About this Training Course

From 1980 to 2000, the production of shale gas increased from zero to 1% of the total US gas production. But the next 20 years saw shale gas contribution jumping to more than 60% of total US gas production. With the adoption of latest technology and new practices, shale gas production has increased significantly. This training course will recap the status of the research and understanding on shale gas, starting from the fundamentals as well as the enabling technologies for its development in this course. We will attempt to answer why each well behaves differently and why we can’t make each well behave like a P10 well. Unconventional evaluation and development requires a multi-disciplinary approach compared to conventional. All pieces from evaluation to drilling, multi-stage fracturing and economics must fall in the right place to make such development possible. This course will help participants identify the essentials of each discipline in the context of shale gas development. More than 20,000 shale wells will be drilled and completed this year in the US. What can we learn from all the shale wells drilled and completed so far using data mining science? Through this 5-day course, participants will be equipped with a better understanding of value-added practices learned from this vast amount of data.