Finding solutions to unconventional challenges: ITF members map out a plan to study characterization issues in unconventional reservoirs

摘要

ITF recently issued a call for proposals on the topic of geomechanical characterization of unconventional reservoirs. The call was issued as a result of a technology roadmap on the topic of unconventional reservoirs that was defined by ITF's member companies in March 2012. The term "unconventional reservoirs" encompasses a range of reservoir types, including tight gas, shale gas, shale oil, and coalbed methane, and it has been reported that unconventional gas accounts for approximately half of total recoverable gas reserves. These reserves are, by definition, more difficult to access than conventional reserves, and to date there has been a varying amount of activity around the world with respect to their extraction.