Combust ion Ass isted Gravity Drainage ( CAGD ) : An In - s i tu

To meet future global oil and gas demands, unconventional gas resources will play an important role in the U.S and world energy supply. To develop unconventional gas resources, we must first identify their occurrences and quantify their potential. The analog methodology that provides supplementary analysis to characterize the less accessible reservoirs has been employed in the oil & gas industry for decades. However, current practices are based on subjective experiences of experts, and require substantial efforts to characterize and compare data. The objective of this project is to provide a basin analog system that is able to quickly and effectively identify the analogous reference basins (i.e., the selected North American basins that having significant unconventional gas development) for the target basins (i.e., the frontier basins with little exploration in unconventional gas reservoirs) so that we could use what we have learned in the reference basins to infer the unknown information in the target basin. As a complex system, it mainly consists of the analog method and the BASIN (Basin Analog Summary and INvestigation) software linking to a database that includes geologic and petroleum systems information from intensely studied North American basins.