Provides comprehensive information about the key exploration, development and optimization concepts required for gas shale reservoirs

• Includes statistics about gas shale resources and countries that have shale gas potential
• Addresses the challenges that oil and gas industries may confront for gas shale reservoir exploration and development
• Introduces petrophysical analysis, rock physics, geomechanics and passive seismic methods for gas shale plays
• Details shale gas environmental issues and challenges, economic consideration for gas shale reservoirs
• Includes case studies of major producing gas shale formations

Reza Rezaee is a Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University, Australia. He is the winner of Australian Gas innovation research 2012 award for introducing a new method to enhance natural gas production from tight gas reservoirs. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and is the author of 3 books. His current research has been focused on integrated reservoir characterization, formation evaluation and petrophysics. He is a former “Research Fellow”, School of Geology and Geophysics, Oklahoma University.