ERE Winter Seminar Series 2012: Shale Gas Modeling

Shale gas and Coalbed methane (CBM) assets are expected to become major energy sources for the future generations. However, there are unanswered fundamental physics and transport questions for each of these resources. This talk describes the challenges for shale gas and CBM simulations. It presents a coupled sorption-transport model designed to capture key physics for both Shale gas and CBM, while still being straightforward to implement. The talk describes initial evaluation results, shortcomings of the current models as well as future research directions. Bio: Dr. Anshul Agarwal works on modeling and numerical simulation of petroleum reservoirs. She developed the Shale gas and CBM transport models at ExxonMobil, contributing to the design and implementation of a coupled sorption-transport model in their in-house simulator. She co-authored a recent SPE paper on Transport phenomena and Multicomponent sorption for Shale gas and CBM models. Anshul holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University. She has a Bachelors in Chemical Engg. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.