Is Pumping Large Volume Sand Fracs Sustainable?

Robert Shelley, Wadhah Al-Tailji, Nijat Guliyev, Stanislav Sheludko

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... essentially are the same. Despite the difference in the average rate of bit penetration which was due to drilling conditions, there is a strong case...

Breakthrough in Tripping And Running Completion System Technique During Underbalanced Drilling Operation Changes the Horizon in West Java Field Future Development

Andri M. Hidayat, Fikri Irawan, Yoshua P. Iskandar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... using UBD approach. The objectives were to increase and maintain production rate from deeper layer formation. Several problems during the operations...

Geothermal Energy Overview and Deep Permeable Strata Geothermal Energy (DPSGE) Resources in The Permian Basin

D. B. Swift, R. Erdlac, Jr.

West Texas Geological Society

... on the bit, drilling rate, drill bit design, and the thermal properties of the host rock, also affect BHT readings. Ideally, temperature measurements...

Hydrology of a Wave-Dominated Estuary: Lake Calcasieu, Southwest Louisiana

S. L. Nichol , R. Boyd , S. Penland

GCAGS Transactions

.... Lake levels in Calcasieu are rising at an average rate of 0.62 cm/yr and are in accord with regional sea level trends for the northern Gulf of Mexico...

New 4¾-in. High-Resolution Ultrasonic Borehole Imaging for Unconventional Reservoir Evaluation

Peng Li, Jonathan Lee, Ahmed Taher, Richard Coates, Rodney Marlow

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... high revolution per minute (RPM) and rate of penetration (ROP) conditions while still maintaining high-resolution images. However, the ROP/RPM ratio...

Linear "Lower Continental Rise Hills" Off Cape Hatteras

Peter A. Rona

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... rearrangement of the particles in definite phases as a function of increasing rate of fluid discharge as follows: 1. Threshold of grain movement. 2...

Uranium Distributions in Recent Skeletal Carbonates

Johannes H. Schroeder , Donald S. Miller, Gerald M. Friedman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...; all others were air-dried after rinsing. In order to remove the organic matter, the samples were immersed in H2O2, the penetration of which...

Chemically Enhance Hydraulic Fracturing by Maintaining Proppant and Formation Integrity

Shawn Lu, Chao Yang, Kevin Smith, Chad Bruce

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to proppant pack and formation, high recovery rate, pressure drop in the pipe during placement, gel breaking property, and compatibility with reservoir fluid...

Hydrology, Geology, and Surface Water Quality in Bayou Chene and Lacassine Bayou in Southwestern Louisiana

Keith D. Moore, Durga D. Poudel, Timothy W. Duex

GCAGS Transactions

.... In addition, data on soils, climate, water depth, flow rate, and historical water quality were gathered from secondary sources. Regression analysis...

Sources of Data

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... drilling the wellbore. A written description will be made for the lithology of the drill cuttings. Accompanying the lithology log is a record of the rate...

Sedimentology of Southwestern Roads Region, U.S. Virgin Islands-Origin and Rate of Sediment Accumulation

Jack L. Kindinger, Ronald J. Miller, Charles W. Holmes

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Sedimentology of Southwestern Roads Region, U.S. Virgin Islands-Origin and Rate of Sediment Accumulation Jack L. Kindinger, Ronald J. Miller, Charles...

Petroleum Developments in Australia in 1979

E. F. Durkee

AAPG Bulletin

... continued at a rate in 1979 comparable with that of 1978. The more active states were Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. There were...

Shallow Structure, Stratigraphy, and Carbonate Sedimentary Processes of West Florida Upper Continental Slope

Larry J. Doyle , Charles W. Holmes

AAPG Bulletin

... at over 30 cm/1,000 years (11.8 in./1,000 years) for at least 25,000 years--a surprisingly high rate--over an order of magnitude greater than...

Abstract: Real-time Bit Wear Prediction and Deployment Validation in Challenging Hard and Heterogeneous Sandstones using 3D Detailed and Simplified Physics-Based Progressive Wear Models; #91204 (2023)

Guodong (David) Zhan, William B. Contreras Otalvora, Xu Huang, Reed Spencer, John Bomidi

Search and Discovery.com

... cutting element. The bit diameter and bit total penetration rate is utilized to calculate the equivalent cutting area of the single cutting element...

Preliminary Geology of Oakdale Field, Northwest Raton Basin, Huerfano County, Colorado, by John Worrall, #20017 (2004)

Search and Discovery.com

Evolution of Structural Interpretations in Lagifu/Hedinia Field, Papua New Guinea

P. R. Lamerson

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... Form ation sequence has not been penetrated. Oldest penetration to date has been in the Iorogabaiu-1X well 8 km southwest of the Hedinia anticline...

Steamboat Butte Oil Field, Fremont County, Wyoming

H. E. Barton

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 1/4 of Sec. 31, T. 4 N., R. 1 W., was completed, March, 1944, at the total depth of 7,034 feet, with a 263-foot penetration of the Tensleep sandstone...

Expectations from Uranium Exploration

John W. Gabelman

AAPG Bulletin

... is uncommon in the reduced saturated zone where corrosive penetration by atypical ground waters seems to be required. Reserves in sandstone and vein districts...

Salt-Dome Techniques: Estimating Dome Growth Rates: Unit 25: Techniques

Martin P. A. Jackson, William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... - Last_Page 140------- To understand the geologic history of strata around a salt dome, we need to consider the rate of rise of the salt relative...

Calcification at Fanning Atoll: ABSTRACT

S. V. Smith, Francois Pesret

AAPG Bulletin

... to estimate water residence time and the rate of various CO2 flux processes, particularly calcification. Residence time of water in the lagoon is about 1...

Sea-Level Control on Source-Rock Development: Perspectives from the Holocene Black Sea, the Mid-Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America, and the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin

Michael A. Arthur, Bradley B. Sageman

Special Publications of SEPM

...); and (3) an expanding “puddle” of anoxic water due to interplay of thickening water column and decreased accumulation rate of bulk sediment (Wignall...

Wolfcamp Hydraulic Fracture Test Site Drained Rock Volume and Recovery Factors Visualized by Scaled Complex Analysis Method (CAM): Emulating Multiple Data Sources (Production Rates, Water Cuts, Pressure Gauges, Flow Regime Changes, and b-Sigmoids)

Ruud Weijermars, Kiran Nandlal, Murat Faith Tugan, Ron Dusterhoft, Neil Stegent

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Computation of the instantaneous b-value from well rate decline data reveals the occurrence of b-sigmoid patterns, which provide a more detailed indication...

PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION OF TROPHIC CONDITIONS IN A CARBONATE RAMP ENVIRONMENT: THE LITHOTHAMNION LIMESTONE, MAJELLA MOUNTAIN (TORTONIAN…EARLY MESSINIAN, CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY)

MARCO BRANDANO, LAURA TOMASSETTI, RAFFAELE SARDELLA, CHIARA TINELLI

PALAIOS

... in light penetration. The third stage involved a general increase in fine terrigenous sediments, together with a further decrease in light and also...

Source Material, Compaction History and Hydrocarbon Occurrence in the Cagayan Valley Basin, Luzon, Philippines

Noe L. Caagusan

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of the basin, gas flowed at the rate of 1 MMCFD from Abaca No. 1 while, in the south, gas was produced from Ipil No. 1 at the rate of 7 MMCFD. Almost...

The Evaluation of an Oil Discovery: How to Locate the Second, Third and Fourth Wells

Parke A. Dickey

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... parallel to the ancient coast line, at right angles to the channels. The SP and shallow penetration resistivity curves both indirectly reflect grain size...