History of Advanced Recovery Technologies in the Wilmington Field

George E. Otott Jr.

Pacific Section of AAPG

... description. The Ranger VI detailed model was constructed after building two small, coarse Ranger VI water throughput models, one small Ranger VI fault...

Modeling the Significance of Mechanical Interfaces to Fracture Propagation and Morphology … Geomechanical Models Derived from Outcrop Analysis

E.S. Petrie, J.P. Evans

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... applying the vertical and horizontal stresses as uniform pressure (Figure 3A). In this paper we provide results from two simple models 1) a three layer...

New method for monitoring steam injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and for finding sources of geothermal heat

Gordon Stove, G. Colin Stove, Michael Robinson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... reservoirs may be summarised in TABLE 2. The same temperature models may be applied to extremely cold ground layers such as permafrost zones, in this case...

Integrated Geological Modeling and Volumetric Uncertainty Evaluation for the Abadi Gas Field

Kuniaki Takayama, Koichi Kihara, Takahiro Zushi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Zushi** ABSTRACT A suite of 3D geological models for the Abadi gas field discovered in the Arafura Sea has been constructed by integrating all...

Must Geologists Have High Spatial Ability to be Successful in Visual Penetration?; #120158 (2014)

Dale Klopfer, Charles Onasch, Guy Zimmerman, Laura Marie Leventhal, Justin Gilkey, Brandi A. Klein, and Samuel D. Jaffee

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... the LK group, but there was a common set of blocks across the two groups:    Horizontal Layers: dipping E, S, or SE (north was to the back...

Anisotropic Controlled-Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) Inversion near the “Tiger” Well in Alaminos Canyon Block 818, Gulf of Mexico

Cam Kanhalangsy, Nick Golubev, Jurgen J. Zach

GCAGS Transactions

... on an inversion strategy with increasing complexity, starting from plane-layer inversion of individual receivers to build background resistivity models...

ABSTRACT: Seismic-Based Geomechaical Modeling Provides Attributes for Directional Well Planning; #90013 (2003)

EVGENII KOZLOV, IGOR GARAGASH, ALLEN LOWRIE

Search and Discovery.com

... cubes of expected pore pressure, intensity of fracturing caused by shear strains, and parameters of principal horizontal components of the stress...

Compactional Features in Lower Ordovician Carbonates: Occurrence, Preservation, and Quantitative Assessment

R. K. Goldhammer

West Texas Geological Society

... (cm-scale) of carbonate grainstone and mudstone. Upon compaction, the carbonate sand-rich layers deformed in a more-competent to brittle manner...

Fluid-Flow Characterization of Dolomitized Carbonate-Ramp Reservoirs: San Andres Formation (Permian) of Seminole Fteld and Algerita Escarpment, Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico

F. Jerry Lucia, Charles Kerans, Fred P. Wang

Special Publications of SEPM

... layers and bypassing and trapping of high oil saturation in less permeable layers (Fig. 16). More traditional models that average petrophysical data over...

Merging Physics and Data-Driven Methods for Field-Wide Bottomhole Pressure Estimation in Unconventional Wells

Diego Molinari, Sathish Sankaran

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... layers (Figure 2). Figure 2. Hybrid models with physics-based architecture URTeC 5261 6 (3.) Physics-based regularization – In this class...

The Impact of Pore Size and Kerogen Maturity on the Behavior of Water in Organic Kerogen Nanopores in Shales

Yinan Hu, Deepak Devegowda, Richard F. Sigal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... characteristics of multilayer adsorption. This study employs organic pore models that bear structural resemblances to well-known kerogen molecular...

Natural fractures in tight-oil sandstones: A case study of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China

Wenya Lyu, Lianbo Zeng, Sibin Zhou, Xiaosheng Du, Dongling Xia, Guoping Liu, Jian Li, and Jianqiao Weng

AAPG Bulletin

... sandstones. Small faults may provide fluid-flow channels across different layers. According to analogous outcrops, cores, and borehole image logs, small...

Integrated Geological and Engineering Evaluation of the Gobe Fields: Part II. Reservoir Simulation and Development Plan

S. A. Azizi-Yarand

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... field geostatistical models which included all 190 vertical layers. The results of these models were utilised to estimate pseudorelative permeability...

Development of a Novel Compositional Simulation Approach to Model Recovery from Volatile Oil Reservoirs

E. Syahrial, T. S. Daltaban

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... after 1050 days of gas injection. Unlike homogeneous anisotropic and horizontal models discussed in the previous section, there is a substantial...

Comparison of deterministic with stochastic fracture models in water-flooding numerical simulations

Mandefro W. Belayneh, Stephan K. Matthai, Martin J. Blunt, Stephen F. Rogers

AAPG Bulletin

... the horizontal effective permeability and flux ratio determined for the DFM models. Water-flooding numerical simulation was also conducted on the model...

Multiscale Modeling to Evaluate the Mechanisms Controlling CO2-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage in the Bakken Formation

Jose A. Torres, Lu Jin, Nicholas W. Bosshart, Lawrence J. Pekot, James A. Sorensen, Kyle Peterson, Parker W. Anderson, Steven B. Hawthorne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and DSU models were created to investigate different situations (Table 4). On one hand, the singlestage model represents a horizontal well...

Forward Modeling to Improve Seismic Acquisition Design

Paula A.C. Barbosa, Jose A. Jaramillo, Jose H. Olaya

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... that the subsurface is composed of flat layers of constant velocities. Consequently, in complex tectonic environments, subsurface target attributes may significantly...

How Much Do Natural Fractures Matter in the Permian Basin? Systematic Study Using Cores, Image Logs, Physics Based Models, RTA, and Offset Well Fiber Data

Deepen Gala, Leonel Gomez, Mary K. Johns, Piyush Pankaj, Rodrick Myers, Holger Meier, Darren McLendon

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...How Much Do Natural Fractures Matter in the Permian Basin? Systematic Study Using Cores, Image Logs, Physics Based Models, RTA, and Offset Well Fiber...

Reservoir 3-Dimensional Characterization Models for Wolfberry and Wolfbone Unconventional Resource Assessment

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Perspectives on Horizontal Drilling in Western North America

Philip H. Stark

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... drilling and production histories to provide performance models for future plays. Table 2. Horizontal-well completions in western Canada, by province...

Amplitude inversion of OBS direct arrivals for seabed elastic properties

James Gaiser, Moacyr de Souza Bazerra, James Simmons

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... for the elastic properties VP, VS and density !. We estimate these properties by inverting the amplitude variations with ray parameter (horizontal slowness...

Mechanisms of Natural Fracturing in a Sedimentary Basin

Kinji Magara

AAPG Bulletin

... horizontal stresses in both hydrostatically and abnormally pressured zones there. In a tectonically relaxed basin, such as the Gulf Coast...

A New Approach Solving Lateral Wells Complexity, Integrating Borehole Acoustics Reflection Survey and Facies Derived Borehole Images for a Better Completion Strategy, Wolfcamp, West Texas, #42208 (2018).

E.V. Arteaga, C.C. Contreras, E. Haddad, G. Martinez, V.Vallega, O. Zened

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..., Anisotropic mechanical properties with their correspondence minimum horizontal stress profile along the well combined with the compressional borehole...

Wellbore Stability Analysis of Horizontal Drilling in Bowen and Surat Coal Seam Gas Wells

Ruizhi Zhong, Christopher R. Leonardi, Travis R. Mitchell, Ray L. Johnson Jr.

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Wellbore Stability Analysis of Horizontal Drilling in Bowen and Surat Coal Seam Gas Wells Ruizhi Zhong, Christopher R. Leonardi, Travis R. Mitchell...

A comparative study of reservoir modeling techniques and their impact on predicted performance of fluvial-dominated deltaic reservoirs

Peter E. K. Deveugle, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Jonathan Stewart, Martyn D. Clough, Thaddeus Ehighebolo, Michael E. Farrell, Craig S. Calvert, James K. Miller

AAPG Bulletin

... for a horizontal waterflood of the nonupscaled models. Pranter et al. (2008, in press) used geologic (static) and flow-based (dynamic) connectivity of sand bodies...