AAPG Trip 1

J. N. Truex, W. J. Hunter, D. S. McMurdie, J. C. Taylor, R. O. Castle, A. G. Barrows, R. C. Erickson

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., and cement between external casing packers. Gravel flow-pack 6-5/8 inch × 14 inch annulus with 6-9 Tyler Mesh gravel. Displace completion fluid...

Lacustrine, Fluvial and Fan Sedimentation: A Record of Quaternary Climate Change and Tectonism, Pine Valley, Nevada

Michael E. Mulhern

Pacific Section SEPM

... mixing with the alkaline w a t e r and by action o f a b u n d a n t p h y t o p l a n k t o n . T h e s e conditions seem favored in an annulus...

Estimating Recovery by Quantifying Mobile Oil and Geochemically Allocating Production in Source Rock Reservoirs

Jennifer Adams, Matt Flannery, Tim Ruble, Mark A. McCaffrey, Elizabeth Krukowski, Daniel Kolodziejczyk, Héctor Vilar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in turn depends on the flow rate and annulus size. The longer the lag time to the shaker table, the greater the separation. Assuming a mud system...

Study of an Ordovician Carbonate with Alternating Dolomite–Calcite Laminations and Its Implication For Catalytic Effects of Microbes On the Formation of Sedimentary Dolomite

Yihang Fang, Huifang Xu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... axis of the microscope, while the HAADF detector collects over an annulus of high-angle incoherently scattered electrons (Kirkland 1998; Nellist 2007...

Breakthrough in Hydraulic Fracture & Proppant Mapping: Achieving Increased Precision with Lower Cost

Matthew Dawson, Günther Kampfer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be achieved by isolating the annulus with a packer and isolating the interior of the well with a bridge plug or by using controllable frac sleeves...

Underground Gas Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs

J. V. Goodman

AAPG Special Volumes

... is run, the annulus behind the producing string should be "gelled." If producing string is not cemented to the surface, the rest of the open hole...

Stylolite Development Post-Dates Rock Induration

H. V. Dunnington

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... wall and column, and the nature of the material (if any) filling this annulus. From the published description and illustration it seems reasonable...

Coalbed Methane Potential of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde and Meeteetse Formations, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

Ronald C. Johnson, Arthur C. Clark, Charles E. Barker, Bonnie L. Crysdale, Debra K. Higley, Richard Szmajter, Thomas M. Finn

Wyoming Geological Association

... the outer annulus of the casing. The mud was cleaned out of the hole and a vented cap placed over the 6-inch casing. The hole was left for a period...

A Reduced Physics Modeling Approach to Understand Multiphase Well Production Performance for Unconventional Reservoirs

Diego Molinari, Sathish Sankaran

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the wellhead pressure (measured at tubing and/or annulus) is routinely measured. It is rare to have wells with permanent downhole gauges for the whole production...

Wasatch Plateau Gas Fields, Utah

Paul T. Walton

AAPG Bulletin

.... Unfortunately, in this open hole certain shale zones between the Ferron sands have been sloughing and plugging both the tubing and the annulus. Some...

Analysis of Fluid and Heat Regimes in Sedimentary Basins: Techniques for Use with Large Data Bases

S. Bachu, C. M. Sauveplane, A. T. Lytviak, Brian Hitchon

AAPG Bulletin

... that for "in-situ" drill-stem tests (a few tens of meters around the well bore). In addition, the common presence of a "skin-effect" annulus around the well...

Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone: Major coalbed methane play in central Utah (E & P Notes)

Scott L. Montgomery, David E. Tabet, Charles E. Barker

AAPG Bulletin

.... Most wells are completed on pump. Approximately half of the wells produce water through tubing and gas up the annulus between tubing and casing...

A geochemical context for stray gas investigations in the northern Appalachian Basin: Implications of analyses of natural gases from Neogene-through Devonian-age strata

Fred J. Baldassare, Mark A. McCaffrey, John A. Harper

AAPG Bulletin

... folding: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 14991514.Harrison, S. S., 1985, Contamination of aquifers by overpressuring the annulus of oil...

Identification and Recording of Particulate Sedimentary Organic Matter

Stanley A.J. Pocock

Special Publications of SEPM

... as to be very readily recognized. 47 annulus spores , lip cells-4... Fern sorus, or sporangium. (Hill et al. 1960) Figure 13 biagrammatic...

Hydrocarbon Occurrences on the Western Margin of the Queen Charlotte Basin

T.S. Hamilton, B.E.B. Cameron

CSPG Bulletin

... Columbia Coal and Oil Tian Bay 1913 well. As recently as 1970 the well was still flowing water and bubbling natural gas, although in 1987 the annulus...

Glossary of Terms Applicable to Petroleum Geochemistry

Frederick W. Vlierboom

AAPG Special Volumes

...: A process in which the amount and composition of gases in the mud returning up the annulus of the drill string from the bit are determined. These values...

Geomechanical Wellbore Imaging: Key to Managing the Asset Life Cycle

Colleen Barton, Daniel Moos

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the production well leading to fluid flow back up the well annulus and escape to the sea floor along near-surface fractures. This possibility was ruled...

1995 AAPG Annual Convention, May 5-8, 1995, Houston, Texas, - Abstracts; #91020 (1995)

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The Unknown Risks of Fracking

David Campin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... due to gas pressure forcing through before the cement fully cures. Pressure testing can identify whether the string provides a fully isolated annulus...

Calcareous Nannoplankton Zonation of the Cenozoic of the Gulf Coast and Caribbean-Antillean Area, and Transoceanic Correlation (1)

William W. Hay , Hans P. Mohler , Peter H. Roth , Ronald R. Schmidt, Joseph E. Boudreaux

GCAGS Transactions

... caribbeanica Boudreaux & Hay, n. sp. plus: Coccolithites annulus Cohen; and Gephyrocapsa oceanica Kamptner. Remarks: Gephyrocapsa caribbeanica evolves...

Dynamics of Sediment Movement

Gerard Middleton, John B. Southard

Special Publications of SEPM

...) at Bagnold (1954, 1956, 1966) high sediment concentrations. concluded from experiments on shearing neutrally buoyant grains in the space (annulus) between two...

Oil Fields of Greater Oficina Area Central Anzoategui, Venezuela

H. D. Hedberg , L. C. Sass , H. J. Funkhouser

AAPG Bulletin

... characterized by dual-zone and triple-zone completions, the maintenance of natural flow through the annulus and casing is an attractive goal. It is further hoped...

Bahaman Calcareous Sands

Leslie V. Illing

AAPG Bulletin

... fill the whole annulus.(FOOTNOTE 4) Conversion to calcite of the aragonite matrix also occurs, but less readily. Normally it is patchy, and spreads from...

Technological Revolution in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 11

Edgar Wesley Owen, C. V. Millikan

AAPG Special Volumes

... or cement in the annulus between the casing and the producing formation. Gun perforation of casing was introduced in California in 1932. Although...

Application of Exploration Geochemical Methodology to CO2 Monitoring

Victor T. Jones and Robert J. Pirkle

Search and Discovery.com

... into the annulus to fill the lower 2 feet. This pea gravel provides a permeable zone for collection of soil gases leaking from the adjacent formations...