Unconventional reservoirs are often regarded as resource plays

with little demand for reservoir analysis beyond simple

geosteering techniques during the development campaign.

This leads to the common practice of stimulating wells with

equally spaced stages and treating all the stages exactly the

same, with no regard to the nature of the rock being treated.

The practice of steering to brittleness or similar techniques can

have a direct impact beyond simple well placement. Given a

map of geomechanical properties along the wellbore,

completion engineers can optimize the position of plugs or

packers, and stimulation engineers can fine tune the design of

the treatment applied to the rock. By re-establishing the link

between production and geology, these methods can decrease

the exploitation costs of unconventional reservoirs.