The Lewis Shale, San Juan Basin: Approaches to Rocky Mountain Tight Shale Gas Plays - Workshop Summary

S.R. Bereskin, H. Dube, G. Christiansen, J. Frantz

PTTC

... fluids and frac fluid retention within the formation reduces relative permeability to gas and should be minimized. A type-curve model provides a practical...

A New Approach to Apply Decline-Curve Analysis for Tight-Oil Reservoirs Producing Under Variable Pressure Conditions

Leopoldo M. Ruiz Maraggi, Mark P. Walsh, Larry W. Lake

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the diffusivity equation for a slightly compressible fluid, logistic growth model, and Arps hyperbolic relation. URTeC 3848106 3 Methods Figure 1...

A Complementary Method of Assessing Clay Stabilisers Used in Hydraulic Fracturing Applications

Jeff Dupont, Jeff Dawson, Richard Mitchell

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... of conditions. Analytical methods for determining types and quantities of clays present in a formation include use of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray...

Effect of Regional Variations of Crude Oil and Reservoir Characteristics on In Situ Combustion and Miscible-Phase Recovery of Oil in Western Canada

Brian Hitchon , G. F. Round , M. E. Charles , G. W. Hodgson

AAPG Bulletin

... of the habitat of oil (Weeks, 1958) and of formation fluid composition (Hitchon, 1960) means that it is now possible to test, systematically...

Combining Pressure-Based Fracture Maps and Post-Stimulation Leak-Off Analysis Lead to Informed Unconventional Development

David Lerohl, Justin Mayorga, Brent Vering, Erica Coenen, Sean Spicer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., is pumped into the formation. The post-stimulation leak-off is a proxy for well-to-reservoir connectivity and theoretical fluid distribution...

Reservoir Geometrics Applied to Drilling and Completion Programmes in Hostile and Complex Environments: North West Shelf, Timor Sea, North Sea and Colombia

D. A. Castillo, D. Moos, C. A. Barton, M. D. Zoback, P. Peska

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... of one horizontal stress, rock strength, temperature, and formation and wellbore fluid pressures. If there is a sufficient contrast in horizontal stress m...

Notes on California Oil Field Practice

R. E. Collom

AAPG Bulletin

... by drilling the wells according to established oil-field practice as to spacing and careful methods of drilling, must be abandoned. Wells are raced...

Thermal and Fluid Migration History in the Niobrara Formation, Berthoud Oil Field, Denver Basin, Colorado

B.L. Crysdale, C.E. Barker

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

...Thermal and Fluid Migration History in the Niobrara Formation, Berthoud Oil Field, Denver Basin, Colorado B.L. Crysdale, C.E. Barker 1990 153 160...

Refracturing: Empirical Results in the Bakken Formation

William Ruhle

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fractures and redistribute fluid can play a role in initiating more fractures. Diversion methods, such as degradable particulate diverters, perforation...

Downhole Oil and Water Separation – Potential of a New Technology

Larry J. Chrusch

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... facilities, as the surface rates are 10-20% of normal. Reduced fluid volumes reduce the pressures on flowlines to overcome frictional losses...

Modeling and Simulation of Mass Transfer and Equilibrium in Tight Oil Formations

Marjan Sherafati, Kristian Jessen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...uation, 𝜑𝜑 𝑖𝑖 𝑙𝑙 and 𝜑𝜑 𝑖𝑖 𝑣𝑣 are fugacity coefficients. At bulk fluid conditions (no confinement), phase � � pressures are equal and equilibrium factors are calc...

Simultaneous Calculation of Archie Parameters m, n, and a

Scott M. Frailey, George B. Asquith, George A. Anderson, Paulus S. Adisoemarta

West Texas Geological Society

..., unsteady state displacement, centrifuge, and porous plate methods may only have usable data after the displacing fluid has produced at the outlet...

Maximizing Project Value in Vaca Muerta Shale Formation, Part 2: Simultaneous Optimization of Well Spacing and Completion Design - Case of Study

Alejandro Lerza, Sergio Cuervo, Sahil Malhotra

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Maximizing Project Value in Vaca Muerta Shale Formation, Part 2: Simultaneous Optimization of Well Spacing and Completion Design - Case of Study...

Integrated Petrophysical Methods for the Analysis of Reservoir Microarchitecture—a Kansas Chester Sandstone Case Study

John H. Doveton

Kansas Geological Society

...Integrated Petrophysical Methods for the Analysis of Reservoir Microarchitecture—a Kansas Chester Sandstone Case Study John H. Doveton 1999 91 101...

Insight into pore-throat size distribution and the controls on oil saturation of tight sandstone reservoirs using nuclear magnetic resonance parameters: A case study of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation in the southern Songliao Basin, China

Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao, Ke Li, Keyu Liu, Rukai Zhu, and Beyene Girma Haile

AAPG Bulletin

... the limitations inherent to PMI and other methods at present. The fourth member of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation (K1q4) in the southern Songliao...

Coring Shale Gas Formations with Wireline Coring Technology in a Complex Geological Structure in the Medium Magdalena Valley: A Case History from Colombia, #41067 (2012)

S. Rodriguez, E. Tovar, L. Valderrama, C. Vivas, M. Gray, V. Daza, L. Delmar, C. Gomez

Search and Discovery.com

... problems while coring. • Low solid content to reduce the bit balling tendency from the coring bit. • Proper fluid density control and pressures while...

The Crescent Lake copper deposit, central Newfoundland: deep levels of a volcanogenic hydrothermal system?

Craig J. Waldie, E. Craig Jowett, H. Scott Swinden

Atlantic Geology

... as the result of either changing temperature or fluctuating fluid pressures during the episodic crack-seal vein formation. Ore-related chlorite has...

Geologically Based Pore Pressure Modeling: Reconciling Pressure vs. Depth Plots with Mud Weight Equivalent vs. Depth Plots

S. Shaker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... stem or repeat formation tests from nearby wells. Measured pore pressures in water-bearing sands and sandstones commonly follow the main hydrostatic...

Workovers: Part 9. Production Engineering Methods

Alan F. Osborne

AAPG Special Volumes

... the goal of doing that particular job. -- Data gathering, particularly of special reservoir information (such as pressures, fluid samples and zonal...

Advanced Flowback in the Powder River Basin: Securing Stimulation Investments

Mario Campos, Dmitriy Potapenko, Katharine Moncada, Jayanth Krishnamurthy

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... from formation structure and reservoir properties in the Powder River Basin (PRB) to keep fluid production rates and bottomhole flowing pressure (Pwf...

Diagenesis and Porosity Reduction in the Late Cretaceous Wyandot Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia: A Comparison with Norwegian North Sea Chalks

Steven J. Ings, R. Andrew MacRae, John W. Shimeld, Georgia Pe-Piper

CSPG Bulletin

... Data Standard borehole geophysical methods described in texts such as Crain (1986) were used to estimate porosity profiles within the Wyandot Formation...

Experimental Study of Proppant Flowback with Standard Core Samples

Xinyao Zhang, Huiying Tang, Kaixiang Di, Cheng Du, Shiyi Xie, Liehui Zhang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fluid was used in the experiment to simulate the viscosity and ion content of the fluid inside formation fractures. The fluid was prepared based...

Rapid Recognition Approach for Sequence Stratigraphy and Its Application in Xiuwu Basin

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Fault Seal Prediction and Risk Evaluation of Exploratory Prospects: Examples of Brazilian Marginal Basins, Pelosi, Ana Paula M., #90100 (2009)

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AAPG Archie Series, No. 1, Front Matter: About the Authors, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents, Preface, Editor's Preface

Q. R. Passey, K. E. Dahlberg, K. B. Sullivan, H. Yin, R. A. Brackett, Y. H. Xiao, and A. G. Guzmán-Garcia

AAPG Special Volumes

... 205 End_Page vi------------------------ Preface The difficulties of obtaining accurate formation evaluation results...