Call for Papers is Now Closed

The technical program for URTeC 2017 is currently being selected and will be announced soon. Abstracts were submitted under the following themes:

Theme 1: Petrophysical, Geological and Geophysical Characterization

• Aligning Geoscience and Engineering Workflows by Reservoir Types
• Imaging Unconventional Facies at the Macro-, Micro- and Nano-Scales
• Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation of Mudstones
• Reservoir Quality in Low-Permeability Rocks = f(deposition, facies, sequence stratigraphy, and diagenesis)
• Microseismic Fracture Mapping and Building Discrete Fracture Networks
• Seismic Attributes for Characterizing Rock Properties and Reservoirs — How Geophysics Clarifies Geology

Theme 2: Understanding and Applying Geomechanics and Mechanical Stratigraphy

• Beyond Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio — New Metrics for Rock Physics of Unconventional Plays
• Understanding the Role of Both Paleo- and Current Stress Regimes on Reservoir Development
• Upscaling for Geocellular Models for Simulation
• Integration of Rock Data with Mechanical Stratigraphy
• Predicting Rock Properties with 3-D Seismic Inversion
• Integrating Microseismic Data, Mechanical Stratigraphy, and Seismic Volumes
• Induced Seismicity Monitoring and Mitigation Strategies

Theme 3: Understanding Petroleum System Chemistry from Source Rocks to Produced Hydrocarbons

• Organic Geochemistry of Oil-Prone and Gas-Prone Unconventional Resource Plays
• Inorganic Geochemistry of Unconventional Resource Plays
• Effects of Burial, Uplift, and Temperature Histories on Hydrocarbon Types
• Chemostratigraphy of Sedimentary Sequences
• Kinetics of Organo-Facies — Transformation of Kerogen to Hydrocarbons
• Produced Fluid Fingerprinting and Geochemical Surveillance

Theme 4: Analytics and the Digital Oilfield

• Workflows for Disparate Data Sets
• Cross-Discipline Leveraging of Data Mining, Modeling, and Data Analytics
• Surveillance of Unconventional Production — Collecting the Right Data at the Right Time
• Integrated Asset Management — From the Reservoir to the Sales Line
• "Big Data" Applications to Unconventional Reservoirs — Case Histories, Expectations, and Realities

Theme 5: Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Unconventional Reservoir Systems

• Flow and Phase Behavior for Tight Oil and Shale Oil/Shale Gas Reservoir Systems
• Reservoir Modeling for Unconventionals
• Reservoir Production and Recovery Mechanisms
• Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques for Unconventional Reservoirs
• Integration of Nano- and Micro-Scale Data to Understand Macro-Scale Flow Behavior
• Coupled Mechanical and Flow Simulation and Impact of Pre-Existing Fractures

Theme 6: Production Performance

• Reservoir Performance Data — What Data Do We Need to Define Well Performance?
• Rate Transient Analysis
• Pressure Transient Testing/Well Testing
• Resolving Early-Time Well Performance in Unconventional Reservoirs

Theme 7: Stake Holder Management and Social Performance (HSSE)

• Social License to Operate
• Social Investment and Impacts — Managing Roles, Expectations and Relationships
• Water Resources: Management, Utilization, Recycling and Disposal.
• Groundwater Protection and Geohazard Mitigation
• Induced Seismicity — Realities, Facts, and Myths

Theme 8: Reserves Estimation and Production Forecasting

• EUR and Performance Prediction
• Assessment and Reserves
• Well Spacing and Well Interference
• Reserves Aspects of Conventional versus Unconventional Plays
• Production Diagnostics — Understanding the Big Picture on Production Forecasting

Theme 9: Well Construction Practices

• Drilling Practices for Unconventional Reservoirs
• Novel Well Designs
• Drilling Challenges for Multi-Well Pads
• Well Path Planning and Geosteering
• Case Histories and Recommended Practices for Well Manufacturing

Theme 10: Well Completion and Stimulation Practices:

• Integrating Data to Optimize Completion, Diversion, and Stimulation Strategies
• Strategies and Challenges for Targeting of Horizontal Wells – Where Do We Land the Lateral?
• Integration of Diagnostics – How to Maximize Their Potential
• Re-Stimulation — Where We Are and Where We Want to Be
• Case Histories — Well Completions, Innovative Stimulation Techniques, and Optimization Practices

Theme 11: Production Engineering — Operations and Facilities

• Artificial Lift — Systems and Optimization for Unconventional Reservoirs and Horizontal Wells
• Facilities Innovation and Optimization
• Design of Efficient Facilities and Gathering for Multi-Well Pad Developments
• Flowback Practices – Managed Control and Optimization
• Case Histories — Optimization of Production Operations and Practices

Theme 12: Emerging Unconventional Plays

• Occurrence of Unconventional Petroleum Systems through Geologic Time — Where Do We Look Next?
• Play Identification to "Sweet Spots"
• Unconventionals Going Global — What Can North America Export to the World?
• Defining and Managing the “Combination” Play
• What Are We Missing? — Application of Unconventional Strategies to Under-Exploited Plays

Theme 13: Operators Forum — Case Studies in Unconventional Reservoir Development (Team Presentations)

• Play Concept to Development
• Optimization of Costs and Processes in Unconventional Reservoir Development.
• The Evolution of “Best” Practices in Shale Plays
• Innovation in Unconventional Reservoir Development — Pilots, Pads, and Present Value
• Case Histories — Concept to Development in an Unconventional Play