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Current Technologies and Prospects of Shale Gas Development in China
Shale gas in China has realized the great-leap-forward development because of the significant strides of development technique for marine shale resource, becoming the second largest shale gas producer only to the USA. Benefits from the progress of technique advance, a complete technique series for the development of shale resource buried less than 3500 m has been established by operating technique research and field trail, including five main key techniques of geological evaluation, optimum and fast drilling, multistage hydraulic fracturing, productivity evaluation, and development parameters optimization. At present, shale resource in China has not been fully exploited besides the marine shale resource (<3500 m). It would be the future development trend to enhance ultimate recovery of shale gas (<3500 m). Moreover, two-thirds of recoverable resource are stored in the formation (>3500 m). With the further process of development technique for marine shale, shale gas is expected to the single type of gas reservoir contributing to the highest annual production rate in the near future. Therefore, based on the success in shale industry, this work is organized by reviewing the advances and challenges of current evaluation techniques, and then discussing the possible development trend of shale gas performance evaluation in the future.
Part of the book: Shale Gas