Log Evaluation and Wireline Operations In The Delaware Basin

G. F. Horst, D. A. Wilson

West Texas Geological Society

... that the “liquid-filled porosity” as computed from the porosity devices is either formation water, invading drilling fluid, or a combination of both...

Inter-Scaled Digital Core Analysis: From Core to Pore and Back

Chi Vinh Ly, Jason Mintz, Aiguo Bian, Matthew Andrew, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the permeability of the formation. As a demonstration of this the fluid flow through the fractured lithofacies was completed (Figure 7), which resulted...

Exploration for "Dakota" Oil Traps, Black Hills Area

John S. Runge

Wyoming Geological Association

... and average 0.5 ohms in the major oil reservoirs. Formation fluid pressures range from normal (0.433 pounds/foot of depth) to 10 percent subnormal. In some...

Patterns of Dynamic Pressure Increment of Formation-Fluid Flow in Large Drainage Basins, Exemplified by the Red Earth Region, Alberta, Canada

Jozsef Toth

CSPG Bulletin

... Toth 1979 63 86 Vol. 27 (1979) No. 1. (March) Analysis of approximately 600 stabilized formation-fluid pressures in northern Alberta indicates...

Impact of Kerogen Geochemistry on Methane and Water Adsorption Using Molecular Simulations

Archana Jagadisan, Isa Silveira de Araujo, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...n types: IA, IIA, IIB, IIC, IIC, IID and IIIA. GCMC are performed at different pressures. Subsequently, the isotherms are generated by obtainin...

Geochemical and isotopic evolution of water produced from Middle Devonian Marcellus shale gas wells, Appalachian basin, Pennsylvania

Elisabeth L. Rowan, Mark A. Engle, Thomas F. Kraemer, Karl T. Schroeder, Richard W. Hammack, and Michael W. Doughten

AAPG Bulletin

... is injected into the formation under pressures high enough to create a network of fractures. The fluid contains a proppant, a material such as fine-grained...

Heavy Oil PVTX Characterization As A Prediction Tool To Maxinize Heavy Oil Recovery, by Gilles Levresse, Jordi Tritlla, Jacques Pironon, and Alejandro Carillo-Chavez; #90062 (2007)

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Phase Behavior of a Retrograde Gas Condensate-Water System Under High Pressure and Temperature Conditions

N. Hasan, S. C. Rastogi, N. R. Nagarajan, Heng-Joo Ng

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., Heng-Joo Ng 1987 37 45 An experimental study has been conducted to evaluate the phase behavior of a retrograde reservoir fluid-formation water system...

Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior Under Nanoconfinement and Shale-PVT Model Development

Bikai Jin, Lin Li, Hao Sun, Dengen Zhou

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... theory gave an improved estimation of the film thickness and adsorbed fluid amount. Experiments are fundamental and necessary methods to measure...

Managed Pressure Flowback in Unconventional Reservoirs: A Permian Basin Case Study

Darryl Tompkins, Robert Sieker, David Koseluk, Hugo Cartaya

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... controlling bottomhole fluid velocities before closure and by limiting bottomhole flowing pressure to prevent damage to the formation and proppant...

Aspects of induced seismic activity and deep-well sequestration of carbon dioxide

Joel Sminchak, Neeraj Gupta

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

.... The fluid may also interact with formation water and rocks, altering permeability and resulting in changes in pressure conditions at depth...

Origin of overpressures in shales: Constraints from basin modeling

Hege M. Nordgrd Bols, Christian Hermanrud, Gunn M. G. Teige

AAPG Bulletin

... formation pressure: AAPG Bulletin, v. 59, no. 6, p. 957973.Bredehoeft, J. D., and B. B. Hanshaw, 1968, On the maintenance of anomalous fluid pressures...

Is Geologic Distillation of Petroleum Possible?

William L. Russell

AAPG Bulletin

..., for their vapor pressures are much less than the rock pressures at the corresponding temperatures, and the vast volumes of natural gas necessary...

Evaluating Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Targeted for Horizontal Drilling

R.A. Skopec

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and reservoir properties permit, wireline formation testing offers a means to obtain quick hydrostatic and formation pressures at a number of points...

Compaction and Migration of Fluids in Miocene Mudstone, Nagaoka Plain, Japan

Kinji Magara

AAPG Bulletin

.... B., et al., 1966, Estimation of formation pressures from electrical surveys--offshore Louisiana: Jour. Petroleum Technology, v. 18, no. 2, p...

Engineered Flowback and Reservoir Evaluation for Unconventional Wells

Andrew Fontenot, Chau Nguyen

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

...: [email protected] ABSTRACT A flowback procedure is presented that uses a wellbore model coupled with thermal and fluid modelling to calculate...

Reservoir Knowledge and Drilling - Benefits Comparison for Underbalanced and Managed Pressure Drilling Operations

Doug Finley, Sara Shayegi, Joe Ansah, Isabel Gil, Randy Lovorn

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... pore pressure, and thus, induces formation fluid into the wellbore and then to the surface. A comparison of the two methods can be performed...

Abstract: Improved Pore Pressure Prediction by Integrating Basin Modeling and Seismic Methods, by H. M. Helset, M. Lüthje, and I. Ojala; #90091 (2009)

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Water Flooding, Coring, Testing, and Logging: Chapter 7

C. Arnold Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... methods. Water saturation (Sw) can be estimated from several logs with accuracy governed by knowledge of the formation factor (F) and the saturation...

ABSTRACT EGS -- Status and Technology Needs, #90128 (2011)

J. L. Renner

Search and Discovery.com

.... These methods will include injection of cool fluid into the reservoir to stimulate thermal cracking at injection pressures less than that required...

Production Testing: Part 9. Production Engineering Methods

David E. Lancaster

AAPG Special Volumes

... a large sample of formation fluid and to reduce the pressure as far into the reservoir as possible. This flow period should be at least 1 hour...

Geochemical and Hydrogeologic Methods of Prospecting for Stratigraphic Traps: ABSTRACT

Parke A. Dickey, John M. Hunt

AAPG Bulletin

... of barriers to fluid flow. Such barriers can be located by discontinuities in the patterns of fluid pressures. In mountainous areas, meteoric water...

Estimating Formation Water Salinity from Wireline Pressure Data: Case Study in the Vulcan Sub-Basin

J. R. Underschultz, G. K. Ellis, A. Hennig, E. Bekele, C. Otto

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of formation water by drilling fluid, as well as analytical error. A third and supplementary method (pressure gradient method) is to estimate formation...

Reservoir Simulation of Arun Field

Djoko Harsono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., due to downhole equipment changes which increased fluid flow turbulence. In all gas injection wells, calculated wellhead injection pressures had...

Digital Rendering of Sedimentary-Relief Peels: Implications for Clastic Facies Characterization and Fluid Flow

Timothy A. Meckel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and the transverse-oriented (flow-parallel) specimen (Fig. 1C) has also been studied using similar methods. Recall that lacquer fluid invasion...