Huff-n-Puff Gas Injection Performance in Shale Reservoirs: A Case Study From Duvernay Shale in Alberta, Canada

H. Hamdi, C.R. Clarkson, A. Ghanizadeh, S.M. Ghaderi, A. Vahedian, N. Riazi, A. Esmail

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... where many simulation runs may be required. As an (imperfect) substitute, practitioners have attempted to use flow simulators in which geomechanical...

Fundamentals of Heat Transport at the Edge of Steam Chambers in Cyclic Steam Stimulation and Steam-assisted Gravity Drainage

Ian D. Gates, Marya Cokar, Michael S. Kallos

AAPG Special Volumes

... interventions such as smart wells that yield uniform steam chambers are required to ensure efficient heat transfer and oil mobilization. Akin, S., 2005...

Uncertainty Analysis in a Mature Field: Dibi Field Case Study

Djuro Novakovic, Joy Roth

AAPG Special Volumes

... of hydrocarbon zone for the all-at-mid model and the aquifer pore volume was required to obtain a good match for pressure and all three phases. Both all...

A Modified Approach For Modeling 2-Phase Flowback From Multi-Fractured Horizontal Shale Gas Wells

Jesse Williams-Kovacs, Christopher Clarkson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... assumed in the shale gas model, while hydrocarbon is only sourced via linear flow in the tight oil model, resulting in a less apparent deviation from...

Pore Systems in Oil-Window Claystones and Dolomudstones of Lower Green River Formation (Castle Peak Shale through Lower Garden Gulch) in an XCL Upper Cube Core, Uinta Basin, Utah; #51705 (2025)

Maxwell Pommer, Luke Fidler

Search and Discovery.com

... volumes range from 5.2% to 13.6% (mean=10.1%), and hydrocarbon saturations range from 3.2% to 84.2% (mean=43.2%). OM-rich and OM-bearing carbonate...

Elastic Mechanical Properties from SEM Imaging in Tight Formations

Joel Walls, Jack Dvorkin, Gabriela Davalos

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... These properties can be determined from sonic well logs, but the required logs (compressional and shear velocity) are not always available...

The effects of salt evolution, structural development, and fault propagation on Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic oil migration: A two-dimensional fluid-flow study along a megaregional profile in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin

S. Cheree Stover, Shemin Ge, Paul Weimer, Barry C. McBride

AAPG Bulletin

... the fault flow, as the highest oil saturations are located in the sandstone-siltstone-shale formations adjacent to and offset by the fault (320-340 km...

What Happens to Permeability at the Nanoscale? A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

Raul Velasco, Manas Pathak, Palash Panja, Milind Deo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on hydrocarbon properties, flow, and recoveries. Plays that were previously deemed uneconomical are now being economically exploited with some of the most...

Using Production Quality Flow AI Based Facies With Integrated Multidisciplinary Workflow For Best Potential Targets Evaluation in Delaware Basin

Mauricio Vinassa, Dave Handwerger, Tom Tracey, Javed Iqbal, Hyder Jatoi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Using Production Quality Flow AI Based Facies With Integrated Multidisciplinary Workflow For Best Potential Targets Evaluation in Delaware Basin...

The Future of Exploration

Valente Ricoy, Friedrich Roth

GEO ExPro Magazine

... on seismic direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHIs), which fail to distinguish between different reservoir fluid content. Low saturation fizz gas and high...

Petrophysical Properties of the Sligo Formation of Northern Louisiana and Arkansas

Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping

GCAGS Transactions

... and diagenesis. Oolite is one of the most common rock types of carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs. In recent deposits the ooids resemble ideally packed...

Optimising Drilling and Completions Performance by Applying Core and Physics-Based Models to Drilling Data

Stacy McWhorter, Carl Merkt, Stephen Drylie, Feiyan Chen, Todd Duplantis, Kristopher Farmer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... field laboratory with no changes in design or data gathering procedure required. Automatically and on every well, the drilling rig captures critical...

Petrography and Log Analysis of the Zan Zan Middle “Canyon” Sandstone, Eastern Irion County, Texas

Philip Whitsitt

West Texas Geological Society

... be overlooked when evaluating petrophysical logs. Water saturations calculated from log data are rarely below 50%. This paper presents log data from Zan Zan...

Pore Geometry: Control on Reservoir Properties, Walker Creek Field, Columbia and Lafayette Counties, Arkansas

D. M. Bliefnick , J. G. Kaldi

AAPG Bulletin

... fluid flow: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Division Proceedings of the American Society Civil Engineers, June, p. 61-88. Budd, D. A., and R...

Quantitative analysis of slip-induced dilation with application to fault seal

Scott J. Wilkins, Stephen J. Naruk

AAPG Bulletin

... in siliciclastic sediments, in G. Jones, Q. J. Fisher, and R. J. Knipe, eds., Faulting, fault sealing, and fluid flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs: Geological...

A New Page in the History of Reservoir Characterization in the Andes Sedimentary Basin Area, with the Introduction of State of the Art LWD Formation Evaluation Services A Case History in South America … Ecuador

A. Carvalho, J. Sierra, L. Sanchez, R. Medina, M. Cevallos, W. Gonzalez, R. Santacruz

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... resistivity and Sigma measurement were used to calculate water and hydrocarbon saturations for the Napo-1 zone, the agreement in results from these two...

A Review of the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Coal with Implications for Coal-Bed Methane Well Completion and Production

Arfon H. Jones, Gregory J. Bell, Richard A. Schraufnagel

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the possible significance of resinite in the formation of heavy hydrocarbon gases and condensate. Vitrinite Reflectance A relatively accurate...

Issues with Gas and Water Relative Permeability in Low-Permeability Sandstones, by Alan P. Byrnes

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Issues with Gas and Water Relative Permeability in Low-Permeability Sandstones, by Alan P. Byrnes; #90042 (2005)

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Characterization of the Mississippian chat in south-central Kansas

W. Lynn Watney, Willard J. Guy, Alan P. Byrnes

AAPG Bulletin

... different (Begin page 107) pore systems. The high Sw values for given hydrocarbon column heights explain high water saturations calculated from...

Chapter 9: The Geology and Geochemistry of the Parshall Area, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Daniel M. Jarvie, Robert J. Coskey, Michael S. Johnson, Jay E. Leonard

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... is interpreted to be a function of stimulation energy reaching these highly oil saturated shales and other juxtaposed horizons. Light hydrocarbon...

Use of Multiple Log Curves to Predict Permeability in a Dolomite Reservoir, San Andres of Welch Field, Dawson County, Texas

Gregory D. Hinterlong

West Texas Geological Society

.... Permeability is primarily controlled by the length of the flow path through the rock, diameter of the pore throats, and the number of pore throats connecting...

Chapter 21: Does Bakken Horizontal Drilling Imply a Huge Oil-Resource Base in Fractured Shales?

Leigh C. Price, Julie A. LeFever

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., ranks greater than Ro = 0.6% (as read in type III organic matter) are required for commencement of intense hydrocarbon generation in hydrogen-rich...

Unconventional Reservoir Flow Assessment Using Spectral Acoustics and Numerical Temperature Modelling

Maxim Volkov, Vener Nagimov, Samuel Avilez, Dmitriy Lazutkin, Mikhail Khachaturyan, Artem Prodan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Unconventional Reservoir Flow Assessment Using Spectral Acoustics and Numerical Temperature Modelling Maxim Volkov, Vener Nagimov, Samuel Avilez...

Evolution of formation waters in the Permian Basin, United States: Late Permian evaporated seawater to Neogene meteoric water

Arthur H. Saller, and Alan M. Stueber

AAPG Bulletin

... the radiogenic basement. However, those meteoric waters have not reached all parts of the Permian Basin. Flow rates required to get group 2 meteoric...