tion to improve the efficiency, ef- of operators by bringing together In 2017, the shale study team fo- fectiveness, and sustainability of multidisciplinary teams to research cused on extensive research within the exploration, development, and the quandaries and the potential of the Tight Oil Resource Assessment production of unconventional oil these unconventional reservoirs. [...] The collaborative effort studies have used an integrated the complex multilayered and het- brings together researchers from approach when looking at the erogeneous tight formations of the the Bureau of Economic Geology and production and reserve capacity of Permian Basin. [...] 2017 also saw the Department of Geological Sciences at four of the largest shale-gas basins launch of the 3D Resource Reserve the Jackson School of Geosciences, and two of the largest shale-oil and Production (3DRP) consortium, from UT’s Center for Petroleum and an initiative set up to keep the orig- Geosystems Engineering (CPGE) at inal integrated, granular shale-basin the Cockrell School of Engi. [...] This revenue was the Yet many challenges still exist within carbonate reser- result of a wide variety of recent regional- and reservoir- voirs, especially in the areas of integration of nonma- characterization studies that include the Spraberry trix pore systems, pore-network-related diagenesis, and and Wolfcamp Formations in the Permian Basin, the the realistic 3D variability of lithofacies distr. [...] This revenue was the Yet many challenges still exist within carbonate reser- result of a wide variety of recent regional- and reservoir- voirs, especially in the areas of integration of nonma- characterization studies that include the Spraberry trix pore systems, pore-network-related diagenesis, and and Wolfcamp Formations in the Permian Basin, the the realistic 3D variability of lithofacies distr.
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