Pushing shale oil recovery technical limits

Since its purchase of Fayetteville shale from Chesapeake in 2011 and Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian shale from Petrohawk,  BHP has invested billions of dollars in developing and applying new technologies for unlocking these resources.  My focus in this talk would be around BHP’s efforts in subsurface characterization and production enhancement in these fields.  Specifically, methodologies used for estimating both in-place volumes and EUR will be discussed.  Then, I will review the performance of two EOR methods, Energized Fluids and Gas Injection as related to their initial pilot testing applications.

Speaker: Reza Fassihi, BHP Billiton