Constructing Oil/Gas Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Curves From a Distribution of Pores in Shale Reservoirs

Brian C. Stimpson, Maria A. Barrufet

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reservoirs because of the very low permeability and time required for measurement. One approach to this issue is the use of predictive modeling from...

Definition of Water Table: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Carroll F. Knutson

AAPG Bulletin

..." is generally defined, in petroleum geology, in one of two ways. A.--The water table is the upper surface of the water phase, in a water-hydrocarbon Fig...

Modeling Gas Injection into Shale Oil Reservoirs in the Sanish

Cuiyu Dong, B. Todd Hoffman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... A low primary recovery factor of 5.42% was obtained through flow modeling, and declining trends of the future production performance of wells...

Application of Geoscience Technology in a Geologic Study of the Natuna Gas Field, Natuna Sea, Offshore Indonesia

P. A. Dunn, M. G. Kozar, Budiyono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Prediction of reservoir facies and quality away from well control required integration of a host of geologic and geophysical data. Seismic facies were mapped...

Multidisciplinary seismic amplitude analysis in a frontier exploration area

Lei Zhang, Ivan Salazar, Janet Ravelo, Ricardo Castrejon, Raul Ysaccis, Edgar Ramon Hernandez Reyes, Armando Heras Sanjuanico

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Additionally in some hydrocarbon saturated sands, there is always the probability of getting a strong AVO response in the case of small gas saturations. So...

GENERAL REVIEW OF IN SITU COMBUSTION

John V. Howard

Asociación Venezolana de Geología, Minería y Petróleo (AVGMP)

... at the prevailing conditions in the reservoirs. These hydrocarbons are so viscous that they cannot be made to flow into wells, nor can they be pumped to the surface...

Piper Oil Field

C. E. Maher

AAPG Special Volumes

... wells 15/17-4 and P10. Payton, C. E., ed., 1977, Seismic stratigraphy--applications to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Mem. 26, 516 p. Pingitore, N. E...

The Octon Discovery

F. A. Navarro, L. M. Ostrea, A. G. Lasam, J. P. M. Micu, E. C. Jacobsen

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... within the hydrocarbon interval. First stabilized flow rate was 830 BOPD, GOR 730 scf/bbl. cutting 15% on a 24/64 inch choke. This was followed...

Abstract: Calibrating Theoritical Sandstone Reservoir Models with Realistic Bedding Structures on Outcrops; Applications in Thin Bedded ; #90063 (2007)

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AAPG Archie Series, No. 1, Chapter 7: Characterizing Thinly Bedded Reservoirs with Core Data

Q. R. Passey, K. E. Dahlberg, K. B. Sullivan, H. Yin, R. A. Brackett, Y. H. Xiao, and A. G. Guzmán-Garcia

AAPG Special Volumes

.... A. Brackett, Y. H. Xiao, and A. G. Guzmán-Garcia 2006 73 88 AAPG Archie Series, No. 1: Petrophysical Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Pore-Thickness...

Geological Characterization of the Nugget Sandstone, Anschutz Ranch East

Jerry L. Bergosh, Jack R. Good, Jack T. Hillman, Stan Kolodzie

Utah Geological Association

... sandstones with horizontal permeabilities ranging from 0.5 md to 10.0 md. Porosities were between 7% and 15% and water saturations from 13% to 30%. Type 2...

Screening Criteria and Technology Sequencing for In-situ Viscous Oil Production

Maurice B. Dusseault

AAPG Special Volumes

... are related to drive energy loss and near-wellbore flow impairment because of gas exsolution (liquid-flux impedance is high at the higher gas saturations...

Water Above the Transition Zone in Carbonate Oil Reservoirs

N. C. Wardlaw

CSPG Bulletin

...: J. Soil Science, v. 9, no. 1, p. 2-8. Morrow, N. R., 1970, Irreducible wetting-phase saturations in porous media: Chem. Eng. Science, v. 25, p...

Abstract: Effort Towards Improving Formation Evaluation (Paper 5)

Ko Ko Kyi

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., the resistivity contrast between hydrocarbon bearing sand, especially oil bearing zones, and water bearing sand is very low, making it difficult to determine...

The 1984 PESA Australian Distinguished Lecture: Applying Geochemical Concepts to Play Analysis and Basin Evaluation

T. G. Powell

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and hydrogen-poor components. hydrocarbon generation. Hydrocarbon saturations in a source On a broad scale, most macerals can rock depend on the organic carbon...

ABSTRACT: Permeability of Unconsolidated Sand Sidewall Cores Through Data Base Regression Analysis, by Allen W. Britton; #91038 (2010)

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Abstract: Evaluation of Petrophysical Data for Vacuum Extraction Remediation, by J. A. Guerrero and B. E. Trowbridge; #90992 (1993).

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ABSTRACT: Mesaverde Tight Gas Sandstone Sourcing from Underlying Mancos-Niobrara Shales, by Stephen Cumella and Jay Scheevel; #90156 (2012)

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Ultra-fast capillary pressure and Resistivity measurements

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ABSTRACT: Automated Processing of Large Data Volumes for Development of the Hugoton-Panoma Geomodel; #90048 (2005)

Geoffrey C. Bohling, Martin K. Dubois, John H. Doveton, Alan P. Byrnes

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... of a geomodel for the Hugoton and Panoma fields. This process has required automated processing of large data volumes at several steps, including...

Abstract: Comprehensive Analysis of Clastic Heavy Oil Reservoirs using Microresistivity Images and Dielectric Dispersion Logs; #90224 (2015)

Pat Fothergill, Manuel Aboud, Rob Badry, Anish Kumar, Chad Timken, and Joan Carter

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... and channel orientation thickness of pay and bitumen saturation Until recently, a complete interpretation over the reservoir required the acquisition...

Shale Gas Well Production Optimization using Modified RTA Method - Prediction of the Life of a Well

Seunghwan Baek, I. Yucel Akkutlu, Baoping Lu, Shidong Ding, Wenwu Xia

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... depletion is needed between 45 and 165 days. This indicates that there are additional obstacles associated with hydrocarbon flow in matrix, we did...

Unconventional Reservoir Development in Egypts Western Desert: Lessons Learned From the First Appraisal Wells

Mohamed Salah, Mazher Ibrahim

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... exploratory wells were drilled and completed via multistage hydraulic fracturing in the appraisal stage of the program for collecting the required data...

Assisted History Matching of Early Field Life and Probabilistic Forecasting Using an Integrated Subsurface - Surface Network Numerical Model: Bangka Deepwater Development

Robikhun, Eric W. Bhark, Monas O. Purba, Komaruddin E. Purwanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Production is processed at the West Seno FPU via a single flow line. Bangka Field consists of two deepwater upper slope channel reservoirs. The structural...

A Comprehensive Deterministic Petrophysical Analysis Procedure for Reservoir Characterization: Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs, #41413 (2014).

Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes, Dominic Holmes

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... and effective permabilities to both fluid phases can be created. Knowing viscosities of reservoir fluids water/hydrocarbon can be determined as continuous curves...