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New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration

  • Maximizes understanding of emerging technologies that allow for cost effective oil and gas exploration with minimal environmental effects
  • Brings together diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives on many issues surrounding oil and gas exploration
  • Presents both cutting-edge, original research and comprehensive reviews, addressing theory and practice
  • Covers a broad spectrum of topics including rock mechanics, structural geology; and petroleum, civil, and chemical engineering, to address problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs
  • Emphasizes practical issues, such as induced seismicity and shale fracturing modelling, over unnecessary mathematical expressions and lengthy calculations of stress and strain

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Discrete Element Modeling of the Role of In Situ Stress on the Interactions Between Hydraulic and Natural Fractures

    • Riccardo Rorato, Frédéric-Victor Donzé, Alexandra Tsopela, Hamid Pourpak, Atef Onaisi
    Pages 113-136
  3. Nano-Scale Characterization of Organic-Rich Shale via Indentation Methods

    • Ange-Therese Akono, Pooyan Kabir
    Pages 209-233
  4. On the Production Analysis of a Multi-Fractured Horizontal Well

    • Erfan Sarvaramini, Dmitry I. Garagash
    Pages 235-255
  5. Interfacial Engineering for Oil and Gas Applications: Role of Modeling and Simulation

    • Kshitij C. Jha, Vikram Singh, Mesfin Tsige
    Pages 257-283
  6. Petroleum Geomechanics: A Computational Perspective

    • Maurice B. Dusseault, Robert Gracie, Dipanjan Basu, Leo Rothenburg, Shunde Yin
    Pages 285-333
  7. Insights on the REV of Source Shale from Nano- and Micromechanics

    • Katherine L. Hull, Younane N. Abousleiman
    Pages 335-366
  8. Beyond Hydrocarbon Extraction: Enhanced Geothermal Systems

    • Masami Nakagawa, Kamran Jahan Bakhsh, Mahmood Arshad
    Pages 487-506
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 519-521

About this book

This contributed volume presents a multi-perspective collection of the latest research findings on oil and gas exploration and imparts insight that can greatly assist in understanding field behavior, design of test programs, and design of field operations. With this book, engineers also gain a powerful guide to the most commonly used numerical simulation methods that aid in reservoir modelling. In addition, the contributors explore development of technologies that allow for cost effective oil and gas exploration while minimizing the impact on our water resources, surface and groundwater aquifers, geological stability of impacted areas, air quality, and infrastructure assets such as roads, pipelines, water, and wastewater networks. Easy to understand, the book identifies equipment and procedural problems inherent to oil and gas operations and provides systematic approaches for solving them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton, USA

    Congrui Jin

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Gianluca Cusatis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration

  • Editors: Congrui Jin, Gianluca Cusatis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40124-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40122-5Published: 14 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82036-1Published: 16 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40124-9Published: 07 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 521

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 205 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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