SOLD OUT CSPG02SC Shale Gas Critical Fundamentals, Techniques and Tools for Exploration Analysis
This one day course will introduce the fundamental differences between conventional, hybrid and shale gas plays. Source and reservoir rock attributes of shale gas plays will be discussed as well as GIP calculations, water, oil and gas saturations, essential laboratory analysis, and optimum geochemical and mineralogical parameters. Slickwater completion (vertical and horizontal) lessons learned from the US will be detailed. Canadian plays will be Highlighted and discussed.
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Basim Faraj is the Unconventional Gas Specialist at Talisman Energy Inc.
Basim obtained his PhD (1995) on organic and inorganic geochemistry and cleat mineralization of the Permian coals in the Brown Basin from the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (CMM) and the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Queensland, Australia.
Basim has many years of experience in the geochemistry, mineralogy and exploration of unconventional reservoirs (tight sands, coalbed methane, shale gas and hybrid plays) in Canada, US, Japan, Middle East and Australia.
In 2002, Basim led a team that completed the first shale gas study in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin for the Gas Technology Institute. Basim chairs the Annual Canadian Annual Shale Gas Conference (from 2005 onward), organized by the Canadian Institute. Basim has been at the forefront of coal bed methane research and exploration since his work with BHP Coal in Australia and the University of Queensland. He has also worked as a Shale Gas and Coal Bed Methane Consultant for several energy companies in Calgary.
Areas of expertise: shale gas and coalbed methane exploration. Petroleum geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy, clay mineralogy, cleat and fracture characterization and biogenic hydrogen generation.
Basim is a member of the CSUG technical committee, AAPG and SPE.
