Reducing Well Construction Costs through Field Application of New Unconventional Lightweight Cementing Solutions - Multiple Case Histories in the Permian Basin

Roderick Pernites, Marvin Montgomery, Dan Fu, Felipe Padilla

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... density non-beaded cement like the 10.5 ppg presents a design challenge because of the amount of water in the slurry. From the results, the new...

Applications of Borehole Images in the Piceance Basin

Randy Koepsell, Stephen P. Cumella, David Uhl

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... field orientation, density of natural Piceance Basin Guidebook 233 fracturing, and formation water salinity. Twenty-three image data sets were...

Identification and Interpretation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs in North Texas

R. W. Frank, R. B. Simonson

Abilene Geological Society

... limestone in Clay County. Texas. The average formation porosity is only 2%, yet this well is an excellent producer at 135 BOPD with no water. The only...

Caribbean Reef Corals Montastrea annularis and Montastrea cavernosa--Long-Term Growth Data as Determined by Skeletal X-radiography: Reef Biota

Jon N. Weber , Eugene W. White

AAPG Special Volumes

.... annularis and M. cavernosa, along with the water depth at which a colony was collected, are listed in Table 1. For each specimen, the number of density...

ABSTRACT: Defining the Updip Eastern Limit of Commercial Bakken Oil Production, McLean and Dunn Counties, North Dakota , by Bergin, Eryn M.; Bartberger, Charles E.; Longman, Mark ; #90142 (2012)

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The Practice and Applications of Pressure Coring

J. J. Mullane, R. W. Sewell

Tulsa Geological Society

... by distillation of the water from a sample of the core. This total water content is a mixture of water from the drilling mud and any formation water...

Clays of Deep Shale Zone, Caillou Island, Louisiana

Paul F. Kerr , Jonathan Barrington

AAPG Bulletin

... to gray or white. A few leaves and scattered fresh-water shells indicate the continental nature of the formation, but a large amount of lignitized wood...

Introducing a New Workflow to Improve Water Production Forecasts for Unconventional Reservoirs

Mei Han, Xueying Xie, Shunhua Liu, Jiasen Tan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... depletion due to larger completion designs, higher well density, and more aggressive production techniques. This study examined water cut increases over time...

Compaction and its Effect on Local Structure: Part V. Porosity, Permeability, Compaction

L. F. Athy

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the formation of the folds of the Mid-Continent. Compaction of sediments has been considered in geological literature for many years, particularly...

Prong Creek

Steven W. Barker, Terry McMullen

Wyoming Geological Association

..., Formation Density, Gamma Ray, Borehole Comp. Sonic, Micro-Spherically focused log Completion Practice Run casing through formation, cement, perforate...

Settling Convection and Grain-Size Analysis

Ph. H. Kuenen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in suspension clouds of higher density than the clear water. It would have been preferable to because the term "vertical turbidity currents," because...

Papers Wash Entrada (Oil), T. 19 N., R. 5 W., NMPM, McKinley County, New Mexico

Alan C. Bryant

Four Corners Geological Society

... increase in proportion to the limestones as the formation thickens to about 100 feet off-dune. Due to a strong water drive in a highly porous (average 26.1...

A Case History of Exploratory Horizontal Drilling in the Bakken Formation; Ceylon Bakken Sand Pool, Southeast Saskatchewan

D. Campbell, D. Bryan, B. Hebner

Williston Basin Symposium

... it was Bakken Formation water or water coming through fractures from an underlying formation. A production spinner log with a fluid density tool...

Analytical Techniques and Tools for Rock Property and Oil Gravity Evaluation in Heavy-Oil and Tar-Sand Reservoirs: Section VI. Recovery

B. A. Bell, K. Karnes

AAPG Special Volumes

... down the axial length and from the center of a frozen section of core. The water and bitumen content are determined by Dean Stark. The density...

The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia: The Jackson Oil Field Development

A. P. Dodman, J. T. Rodrigues

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... procedures have been found to be inadequate to describe the thin sands of the Westbourne Formation. High density perforations appear necessary...

Amphoteric Polymer Improves Hydrocarbon/Water Ratios in Producing Wells – An Indonesian Case History Study

Frederick O. Stanley, Hardianto, Ewen Marnoch, Paternus Syukur Tanggu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... increases hydrocarbon production by effectively reducing the permeability to water without significantly changing the formation permeability...

ABSTRACT: The Change of Keutapang Sand-Gas Reservoir Physical Parameters Calculated Using Surface Seismic Data on AVO Anomaly, by Djoko Santoso, Susanti Alawiyah, and W. G. A. Kadir; #90913(2000).

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Status of the Theory and Practice of Working Oil Fields

S. T. Ovnatanov, K. A. Karapetov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... with water-free oil (17). Thus, some optimum exists, i. e., there is a definite density of the well net corresponding to a definite value of the coefficient...

Rock Type, Productivity and Reserves of the Falher F, Cutbank Area, Alberta

Steven R. VanSickle

CSPG Special Publications

... of marine transgressions (Fig. 2). Figure 2. Sequence - Stratigraphic Interpretation for the Spirit River Formation A complete Falher depositional...

Derivation of Scaled Hydrocarbon Head Potential, A New Workflow for Petroleum System Analysis: Application to the Eagle Ford Formation, SE Texas, #10974 (2017).

Carlos E. Varady, Ursula Hammes, John Pantano

Search and Discovery.com

..., fluid phase, density, and maturity, and geomechanics result in preferential “sweet spots” where well performance far exceeds the formation mean. We built...

Induced Gamma Ray Spectroscopy (IGS) Log Application in the Java Sea

Cholid Mas, Anna Maria, Mark Schneider, Bambang Hari Setiyawan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is used to find bypassed oil. In the area where the formation water salinity is high, the Pulsed Neutron Capture Tools or sigma log are normally used...

Quantitative Investigation of the Water-Sensitivity Damage on Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoir

Jie Li, Bin Tu, Wei Li, Yunan Li

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of ultra-low permeability formation located in Yanchang oilfield, China. It is important to understand the water-sensitivity damage accurately and enhance...

Carbon dioxide storage potential for the Queenston Formation near the AES Cayuga coal-fired power plant in Tompkins County, New York

Kathryn L. Tamulonis, Teresa E. Jordan, Brian Slater

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... in the Queenston Formation. Our Queenston Formation data set consists of wireline logs (gamma, neutron porosity, electron density), core, cuttings, and seismic...

Establishing Petrophysical Benchmark for the Burgan Field in Kuwait - A Case Study; #20419 (2018)

Mona Rashaid, Yaser Amjad, Pratik Sangani, Steven Low, Christophe Darous, Laila Hayat, Alan Sibbit

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... formation complexity and heterogeneity which was studied in detail. Other core data including core grain density, porosity, permeability and critical...

Development of the Lower Carboniferous Oil Pools of the Central Part of the Bol’shekinel Swell

A. I. Kulakov, M. F. Svishchev, A. S. Panteleyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... to withdrawal, a drop in the formation pressure in the water-bearing part within the limits of the pool itself established in the Krasnoyarka field...