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Effect of Subcritical Crack Initiation on Hydraulic Fracture

Gallyam Aidagulov, Romain Prioul, Elizaveta Gordeliy, Guanyi Lu, Andrew Bunger

Khalij Al Bahrain Basin: What is After the Discovery?

Yahya Al Ansari

Industry 4.0: 101 – A Simplified Guide to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Application in the Oil & Gas Industry

Noor Al-Nahhas

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Behind the Log: A Characterization Workflow Designed for Improved Learning Curves

Jeff Bayless

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E&P Digital: A Blueprint to Accelerate and Scale the Transformation

Lapi Dixit

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Cracking the Code in a Challenging Shale Play: Going Horizontal in the Vaca Muerta Shale

Philippe Enkababian

Geological Controls on the Prospectiviy and Productivity of Unconventional Resources – Learnings from the Montney Play of Western Canada

Tristan Euzen

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A Rapid Transformation Towards Economic Reality: A Methodic Approach for Emerging Unconventional Play

Ahmed Hakami

Reflectance Analysis of Organic Matter in Early Paleozoic Organic-Rich Shales

Shaun Hayton, Hartmut Jaeger

Optical Characterization and Hydrocarbon Potential Determination of Organic Matter in Early Paleozoic Organic-Rich Shales

Shaun Hayton, Hartmut Jaeger

How Sweet is European Shale? A Story about the Uncertain Potential, Problematic Recovery and Public Concerns of Shale Gas Development in Europe

Jan ter Heege

Basin-scale Appraisal Strategies for an Unconventional Shale Reservoir in a Small Tectonically Active Basin

James J. Hickey, Ting He

Shale Gas Exploration Potential Analysis and Accumulation Conditions of the Lower Cambrian in the Southern Margin of the Ordos Basin, China

Junping Huang, Xiangbo Li, Yaohui Xu, Hongbo Wang, Zhiyong Li, Yanrong Wan, Jing Wang, Yating Wang

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The Shale Learning Curve: Trendless Trends that Guide our Decisions – A Geologic Perspective

Greg Jackson

The Necessity of Complexity and its Inherent Limitations Regarding Well Placement

Greg Jackson

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Data Analytics in Analogue Benchmarking of Shale Resource Plays: Perspectives for Saudi Arabia Shale plays

Clay Kurison, Huseyin Sadi Kuleli, and Ahmed Mubarak

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Progress, Main Challenges and Future Prospect of Shale Gas Exploration and Development in China

Dexun Liu, Hongyan Wang, Qun Zhao, and Leifu Zhang

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3-D Petroleum Systems Model of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Marcin Pankau, Brian Toelle, Ranie Lynds, Penjman Tahmasebi

With Proper Spacing and Enough Time, Shale Wells May Produce Much More Gas

Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

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The Role of Natural Fractures and Reservoir Stresses in Integrated Engineering Workflows – Constrained Frac Design and Fast Marching Reservoir Simulation for Optimal Development of Unconventional Reservoirs

Ahmed Ouenes, Nick Umholtz, Radouan Smaoui, Mohit Paryani, Aissa Bachir

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Two-Phase Fluid Flow in Source Rocks: Insights Gained from Nanofluidics

Carlos Torres-Verdin, Shaina Kelly, Matthew Balhoff, Ayaz Mehmani

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Impact of Geology and Geomechanics on Stimulated Rock Volume and Productivity in a Multi-landing Zone Development: A Case Study on the Vaca Muerta

Roberto Wagner, Sonny Parsonage, Sandrine Vidal-Gilbert

Evolution Towards more Advanced Organic Rich Mudrock Workflows & Petrophysical Models

Frank E. Walles, Ian McGlynn, Jessica Raines, Matt Bratovich

Overview of Shell’s iShaleTM Field of the Future Program

Fred Wasden

Exploration and Development Techniques for Unconventional Resources

George Waters

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Shale Distribution and Favorable Area for Shale Gas Accumulation of Turpan-kumul Basin, Northwest of China

Zhanlong Yang, Yunfeng Huang, Qingpeng Wu, Dongsheng Xiao

Building Reservoir and Wellbore-based Earth Models in the Presence of Sparse and Missing Data in Unconventional Resource Plays; An Integration of Data and Physics Driven Workflows

Jeffrey Yarus

Shale Gas Potential and Gas Characteristics in Mesozoic Mohe Basin, Northernmost China

Li Yi, Zhen Liu, Xingmin Zhao, Jian Deng

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The Potential of Shale Gas Accumulation in Middle and Small Continental Faulted Basins in Eastern China from Fuxin Basin

Zang Huanrong, Zhao Qun, Wang Hongyan, Yang Shen, Liu Dexun, Sun Qinping & Jiang Xinchun

Fine Layer Division and Detailed Reservoir Correlation of Ancient Marine Shales in Southern China

Leifu Zhang, Hongyan Wang, Shasha Sun, Zhensheng Shi, Jin Wu, Chao Ma