Rigorous Modeling of Salt Transport During Frac, Shut-in, and Flowback to Constrain Hydraulic Fracture/Reservoir Property Estimates

Zhenzihao Zhang, Christopher Clarkson, Jesse Williams-Kovacs, Bin Yuan, Amin Ghanizadeh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., and flowback. At every time step, the black-oil simulator provides the salt transport model with the water velocity distribution and water saturation...

Spatial and temporal variation in the chemical composition of spring waters near Bromide, Oklahoma U.S.A.

Benjamin J. Maas, Carol M. Wicks

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... and are not described herein. Water-mineral-atmosphere interactions were assessed based on calculated PCO2 and saturation indices (SI) with respect to calcite...

An Integrated Study of Fluid Characterization, Operational Choke Management, and Performance Prediction to Optimize Shale Oil Production

Hao Sun, Dengen Zhou, Mathis (Rusty) Lee

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... case. Figure 8(b) shows the simulated saturation distribution away from the fracture face. Lower water and higher gas saturation are observed near...

Geomechanical, microstructural, and petrophysical evolution in experimentally reactivated cataclasites: Applications to fault seal prediction: Reply

David N. Dewhurst, Richard M. Jones

AAPG Bulletin

... or on the degree of hydrocarbon saturation if they are water wet. Generally, if irreducible water saturation exceeds 20%, then the geomechanical...

Abstract: 3D Geological Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis of Pilot Pad in the Long Lake Field with Lean Zone and Shale Layer; #90224 (2015)

Jinze Xu, Zhangxin Chen, and Ran Li

Search and Discovery.com

.... After correlating well logs and core data, a geostatistical analysis is conducted for lithological facies, porosity, water saturation, and permeability...

Connectivity of Pore Space: The Primary Control on Two-Phase Flow Properties of Tight-Gas Sand, #50222 (2009)

Maryam A. Mousavi and Steven L. Bryant,

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... to maintain connectivity of the gas phase. Conversely, small increments in water saturation will reduce gas connectivity and therefore reduce gas effective...

Determining Organic Kerogen Maturity, Wettability, and Producibility from Induction Dielectric, Resistivity, and Spectroscopy Measurements

John C. Rasmus, Dean Homan, Gong Li Wang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... such as Dual Water or Waxman-Smits. In our analysis, we use all other measurements besides resistivity to determine the saturation and porosity...

Causes of Non-Horizontal Attitudes of Water-Oil Contacts

K. B. Ashirov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Causes of Non-Horizontal Attitudes of Water-Oil Contacts K. B. Ashirov 1961 645 649 Vol. 5 (1961) No. 12. (December) 1. Zhelonkin, A. I., 1960...

Permeability of Clays, Silty-Clays and Clayey-Silts

Bryant, William R.

GCAGS Transactions

... on the pore water ranging from 700 to 1,100 kPa. Constant-head permeameters are used widely on sediments, however, complete saturation must...

Unconventional Shale Gas-Condensate Reservoir Performance Impact of Rock, Fluid and Rock-Fluid Properties and Their Variations

Abdollah Orangi, Narayana Nagarajan, Jacob Rosenzweig

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... as that of CR rocks. The initial water saturation (Swi) of OR formation is lower, ~10%, while CR rocks have higher Swi of ~20%. Table 3. Basic rock...

Important Parameters of Injecting Fluid Design in ASP-EOR Projects

Sugihardjo, Edward ML Tobing, Ego Syahrial

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., filtration tests, rheology determination, adsorption and retension, and finally capillary de-saturation curve (CDC) development. After determining...

The Use of Time-Lapse Seismic Attributes for Characterizing Hydraulic Fractures in a Tight Siltstone Reservoir

N. Riazi, C.R. Clarkson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the time-lapse seismic data. Gassmann substitutional modeling was used to derive the elastic moduli due to saturation and pressure changes. The Gassmann...

Integrated Subsurface Study in Support of Determining Infill Well Locations, a Case Study of ABC Field (Oman)

Kwartono, Hari Sudono, Badar Hilal Al Amri, Badr Al Amri, Muhammad Mirza

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...= -16.667*Pow (por, 3) - 24.286*Pow (por, 2) + 25.113*por - 4.571*Vsh - 0.7482 The water saturation is estimated and distributed based on capillary-gravity...

Elastic parameters prediction using joint elastic-electrical modeling

Guoquan Wang, Shuangquan Chen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... − K ∗ ) P(∗2) = . dφ 1−φ Water saturation (%) 0.5 0.18 0.35 0.3 0.65 0.24 0.24 0.5 0.18 0.35 0.12 0.12 0.06 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.06...

Ultimate Recovery of the L-1 Sand, Benakat Timur Field, South Sumatra

R. S. Trijaya Kartoatmodjo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., oil with a gas/oil ratio of 104 m3/m3, and no water. A total of forty seven wells have been drilled on the structure to date; of these, thirteen wells...

Diagenetic and Compositional Controls of Wettability in Siliceous Sedimentary Rocks, Monterey Formation, California, #50973 (2014)

Kristina Hill, Richard J. Behl

Search and Discovery.com

... - that increased clay (even still minor amounts) can make the bulk rock wettable to water. Permeability as a Stand Alone Saturation Control Hydrocarbon...

Completion Techniques Used in the Atoka and Bend Conglomerates, Parker County, Texas

Lyle Lehman

Dallas Geological Society

... will normally show 8 percent or less. Next, calculate water saturation (Sw) which should be no higher than 35 percent. Very few operators will consider completing...

Screening Criteria for Dump-flood Projects Implementation in Indonesia Fields

Alfanda Kurnia Widi, M. Hairul Fikri, Nadya Fitriani, Steven Chandra

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... On the other hand, the rest of the parameters, such as oil gravity, pressure difference, oil saturation, net thickness, and water salinity generate...

Management of Water for Hydraulic Fracturing Enhanced with the Expanded USGS Produced Water Geochemical Database

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Permeability from NMR in the Unconventional Point-Pleasant Formation

Xinglin Wang, Philip M. Singer, Yunke Liu, Zeliang Chen, George J. Hirasaki, Zheng Yang, Scott J. Seltzer, Boqin Sun, Marcus O. Wigand, Jon E. Burger

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of porosity measurements, tortuosity estimation and MICP pore-throat size measurements. Water-saturated cores are submerged in D2O (i.e. heavy water...

Chapter 13: The Giant Mero Oil Field: Geological and Petrophysical Settings of One of the Largest Pre-Salt Fields of the Santos Basin, Southern Brazil

E. Petersohn, R. Morelatto, C. M. A. Batista, J. C. S. Vital

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The water saturation was estimated using Archie’s equation (Archie, 1942) with the true resistivity of the formation from the well logs and porosity...

Correlation Sections and Log Maps in Determination of Sandstone Trends: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

John W. Shelton

AAPG Bulletin

... but meaningful log characteristics. Such an approach is thought to improve the capability for determining sandstone trends and to have more potential than...

A Systematic Laboratory and Model-based Surfactant Screening Workflow for Enhanced Recovery via Wettability Alteration in the Eagle Ford

Jason Jweda, Russ Bone, Hesham El-Sobky, Viet Nguyen, Paul Carman, Hui Long, William Beveridge, Logan Warren, Ronald Bonnie, Tianmin Jiang, Jennifer Hoyt, Andrew MacMillan, Kristie McLin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reservoir conditions. However, a technical breakthrough came in the form of determining that blending surfactants allowed the chemistries to maintain water...

A Fast Horizontal-Well Coning Evaluation Method

Pudji Permadi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... for determining critical rates (Chaperon, 1986, Karcher et al., 1986, Giger, 1989, Ozkan and Raghavan, 1990, Guo and Lee, 1992, and Permadi, 1995) and water...

Role of Multivariate Analysis to Define the Key Driver's Governing the Well Productivity in Marcellus Shale Play

Mohit Gupta, Promel Jain, Akhil Shrivastava, Mukul Srivastava, Bhabesh Deka

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... length, cluster spacing, proppant volume, pump rates, pump pressure, well bore orientation, i.e. Azimuthal data, porosity, gas saturation, total...