natural gas

production in billion cubic feet per day between 1970 and 2013
for the world and also for Canada. Print your plots. Black and
white is fine. Write down briefly on your graphs any observations
you might have regarding the contrast you observe between the 2
curves you prepared. You have to submit these plots to the TAs
on Wednesday January 21 at 6:00 PM.

Due: Wednesday January 28, 2015 at 6:00 PM

Download from onepetro and get familiar with SPE papers:

119620-MS (Thompson et al), 137416-MS (Taylor et al) and

142727-MS (Leguizamon and Aguilera). These papers are free for
students registered in this course. You do not have to turn these
papers in to the TAs. These are for your own information (Next
week lecture is on hydraulic fracturing of unconventional
reservoirs).
Reproduce the columns shown on Table 2 of SPE 114174 and

plotted in Figure 5 (blue color). Results from the core experiments

shown by black boxes in Figure 5 are as follows:
Cores phi:
0.014
0.033
0.046
0.017
0.075

m
1.40358
1.51237
1.71582
1.50583
1.72189

Prepare a plot similar to Figure 5. Run exactly the same

calculations but assuming that mf is equal to 1.0. Plot your results
in the same graph and explain the difference.
Calculate the formation factor (F) for both cores and the model
(using both values of mf) and plot all your results on a standard
log-log cross-plot of F vs. porosity.