Marcellus Well Spacing Optimization … Pilot Data Integration and Dynamic Modeling Study

Deniz Cakici, Chris Dick, Abhijit Mookerjee, Ben Stephenson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... north-central Pennsylvania, the Marcellus Formation is underlain by the hard, fossiliferous Onondaga limestone and overlain by calcareous mudstones...

A Comparison of Primary Depletion and GCEOR in the Montney Formation: Volatile Oil and Rich Gas Condensate

F. Brent Thomas, Farhad Qanbari, Michael Piwowar, Mehdi Noroozi, Ronnel Apil, Juan Marin, William Gibb, Carter Clarkson, Hongmei Zhang, Stan Swacha

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Comparison of Primary Depletion and GCEOR in the Montney Formation: Volatile Oil and Rich Gas Condensate F. Brent Thomas, Farhad Qanbari, Michael...

Problem Wells

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... problems that can arise include formation damage, poor reservoir permeability, fault damage, poor reservoir pressure, water production, and mechanical...

Application of New Seismic Methods to Stratigraphic-Trap Exploration: ABSTRACT

M. Cox

AAPG Bulletin

...Application of New Seismic Methods to Stratigraphic-Trap Exploration: ABSTRACT M. Cox 1967 814 814 51 5. (May) Conventional seismic techniques...

Optimizing Fluid Compatibility in Produced Waters

Tanhee Galindo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be treated to reduce potential of damage to the formation and to ensure compatibility of other fracturing chemical additives. While treatment methods can...

Automated Numerical History Matching in the Bakken: Enhancing Forecasting and Reservoir Characterization

M. Carlsen, C. Miranda, A. Kianinejad, S. Matringe, C. Cipolla, R. Archer, I. Yusra, S. Mydland

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to ensure accurate fluid and phase behavior. Bottomhole pressures are estimated using industry standard correlations and cleaned using a smoothing...

Overview of Development Geology: Chapter 1

Parke A. Dickey

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the geology. The nature of the producing formation will determine the methods of logging, completion, and stimulation. The sooner the geological situation...

Field-Wide Equation of State Development

Bilal Younus, Curtis H. Whitson, Ahmad Alavian, Mathias L. Carlsen, Sissel Ø. Martinsen, Kameshwar Singh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... samples (surface separator and wireline bottomhole) Collect openhole formation testing samples, particularly for fluid initialization/mapping4...

The impact of organic pores on estimation of overpressure generated by gas generation in organic-rich shale: Example from Devonian Duvernay Shale, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Pengwei Wang, Zhuoheng Chen, Kezhen Hu, and Chen Xiao

AAPG Bulletin

... on prediction of overpressure due to fluid expansion in gas generation windows. A comparison of formation pressure predictions from the application...

Temperature and pressure characteristics of Ordovician gas condensate reservoirs in the Tazhong area, Tarim Basin, northwestern China

Yifeng Liu, Nansheng Qiu, Wenxuan Hu, Huili Li, Fangyu Shen, and Qianying Yao

AAPG Bulletin

...:10.1306/06301009191. Zeng, L. B., J. F. Qi, C. G. Wang, and Y. L. Li, 2008, The influence of tectonic stress on fracture formation and fluid flow [in Chinese]: Earth...

Extended Abstract: Examination of the Generation of Overpressure in the Eagle Ford

Manas Pathak, Milind Deo, Raymond Levey

GCAGS Transactions

... in shale gas and liquids plays: Prediction of fluid composition and reservoir pressure: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Search and Discovery...

South Sarepta Field (Smackover Gray Sand) Bossier and Webster Parishes, Louisiana

Luther F. Ellison, Martin Russo

GCAGS Transactions

... boundary. The Gray Sand, a member of the Smackover Formation of Jurassic age, has been known to be gas-bearing for some time in this field. However...

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

... will remain in the reservoir as unrecoverable, unless secondary recovery methods are employed. The oil-saturated portions of a formation have...

Killing of PT–29 Burning Gas Well, Paluhtabuhan

S. Wiryodiarjo, K. Sumanta

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the formation by fracturing and pumping the kill fluid, the fire went out (December 26), but the well was still flowing strongly with gas and water...

Abstract: Thermohaline Pore Water Trends of Southeastern Louisiana Revisited, by J. Hanor; #90924 (1999).

Search and Discovery.com

Interstitial Water Composition and Geochemistry of Deep Gulf Coast Shales and Sandstones

Gene W. Schmidt

AAPG Bulletin

... conductivity increase at top of high-pressure zone. Fig. 3. Estimated formation fluid pressures from electric-log derived shale properties compared...

Fracture paragenesis and microthermometry in Lisburne Group detachment folds: Implications for the thermal and structural evolution of the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska

C. L. Hanks, T. M. Parris, W. K. Wallace

AAPG Bulletin

... in uplift and unroofing of the deformed rocks. If fluid pressures are high, fractures may form under the low differential stresses present in the upper part...

Mineralogy and CO2 Storage at the Weyburn IEA CO2-EOR Site

Search and Discovery.com

... potentially store CO2 in the fluid and as newly formed carbonates. The detailed, quantitative mineralogy of the Weyburn reservoir is described...

Quantitative analysis of slip-induced dilation with application to fault seal

Scott J. Wilkins, Stephen J. Naruk

AAPG Bulletin

..., Relationships among in-situ stress, fractures and faults, and fluid flow: Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, p...

Abstract: Pressure Trends in Lower Viosca Knoll and Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico Deep Water: Implications for Seals, Column Heights and Hydrocarbon Migration

Bruce E. Wagner

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... fluid. After this loss, the flowing formation comes back into the well. This cycle of flow/kill/breakdown/ flow can result in substantial well cost...

Rotary Air-Drilling of Phosphate Deposits in Southeastern Idaho

H. D. Harris

Utah Geological Association

...Rotary Air-Drilling of Phosphate Deposits in Southeastern Idaho H. D. Harris 1967 167 171 A rapid, low-cost method of obtaining samples...

Field Study: Athens Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Shreveport Geological Society

Shreveport Geological Society

... the drilling of the Ryan well, interest in the area was revived and the area was explored by seismic methods. The discovery well was drilled...

Description of Natural Fracture Systems for Quantitative Use in Petroleum Geology (1)

J. H. HOWARD and RICHARD C. NOLEN-HOEKSEMA

AAPG Bulletin

... of fracturing and fluid flow characteristics of the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara Channel, California: Society of Petroleum Engineers of American...

Minimum Miscibility Pressure Calculation for Oil Shale and Tight Reservoirs With Large Gas-Oil Capillary Pressure

Kaiyi Zhang, Bahareh Nojabaei, Kaveh Ahmadi, Russell T. Johns

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) are the three numerical or analytical methods to estimate MMP. Similar to other fluid properties, MMP in unconventional reservoirs can be affected...

Geomechanics of hydraulic fracturing microseismicity: Part 1. Shear, hybrid, and tensile events

Seth Busetti, Wenjie Jiao, and Ze’ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... near the wellbore where fluid pressure is highest, whereas closing events occur into the formation where tectonic stresses are more influential; (2...