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1 CPD Hour
Gas Shales in Australia: Can we use the US concepts?
A guest lecture presented by Prof. Klaus Regenauer-Lieb for the Centre for Exploration Targeting, UWA.
Hydraulic fracturing of gas shales has proved the golden bullet to unlock huge unconventional gas resources in the US. Deloitte estimates Australia as the next big exporter of unconventional gas owing to its known vast gas resources locked deep in the Australian sedimentary basins. This forecast is based on the applicability of the US concepts to the Australian setting. However, Australian and US settings are different: unconventional gas deposits in Australia are under much larger confining stress, situated in higher temperatures, generally subject to a higher compressional stress field and not substantially over-pressured; as a result, new innovative approaches and concepts are required to unlock the Australian unconventional gas resources.
The author will present a new geomechanics concept to fracture stimulate the deep hot shales in Australia that would be appropriate for the Australian high compressive environments. The talk will be illustrated with field data, core lab experiments results and numerical modelling.
Professor Regenauer-Lieb joined The University of Western Australia and the CSIRO Division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering (CESRE) as the Western Australian Premier’s Research Fellow in Computational Earth System Dynamics in 2006. He led the Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence (WAGCOE) from 2009-2012. His team now works in the world-class Resource Sciences Precinct in Perth. In addition, the team works on the CSIRO Groundwater Cooling Project at the Australian Resources Research Centre, Perth to cool the Pawsey Centre Supercomputer.
Woolnough Lecture Theatre (1.07), Geography and Geology Building, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009
Pay parking is available along Fairway (approx. $1.50 per hour)
You are invited to join CET staff and other attendees afterwards for refreshments provided by the UWA SEG Student Chapter in the Resource Room, Robert Street Building.
