Meet the editor

Dr. Kenneth Imo-Imo Israel Eshiet is Senior Consultant at SEEED (Sustainable Energy Environmental and Educational Development) with research links with the University of Leeds and University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is an expert with broad experience in geomechanical stimulation of reservoirs and subsurface flow. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and holds a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering (geotechnics) from the

 University of Leeds, in tandem with other postgraduate qualifications in management and education. His current interest lies in the development and application of numerical/analytical tools to civil, structural, fluid dynamics, and geotechnical engineering problems. He is Editor of the American Journal of Civil Engineering and a reviewer of several journals, including Computers and Geotechnics, Environmental Earth Sciences, and Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. He resides in West Yorkshire, UK.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Reservoir

**Section 3**

*by Keshawa Shukla*

*and Aissa Bachir*

*by Freddy Humberto Escobar*

Simulation of Unconventional Wells

Hydrocarbon Reservoirs *by Kenneth Imo-Imo Eshiet*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Fracturing and Reservoir Fluid Systems **17**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 43**

Well and Reservoir Analysis and Simulation **57**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 77** Surface Drilling Data for Constrained Hydraulic Fracturing and Fast Reservoir

**Chapter 6 103**

*by Ahmed Ouenes, Mohit Paryani, Yamina Aimene, Chad Hammerquist* 

Elastic-Based Brittleness Estimation from Seismic Inversion *by Maman Hermana, Deva Prasad Ghosh and Chow Weng Sum*

Introductory Chapter: Developments in the Exploitation of Unconventional

CO2 Foam as an Improved Fracturing Fluid System for Unconventional

*by Shehzad Ahmed, Alvinda Sri Hanamertani and Muhammad Rehan Hashmet*

Thermodynamics of Thermal Diffusion Factors in Hydrocarbon Mixtures

Well Test Analysis for Hydraulically-Fractured Wells
