Training and Workshop Agenda
 
 

Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Exploitation and Development
  Course Description
  This one day workshop provides a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances in the exploitation and development of unconventional resources, with an emphasis on shale. The seminar addresses all aspects of the process, from data mining and accounting to drilling, completion, stimulation, production, and environmental issues. It offers in-depth coverage of sub-surface measurements (geological, geophysical, petrophysical, geochemical, and geomechanical) and their interpretation. It discusses the use of microseismic, fiber optic, and tracer reservoir monitoring technologies and modeling software. It also explores future trends in reservoir technologies.

Key Features

• Aids in the environmentally safe exploitation and development of unconventional resources like shale

• Instills a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances in the field

• Provides a valuable reference for geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, geomechanic specialists, and drilling, completion, stimulation, production, and reservoir engineers


Selected Contents

Characteristics of unconventional oil and gas Resources. The Unconventional Basins and Plays—North America, the Rest of the World, and Emerging Basins. Unconventional Resources Workflow—Exploitation and Development. Seismic Reservoir Characterization Applications for Unconventional Resources. Pilot Projects in Unconventional Resources Development. Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Characterization of Source Rock Reservoirs. Role of Geomechanical Engineering in Unconventional Resources Developments. Laboratory Tests and Considerations to Complement the Overall Reservoir Understanding. Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Unconventional Oil and Gas. The Art of Data Mining and Its Impact on Unconventional Reservoir Development. Unconventional Reserves and Resources Accounting and Booking. Production Evaluation and Forecasting. Drilling Systems for Unconventionals. Multistage Completion Systems for Unconventionals. Stimulation of Unconventional Reservoirs. Flow Assurance. Artificial Lift Technologies. Monitoring Technologies—Microseismic, Fiber Optic, and Tracers. Rejuvenating Unconventional Resources. Environmental Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Resource Development. Case Studies, Accessing Software and Data. New Considerations and Future Trends in Reservoir Technologies for Unconventional Resources Development.

Usman Ahmed, With more than three decades of petroleum engineering experience, Usman Ahmed is the Executive Technical Advisor at WellDog. Most recently Mr. Ahmed was Baker Hughes’ Vice President and Chief Reservoir Engineer addressing their global Unconventional Resources business unit. Previously he worked for Schlumberger, TerraTek and ran his own reservoir and production engineering consulting firm Energy Resources International. He holds a B. Sc. and M. Sc. (both in Petroleum Engineering) from Texas A&M University. Looked to as a technical and professional industry leader, Ahmed has two patents and is the author and co-author of more than 100 industry papers and two (2) textbooks (one of the book is titled “Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploitation and Development, CRC publications 2016) and have been invited to numerous events as key note speakers and panelist. He is a SPE Distinguished Member and also been SPE Distinguished Speaker in 2004-2005 and the SPE 2013-2014 Distinguished Speaker on “Unconventional Resources Development”.