Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Coal and Shale

Dr. Bodhisatwa Hazra, a Senior Scientist at CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India, is currently working as a Visiting Scientist at the University of Kiel, Germany. He specializes in Petroleum Geochemistry, Organic Petrology and is currently focusing on unconventional reservoir geochemistry-petrophysics, and CO2 sequestration. Dr. Hazra obtained his PhD degree from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, on the shale-gas assessment of Raniganj basin, India. Dr. Hazra is a recipient of DST Inspire Faculty award, 2015 and CSIR Young Scientist Award, 2019. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Geological Society of India, and the Arabian Journal of Geosciences.Dr. Debanjan Chandra, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at TU Delft. He received his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on resolving the gas storage and migration behavior in shale and coal for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage applications. By combining reservoir permeability with rock mechanical properties, he attempted to quantify reservoir stability during enhanced hydrocarbon recovery. Dr. Chandra also used gas adsorption as well as X-ray and neutron scattering to assess the gas storage capacity of shale and coal reservoirs which were validated using 3D X-ray CT and 2D electron microscopic imaging.Dr. Vikram Vishal is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, and holds a PhD degree jointly from IIT Bombay and Monash University, Australia. He has had brief professional stints at IIT Roorkee, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shell and Tata Steel Limited. Dr. Vishal specializes in reservoir geomechanics, unconventional petrophysics and geologic carbon sequestration. A two-time Fulbright Fellow and a two-time national awardee, Dr. Vishal is a recipient of several notable recognitions. He has received 2 patents, and authored over 100 research publications, five national roadmaps and four international reports in his domains of expertise.

• Fundamentals of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs.- Recent advances in laboratory studies.- Upscaling for natural gas estimates in coal and shale.- Potential for CO2 sequestration in coal and shale.- Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities.