Shale Gas in India: Status and Challenges

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  • Vikas Mahto Indian School of Mines Dhanbad
  • Rajat Jain

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Shale gas, Hydraulic fracturing, Energy, Multilateral drilling

Abstract

With decline of production in gas fields, India became sixth largest natural gas importer in the global market. Seeing the domestic demand, it is essential to unlock shale gas from different shale gas plays in India. The key elements of shale gas production include the extensive drilling campaign, the need for hydraulic fracturing and realization of global growing of production facilities and flowlines. Also, advancedtechnologies are required for development of shale gas fields to make fruitful discoveries. The major problems encountered during drilling a shale gas well in India are additional reaming, hole enlargement, wellbore instability, costly fishing and side tracking operations. Water management, fracture geometry and presence of faults are also some of the major issues for fracturing of shale formations. This paper focuses on the current status and potential of shale gas in India. It also describes the challenges and their proposed solutions for development of shale gas plays.Keywords: Shale gas, Hydraulic fracturing, Energy, Multilateral drilling

Autor/innen-Biografie

  • Vikas Mahto, Indian School of Mines Dhanbad
    I, Dr. Vikas Mahto, am serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Indian School of Mines Dhanbad-826004. I have completed Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering in 2004 and have published one book and more than 50 research papers in different journals/conference proceedings.

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2014-04-30

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