New Textbook on Unconventional Hydrocarbons co-authored by a team of colleagues from KU and other institutions

It is our great pleasure to announce that a new textbook, edited by Associate Professor Reza Barati Ghahfarokhi and Dr. Mustafa Alhubail, has been published with chapters co-authored by a team of faculty and researchers from KU. The team included Post-doctoral Researcher Sherifa Cudjoe, Assistant Professor Laura Li, Senior Research Scientist Jyun-Syung Tsau, engineering professors Ted Peltier, Stephen Randtke, and Anil Misra, and Doctoral Aspirant Qinwen Fu. Contrinutions from other institutions additionally helped make this publication possible. It is the first textbook in this area with real-world examples and statistics about shale oil and gas resources around the globe.

Visit Wiley’s website to read more information about the book.

Description (taken from Wiley's page)

A comprehensive textbook presenting techniques for the analysis and characterization of shale plays

Significant reserves of hydrocarbons cannot be extracted using conventional methods. Improvements in techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have increased access to unconventional hydrocarbon resources, ushering in the “shale boom” and disrupting the energy sector.

Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Techniques for Reservoir Engineering Analysis covers the geochemistry, petrophysics, geomechanics, and economics of unconventional shale oil plays. The text uses a step-by-step approach to demonstrate industry-standard workflows for calculating resource volume and optimizing the extraction process.

Volume highlights include:

  • Methods for rock and fluid characterization of unconventional shale plays
  • A workflow for analyzing wells with stimulated reservoir volume regions
  • An unconventional approach to understanding of fluid flow through porous media
  • A comprehensive summary of discoveries of massive shale resources worldwide
  • Data from Eagle Ford, Woodford, Wolfcamp, and The Bakken shale plays
  • Examples, homework assignments, projects, and access to supplementary online resources
  • Hands-on teaching materials for use in petroleum engineering software applications

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