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 industr...

Modeling and simulation of unconventional reservoirs are much more complicated than the conventional reservoir modeling, because of their complex flow characteristics. Mechanisms, which control the flow in the reservoir, are still under the investigation of researchers. However, it is important to investigate applications of mechanisms which are present to our knowledge. This paper presents the...

Reservoir simulators remain essential tools for improved reservoir management in order to optimize hydraulic fracturing design in unconventional low permeability reservoirs. However, the commonly-used simulator requires too much computational efforts for the description of local phenomena in the vicinity of the hydraulic fractures, and is practically infeasible for field applications, due to la...

The multiscale rock physics of unconventional reservoirs have drawn increasing attention in recent years, which involves several essential issues, including measuring method, transport property, model, characteristic scale, and their application. These issues vastly affect science engineering regarding the exploration development reservoirs. To encourage communication on advances research reser...

Geochemical studies of gases from low-permeability reservoirs have raised new questions regarding the chemical and stable isotope systematics gas hydrocarbons. For instance, possibility thermodynamic equilibrium is recurrently in discussion. However, it not clear whether there anything “unconventional” way these systems continue to be studied. Using molecular carbon data North American unconven...

The petroleum industry’s use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies has changed organic-rich mudstones, like the Devonian Marcellus Formation, from conventional hydrocarbon sources and seals to unconventional ‘shale gas’ reservoirs. Organic-richness and formation brittleness are two principal components of reservoir quality assessment, as the former is indicative of the am...

The middle Cretaceous Colorado Group of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin consists predominantly of mudstone deposited during major marine inundations interspersed with relatively thin sandstone and conglomerate beds. The Colorado Group petroleum system, containing a large portion of the light-medium oil and natural gas reserves within the Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous foreland basin succe...

More percentage of new productions in oil industry is from unconventional oil and gas such as oil shale, tar sand, laminated sand, tight oil (siltstone), tight gas, gas hydrate, and igneous rock, because the conventional oil and gas can no longer meet the need of the world. Researchers in response pay more attentions to the unconventional resources. Formation properties such as total organic ca...