Review of the World’s Major Oil Sand Deposits

E. J. Walters

CSPG Special Publications

.... Location map of world oil sands. Figure 2. Mode of entrapment of known major oil sand deposits. The time has passed when oil sand areas were...

Detrital zircon geochronology of quartzite clasts in the Permian Abo Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA

David H. Malone, John P. Craddock, Eric A. Deck, Tenley J. Banik, Brian Hampton

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and Utah during late Pennsylvanian time (e.g. Kluth and Coney, 1981; Ye et al., 1996). These uplifts were largely eroded away by the early Permian...

Commercial Implications of an LNG Project in Papua New Guinea

Gordon Sandison

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... “huge”. At this time only Hides appears to have the reserves potential to carry a small LNG operation on its own. If one adds to these factors...

EDITORIAL AND MEETING REPORT … HOUSTON, TEXAS, MARCH 8-10, 2012

William R. Brice

Petroleum History Institute

... of Geological Societies. For the second time the group has been to the Gulf Coast, as we met at Lafayette, Louisiana, in 2010. And for the third time...

Revision of Devonian Nomenclature in the Rocky Mountains, a Discussion*

H. R. Belyea, D. J. McLaren

CSPG Bulletin

... with the correlation of the Nisku remain unsolved. It must be remembered that a single name spread too far can only obscure and delay interpretation...

Application of Dynamic Simulation to Change the Design and Operation of LNG Plants

N. E. Pobanz, R. K. Miyasaki, D. B. Warren

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... upon a frequency, time delay approach, the model was used to determine the magnitude of time delays needed to protect the priority schedule without...

Production Challenges Related to Formation Damage in Gas Developments

Michael Byrne, Rick Lemanczyk, Colin McPhee, Phil McCurdy

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... made but it is safe to say that these often quoted estimates were made at a time when the oil price was low. If US$20/bbl is representative of the oil...

Advanced Techniques for On-Line Monitoring of Brown Coal Quality

R M Borsaru, N G Cutmore, A L Ottrey, B D Sowerby

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and the electronics and warning lights are in the operator's cabin. It allows for an eight seconds time delay between the bucket striking high clay (ash...

Avian Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan in Total E & P Indonesie

Josef Susanto, Richard Morel, Eko Wahju Tjahjono, Junovi Setiono, Putu Bida

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a matter of time until the next influenza pandemic occurs. The severity of the next pandemic cannot be predicted, but modeling studies suggest that its...

History and Development of the Phosphate Industry in Southeastern Idaho

A. L. Service

Utah Geological Association

... the mine for a short period because of demands on other production facilities. This was the last time any ore was produced in the Montpelier area...

A Multi-Domain Approach to Completion and Stimulation Design in the Marcellus Shale

Courtney MacDonald, James Brewer, Mahmut D. Cakici, David Rampton, Karan Dick, Abhijit Mookerjee, Brian D. Clark, Utpal Ganguly

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to the time delay between frac and flowback of Well 2. It is worth noting that the tracer communication happened in areas with and without Ant Track...

Evidence for Late Cenozoic East-West Compressive Tectonism in the Sacramento Valley, California

David S. Harwood

Pacific Section SEPM

... time delay by an east-west extensional stress regime similar to the one that apparently characterizes m u c h of the valley at present. M a g m a t i...

Source of the Uranium for the Manhattan Project, WWII: “... the true object of war is peace.” (Sun Tzu, 500 B.C.)

Elliott A. Riggs

Four Corners Geological Society

... desperate time in our nation’s history, and the debt we free Americans owe to a Belgian national by the name of Edgar Sengier. Brown, A. C., 1975...

Production Decline Curves and Payout Thresholds of Horizontal Woodford Wells in the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

Richard D. Andrews

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... are projected to 20 years, many wells are uneconomical or depleted long before this time period. Additionally, only wells having moderate-to-long...

Oklahoma 2009 Drilling Highlights

Dan T. Boyd

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...). This is less than half last year’s average price, which, at $7.32 per MCFG, was an all-time record (Figure 3). Although at this writing, prices have...

Implications of Haline Convection for Waste Disposal in Closed Basins

Kim McCleary-Hanagan, Christopher J. Duffy

Utah Geological Association

... system inputs and hydraulic characteristics are assumed to remain constant through time. Figure 3. A two-dimensional conceptual model...

Regional Organic Metamorphism in the Mesozoic Strata of the Sverdrup Basin

L. R. Snowdon, K. J. Roy

CSPG Bulletin

... and Early Tertiary time. The depth of erosion was much greater around the margins of the basin than in the centre, Figure 1. Schematic cross section SW-NE...

Tracer Streamline and Its Benefit for Re-evaluation and Re-design Waterflood Pattern by Introducing a Cyclic Water Injection Scheme

Dike Putra, Mursyidah, Lazuardhy Futur

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... scheme of waterflood to increase oil recovery. This study focuses on selecting the best scenario based on several parameters, including tracer time...

A Novel Enhanced Oil Recovery Approach to Water Flooding in Saskatchewans Tight Oil Plays

Mojtaba Kiani, Tzu-Ping Hsu, Alireza Roostapour, Mahdi Kazempour, Eric Tudor

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of this waterflood project were interrupted by frac-hits from nearby fracturing activities completed at the same time. At the time of waterflooding...

Optimizing PSC With New Approach of Dynamic Split Determination to Mitigate Uncertainty in The Development Phase

Yogie Fikri Adriansyah, Amega Yasutra, Utjok W.R. Siagian

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... contracts. More than half of the oil and gas producer countries in the world use the PSC system. With the passage of time the fiscal structure...

McAllen Ranch Field--A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Casing Failure

Wach, Grant D.,, Kuhfal, Dennis L., Nemec, Tom S., McCarty, Douglas K., Hugele, Michael

GCAGS Transactions

... The average gas production per well for all McAllen Ranch producers is approximately 7.9 BCF. The average time to first failure is 3.8 years...

Unconventional Gas EOR: Recovery Mechanisms and Piloting

Hao Sun, Kelly Krezinski, Johannes Alvarez, Dengen Zhou, Kumar Devesh, Bikai Jin, Wei Wang, Victor Torrealba, Tom Tang, Lin Zuo, Kenneth Griffin, Daniel Emery, Lee (Rusty) Mathis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the CO2/oil saturation profiles at different time of experiment. The cumulative oil production and saturation profiles were used to estimate...

3-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Data Collection and Analysis Using Eye-safe Laser (LIDAR) Technology, J. Bellian, D. Jennette, C. Kerans, J. Gibeaut, J. Andrews, B. Yssldyk, D. Larue Search and Discovery Article #20009 (2002)

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The Development and Status of the Mesozoic Palynostratigraphy of the North West Shelf, Australia

B. Ingram, R. Morgan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... microfossils) has grown from a scientific curiosity in the 1830s through a rudimentary time-tool in oil exploration in the 1960s to provide the modern...

Plant Microfossils and Geology an Introduction

Aureal T. Cross

Special Publications of SEPM

... and similar principally of plant origin and their significance in time life space and energy The role of palynology in the exploration for oil is essentially...