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<h2> <span style="color:#00cc33;">Overview</span> </h2> | |||
<p>For a clear knowing of the unconventional resources, you first have to know the difference between both the Conventional and the Unconventional Reservoirs. | |||
</p><p>The conventional reservoirs are those which well can be drilled through, so that oil and natural gas can be produced at economic flow rates without large stimulation treatments or any special recovery process. | |||
</p><p>On the other hand, the unconventional reservoir is one that cannot be produced at economic flow rates or that does not produce economic volumes of oil and gas without assistance from massive stimulation treatments or special recovery processes and technologies. | |||
</p><p><span dir="LTR">Think of the difference between a sponge and a piece of clay, it’s easy to squeeze water out of a saturated sponge, that’s a conventional oil and natural gas reservoir; squeezing water out of saturated clay is harder - that's an unconventional one.</span> | |||
</p><p><span dir="LTR">Oil and natural gas are the main sources of energy around the world which are being exhausted decade after decade, that have resulted a decline in these conventional resources.</span> | |||
</p><p><span dir="LTR">As technologies tackling the petroleum industry are always expanding and developing, introducing a new technology that tackles unconventional reservoirs became a must to increase the world reserve by producing “unconventional” oil and natural gas resources that were previously impossible to do.</span> | |||
</p><p><span dir="LTR">And these unconventional reservoirs contain the future of our hydrocarbon supply which is the unconventional</span><span dir="LTR">resources.</span> | |||
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<h2> <span style="color:#00cc33;">Unconventional resources Classification and distribution</span> </h2> | |||
<h3> <span style="color:#808080;">The classification of unconventional resources</span> </h3> | |||
<p>The unconventional resources are classified into: shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil, coal seam gas/coalbed methane and hydrates, most of them will be tackled through the article from a geologic perspective. | |||
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<h3> <span style="color:#808080;"><span dir="LTR">The distribution of unconventional</span> main resources</span> </h3> | |||
<p><span dir="LTR"> Here we have a table showing the distribution of worldwide unconventional-gas resources (after Rogner 1996 , taken from Kawata and Fujita 2001)</span> | |||
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Overview
For a clear knowing of the unconventional resources, you first have to know the difference between both the Conventional and the Unconventional Reservoirs.
The conventional reservoirs are those which well can be drilled through, so that oil and natural gas can be produced at economic flow rates without large stimulation treatments or any special recovery process.
On the other hand, the unconventional reservoir is one that cannot be produced at economic flow rates or that does not produce economic volumes of oil and gas without assistance from massive stimulation treatments or special recovery processes and technologies.
Think of the difference between a sponge and a piece of clay, it’s easy to squeeze water out of a saturated sponge, that’s a conventional oil and natural gas reservoir; squeezing water out of saturated clay is harder - that's an unconventional one.
Oil and natural gas are the main sources of energy around the world which are being exhausted decade after decade, that have resulted a decline in these conventional resources.
As technologies tackling the petroleum industry are always expanding and developing, introducing a new technology that tackles unconventional reservoirs became a must to increase the world reserve by producing “unconventional” oil and natural gas resources that were previously impossible to do.
And these unconventional reservoirs contain the future of our hydrocarbon supply which is the unconventionalresources.
Unconventional resources Classification and distribution
The classification of unconventional resources
The unconventional resources are classified into: shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil, coal seam gas/coalbed methane and hydrates, most of them will be tackled through the article from a geologic perspective.
The distribution of unconventional main resources
Here we have a table showing the distribution of worldwide unconventional-gas resources (after Rogner 1996 , taken from Kawata and Fujita 2001)
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