Production and Drilling Techniques and Costs for Deep Edwards Limestone in McMullen and LaSalle Counties of Southwest Texas

Duward W. Dassow

GCAGS Transactions

... at the top of Midway shale. Mud weights of 11.1 to 11.5 to be used when topping Edwards. A new surfactant type mud is being used to cut mud...

Ensemble Based Reservoir Modeling of Produced Water Disposal Injection Improving Pressure Prediction and Derisking Bakken Development Operations - A Case Study from the Williston Basin

Sushanta Bose, Cayden OneBear, Miguel A. Jakymec, Josh Miller, Will Yancey, Gaurav Sharma

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of drilling mud weights. Data analytics have been used to filter the low confidence data. An array of equiprobable static realizations (initial ensemble...

Formation Temperature and Formation Pressure Affect the Oil and Gas Distribution in Tertiary Gulf Coast Sediments

Walter H. Fertl , W. G. Leach

GCAGS Transactions

... mud weights to represent the onset of abnormal pressure and high-pressured environments. Production data from 139 south Louisiana fields were plotted...

Indication of Proximity of High-Pressure Fluid Reservoir, Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

James M. Forgotson, Sr.

AAPG Bulletin

... a high-pressure fluid reservoir. Research by mud logging companies and drilling technicians has resulted in the detection of the possible proximity...

ABSTRACT: Formation Damage Caused by Excessive Borehole Fluid Pressures During Environmental Drilling in Unconsolidated Coastal Plain Sediments: A Petroleum Engineering Analog; #90013 (2003)

DOUGLAS E. WYATT

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... grout and mud weights exceed the CPT measured Effective Overburden Pressure or the calculated Minimum Formation Fracture Pressure. It may...

Geomechanics Assessment For Mature Fields - A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Pressure-Stress Evaluation of Wells Drilled at the Angore Field in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

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Occurrence and Detection of Abnormal Pressures from Geological and Drilling Data, North Sumatra Basin

A. Aziz, L. H. Bolt

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... ppg to permit successful drilling through the overpressured interval with mud weights up to 16.5 ppg. 1. McClure, L.J., 1977, "Drill Abnormal...

Pore Pressure Modeling Using Multivariate Geostatistics, #42299 (2018).

Flavia Braz Ponte, Francisco Fabio de Araujo Ponte, Adalberto da Silva, Alberto Garcia de Figueiredo Jr.,

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...) Statistical exploratory analysis; (3) Variography and (4) Estimate model. Results At the first step, 1D pore pressure models gradients were performed...

In-Situ Stresses, Rock Strength, Fluid Pressure, and Implications for Wellbore Stability and Oil and Gas Development in the Senoro and Tiaka Fields, Sulawesi, Indonesia

William L. Power, Agus Tjengdrawira, Sitio Aprianto, Sugiyanto Suwono, Syahriza Ghanny Rachman, Muhammad Wijanarko, Dwi Hudya Febrianto, Anies Baasir, Deddy Hasanusi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of stability. If isotropic material without fissile or weak bedding plane surfaces is considered, the analysis predicts that minimum mud weights of 8.5-10.5...

Drilling with A Floating Mud Cap

Rod Harris

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... East Report, 1978. Mud-cap drilling helps Aramco whip pressure, lost circulation zones, Oil and Gas Journal (June 26, 1970) 97-114. Spinks, R.B....

Geomechanical Analysis for CCS Study in the Subang Structure, Northern West Java Basin

Olifia Ammara Venty, Teddy Eka Putra, Nora Desiani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to analyze the safety of a CCS system involves two approaches: stress failure and pore failure. Pore pressure analysis uses the Eaton method, mud weight...

Observations from Exploration Drilling in an Active Mud Volcano in the Southern Basin of Trinidad, West Indies

Maria Henry, Michael Pentilla, Darrell Hoyer

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the shallow, mudflow-rich part of the hole. Drilling issues included lost circulation intervals and the necessity for high mud weights (up to 17.5...

Drilling Optimization Using Mechanical Earth Model in an Over-Pressured Field in East Java, Indonesia: A Case Study

M. Khawadja Kamaluddin, Andi M. Adiwiarta, Somesh Bahuguna, Cicik Sukma Setya Wahyu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... analysis conducted in order to recommend the safe and stable mud weights for drilling the proposed wellsafely and efficiently. In November 2009, Schlumberger...

Manage the Pressure„Drive the Results

Christopher James Bernard, Randy Lovorn, Derrick Lewis, Emad Bakri, Saad Saeed

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., fracture, and collapse pressure profile in the well being drilled. This approach could lead to mud weights that are higher than those actually...

Geomechanics Aided Solutions For Improving Drilling And Completions By Integrating Acoustics Measurements For The First Time In Mandapeta Field, Onshore Kg-Pg Basin, India

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Real-Time Pore Pressure Monitoring Optimizes Drilling 4 Deep Water Wells in Kutei and Tarakan Basin - Offshore East Kalimantan

Graziano Capone, Giovanni Bucari, Somesh Bahuguna, Ngurah Beni Setiawan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as a result of a reduced lithostatic column (longer water column). This results in a relatively narrow mud-weight window between the pore pressure...

Abstract: Basin Evolution and Petroleum Generation in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, by D. O. Hayba and E. L. Rowan; #90008 (2002).

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ABSTRACT: Analysis of a Long Cane Creek Horizontal: New Insight into an Unconventional Tight Oil Resource Play, Paradox Basin, Utah; #90106 (2010)

Larry Rasmussen, Tom Smith, Lynn Canter, Mark Sonnenfeld, John Forster

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... hydraulic fracture barriers as well. Mud weights progressively increasing from 11.5 to 15+ ppg were required during horizontal drilling, and a later...

Exploring Basin-Scale Relations and Unsupervised Classification to Quantify and Automate the Definition of Assessment Units in USGS Continuous Oil and Gas Resource Assessments

Chilisa M. Shorten, Scott A. Kinney, Katherine J. Whidden

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of oil equivalent, oil and gas gravities, mud weights from initial well test, depth pressure ratio, and excess pressure. A raster for each variable...

Regionally Interpolated Pore Pressure Model Utilizing Multiple Empirical Methods in the Delaware Basin

Yamin Li, Jon Roberts

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... underbalanced without flow events. Mud weights may also be affected by the previous experience drilling in the area, which may mask localized pressure...

De-Risk Drilling Highly Unstable Overburden Section of Deep Water Prospects in the Madura-Flores Sub-Basin: An Application of Basin-Scale Overpressure Modelling From 3D Numerical Simulation of Sediment Compaction and Formation Water Flow

Nicolas Bianchi, Toshiya Miyazaki, Haruhiko Arisaka

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Indirect pressure measurements include mud-weights and drilling events, which provide semi-quantitative (and qualitative) information, including range...

Rapid Methods for Assessing Formation Pressures: An Example from the Lower Cretaceous of the Greater Green River Basin

R.A. Levey

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...). 71re hlounrcrm Geologisr. Val 29. No. 2 (Apnl 1992). p .' INDIRECT PRESSURE MEASUREMENT Data Source Measurement When recorded Drilling mud...

The pore pressure regime of the northern Gulf of Mexico: Geostatistical estimation and regional controls

Scott Morris, Brian Vestal, Kelsey O’Neill, Michael Moretti, Cesar Franco, Nathan Hitchings, Jianmin Zhang, and John D. Grace

AAPG Bulletin

... in the study. Analysis of initial reservoir pressure gradients and mud weights were kept separate in the study, although the results were compared. Initial...

Real-Time Monitoring and Evaluation of Actual vs. Simulated Torque and Drag in Deviated, Long Lateral, Open-Hole Gas Wells, #42216 (2018).

Ahmad Kadura, Roberto Vega, Ahmad Atef Hashmi, Roberto Duran, Bilal Tariq, Carlos Parra

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... as the highcirculating-pressure scenarios that led to loose OH laterals in similar previous wells. Using the evaluation tool significantly increased...