Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Exploration and Artificial Intelligence

Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Exploration and Artificial Intelligence highlights novel concepts and techniques in tight reservoir exploration and discusses contribution of artificial intelligence such as neural network and fuzzy logic towards the exploration of these reservoirs. Each chapter covers examples and applications to real data from different hydrocarbon fields such as the Barnett shale (USA), the Bakken Oil (USA), Ahnet and Berkine Basins (Algeria), etc.

Volume highlights include:

Geophysics of the shale plays Petrophysics of the shale and tight sand gas reservoirs Geomechanic of shale gas reservoirs Well-bore stability in shale gas reservoirs Hydraulic fracturing, rock typing of tight sand reservoirs and fluid flow and permeability of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs

Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Exploration and Artificial Intelligence will be a valuable resource of information for students, instructors and researchers working on unconventional hydrocarbon exploration, geophysics, geoengineering and energy.