About This Item
- Full TextFull Text(subscription required)
- Pay-Per-View PurchasePay-Per-View
Purchase Options Explain
Share This Item
The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
GCAGS Transactions
Abstract
"New" Oil from Old Fields
James A. Hartman (1)
ABSTRACT
One cannot overemphasize the importance of production data as an aid in unraveling the detailed structural and stratigraphic complexities of a field. A review of production data may result in discovering updip, undrained areas, undrained areas in bottom water drive reservoirs or undrained stringers. In many cases an understanding of the distribution of these undrained areas can lead to the drilling of additional development wells or recompletion of existing wells. Much of the oil recovered by these additional drainage points cannot be recovered by existing completions and is therefore "new" oil. These undrained areas can often be discovered by detailed subsurface field reviews involving the geologist and the reservoir, petrophysical and production engineers. The results of two such studies clearly demonstrate their value.
Pay-Per-View Purchase Options
The article is available through a document delivery service. Explain these Purchase Options.
| Watermarked PDF Document: $14 | |
| Open PDF Document: $24 |