Source Rock Reservoirs are a Unique Petroleum System; #41138 (2013)

Kenneth E. Williams

Search and Discovery.com

... source + Most of the movable oil storage + Most of the deliverability - Pressure depletion PLUS liquid drop-out Haynesville Gas Kerogen Porosity Best...

Pore-Scale Imaging of Solid Bitumens: Insights for Unconventional Reservoir Characterization; #80580 (2017)

Tim E. Ruble, Kultaransingh (Bobby) Hooghan, William Dorsey, Wayne R. Knowles, Christopher D. Laughrey

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... – Better understand the nature and occurrence of bitumen. – Develop testing methods to distinguish movable oil versus immobile bitumen. – Use SEM imaging...

A new method for assessing tight oil, with application to the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusaer depression, Junggar Basin, China

Junqing Chen, Xiongqi Pang, Xulong Wang, and Yingxun Wang

AAPG Bulletin

..., 2015, The discussion of the evaluation method of shale oil movable resources amount and Palaeogene Shahejie Formation application effect...

Interpretation of Subsurface Hydrocarbon Shows

Tim T. Schowalter , Paul D. Hess

AAPG Bulletin

... on experience in the area and trial and error. Recent logging advances that calculate the inferred presence of movable oil may also act as a positive indicator...

Interpretation of Subsurface Hydrocarbon Shows; Tim T. Schowalter and Paul D. Hess; Search and Discovery Article #40001 (1999)

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Permian Basin of the United States: Chapter 16: PART I. WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

Edgar Wesley Owen

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the formation as a whole prior to development of any fracture system. The massive siltstones thus serve as a primary reservoir for the movable oil, and also some...

Reservoir characterization and static earth model for potential carbon dioxide storage in Upper Pennsylvanian cyclothems, Nebraska, United States

Valerie L. Smith, and R. M. Joeckel

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...; resistivity; Sh = Shale; UOil = movable oil; Uwater = movable water. The goal of the NMR logging in SHRU 86A was to accurately...

Oklahoma: The Ultimate Oil Opportunity

Dan T. Boyd

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... reviewed quoted irreducible oil saturations or movable oil volumes. However, with the three reservoir classes leaving behind 56% to 90% of the OOIP, in most...

Turning dry holes from disasters to exploration wisdom: Decision tree to determine the key failure mode for segments in conventional petroleum prospects

Alexei V. Milkov, and Jack M. Samis

AAPG Bulletin

... tester (MDT) pretests did not suggest the presence of any movable oil in this interval (Anadarko New Zealand Taranaki Company, 2015). Table 2...

Energy and Environment into the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge to Technology and Ingenuity

William L. Fisher

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of the field. In many reservoirs, less than half of the movable oil originally contained is drained with existing levels of development. Entirely new...

Geology of the West Linapacan “A” Field, Offshore Palawan, Philippines

Virgil A. Walston, Jr., Hans G. Oesterle

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... is made difficult by the fact that a considerable amount of readily movable oil is present in fractures, in addition to the oil in matrix porosity. Data...

Tar Mat Formation within the Hitch Oil Field, Seward County, Kansas

Raymond P. Sorenson, Sean P. Kelly, Dane Cantwell

Kansas Geological Society

... existence. The differences in fluid density or hydrogen index between movable oil and bitumen were too small to cause obvious changes in the total...

Novel Reservoir Quality Indices for Tight Oil Shale

Ravinath Kausik.K.V, Paul R. Craddock, Stacy Lynn Reeder, Robert L. Kleinberg, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Erik I. Rylander, Richard E. Lewis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... logs, using known petrophysical interpretations (Table 1). The total NMR volume (NMR) includes the combined volumes of movable and bound oil plus...

Hidden Success of Unconventional Oil Play Behind Robust Integration of Subsurface G and G Data. A Case Study of Shilaif Unconventional Oil Play, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Amena Alharthi, Muhammad Baig, Pierre Van Laer, Hassan Al Marzooqi, Abdulla Al Hashmi, Trevor Brooks, Aamer Al Bannay, Abdullah Al Blooshi, Mohammed Al Braiki

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... typing allowed identification of the zones with developed matrix porosity filled by movable oil. The full core-log data integration illustrates...

Well Log Assisted Evaluation of Heavy-Oil Resources--A Status Report: Section IV. Exploration Methods

W. H. Fertl

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and exhibits rather shallow depth of investigation. NML assists in identifying intervals with movable water in heavy-oil reservoirs; thus, it may...

Developments in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico in 1963

Charles R. Jones

AAPG Bulletin

... few years. Computed movable oil logs aided in the study of fluid content. Close coordination between geophysical and geological programs increased...

Petroleum System Charge Analysis for Liquid-Rich Unconventional Plays, #80537 (2016).

Michael Abrams

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... for Economically Successful LRU Assessing Oil in Place and Movable Hydrocarbons Key Take Aways *  Based  on  2 013  AAPG  GTW  keynote...

Energy and Environment into the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge to Technology and Ingenuity; WILLIAM L. FISHER; Search and Discovery Article #70003 (2000)

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Integration of Thermal and Solvent Extraction Methods for Improved Characterization of Hydrocarbon in Place and Producibility

Roberto Suarez-Rivera, W. D. Von Gonten, K. Vaughn, R. Zak, E. Carter, A. Kurup, N. Nelson, D. Hajek, M. Shaw

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-filled porosity (left) and MRP less-movable oil (right) with the corresponding values evaluated via NMR. The size of the symbols is again changed...

Extraction of Oil from the Bakken Shales with Supercritical CO2

Lu Jin, Steven Hawthorne, James Sorensen, Lawrence Pekot, Bethany Kurz, Steven Smith, Loreal Heebink, Nicholas Bosshart, José Torres, Chantsalmaa Dalkhaa, Charles Gorecki, Edward Steadman, John Harju

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in a kerogen pore where the movable oil and gas are recoverable in the extraction process while the adsorbed oil may stay in the pore. The oil layer...

Oil and Gas Developments in Australia in 1981

E. F. Durkee

AAPG Bulletin

... Formation on open-hole test, and 5.0 MMCFGD, together with a minor amount of condensate, movable oil, and water from the underlying Patchawarra...

Thermal maturity of the Barnett Shale determined from well-log analysis

Hank Zhao, Natalie B. Givens, Brad Curtis

AAPG Bulletin

... bitumen), and the thickness of the shale. The hydrocarbon (defined as the generated and movable oil and gas in the shale) molecule's size is linked...

Fractured tight sandstone oil and gas reservoirs: A new play type in the Dongpu depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Lianbo Zeng, Hui Su, Xiaomei Tang, Yongmin Peng, Lei Gong

AAPG Bulletin

... permeability of nonfractured sandstones, movable oil comes from the fracture system, and fluid in the matrix porosity is mostly immobile on the time...

Major Oil Plays of South and South-Central Texas

Noel Tyler, Thomas Ewing

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... of the reservoir was the recognition of meandering abandoned-channel-fill facies (mud plugs) that segment the reservoir, preventing movable oil from...

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions through CO2 EOR in Texas

MARK H. HOLTZ, ETER K. NANCE, ROBERT J. FINLEY

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... is available for sequestering CO2. The movable oil volume (MOV), or the theoretical amount of oil that can be removed in a water or gas flood...