Onshore Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development: Legacy Issues and Innovations in Managing Risk--Day 1: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Water Science and Technology Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies

Oil and gas well completion and stimulation technologies to develop unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the United States have evolved over the past several decades, particularly in relation to the development of shale oil and shale gas. Shale oil and shale gas resources and the technology associated with their production are often termed unconventional because the oil and gas trapped inside the shale or other low-permeability rock formation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309474248
• ISBN13: 9780309474245
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 100 Pages