Increase Net Present Value and Reduce Completion Cost by Using an In-House Automated Fracture Design, Reservoir Simulator and Optimization Workflow for Well Spacing and Completions Design

Srimoyee Bhattacharya, Ed Lake, Xin Liu, Robert Dombrowski, Richard Cao, Alejandro Girardi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... into the reservoir simulator format. Collect the reservoir properties for layer cake model such as formation pressure, temperature, compressibility...

Investigating the Effect of Varying Fault Geometry and Transmissibility on Recovery: Using a New Workflow for Structural Uncertainty Modeling in a Clastic Reservoir

Signe Ottesen, Chris Townsend, Kjersti Marie verland

AAPG Special Volumes

..., these new realizations could be compared with the original model built during the field development stage, where layer-cake stratigraphy was used...

Seismic Modeling of Fluvial-Estuarine Deposits in the Athabasca Oil Sands Using Ray-Tracing Techniques, Steepbank River Area, Northeastern Alberta: REPLY TO DISCUSSION of C. W. Langenberg, F. J. Hein, D. Lawton and J. Cunningham

F. J. Hein, C. W. Langenberg

CSPG Bulletin

... space (Hein et al., 2001; our Fig. 7). Clearly the lower-middle-upper McMurray stratigraphy is not 'layer cake,' but rather multiple, incised...

Upper Jurassic Paleogeography of the Four Corners Region

William F. Tanner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). INTERFINGERING Cursory examination of the Jurassic section, at most places, might lead one to postulate the "layer cake" concept of stratigraphy. Each...

Heavy Oil Polymer EOR in the Challenging Alaskan Arctic - It Works!

A. Dandekar, B. Bai, J. Barnes, D. Cercone, J. Ciferno, R. Edwards, S. Ning, W. Schulpen, R. Seright, B. Sheets, D. Wang, Y. Zhang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... concentration, retention, injection rates and forecast oil recovery over a prolonged period. Accordingly, a layer cake reservoir simulation model of the flood...

A Success Story: Screening and Optimizing Refracs in the Eagle Ford

Garrett Fowler, Jose Zaghloul, David Jones, Lindsey Hall-Wiist, Drew Hopson, Sarah Allen, Matteo Picone, Adrian Morales, Matteo Marongiu Porcu, Mark McClure, Dave Ratcliff

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... properties are populated assuming laterally homogenous properties (“layer-cake” model). A selection of properties are displayed in the figure below...

Biostratigraphic Constraints on Chronostratigraphic Intraformational Relationships within the LowerMiddle Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Laurentian Margin: Eastern Ontario and Southwestern Quebec, Canada

Osman Salad Hersi

AAPG Special Volumes

... in layer-cake fashion. Reexamination of integrated lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from the Beekmantown strata in the study area demonstrates...

Report of Sub-Committee on Tectonics: RESEARCH

Philip B. King

AAPG Bulletin

... with the basement if possible, to bring out differences between successive "layers" in "layer-cake geology," or differences between important...

Leveraging Oil and Water Time-Lapse Geochemistry and Well Diagnostics to Understand Drainage and Opportunity for Infill Development in a Stacked Pay Asset: Avalon to Wolfcamp, Delaware Basin, New Mexico

Peter J. Jones, Matthew Myers, Donovan Armistead, Mike Barber, Brian Bayliss

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...ed subsurface simulator (Figure 22). The layer cake model employed consisted of a Petrophysical and Geomechanical type log located near the t...

Sequence Development of A Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic High-Relief Ramp, Mississippian, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Amy B. Khetani, J. Fred Read

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... systems tracts are relatively layer-cake, reflecting loss of accommodation during Late Osagean basin filling, and they prograded more to the west...

Numerical Forward Modeling of Carbonate Platform Dynamics: An Evaluation of Complexity and Completeness in Carbonate Strata

Peter M. Burgess, V. Paul Wright

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... carbonate strata clearly requires less information to describe than a layer-cake stack of shallowing-upward parasequences, and is therefore less...

Development of an Infill Well Program to Maximise Economic Return from the Iagifu-Hedinia Field: Part I. Integrated Structural, Stratigraphic, and Reservoir Attribute Modelling as Input to Reservoir Simulation and Well Targeting

S. P. Franklin, J. E. Livingston

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... Zonation The Toro is a classic layer-cake reservoir showing distinct, continuous layering and a high degree of continuity across the entire lagifu...

Virgil and Lower Wolfcamp Repetitive Environments and The Depositional Model North-Central Texas1

L. F. Brown, Jr.

West Texas Geological Society

... faunal problems, and numerous long-standing arguments of correlation based on the layer-cake depositional model. Distribution of Repetitive Sequences...

Cardium Formation 6. Stratigraphic Framework of the Cardium in Subsurface

A. Guy Plint, Roger G. Walker, Katherine M. Bergman

CSPG Bulletin

... relationships, rather than a "layer cake" geometry. The new Kakwa Member comprises thick shoreface sands which are well developed in the western part...

A Rational Theory for Barrier-Lagoon Development

George F. Oertel, J. Chris Krafi, Michael S. Kearney, H. J. Woo

Special Publications of SEPM

... changes pography directly conflict with the paradigms of classic basin infill ing models that would produce layer cake stratigraphic se are quences 84...

West Ekofisk Field--Norway Central Graben, North Sea

Michel D'Heur

AAPG Special Volumes

... by recrystallization in the aquifer reservoir. In other words, the West Ekofisk reservoir is of layer-cake type in that it consists of more porous...

Exploring the Triassic oil potential on the North West Shelf, Australia

Claudia Valenti, Jeff Goodall, Stephen Molyneux, Roisin McGee

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a distinct palaeogeographic distribution and are not ubiquitous, layer cake, source rock horizons distributed across the North West Shelf. Various...

Chapter 14: Zohr Giant Gas Discovery—A Paradigm Shift in Nile Delta and East Mediterranean Exploration

Andrea Cozzi, Luca Assecondi, Stella Brandolese, Antonio Cascone, Francesco Cornaggia, Antonio Giovannelli, Pietro Guarnieri, Matteo Minervini, Salvatore Miraglia Paola Ronchi, Roberto Ruspi, Francesco Bertello, Hamed Harby

AAPG Special Volumes

... defining the facies belts very difficult (Figure 13). Figure 13. Zohr-1 seismic coverage and layer cake velocity model. The seal for the Cretaceous...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Analysis in the Characterization of a Giant Carbonate Field, Onshore Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Peter Melville, Omar Al Jeelani, Saeed Al Menhali, Jürgen Grötsch

AAPG Special Volumes

... detailed geologic model has been built for the field with 11.5 million cells at a 1-ft (0.3048-m) vertical increment and 175-m cell size. The layer...

1982 SEPM Presidential Address: Episodic Sedimentation--How Normal Is Average? How Rare Is Rare? Does It Matter?

Robert H. Dott, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or mostly episodic? Metaphorically speaking, is it more like a solid layer cake or like Swiss cheese? SOME PHILOSOPHIC CONSIDERATIONS I have long felt...

West Ekofisk Field, Norway, Central Graben, North Sea (1)

MICHEL D'HEUR

AAPG Bulletin

..., the West Ekofisk reservoir is of layer-cake type in that it consists of more porous and less porous beds, depending on variations of sedimentary...

Subsurface mapping of central Israel: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration

Yuval Bartov, Stepan Vygovskiy, and Yuri Volozh

AAPG Bulletin

... chart showing the distribution of the velocities for the “layer cake” velocity model. (B–D) Velocity maps for Cretaceous (B), Jurassic (Jura) (C...

GEO 2006, 7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, March 27-29, 2006, Manama, Bahrain, #90051 (2006)

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The Importance of Sedimentary Structures and Early Diagenetic Features in Carbonate Sedimentology

Robert V. Demicco, Lawrence A. Hardie

Special Publications of SEPM

... core of a buildup this results in a "layer cake" stratigraphic record composed of a stack of meter-scale transgressive-regressive depositional cycles...

Horizontal Well Placements Using VShale and Facies Geomodel: An Example From Belanak Field, South Natuna Sea, Indonesia

Hendro Adrian, Ludy Andria, Agus Sudarsana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... with actual VShale logs. The match is seen to be good where sand reservoirs were intersected. Time-to-depth conversion was performed using a layer-cake...