Physical Properties of Sands in the Frontier Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming

O. C. Baptist, W. R. Smith, F. S. Cordiner, S. A. Sweeney

Wyoming Geological Association

... then were restored to the initial conditions of oil and water saturation, and the oil recovery by gas drive was determined by flowing natural gas through...

Comparison of Reservoir Management Strategies in Fractured Carbonate Versus Sandstone Reservoirs: Lessons Learned from Giant Fields, by Jack Allan, S. Qing Sun, and Rod Sloan; #90052 (2006)

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Effects of Nanoscale Pore Confinement on CO2 Displacement

Kai Zhang, Qingquan Liu, Shuhua Wang, Dong Feng, Keliu Wu, Xiaohu Dong, Shengnan Chen, Zhangxin Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Furthermore, many CO2 field applications in low permeability reservoirs have been recorded as successful.14 Recovery mechanisms related to CO2...

Strategic Recovery Processes for Rindu Development

M. Kumar, A. A. Reed, M. E. Smith, D. S. Mims, E. J. Hanzlik, S. J. Gross

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... year. By 1981 the field was developed on a nominal 31-acre spacing with 719 wells on production. The primary recovery mechanisms are mostly solution gas...

Carbon Dioxide--A Mobilizing Agent for Heavy-Oil Recovery: Section VI. Recovery

H. Murtada, B. Hofling

AAPG Special Volumes

...), and (6) to (9) are grouped together: Group "A" and "B," respectively. The mechanisms of group "A" can only enhance the recovery rate if CO2 is present...

Breakout Session 1: Recommendations Regards Clarifications/Updates to: (1) PRMS 2007; (2) SEC 2009

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... properties, reservoir conditions (depth, temperature, and pressure) and drive mechanisms, but are typically at a more advanced stage of development than...

Evaluating Fracture Volume Loss during Flowback and its Relationship to Choke Size: Fastback versus Slowback

Yingkun Fu, Hassan Dehghanpour, Siyavash Motealleh, Carlos Manuel Lopez, Robert Hawkes,

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and post-flowback processes of target wells completed in the Montney and Eagle Ford Formations; (2) Quantify and compare the drive mechanisms during...

Reservoir Performance in Ordovician Red River Formation, Horse Creek and South Horse Creek Fields, Bowman County, North Dakota (1)

MARK W. LONGMAN , THOMAS G. FERTAL , and JAMES R. STELL

AAPG Bulletin

... divided by the median, is important in determining recovery efficiencies in water drive and waterflood systems because higher values of V lead to a less...

ABSTRACT: Reservoir Geology and Description for Supplemental Recovery, Tar Springs Deltaic Reservoirs, Benton Field, Illinois, by Robert M. Sneider; #91043 (2011)

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Comparison Study of Late vs Early Water Flood

M. Napoleon Ghozali

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... solution drive or a weak water drive mechanisms. The primary recovery from 5 wells is only 7.8 MMBO or only 22% recovery factor. However, with early water...

Washington - Taylorstown Field - Microcosm of the Oil and Gas Industry in Pennsylvania; #20199 (2013)

Kristin M. Carter

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... to various enhanced recovery operations through the years, from gas drive (1923-1970) to waterflooding (1982-present), to extend its livelihood...

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)

...Unconventional Gas EOR: Recovery Mechanisms and Piloting Hao Sun, Kelly Krezinski, Johannes Alvarez, Dengen Zhou, Kumar Devesh, Bikai Jin, Wei Wang...

BP Alaska Heavy Oil Production from the Ugnu Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir; #80289 (2013)

Josef Chmielowski

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...) has been tested via a four-well-production pilot. Due to limited surface locations and permafrost issues, two horizontal wells with surface-drive...

Optimising the Transition from CO2 EOR-EGR Towards CCS for a Mature Oil and Gas Reservoir

Ilaina H. Rakotondrazaka, Raymond L. Johnson Jr, Xiaoling Li, Andres Bracho

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... (Clark et al. 1958; Holm 1986; Vega and Kovscek 2010b). Additionally, CO2 can enhance oil recovery by solution gas drive, oil swelling and oil viscosity...

ABSTRACT: Regional Patterns in Growth of United States Giant Oil Fields, 1945-1998: Influence of Reservoir Drive Mechanism and Recovery Technology; #90007 (2002)

Marilyn E. Tennyson

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...ABSTRACT: Regional Patterns in Growth of United States Giant Oil Fields, 1945-1998: Influence of Reservoir Drive Mechanism and Recovery Technology...

A Cost Effective, Fit-for-Purpose Single Well Producer-Injector Completion Strategy for Improved Recovery of Oil: Case Study in Niger Delta

Pranav Dubey, Adrian Okpere, Gideon Sanni, Ifeanyi Onyeukwu

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... and minimizing the chance for injected water short-circuiting at the sandface. Ultimate Oil Recovery of 5spot/line drive patterns and the P-I strategy...

An Appraisal of High Pressure Air Injection (HPAI) or In-Situ Combustion Results from Deep, High-Temperature, High-Gravity Oil Reservoirs

A. Erickson, J. R. Legerski Sr., F. V. Steece

Wyoming Geological Association

.... The primary producing mechanisms are liquid and rock expansion, plus a partial solution gas drive expected to recover about 15% of the initial oil in place...

Reversing the Decline - What Contributes to Quality Assessment for Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects?

Eugene E. Wadleigh

Wyoming Geological Association

... recovery mechanisms is provided along with a guide for determination of dimensionless EOR scaling parameters, with emphasis on capillary number...

VSIT Applications in Sumatran Oil Reservoirs, 12 Case Histories

J. Herry Poerwanto, Douglas B. Scarborough, Igor V. Tischenko

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... ft. The water-drive oil fields have been producing at high water-cut and relatively low levels of oil production. Conventional workovers have been...

Conservation of Oil and Gas and Its Relation to Exploration: ABSTRACT

William J. Murray, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... can be proud; but, if in the future, the new miscible phase drive and thermal recovery processes are applied where feasible and the conventional...

ABSTRACT: Controls on Reservoir Performance during Primary and Enhanced Recovery: Lessons Learned from 100 Fractured Giant Fields; #90007 (2002)

J. R. Allan

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...%), recovery factor is most sensitive to drive mechanism. Different factors controlled recovery efficiency in each fractured reservoir type. Fractured...

Review of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Effect on Exploration

George Roberts Jr.

Tulsa Geological Society

... on solution gas drive, which is the only recovery mechanism likely in such tight formations. In preparing this plot, it was assumed that either of two...

Abstract: Looking Back to Find the Future, by M. F. Ayler; #90994 (1993).

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Solution Gas Drive in Tight Oil Reservoirs: New Insights from Capillary Condensation and Evaporation Experiments

Elizabeth Barsotti, Mohammad Piri, Stacey Althaus, Jin-Hong Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to be one of the main production mechanisms for tight and shale oil during primary recovery. [1, 2, 3] It is hypothesized that when the reservoir...

Field Summary: Lost Creek - Lanyard Fields

S.A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...): 48 (core) Water Saturation (%): 1 0 (core) Initial Field Pressure (psi): 2067 from DST Type of Drive: Solution Gas Drive Original Gas, Oil and Water...