The Power of Predictive Analytics in Oil Field Development: Integrating Machine Learning with Reservoir Hydrocarbon Data to Enable Enhanced Oil Recovery of Hugin Formation within the Theta Vest Structure

Lilik T. Hardanto, Fenny Chrisman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and the concept that computers can learn without being programmed to perform specific tasks. Machine learning applications that are commonly used in the oil...

Probability maps of reservoir presence and sensitivity analysis in stratigraphic forward modeling

Véronique Gervais, Mathieu Ducros, and Didier Granjeon

AAPG Bulletin

... and the simulator outputs. If these functions provide accurate predictions for any values of the parameters within their uncertainty range, they can be used...

Geochemical Allocation of Commingled Oil Production and/or Commingled Gas Production from 2-6 Pay Zones, #90110 (2010)

Mark A. McCaffrey, David K. Baskin, Brooks A. Patterson, Jeremy E. Dahl, Kate S. Weissenburger

Search and Discovery.com

... differences were measured in the end member oils, in various artificial mixtures of the end member oils, and in the commingled oil. The data were then used...

An Integrated Approach to Stimulated Reservoir Interpretations of the Permian Wolfcamp Shale

Dylan R. Collins, Gene Monson, Weichun Chu, Anthony Quinn

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is then used to scale reservoir properties in a geocellular model (including porosity and water saturation or bulk volume hydrocarbons) under...

Geostatistical facies modeling trends for oolitic tidal sand shoals

Jason W. Rush, and Eugene C. Rankey

AAPG Bulletin

.... Facies probability functions (n = 7) were used for the vertical component of the local kriging mean. The different 2-D facies probability grids (n...

Abstract: Going Beyond Br/Cl Ratios to Distinguish Mid-Continent Oil Field Brines, by Banaszak, Konrad J.; #90031 (2004)

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Isotope Geochemistry of Clay Minerals

Eric Eslinger, David Pevear

Special Publications of SEPM

...) 300 4 8 6 O 20 100 200 10 12 14 Mineral-water oxygen isotope fractionation curves. Figure 7.4. The equations used to draw the lines were...

3D seismic survey design by maximizing the spectral gap

Yijun Zhang, Ziyi Yin, Oscar López, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... that is highly suitable for 3D wavefield reconstruction based on matrix completion. This cheap while effective optimization scheme has the potential to scale...

Hemispheric Asymmetry of the Marine Stratigraphic Record: Conceptual Proof of a Unipolar Ice Cap

Martin A. Perlmutter, Roy E. Plotnick

Special Publications of SEPM

...) and Berger and Loutre (1988) have developed reliable equations for the orbital cycles for the last 10 million years. These equations can be used to plot...

3D Seismic Facies Classification on CPU and GPU HPC Clusters

Sergio Botelho, Vishal Das, Davide Vanzo, Pandu Devarakota, Vinay Rao, Santi Adavani

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... features, seismic data is also used in identification of stratigraphic features that are potential targets for drilling. The identification...

Explaining Well Performance Patterns: Application of Scaled Hydrocarbon Head Potential to Permian, Anadarko Basins and Eagle Ford for Better Resource Assessment and Development

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Abstract: Eustatic Control of Tertiary Hydrocarbon Deposits, Central California Borderland Basins, by H. L. Cousminer; #90981 (1994).

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Abstract: Where Does the Proppant Go? Examining the Application of Electromagnetic Methods for Hydraulic Fracture Characterization; #90224 (2015)

Lindsey J. Heagy, Douglas W. Oldenburg, and Jiuping Chen

Search and Discovery.com

... and production to expand to shales and tight formations and this has changed the way a drilling target is defined. Fracturing is used to create pathways...

Characterization of Early-Time Performance of a Well with a Vertical Fracture Producing at Constant Pressure

Nicholas Wiewiorowski, Alex Valdes-Perez, Thomas A. Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...). The qD'(tD) functions are also quite complicated in Fig. 15, and as with Fig. 14 — again, this is due to the large number of variables being used...

Fast Marching Method Based Rapid Simulation Accounting for Gravity

Tsubasa Onishi, Atsushi Iino, Hye Young Jung, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... analysis (Song and Ehlig-Economides 2011) are commonly used for fracture characterization and well performance predictions. While these analytical...

Abstract: Investigation of the Relationship between Seismic Velocity Dispersion Principles and the Permeability of Subsurface Porous Materials; #90174 (2014)

Adrienne Campbell, Winnie Pun, and Bernd Milkereit

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... Production Well Program. The P wave velocity dispersion has great potential to be correlated with subsurface permeability. If this promising link can...

A method to evaluate pore structures of fractured tight sandstone reservoirs using borehole electrical image logging

Liang Xiao, Junran Li, Zhiqiang Mao, and Hongyan Yu

AAPG Bulletin

... that for each type of rock, two power functions must be used to express the relationship between 1/POR and Pc. Figure 8. The relationships between...

Streamline Oil and Gas Production Facilities Maintenance with an In-House Computerized Maintenance Management System

Bambang Handoko, Syaiful Anwar, Hadi Siswanto, Mohamad Fauzan Amir, Rossupanji Pribadi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., asset registers, authorization system, work order, work requests, Standard Operation Procedures, KPIs and other functions. It boasts features...

Abstract: Nonlinear interactions of shear waves in an elastic medium

Lauren Hayes, Alison Malcolm

Atlantic Geology

... can be used to characterize the fractures in the sample, which gives us further information on potential permeability within the sample. Preliminary...

ABSTRACT: A Template for Enhanced 3-D Geological Modelling of Wave-Dominated Deltaic Reservoirs from the Tertiary Niger Delta, by Simon A. Smith; #91019 (1996)

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Improving Marcellus Imaging Through the Use of FWI and Joint Tomographic Inversion for Velocity and Epsilon

David McCann

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the potential of mine collapse. In the 19th century, total extraction methods started to be applied. With the total extraction method, and the removal...

The Duvernay Formation: Integrating Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Geophysics to Identify Sweet Spots in a Liquids-Rich Shale Play, Kaybob Alberta.

Lindsay Dunn, Justin A. Humenjuk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the results of seismic inversion using equations 1 and 2. (V p 2  2Vs 2 )  Poisson's Ratio =  2(V p 2  Vs 2 )   (1) Vp = Compressional wave...

Accounting for sediment sources and sinks in the linear regression analysis of the suspended sediment load of streams: The Rio Puerco, New Mexico, as an example

Isam E. Amin, Alan M. Jacobs

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... through the monthly suspended sediment-load data. The regression equations of these lines were then used to calculate the amounts of sediment gained...

Extended Abstract: Water Influx Predictions in Reservoirs with Aquifer Drive Using the Two-Phase Reservoir Integral Type Pseudo-Pressure with Applicability in Gas Hydrate Reservoirs

Melvin Kome, Mohd Amro

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... effective tool in simplifying and solving complex diffusivity equations in reservoirs. Since its introduction by [1] in addressing the non-linear...

Complementary Role of Multi-Component and Conventional 3D Seismic for Risk Reduction in Unconventional Resource Plays … A Marcellus Shale Example

Tony Rebec, Zhiyong Zhao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-wave impedance contrasts. This paper answers this question for onshore unconventional plays using the Marcellus Shale as an example. It shows that using...