Recent Exploration in the Western Bowen/Surat Basins

Ian Garside

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... well was drilled in the Denison Trough. Of the 14 exploration wells, 3 were cased for production with 11 plugged and abandoned (P&A). An overall...

Velocity Anomalies and Out-of-Plane Reflections in Barnicarndy 1, Canning Basin

Y. Zhan

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., each interval covers a 1 m cased section above the open-hole, so the Velocity anomalies and out-of-plane reflections in Barnicarndy 1 The APPEA...

Chapter 1: An Overview of the Giant Heterogeneous Mississippian Carbonate System of the Midcontinent: Ancient Structure, Complex Stratigraphy, Conventional Traps, and Unconventional Technology in a High Fluid Volume World

Edith Newton Wilson, W. Lynn Watney, G. Michael Grammer

AAPG Special Volumes

..., cased-hole completions and hydraulic fracture stimulation allowed development of lower permeability zones. Recently operators began to explore and develop...

THE OCCURRENCE OF HELIUM IN THE CAMBRIAN NEAR SWIFT CURRENT, SASKATCHEWAN

J. A. THOMPSON

Williston Basin Symposium

... concentration of radioactive minerals in the basement rock. The abnormally high bottom-hole temperature encountered in the reservoir, however...

Oil Yields and Properties of Green River Oil Shales in Uinta Basin, Utah

John Ward Smith, Kenneth E. Stanfield

Utah Geological Association

... the actual oil yield of the formation’s oil shales in place. Because each sample usually represents the rock from 10 feet of hole, the cuttings cannot...

Mofete and S. Vito Geothermal Fields: An Up-Date of Their Developments

M. Guglielminetti, P. E. Liguori, G. Tore

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... at a bottom hole temperature of 347°C. Well MF3d, 7d, 8d and 9d tapped the Mofete 1 reservoir between 500 and 1500 m vertical depth (with a bottom...

Westbrook Field, Mitchell County, Texas

E. C. Edwards, Leonard W. Orynski

AAPG Bulletin

... is a dry hole. This latter well is 140 feet higher structurally than the most northern wells in the field. The steep rise in structure from...

Kinta Gas Field, Haskell County, Oklahoma

John Woncik

Tulsa Geological Society

... testing conditions prevail in dry drilling through the basal Atoka sand. If a high gas flow is encountered, the hole is loaded with mud, logged, and cased...

Hogsback and Tip Top Units, Sublette and Lincoln Counties, Wyoming

Robert H. Michael

Wyoming Geological Association

.... This well tested approximately 2,000 MCFGPD in the First and Second Frontier sandstones and was cased through the First Frontier, but because of lack...

Westbrook Field, Mitchell County, Texas

E. C. Edwards , Leonard W. Orynski

AAPG Special Volumes

... is a dry hole. This latter well is 140 feet higher structurally than the most northern wells in the field. The steep rise in structure from the Ricker...

Occurrence of Oil in the Austin Chalk at Van Field, Van Zandt County, Texas--A Unique Geologic Setting

James T. Lowe , Deborah B. Carington

GCAGS Transactions

... Formation. Only cased hole gamma ray-neutron logs were run over the Austin Chalk, which do not provide effective data for evaluating the productivity...

Impress Set To Take Flight

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... about an oi l discovery is that it gives you so many options. If you drill a dry hole you cal l in the cement truck and wa lk onto the next one...

The rebirth of the Leduc-Woodbend Nisku oil pool in Alberta, Canada

Mengwei Zhao, and David Tian

AAPG Bulletin

.... (A) Deposition facies of Nisku Formation (simplified from Corbett, 1987). (B) Cased hole gamma ray (GR) and compensated neutron (CN) logs...

Prudent and Integrated Approach to Understanding Wellbore Stability in Canadian Foothills to Minimize Drilling Challenges and Non-Productive Time, #41283 (2014)

Safdar Khan, Sajjad Ansari, Nader Khosravi

Search and Discovery.com

... and geomechanical models. Compressional and shear sonic velocities Well locations and deviation surveys Open and cased hole well logs of density...

A System of Key Performance Indicators for Validating Matched Reservoir Analogues through Case-based Reasoning Algorithms, #41311 (2014)

Cenk Temizel, Suryansh Purwar, Amit Agarwal, Azer Abdullayev, Pedro Mora, Alejandro Chacon, Alkan Gulses

Search and Discovery.com

... of matching reservoir analogues with cased-based reasoning algorithms to the key parameters and their use in validating matched analogues in a dimensionless...

Impact of the Stress State and the Natural Network of Fractures/Faults on the Efficiency of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations in the Goldwyer Shale Formation

Partha Pratim Mandal, Reza Rezaee, Joel Sarout

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... by fracking operations remain poorly understood. Also, limited monitoring tools are available to make informed decisions about injection strategies and avoid...

Characteristics of Microzonation Modelling in Reservoir Evaluation

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The Effects of Four Big Gas Wells on Pittsburghs Industrial Development and Environment

John A. Harper

Petroleum History Institute

... the locations of steel-cased wells. Methane analyses were used to locate probable leaking wells where no casing remained in the hole (Hammack...

Evolution of Carbonate Studies in the Rocky Mountain Region Over the Past Century

Mark W. Longman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... within the context of sequence stratigraphy. The tools used to study carbonate rocks expanded even further over the past decade with more refined isotopic...

The Belridge Giant Oil Field - 100 Years of History and a Look to a Bright Future; #20124 (2012)

Malcolm E. Allan and Joseph J. Lalicata

Search and Discovery.com

... Logs) recorded annually in cased hole Original in 1991 || 2003 2004 2006 2007 Temp. 1997 1999 2007 Well 9035-11 SOSS Neutron and temperature...

Development of Australia's First Hot Fractured Rock (HFR) Underground Heat Exchanger, Cooper Basin, South Australia

D. Wyborn, L. de Graaf, S. Davidson, S. Hann

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... With the gas-bearing sediments cased off, the drilling of the 6 inch hole section was thought to be a matter of reducing the mud weight and accepting...

Petroleum Geology and Exploration of the La Creciente Gas Field Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia

Juan F. Arminio, Rudyard Vega, Eduardo García, Franklin Yoris, Jairo Lugo, Gustavo Bertorelli

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... hole. Exceptions were a long-spacing sonic, taken in open-hole in LCJ-1, and a dipolar sonic log acquired in cased hole in LCA-2ST1 due to hole...

Albion-Scipio And Stoney Point Fields-U.S.A., Michigan Basin

N. F. Hurley, R. Budros

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Perforations from 4161 to 4179 ft (1269 to 1275 m) initially tested for as much as 2000 BOPD (318 m3/day). Reportedly, the drop in bottom-hole...

Handbook on Static Pressures, by D. E. Powley, #60007 (2006).

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Oil and Gas Developments in Western Canada in 1989

R. M. Creed , M. D. Hewitt , J. R. Hogg , C. J. Yeo

AAPG Bulletin

..., an area of 587,412 ha (Figure 1). Drilling depths are generally greater than 3500 m with dry hole costs which may exceed $4 million. These deep wells...