Combining Dipmeter Measurements and Formation Imaging to Improve Reservoir Characterization

Roy L. Yates, Joel H. Le Calvez

GCAGS Transactions

... with the procedure of full-borehole coring. A variety of downhole investigation tools have been developed since the first electrical measurement tool...

State of the Art Logging Selection to Explore Tight, Low Contrast, Hidden Reservoirs

Anton Setyo Kristanto,Tino Diharja, Rinaldi Sudarwoto, Hengky Ng, Leonora Ludwina Lilasari, Defri W. Widiyanto, Rio Putra

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., and optimize selective intervals for Wireline Formation Tester (WFT), Sidewall Coring (SWC), and Drill Stem Test (DST). In addition, the extremely large...

Gas Hydrate Offshore Vancouver Island, Northern Cascadia Margin

M. Riedel, Eleanor C. Willoughby, Nigel Edwards, Roy D. Hyndman, George D. Spence, Ross Chapman, Marc-Andre Chen, Ivana Novosel, Katrin Schwalenberg

AAPG Special Volumes

... only a short summary of the results from that IODP Expedition. Reviews of the results from that drill coring and the downhole measurements...

Special Drilling Practices

E.A. Polumbus & Associates Inc.

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... is open during drilling and testing operations. Formation evaluation is rarely accomplished by means of coring. In lieu of coring, a number of drill stem...

Gases in Marine Sediments

K. O. Emery , Dean Hoggan

AAPG Bulletin

...," Science, Vol. 119, pp. 381-82. End_Page 2187------------------------------ EMERY, K. O., AND DIETZ, R. S., 1941, "Gravity Coring Instrument and Mechanics...

Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan

Neil F. Hurley, Ted E. Playton, and Josephina Schembre-McCabe

AAPG Bulletin

... is the conventional approach to thin-section imaging. Petrographic image analysis, summarized by Anselmetti et al. (1998) and others, involves acquisition...

Pore Type Analysis: Relation to Producibility, Recovery Efficiency and Log Response in Some Indonesian Reservoirs

David K. Davies, Abdul Muin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reduces the need for extensive conventional coring programs. A combination of conventional cores (in key wells) and sidewall cores (in most wells...

Colgrade Field Winn Parish, Louisiana

Robert E. Nelson

GCAGS Transactions

.... The field operators have, as a general rule, drilled to a point as close to the top of the pay sand as they dared with a conventional 7 7/8 rock bit...

Wireline Logging Data Acquisitions Using Out of Pipe Logging Technique to Increase Logging Operation Efficiency in Coal Bed Methane Exploration Wells

Hikmat Nugraha, Chandra Dewa Dwiyoga

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... other than core and permeability data, wireline logging data of exploration well is one of the most essential data that should be acquire. Conventional...

Core Handling: Part 3. Wellsite Methods

Byram Reed

AAPG Special Volumes

... on "Conventional Coring" in Part 3). Well-designed equipment cannot alleviate the problems caused by poor handling. Since the core is hidden in the inner...

Relative Permeability: Part 5. Laboratory Methods

Jeffrey T. Hawkins

AAPG Special Volumes

... over the other or a deviation from conventional testing procedures. These issues are discussed further in papers by Braun and Blackwell (1981), Heaviside...

Geological Heterogeneities: Part 6. Geological Methods

Roger M. Slatt , William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

..., plug or whole core porosity, permeability, and fluid saturation (if oil-based drilling mud was used during coring). The use of log shapes for facies...

Remember Basement in your Oil and Exploration: Examples of Producing Basement Reservoirs in Indonesia, Venezuela and USA

Tako Koning

Search and Discovery.com

...-Cambrian basement. Was the basement drilled deep enough and thoroughly evaluated, by electric logs, sidewall cores, and conventional cores...

ABSTRACT: NMR Gas Relaxation Signature for Organic Shale Reservoir Rocks; #90122 (2011)

Richard Sigal and Elijah Odusina

Search and Discovery.com

... is to identify gas in conventional reservoirs. NMR logging methods have the potential in organic shale reservoirs not to just identify the presence...

Remember Basement in your Oil and Exploration: Examples of Producing Basement Reservoirs in Indonesia, Venezuela and USA

Tako Koning

Search and Discovery.com

...-Cambrian basement. Was the basement drilled deep enough and thoroughly evaluated, by electric logs, sidewall cores, and conventional cores...

Abstract: Oil Saturation Determination-Lab & Logging difficulties & a Hybrid Approach; #90187 (2014)

Matt Blanch

Search and Discovery.com

... for the determination of bitumen, water and minerals from conventional core or oil sand. The examples of some of these methods are: i) Dean-Stark, ii...

A Regional Assessment of the Duvernay Formation; a World- Class Liquids-Rich Shale Play; #10638 (2014)

Matthew Davis, Glenn Karlen

Search and Discovery.com

... of Alberta’s mid-20th century oil boom with conventional Leduc discoveries near Leduc, Alberta. In the early 21st century, the Duvernay Formation once...

Reservoir Characterization while Drilling - A Real Time Geosteering Answer to Maximize Well Values: A Case Study, Offshore Abu Dhabi; #20363 (2016)

Amr Serry, Larisa Tagareiva, Ulrich Herz

Search and Discovery.com

... with the conventional resistivity-gamma ray logging while drilling combination achieved effective real-time formation evaluation and supported efficient well...

Gas Hydrates on the Hikurangi and Fiordland Margins, New Zealand, by Ingo A. Pecher, Stuart A. Henrys, Andrew R. Gorman, and Miko Fohrmann; #90035 (2004)

Search and Discovery.com

Accelerating Site Characterizations: Using Cone Penetrometer Testing and HydroPunch® to Assess the Environmental Media

Bruce Manchon

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... from QED Environmental Systems, Inc. can be used with either cone penetrometer equipment or conventional drilling equipment to push or drive...

Composite End Members in Facies Mapping

W. C. Krumbein

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of multicomponent systems: Jour. Geology, v. 62, pp. 501-511. End_Page 122------------------------ FIG. The above drawing of Hanna Coring Tube for soft...

Rokans Enigmatic Telisa Low Quality Reservoir, a Geological Perspective from Core

Agus Susianto, Satia Graha, Zuardin Azzaino, Dwi Meidian Sulistyo, Erry Mastoadji

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the Telisa formation potential, and it will all begin with a detailed analysis of actual rock in conventional core data. INTRODUCTION The location...

Resource Evaluation of Selected Tar-Sand Deposits in Southern Oklahoma: Section V. Exploration Histories

W. E. Harrison, M. R. Burchfield

AAPG Special Volumes

... counties also have both shallow heavy oil (less than 25° API) and conventional crude-oil production. In 1982, the latter production amounted to 17.2 million...

A new technology for the characterization of microfractured reservoirs (test case: Unayzah reservoir, Wudayhi field, Saudi Arabia)

Mohammed S. Ameen, Ernest A. Hailwood

AAPG Bulletin

... to porosity and/or permeability. A conventional geological characterization is costly, time consuming, and difficult to quantify in terms of assessing...

Drilling Mud Properties and Formation Evaluation

A. McKee, G. Mowat, T. Geehan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Drilling Mud Properties and Formation Evaluation A. McKee, G. Mowat, T. Geehan 1986 181 196 Formation evaluation, based on logs, conventional cores...