Produced Water Treatment R&D: Developing Advanced, Cost-Effective Treatment Technologies

Erica Folio, Olayinka Ogunsola, Elena Melchert, Evan Frye

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Niskayuna, NY. June 2011. Balch, Robert. Cost-Effective Treatment of Produced Water Using Co-Produced Energy Sources. 11123-03. A Project Report...

A Look at Global Supply and Demand; #120028 (2009)

Arthur R. Green

Search and Discovery.com

... and natural gas production from conventional sources relied on historically (NPC). To mitigate these risks, expansion of all energy sources will be required...

Chapter 22: Early and Late Eocene / Oligo–Miocene (!) Petroleum System on the Nicaraguan Rise: Insights from Basin and Three-dimensional Petroleum System Modeling

Luis Carlos Carvajal-Arenas, Lucia Torrado, Paul Mann

AAPG Special Volumes

... effective for hydrocarbon accumulation with recovered hydrocarbons ranging from 21° API to 45° API. Thermal history modeling based on paleo-heat flows...

When do faults in sedimentary basins leak? Stress and deformation in sedimentary basins; examples from the North Sea and Haltenbanken, offshore Norway

Knut Bjrlykke, Kaare Heg, Jan Inge Faleide, Jens Jahren

AAPG Bulletin

... argue that this is not a likely mechanism during progressive burial in sedimentary basins. Very high horizontal effective stresses, up to 60 MPa, at about...

Shallow Uranium Mobilization Processes: Chapter 7

John W. Gabelman

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Preferred channel systems permit this process to operate in the dry zone. Therefore, the only effective way to distinguish supergene, laterogene...

The Use of the Petroleum System Approach in Exploration of the Southwest China Sea: An Example from the Vung May Basin

C. S. Kenyon

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of expulsion of potential hydrocarbons from Oligocene and Early Miocene sources for traps developed during or before the main 10.5 Ma structuring event. Finally...

Effective sandstone reservoir determination and its lower limit in Chuanxi Depression of Sichuan Basin, China

Search and Discovery.com

Applications of Magnetotellurics to Petroleum Exploration in Papua New Guinea

Karen R. Christopherson

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... limestone attains thicknesses up to 1000 metres, which proves near impossible for adequate seismic energy penetration. This is coupled with the fact...

Madden-Badwater Field, Fremont and Natrona Counties, Wyoming

G.T. Schmitt

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... FORT UNION PENETRATION OUTLINE OF MADDEN DEEP U N I T Fig. 2 - Structure contoured on unconformity at underlying strata. There is a rapid increase...

Determining a Good Hole Cleaning by Judging the Cutting Transport Parameter in 81/2" Horizontal Hole Section Leads to Operational Success During Underbalanced Drilling Operation

Raden Hanggara Tri Poetra, Kitos G. Akbar, Hasnan Rifani, Robani Sadiya

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...) continue to encourage the use of new methods to reduce problems and costs. UBD technology is one of such methods that is offering effective solution...

A Chemical Blend for Stimulating Production in Oil-Shale Formations

Chammi Miller, Songyang Tong, Kishore K. Mohanty

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is to utilize acids to generate more porosity and permeability by dissolving carbonates. HCl is an effective acid to dissolve carbonate minerals...

Sedimentological Characteristics and Internal Architecture of Two Overwash Fans from Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne

Mark Horwitz, Ping Wang

GCAGS Transactions

... of the over-wash fans were studied through coring, trenching, and ground penetration radar surveys. The first washover-fan complex, deposited by hurricanes...

Lost Circulation and Control in Reefal Limestone Depositions

Rusjdi Iljas

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in our penetration into or through limestone reefal deposits. II. Analysis of Lost Circulation a. Location of Lost Circulation Zones In North Sumatra...

Shallow Marine Seismic Survey over Saracen Bank, Offshore Sabah

Eileen M. C. Lau, R. C. Hoogenboom, J. Smethurst

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... penetration and continuity below 2.5 seconds. (Fig. 4) Table 1: Overview of acquisition parameters for various parts of the survey Test line (SRB 14) Number...

Unlocking the potential of WAZ data for subsalt imaging using FWI: A case study in the Perdido area

Vivek Vandrasi, Zhihua Su, Shouting Huang, Yogesh Agnihotri, Sabaresan Mothi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... salt scenarios and Time-lag FWI (TLFWI), an effective and stable FWI algorithm for salt, can lead to a better initial model for the next round of FWI...

The State of Stress in the Earth Crust: Its Importance in Petroleum Engineering

Ph. Charlez, D. Despax

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be represented by a symmetrical tridimensionnal tensor equal to the sum of the components given above: Qo is the "effective state of stress", which governs...

Application of Short Radius Horizontal Completions: A Case Study, Belridge Diatomite, Kern County, California

Brian Hirst

Pacific Section of AAPG

... be attributed to the fortuitous penetration of a more densely fractured reservoir section. This hypothesis is supported by core descriptions of the diatomite...

Method of Exploration for Oil Fields in Platform Areas

V. S. Melik-Pashayev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... because such uplifts are generally related to projections on the latter. Penetration of the Devonian in prospecting wells located on Carboniferous...

Solar Power Cathodic Protection Systems for Remote Well Application in Tropical Environment

H. Sutanto, V. A. W. Semerad

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... available with SPCP systems of such size in tropical environments. Since its installation, the first MOI SPCP system provides effective DC power supply...

Table Rock Field, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

E. C. Mees, J. D. Copen, J. C. McGee

Wyoming Geological Association

... of effective sandstone at Table Rock. It thins rapidly to the south and west by interfingering with carbonaceous shales, silts and coals of its...

Stimulation Treatment Design Optimization Through the use of a Nodal Analysis Program

Aditomo Dwimaryanto, Kuswo Wahyono, I. G. Solaryo, Amin Hartoni

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... studies. The importance of this paper is to present a new technique to analyze the skin component of a well, and to use the analysis in effective...

A Completion Strategy for Optimizing Bypassed Oil Recovery From a High Permeability Contrast Behaviour

Meita Silaban, Wandy Hendrawan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... has proven to be an effective strategy to improve oil gain and reduce water production. 1970 and continued with pattern waterflood in the early 1990s...

Resolving geological complexity with legacy streamer survey: Potiguar 3D offshore Brazil case study

Seet Li Yong, Milos Cvetkovic, Terry Johnson, Boedi Soelistijo, Leon Ge

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., we see DM FWI delineated geology conformable volcanic geobodies automatically, captured highly irregular interbedded igneous inclusions, effective...

Some Features of the Present Status of Working the Devonian Oil Pools of Bashkiria

G. P. Ovanesov, E. M. Khalimov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... (hydrofracture, torpedoing, acid treatment, etc.), new methods were introduced. The most effective for the specific conditions of the Devonian fields...

Well Log Analysis Concepts in Clastic and Argillaceous US Gulf Coast Sediments

Walter H. Fertl

GCAGS Transactions

... mineral distributions affect effective porosity and reservoir permeability in a drastically different manner (Fertl, 1972). In other words, using...