Managing Frac Hits in Vaca Muerta Oil Development: Insights from a Case Study, Statistical Analysis, and Mitigation Strategies

Juan Filipich, Adrian Oscar Rasgido, Lucia Lamberghini, Victor Hugo Ñañez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to mitigate these issues. Additionally, the methods used to forecast these events and estimate potential production losses or well damages will be described...

Petroleum Geology, Volume 20, Issue 12; Frontmatter

Dr. James W. Clarke, Grace Carrington

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... and exploration prospects of non-anticlinal structures of the east part of the south border zone of the Dnieper-Donets depression p. 544 3. Formation pressures...

Investigation of Permeability Change in the Bandanna Coal Formation of the Fairview Field Using Time-Lapse Pressure Transient Analysis

A. Salmachi, J. Barkla

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

.... doi:10.2118/87230-PA Yarmohammadtooski, Z., Salmachi, A., White, A., and Rajabi, M. (2017). Fluid flow characteristics of Bandanna Coal Formation...

Discovering Subsurface "Oceans" with Classification: A Machine Learning Method to Predict Drilling Challenges from Nearby Saltwater Disposal Wells

Justin Kilb, Brandon Brame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that the density of injection fluid in these SWD wells is less than the density of the drilling fluid when the injection formation is penetrated, which should...

An Evolving Description of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir: the Lisburne Field, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: Fractured Reservoirs: Origin, Description, Evaluation

R. A. Missman, J. Jameson

AAPG Special Volumes

... between early and late diagenesis in reservoir formation, Lisburne Field, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska". Annu AAPG-SEPM-EMD-DPA Conv (San Antonio, Texas) 1989...

Response of Hydrologic Systems to Waste Storage

John G. Ferris

AAPG Special Volumes

... are through dilation of the rock formation and compression of the native fluid and also the waste fluid. In younger, incompletely compacted sediments...

Geological Implications of Overpressure and Fracture Gradients in Deepwater Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Offshore Malaysia

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Experimental Evaluation of Relative Permeability in Tight Oil Systems: Examples from North American Tight Oil Plays

A. Ghanizadeh, C. Song, C.R. Clarkson, A. Younis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... permeability. For relative permeability experiments, formation (dead) oil and N2 and CH4 (99.9% purity) were used as liquid and gaseous fluid phases...

Observations and Inferences for Overpressure Development under Salt Sheets in the Gulf of Mexico

J. J. O'Brien , I. Lerche , Z. Yu

GCAGS Transactions

.... Thus the hydrostatic pressure of a formation at a depth z below the water surface is Phydro = oz f(z)gdz where f(z) represents the fluid density...

Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part I

Volker Lüders, Johannes Schoenherr, Marta Sośnicka, Stefan de Graaf, and Samuel Niedermann

AAPG Bulletin

.... = Triassic. CONCLUSIONS Episodic fluid flow in the LSB related to burial and in response to tectonic events led to the formation of many differently composed...

Impact of Thermal Maturity on Water Production in Organic-Rich Mudrocks

Archana Jagadisan, Laura M. Hernandez, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-phase fluid flow and water production in these reservoirs. Therefore, understanding the impacts of geochemistry, thermal maturity, and wettability...

Abstract: Overpressure Conditions and Reservoir Compartmentalization on the Scotian Margin; #90187 (2014)

Carla Dickson and Grant Wach

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... controls on the fluid distribution and pressures in the region. They suggested overpressure on the Scotian margin may be associated with particular trap...

Status of Geothermal Resources Development: ABSTRACT

James R. McNitt

AAPG Bulletin

... demands are still low. Low steam pressures make it necessary to use small generating units, i.e., on the order of 25 MW, but total capacities of several...

Geopressure Analysis in the Subsalt Knotty Head Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Kenneth E. Williams, Richard Redhead, and William Standifird

GCAGS Transactions

... is an increased resistivity in the shales adjacent to the sands where the pressure has been reduced by movement of formation waters...

Permeability Prediction from Geologic Models

Steven Bryant , Christopher Cade , David Mellor

AAPG Bulletin

...: Transactions of AIME, v. 146, p. 54-62. Avellaneda, M., and S. Torquato, 1991, Rigorous link between fluid permeability, electrical conductivity...

Abridged Abstract from PNG Convention Paper "Recent Developments in Prospect Mapping in the Hides/Karius Area of the Papuan Fold Belt"

A. M. Grainge

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... pressures) with conventional methods, based on geological survey and well data. This work has provided a much better resolution of the surface geological...

Abstract: Structurally Caused Reservoir Heterogeneity--Its Influence on Reservoir Performance, by H. Lewis; #91007 (1991)

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ABSTRACT: The Role of Multi-dimensional Basin Modeling in Integrated Pre-Drill Pressure Prediction, by Duppenbecker, Stephan J., James E. Iliffe, Mark J. Osborne, Toby Harrold; #90026 (2004)

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Integrated Formation Evaluation Using Multiple Geochemical Solutions to Optimize Reservoir Description and Evaluate Production Potential from Multiple Targets in the Northern Delaware Basin

John Speight, Todd Passmore, Bianca Cecconi, Placido Franco, Roberto Galimberti, Isaac Easow, Chi Ly

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... part of the lateral. Under these drilling conditions, formation fluids entered the well-bore, contaminating the drilling fluid and suppressing the signal...

Maintaining and Repairing Casing Integrity - Workshop Summary

Alan Snider, Don Vogtsberger, Ed Barret, Stefanie Merkel, Rodney Reynolds, Wes Randall, John Francis, Sam Toscano

PTTC

... is a function of formation permeability, differential pressure applied, time and the capacity of the slurry to lose fluid. Low fluid loss slurries, when squeezed...

Fault zone diffusion of pore pressure during production and effect on fault stability

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Abstract: WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE ERROR TOLERANCE TECHNIQUE FOR FORMATION EVALUATION COMPUTATION OF MINERAL VOLUMES AND FLUID SATURATIONS; #90143 (2012)

Muhammad Saqib and Rehan Hanif

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...Abstract: WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE ERROR TOLERANCE TECHNIQUE FOR FORMATION EVALUATION COMPUTATION OF MINERAL VOLUMES AND FLUID SATURATIONS; #90143 (2012...

Empirical and Numerical Geomechanical Approaches to Unconventional Resources, #80411 (2014).

Scott Mildren, Peter Popov, Rachael Nicolson, Simon Holford, Luke Titus

Search and Discovery.com

... of stresses and fluid pressures using numerical methods, which can be projected through time. In all cases, stress, strength and elastic property...

Some Economic Aspects of Water-Rock Interaction

Brian Hitchon

AAPG Special Volumes

... of fluid flow models from Hubbert's (1940) classic work, through Toth's (1962, 1963) earlier analytical methods, and to the more complex models...

The Vertical Fracture Propagation in Cross-Layer Fracturing of Continental Shale Oil Reservoirs: A New Numerical Simulation Study

Guopeng Huang, Minghui Li, Fujian Zhou, Guangbo Lu, Leyi Zheng, Yipeng Zhong, Jinqi Chu, Tianbo Liang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... primarily results from the constraining effects exerted by HF 1 and HF 3 within the sandstone formation. Furthermore, under medium-viscosity fluid conditions...