Treatise of Petroleum Geology / Handbook of Petroleum Geology: Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps. Chapter 9: Predicting Reservoir System Quality and Performance

Dan J. Hartmann and Edward A. Beaumont

AAPG Special Volumes

... Water Saturation 9-45 D2 Interpreting Water Saturation 9-64   End page 9-44 ---------------- Subsection D1 Determining...

Effects of Fibrous Illite on Permeability Measurements from Preserved Cores Obtained in Lower Wilcox Group Gas Sandstones, Lake Creek Field, Montgomery County, Texas

Jeffry D. Grigsby , Jose M. Vidal , Don L. Luffel , Joe Hawkins , John M. Mendenhall

GCAGS Transactions

... factor (m) and the saturation exponent (n), together with water saturation from cores, are important in determining water saturation from log analysis...

Calculation of Initial Oil Reserves with a Water Drive Using the Elastic Characteristics of the Stratum

V. M. Dobrynin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the oil stratum. Let us examine an oil pool without a gas cap that has a water drive, where the formation pressure is higher than the saturation...

An experimental study of secondary oil migration in a three-dimensional tilted porous medium

Jianzhao Yan, Xiaorong Luo, Weimin Wang, Renaud Toussaint, Jean Schmittbuhl, Guy Vasseur, Fang Chen, Alan Yu, Likuan Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... at the base of an initially water-saturated porous model. With buoyancy as a primary driving force, a vertical cylindrical shape of an oil migration...

Prospects of Dnieper-Donets Depression for Gas of Central-Basin Type

Yu. B. Kobyshev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... in the Dnieper-Donets depression, abnormal formation pressure is not a reliable criterion. Either catagenic maturity or water saturation should...

Abstract: Pore Geometry and Pore-Fluid Types: Effects on Seismic Properties of Carbonate Rocks Under a Compaction Disequilibrium Scenario; #90224 (2015)

Gautier Njiekak and Douglas R. Schmitt

Search and Discovery.com

... carrying out the measurements under full saturation with distilled water at constant differential pressure. For all the dry and saturated measurements...

Thermal maturity of the Barnett Shale determined from well-log analysis

Hank Zhao, Natalie B. Givens, Brad Curtis

AAPG Bulletin

... is generated and stored locally without apparent migration from outside sources, and that the water saturation and the density of generated hydrocarbons...

A Study of Coal-Bed Methane Production Trends as Related to Geologic Features, Warrior Basin. Alabama

F.H. Briscoe, B.S. Camp, L.K. Lottman, P.G. Malone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... wells do not lower coal-bed pressure or water saturation as efficiently or as rapidly. Placement of multiple wells at optimum spacing creates...

Abstract: Evaluating Water-Flooding Incremental Oil Recovery Using Experimental Design, Middle Miocene to Paleocene Reservoirs, Deep-Wat; #90063 (2007)

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Abstract: Evaluating Water-Flooding Incremental Oil Recovery Using Experimental Design, Middle Miocene to Paleocene Reservoirs, Deep-Wat; #90063 (2007)

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Total Indonesie Handil Tertiary Recovery – Chemical Flood Pilot

A. Sureau, M. Murray, Alibi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... saturation in the pilot area. The well HH-339, which is at the top of the structure, has been producing oil with an increasing water-oil ratio since January...

A Key Performance Driver Type Curve: Correlating Well Productivity to Oil Wettability

Tamer Moussa, Amin Alinejad, Muhammad Zubair, Hassan Dehghanpour

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of reservoir rocks can evolve through surface aging, especially when rock surfaces remain in contact with oil at irreducible water saturation...

Primary Migration of Petroleum: Chapter 2: PETROLEUM GENERATION AND MIGRATION

V. V. Palciauskas

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and 3. the relative permeabilities of oil, kro(S), and water, krw(S), both of which depend on oil saturation S within the matrix. Mass balance...

Exploitation of Multizones by Water Flooding in the Daqing Oil Field: Chapter 6

Jin Yusun, Yang Wanli, Wang Zhiwu

AAPG Special Volumes

... the saturation pressure and the water cut and the difference between the flowing pressure and the saturation pressure affect the productivity index...

A Review of Thermal Recovery Methods as Applied to California Reservoirs

B. Gearhart Jr.

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., the virgin formation. In the upper band, the saturation is indicated—air behind the front—with water and oil banks forward of the burning front...

Aga-Oki Field the History, Geology and Formation Evaluation

Fumio Okabe, Akitoshi Inoma

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... that the product of ϕ (porosity) and sw (water saturation), indicates a constant value in certain reservoir conditions. The new interpretative results...

Abstract: Full Pore System Petrophysical Characterization Technology for Complex Carbonates - Results from Saudi Arabia, by C. E. Phillips, E. Clerke, and J. Buiting; #90090 (2009).

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The Interpretation of Fluids and Pressures in Determining Conventional and Unconventional Gas Resources in the Rocky Mountain Region

John R. Forster, John C. Horne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of Geologists INTERPRETATION OF FLUIDS AND PRESSURES IN DETERMINING GAS RESOURCES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION no water, there is no hydrostatic gradient...

A New Workflow for Improved Water Saturation Assessment in Organic-Rich Mudrocks Honoring Rock Fabric

Artur Posenato Garcia, Archana Jagadisan, Ameneh Rostami, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A New Workflow for Improved Water Saturation Assessment in Organic-Rich Mudrocks Honoring Rock Fabric Artur Posenato Garcia, Archana Jagadisan...

Experimental Evaluation of Relative Permeability in Tight Oil Systems: Examples from North American Tight Oil Plays

A. Ghanizadeh, C. Song, C.R. Clarkson, A. Younis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that there is a liquid (water) saturation region (between 55% and 89%) where neither liquid nor gas can flow effectively corresponding to relative gas...

Source Rock Characterization Utilizing Triple Combo Logs and Extended Data Sets in the Permian Basin

Jack Douglas, Bryan J. Burinda

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... as petrophysical data such as porosity and water saturation. Confidence in the data can be assigned for each curve. Constraints can be also used to ensure...

Results of the Analysis Applying Laboratory Magnetic Resonance and Digital Rock Physics in Unconventional Deposits of the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia

María F. Segovia, Edgar R. Perez, Gabriela Davalos, José C. Santamaría, Gustavo Carpio, Ayerim Obando, Ana M. López, Maria J. Robayo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to total porosity. Water saturation is determined using the Dean-Stark method based on mass balance calculations. Effective or connected porosity...

Water Above the Transition Zone in Carbonate Oil Reservoirs

N. C. Wardlaw

CSPG Bulletin

...-SATURATION DATA Analyses of cores drilled with oil-base muds probably provide the most reliable method of determining water saturations in rocks above...

Using NMR-Based Indices for determining Accessible Mineral Surfaces in Unconventional Sedimentary and Igneous Rocks

Shaina Kelly, Olivia Terry, Zuhao Kou, Ron Bonnie, James Howard, Dragan Veselinovic, Michael Dick

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... saturation after water imbibes back into the pore space [26]. The impact of wettability on capillary pressure measurements is fairly well understood given...

Reservoir Characterization of Shaley Sandstones in the Belly River (Judith River) Formation. Examples from Wilson Creek and Ghostpine, Alberta

G. Wasser

CSPG Special Publications

... size and water saturation are the critical factors that determine reservoir quality. These factors are strongly influenced by the depositional facies...