Fracture Curving Between Tightly Spaced Horizontal Wells

Reza Safari, Xiaodan Ma, Richard E. Lewis, Uno Mutlu, Ahmad Ghassemi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Horizontal well placed along minimum horizontal stress direction, boundaries are set as an impermeable condition and zero normal displacement. (b) Fracture...

Consolidation in a Ring Fence Regime, an Incentive to Encourage Exploration?

Bambang Dhanisworo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Tranche Petroleum ("FTP" will be discussed below) for a minimum of 10% of the petroleum production which is not shared with the Contractor; (iii...

Sampling a Stimulated Rock Volume: An Eagle Ford Example

Kevin T. Raterman, Helen E. Farrell, Oscar S. Mora, Aaron L. Janssen, Gustavo A. Gomez, Seth Busetti, Jamie McEwen, Michael Davidson, Kyle Friehauf, James Rutherford, Ray Reid, Ge Jin, Baishali Roy, Mark Warren

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... over 1,000ft from the stimulated wells and cross P1, P2 and P3. This clustering is perpendicular to the minimum horizontal insitu stress and is thus...

Investigation of Production-Induced Stress Changes for Infill Well Stimulation in Eagle Ford Shale

Xuyang Guo, Kan Wu, John Killough

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are parent well bottomhole pressure, parent well fracture geometry, differential stress (the difference between maximum and minimum horizontal stress...

Trend Analysis: Chapter 18: Part IV. Managing the Business

Michael D. Smith, Donald R. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

... for each completion are scanned. For the primary stream, significant data such as the initial production rate, peak production rate, and production delay...

Spherulites in Calcrete Laminar Crusts: Biogenic CACO3 Precipitation as a Major Contributor to Crust Formation

Eric P. Verrecchia , Pierre Freytet , Karin E. Verrecchia, Jean-Louis Dumont

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). The birefringence varies along the same fiber between maximum and minimum (Fig. 4C). This optical property is caused by crystal dislocations resulting...

Assessment of CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Methane Potential in Unminable Coal Seams of the Illinois Basin

Maria Mastalerz, John Rupp, Agnieszka Drobniak, Satya Harpalani, Andrew Anderson, Chris Korose, Scott Frailey, David Morse

AAPG Special Volumes

... and ECBM production potential, these assumptions, among others, were considered: (1) the minimum thickness for identifying, perforating, and producing...

Critical Interrelated Geologic, Economic, and Political Problems Facing the Geologist, Petroleum Industry, and Nation

Lewis G. Weeks

AAPG Bulletin

... of the next two decades a minimum of 2,000 billion bbl of new oil must be added to meet the production demands of the period and still leave a 20-year...

Structural Geology and Evolution of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Deep Gulf of Mexico (1)

PAUL WEIMER and RICHARD T. BUFFLER

AAPG Bulletin

... parts of the fold belt. The approximate minimum age of the folded strata suggests that the major deformation took place mainly during the middle...

Building a three-dimensional near-surface geologic and petrophysical model based on borehole data: A case study from Chemery, Paris Basin, France

Paola Sala, Marcel Frehner, Nicola Tisato, O. Adrian Pfiffner

AAPG Bulletin

...-dimensional borehole data followed in this study.Lithologic interfaces are reconstructed interpolating the well markers using a minimum curvature...

Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas

Katherine J. Whidden, Janet K. Pitman, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Ofori N. Pearson, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Scott A. Kinney, Justin E. Birdwell, Stanley T. Paxton, Lauri A. Burke, and Russell F. Dubiel

AAPG Bulletin

... EUR value is estimated based on the calculated minimum and maximum EUR values and production trends over time (i.e., increasing versus decreasing...

PTTC Network News - Vol. 9, No.2 - 2003

James Bruning, Lance Cole

PTTC

..., but an equally important aspect is that independents are not completely convinced that newer technologies work and are cost effective, so they delay. PTTC...

Oil Discovery Index Rates and Projected Discoveries of the Free World

L. F. Ivanhoe

AAPG Special Volumes

...' geologic knowledge about the area being studied. A minimum of six independent opinions, from both qualified petroleum geologists and engineers, are probably...

Abstract: Using Rotational Polarization and Reflectance Crossplots for Determining First-Cycle Vitrinite for Maturation Studies

M-A. L. Malinconico

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... of maximum and minimum reflectance data collected on a quantitative reflectance microscope with rotational polarization and then plotted on reflectance...

Geologic Results of Gravimetric Investigations in the Northwestern Cis-Caucasus

M. R. Pustil’nikov, Ye. U. Savvina, A. A. Klimarev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... and maxima of various intensity and trend. The largest anomaly that is clearly expressed on the map is the Kerchensko-Krasnodar regional gravity minimum...

Maximum Paleostress Orientation from Joint Shape, by A. Lacazette; #90986 (1994).

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ABSTRACT: Analysis of the Success of Cavity Completions in the Fairway Zone of the San Juan Basin, by R. Muthukumarappan, Rudy E. Rogers, S. Dana Weida; #91020 (1995).

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Radiolarian Ratios and Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary: ABSTRACT

Kenneth J. McMillen

AAPG Bulletin

... abruptly down core to a distinct minimum in cores from the up er slope as well as in cores from deeper water. This radiolarian minimum occurs just below...

Lithofacies and Depositional Environments of Monterey Shale, California: ABSTRACT

Robert E. Garrison, K. A. Pisciotto

AAPG Bulletin

..., Monterey phosphatic shales probably represent phosphatization of shelf-slope-basin muds near the boundaries of the oxygen minimum zone. Nodular and pelletal...

ABSTRACT: Tectonic Stresses Facilitating Natural Fracturing in Overpressured Reservoirs - Inferences from Numerical Modelling, by Fred Beekman and Tore Skar; #90913(2000).

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A Discussion Of Stress Evolution During The Lifetime Of A Field And The Impact On Field Development Design

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ABSTRACT: The Use of Seismic Impedance to Locate a Discovery Well, South of Ghawar Field; #90051 (2006)

Thomas Loretto, Adel Al-Mousa

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... Well 2 location did not fall within an impedance minimum. The impedance minimum is the ideal, given an inverse relationship between impedance...

ABSTRACT: Are Present-Day Stresses Inferred from Petroleum Exploration Data Consistent with Neotectonic Structures in Australia?; #90061 (2006)

Richard R. Hillis

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... the minimum horizontal stress is estimated, at best provide an estimate of the minimum principal stress. Hence petroleum data do not generally yield...

ABSTRACT: CO2-Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure Predicting Model; #90061 (2006)

Eissa Mohamed El-M. Shokir

Search and Discovery.com

...ABSTRACT: CO2-Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure Predicting Model; #90061 (2006) Eissa Mohamed El-M. Shokir CO2-Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure...

The Petroleum Systems and Future Potential of the South Sumatra Basin

David Ginger, Kevin Fielding

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... sufficient to delay or prohibit commercial development (i.e. greater than 50%). Although there are exceptions, moderate to low carbon dioxide content...