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Valle-Falcones L.m.Corresponding AuthorGrima-Olmedo CAuthorRodriguez Pons-Esparver, RamonAuthor

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February 27, 2023
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Evaluation and Economics of Shale Gas Reserves in the Flysch-Eocene Formation of the Jaca Basin

Publicated to: Applied Sciences-Basel. 13 (3): 1732- - 2023-02-01 13(3), DOI: 10.3390/app13031732

Authors:

Valle-Falcones, LM; Grima-Olmedo, C; Esparver, RRP; Zamarro-Toves, E
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Minas & Energia, Dept Ingn Geol & Min, Rios Rosas, Madrid 28003, Spain - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author

Abstract

Featured Application: The analysis through geological and geophysical techniques of shale gas fields with increased production rate through hydraulic fracturing stimulation, allows increasing national natural gas production and reducing external energy dependence. The new international outlook for the gas sector suggests evaluating exploitable reserves in previously unconsidered areas including hydraulic fracturing technology. In order to estimate the amount of gas in the Jaca Flysch formation, the analysis of geological and geophysical logs and the volumetric method have been used. It has been taking into account the part of the formation likely to contain gas, the porosity (2.65%) calculated from sonic logs with Wyllie’s equation, the water saturation (35.3%) with Archie’s formula, and the initial gas formation volume factor (Bgi), estimated with MHA-P3 software with the reservoir pressure/temperature data 3600 psi/90 °C. The economic analysis of each well has been carried out based on three options, without stimulation, with 50% and 100% stimulation by fracking, and five possible construction costs (7.5–15 MM€). The impact of the use of the fracking technology on the production of the well is about 48%. The production rate and the economic impact that its exploitation would have on the domestic demand for natural gas has been analyzed, resulting in a significant contribution to the national energy mix of between 10–20% of consumption for several years.
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Keywords

economic impactfrackinghydraulic fracturingpermeabilityporosityreservoirsEconomic impactFrackingHydraulic fracturingPermeabilityPorosityReservoirsUnconventional gasWater

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Applied Sciences-Basel due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 44/181, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Multidisciplinary.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-28:

  • Google Scholar: 2
  • WoS: 4
  • Scopus: 4
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-28:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 6.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 5 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on Wikipedia: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/85822/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 137
  • Downloads: 73
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (VALLE FALCONES, LAURA MARIA) and Last Author (Zamarro-Toves E).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been VALLE FALCONES, LAURA MARIA.

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