Interpretation call for papers

Unconventional reservoir development and production

Exploitation of unconventional reservoirs has grown significantly in recent years. Successful economic development of these reservoirs often means maximizing rate and recovery. Therefore, optimizing completions is crucial, which in turn draws upon reservoir and fracture modeling, predicting reservoir performance, formation evaluation, and drilling optimization. Characterization of an unconventional reservoir requires knowledge of its geologic and depositional history and comprehensive multidisciplinary approaches that may involve outcrop studies; core, petrophysical, and geomechanical analysis; geosteering; static and dynamic modeling; and surveillance.

The editors of Interpretation (www.seg.org/interpretation) invite papers on the topic "Unconventional reservoir development and production" for publication in a November 2014 special section to supplement the journal's regular technical papers on various subject areas.

Contributions spanning multidisciplines are invited. They include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • case studies on optimization in development and production of unconventional reservoirs
  • methods and workflows that lead to improved understanding of unconventional reservoirs
  • reservoir modeling and simulation for performance prediction
  • petrophysical and geologic studies (laboratory- and outcrop-based)
  • integrated multidisciplinary characterization of unconventional reservoirs
  • review and tutorial articles

Interested authors should submit their manuscripts for review no later than 1 March 2014. In addition, the special section editors would like to receive a provisional title and list of authors as soon as possible. Authors should submit via the normal online submission system for Interpretation (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/interpretation) and select Unconventional reservoir development and production in the manuscript type dropdown option. The submitted papers will be subject to the regular peer-review process, and the contributing authors also are expected to participate in the review process as reviewers.

We will work according to the following timeline:

Submission deadline: 1 March 2014
Peer review complete: 1 August 2014
All files submitted for production: 15 August 2014
Publication of issue: November 2014

Special section editors:

Abhijit Gangopadhyay Abhijit.Gangopadhyay@bp.com
Steve Laubach steve.laubach@beg.utexas.edu
David Spain David.Spain@bp.com
Manika Prasad mprasad@mines.edu
Mazher Ibrahim Mazher.Ibrahim@bp.com
Terri Olson Terri_Olson@eogresources.com
Shujie Liu Shujie.Liu@bp.com
Gabino Castillo gabino.castillo@CGG.com
John Zhou johnzhou@maxwelldynamics.com


Interpretation, copublished by SEG and AAPG, aims to advance the practice of subsurface interpretation.