Amin Taghavinejad - Unconventional Reservoirs: Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis Techniques: A Reservoir Engineering Approach

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The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the Amirkabir University of Technology for their immense supports and feedback during the preparation of this book. Additionally, wed like to thank the Key Laboratory of Continental Shale Accumulation and Efficient Development at the Northeast Petroleum University in Daqing China, for their continuous encouragement of our academic endeavors.

Last but not least Mehdi Ostadhassan would like to extend his sincere gratitude to his wife Bailey without whom and his full-time support, encouragement, and dedication his contribution to this book wouldnt have been possible. She was away when this book was being developed in a separate country to take care of our two beautiful sons, Elijah Ali and Jonas Reza.

Ultimately, we thank our friends, colleagues, and collaborators for their feedback, input, and scientific discussions which significantly improved the quality of this book.

Unconventional resources or unconventional reservoirs (UR) refer to a category of underground hydrocarbon deposits which are different in operations and methods of recovery compared to conventional reservoirs. As a matter of fact, such discrepancies originate from their special geological, geochemical, and petrophysical characteristics. The most important feature of URs is their low-permeability nature. Also, some storage and flow mechanisms of these reservoirs are not common in conventional oil and gas deposits. Thus, it can be expected that URs require special studies in order to enhance their efficiency along with an economical production.