URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4465

Date: 2013-12

Type: Thesisms

Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Shale oil reservoirs -- 1.2. Shale oil: What is it? -- 1.3. Shale play developmnet -- 1.4. Purpose and scope of study -- Chapter 2. Literature review -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Geology -- 2.2. Decline curve analysis -- 2.2.1. Arps decline curve analysis -- 2.2.2. Power law exponential analysis -- 2.2.3. Logistic growth analysis -- 2.2.4. Duong's method -- Analyses of the Eagle Ford Shale -- 2.3.1. Reservoir fluids -- 2.3.2. Natural fractures -- 2.3.3. Reservoir stimulation and wellbore completions -- 2.3.4. Simulation -- 2.4. Improving shale oil recovery by CO��� injection and CO��� as frac fluid -- Chapter 3. Eagle Ford production history assessment using various decline curve analysis techniques -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Methods -- 3.1.1. Data preparation before the analysis -- 3.1.2. Arps' decline models applications -- 3.1.3. Power law exponential (PLE) analysis application -- 3.1.4. Logistic growth analysis (LGA) application -- 3.1.5. Duong's decline curve analysis method -- 3.1.6. Logistic arps' hyperbolic approach (LAHA) -- 3.2. General results -- 3.2.1. Data preparation before the analysis -- 3.2.2. Arps' decline curve analysis -- 3.2.3. Power law exponential analysis (PLE) -- 3.2.4. Logistic growth analysis (LGA) -- 3.2.5. Duong's decline curve analysis method -- 3.2.6. Logistic arps hyperbolic approach (LAHA) -- 3.3. Discussion of general results -- Chapter 4. Eagle Ford shale oil production decline analysis specific results -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Burleson County -- 4.1.1. Introduction -- 4.1.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Burleson County -- 4.2. Leon County -- 4.2.1. Introduction -- 4.2.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Leon County -- 4.3. Brazos County -- 4.3.1. Introduction -- 4.3.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Brazos County -- 4.4. Lee County -- 4.4.1. Introduction -- 4.4.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Lee County -- 4.5. Gonzales County -- 4.5.1. Introduction -- 4.5.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Gonzales County -- 4.6. Karnes County -- 4.6.1. Introduction -- 4.6.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Karnes County -- 4.7. Dimmit County -- 4.7.1. Introduction -- 4.7.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Dimmit County -- 4.8. Zavala County -- 4.8.1. Introduction -- 4.8.2. Specific results of shale oil production decline analysis in Zavala County -- 4.9. Chapter summary -- Chapter 5. Shale oil reservoir simulations -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. Methods: production decline and future performance simulations -- 5.1.1. Building the reservoir simulation models -- 5.1.2. The reservoir simulation initialization outputs -- 5.2. Results: production decline and future performance simulation -- 5.3. Methods: enhanced shale oil recovery simulation -- 5.3.1. Results: enhanced shale oil recovery simulation -- 5.4. Pressure profiles across lease boundaries -- 5.4.1. Methods -- 5.4.2. Results: pressure profiles across lease boundaries -- Chapter 6: Discussion -- 6.1. Decline curve analysis of the Eagle Ford shale oil production -- 6.2. Production decline and forecast, ESOR and pressure profiles simulation -- 6.2.1. Production decline and forecast simulation -- 6.2.2. Enhanced shale oil recovery (ESOR) simulation -- 6.2.3. Pressure profile simulation -- Chapter 7. Conclusions and recommendations -- 7.1. Conclusions -- 7.2. Recommendations -- References -- Nomenclature -- Appendix.