Advancing the application of sub-and supercritical water in the in-situ conversion of immature and low-maturity shale

C Li, Z **, L Zhang, X Liang - Fuel, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Global immature and low-maturity shale resources are enormous and have a significant
potential for future energy substitution. However, the utilization of these resources faces …

Multiscale and multiphysics production forecasts of shale gas reservoirs: New simulation scheme based on Gaussian pressure transients

C Afagwu, S Alafnan, R Weijermars, M Mahmoud - Fuel, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Common numerical solutions for production rate forecasting of shale reservoirs have a
limited capability to describe the dynamics of fluid mass transfer during a pressure depletion …

Direct method to estimate the gas loss characteristics and in-situ gas contents of shale

Z Tian, S Zhou, S Wu, S Xu, J Zhou, J Cai - Gondwana Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The commonly used direct methods for the lost gas and in-situ gas content estimation of
shale usually follow the assumptions and mathematical models that were originally …

Gaussian Pressure Transients: A Toolkit for Production Forecasting and Optimization of Multi-fractured Well Systems in Shale Formations

C Afagwu, S Alafnan, M Abdalla… - Arabian Journal for …, 2024‏ - Springer
High development cost of shale fields produced with multi-fractured well systems prompts for
improved and faster production forecasting tools. This study advances the use of a Gaussian …

Production rate of multi-fractured wells modeled with Gaussian pressure transients

R Weijermars - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This study presents new pressure transient solutions, illustrated with some examples of the
vast practical application potential. Gaussian pressure transients (GPT) are derived here to …

Probabilistic estimation of hydraulic fracture half-lengths: validating the Gaussian pressure-transient method with the traditional rate transient analysis-method …

D Alvayed, MSA Khalid, M Dafaalla, A Ali… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2023‏ - Springer
Despite significant advancements in geomodelling technologies, accurately estimating
hydraulic fracture half-length remains a challenging task. This paper introduces a detailed …

Probabilistic production forecasting and reserves estimation: Benchmarking Gaussian decline curve analysis against the traditional Arps method (Wolfcamp shale …

MA Pratama, O Al Qoroni, IK Rahmatullah… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study provides novel insights into how a relatively new, Gaussian DCA method may be
used to forecast well rates and estimate resource volumes produced from unconventional …

Vector characteristics of microscale gas transport in coalbed methane reservoirs

F Sun, D Liu, Y Cai, Y Qiu - Gas Science and Engineering, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Elucidating the microscale geological control mechanism of gas transport in coalbed
methane (CBM) reservoirs is the basis for efficient development of CBM reservoirs. At …

Wettability control mode of oil flow in shale reservoirs

Y Yang, M Cai, X Zhou, S Wei, A Wang - International Communications in …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Shale oil reservoirs have a large number of micrometer-and nanometer-scale pores, which
significantly affect the wettability of shale oil flow. In this paper, the wettability control mode of …

Stream and potential functions for transient flow simulations in porous media with pressure-controlled well systems

M Alotaibi, S Alotaibi, R Weijermars - Fluids, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Gaussian solutions of the diffusion equation can be applied to visualize the flow paths in
subsurface reservoirs due to the spatial advance of the pressure gradient caused by …