Conventional Natural Gas Production
Conventional natural gas production largely mirrors traditional crude production using conventional drilling methods into reservoirs typically having large pockets of natural gas in geologic structures known as traps. These traps vary by geology, but are characterized by pockets of natural gas that may or may not be above a layer of crude oil.
It is important to note differences in natural gas; hydrocarbons found with crude oil are “associated natural gas” and those found without crude oil are “non-associated natural gas.” A given reservoir may contain strictly natural gas such as those referred to later in the chapter.
Unconventional natural gas shale plays utilize a hydraulic fracturing method that has been ...
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