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In this paper we discuss the application of a new reservoir modeling approach to history matching, forecasting and analyzing oil and gas production from shale reservoirs. In this new approach instead of imposing our understanding of the flow mechanism and the production process on the reservoir model, we allow the production history, well log, and hydraulic fracturing data to force their will on our model and determine its behavior. In other words, by carefully listening to the data from individual wells and the reservoir as a whole, we developed a data-driven model and history match the production process and validate our model (using blind production history) from shale reservoirs. The validated, history matched model is used to forecast future production from the field and to assist in planning field development strategies. In the validation context, the “blind production history” is referred to the last several months of production history that is not used during the training and history matching process and has been used to validate the forecast of the Top-Down Model (TDM).