ABSTRACT: Integrating Geological Maps with GIS Leads to Optimum Well Locations; #90051 (2006)

Fahad Shamsan, Kandaswamy Kumar

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... Petroleum Company are facing a number of constraints. The major constraint is the availability of land. Consequently, when selecting development wells...

Abstract: Systematic Geomechanics Applications for Drilling Optimization; #90224 (2015)

Jordan Gao, Queena Chou, Richard Snyders-Blok, and Nadine Osayande

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..., essentially, the wellbore stability characteristics are crucially important for selecting the drilling method, optimizing drilling mud weights...

Geologic modeling and fluid-flow simulation of acid gas disposal in western Wyoming

Shuiquan Li, Ye Zhang, Xu Zhang, Changan Du

AAPG Bulletin

... decisions has been made in selecting variogram models and fitting their parameters. Although SIS is a popular facies modeling method, without detailed...

Acoustic target-level full-waveform inversion: Applied to ocean-bottom seismic data

Carlos A. N. da Costa, João M. de Araújo, D.J. Verschuur, Aydin Shoja

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to recover the subsurface model parameters with high resolution and accuracy. However, mainly due to its non-linear nature and high computational cost...

Geothermal Potential and Risk Assessment of Repurposing Old Wellbores for Geothermal Applications: Case Study of Oklahoma and Texas

Nabe Konate, Saeed Salehi, Mohsen Amini Salehi, Tony Huynh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the expected development costs, as discussed by Garg and Combs (2015). Among the various methodologies developed by the United States Geological Survey...

Regional productivity in the Austin Chalk, with emphasis on fault zone production in the Karnes trough area

Frank Male, and Chris K. Zahm

AAPG Bulletin

... of the machine learning results shows that the most important fault parameters are sinuosity and the closest distance between a well and its nearest fault. Fault...

Optimization of Modeling and Designing of Hydraulic Fracturing by Selecting Proppant Type, Proppant Size, Fracturing Fluid and Pumping Rate in Low Permeability Reservoir

Alfi Nelson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Optimization of Modeling and Designing of Hydraulic Fracturing by Selecting Proppant Type, Proppant Size, Fracturing Fluid and Pumping Rate in Low...

Seismic Hazard Evaluation of the Magna Tailings Impoundment

Ivan Wong, Susan Olig, Robert Green, Yoshi Moriwaki, Norm Abrahamson, Dale Baures, Walter Silva, Paul Somerville, Dick Davidson, Joergen Pilz, Bob Dunne

Utah Geological Association

... Earthquake Hazards and Risk Along the Wasatch Front, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, p. D1–D36. Arabasz, W.J., Richins, W.D....

Maximizing Wireline Coring Efficiency in Upper Mannville Coals in South Central Alberta

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... of the Mannville coals, modifications were required to the coring parameters and coring equipment to optimize the system performance. 2. Lost Circulations Zones...

Applying Analogues for Success

David Jenkins

GEO ExPro Magazine

... parameters. Examples of such parameters which require absolute consistency are basin type, tectonic regime, structural setting, trapping mechanism...

Using Analytics to Quantify the Value of Seismic Data for Mapping Eagle Ford Sweetspots

Murray Roth, Ted Royer, Ross Peebles, Michael Roth

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... model in place, a normalization of the engineering parameters was performed, by selecting nominal average values for wellbore length, fracture stage...

Eagle Ford Horizontal Drilling Optimization in Karnes and DeWitt Counties

Kathryn Patton, Luke Walker

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of one-run wells increased from 25 to 85% over a seven-month period. Achieving this level of success involved analyzing vertical parameters...

Visual Analytics for Reservoir Analogues; #70361 (2018)

Emilio Vital Brazil, Vinícius Segura, Renato Cerqueira, Rogério de Paula, Ulisses Mello

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... unknown parameters, and, thus, to make better-informed decisions. To prove the effectiveness of our workflow, we implemented a system that displays...

Managing the Future

Halfdan Carstens

GEO ExPro Magazine

... uncertainties.The grid in itself may be erroneous, and within each cell parameters like porosity and permeability may also be incorrect," he explains...

Niobrara Analogue Study

Samuel K. Huisman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... length and completion type. Petrophysical parameters were mapped across the basin in > 3000 wells, and extrapolated to all horizontal producers...

Reservoir Characterization for In Situ Profile Modification in Minas Field

Fifin Afianti, Michael R. Yusas, Andi W. Bachtiar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of current waterflood conditions in Minas field. This paper will briefly summarize the tools and methods used for selecting the candidates for the IPM...

Abstract: Deterministic Marine Deghosting: Tutorial and Recent Advances; #90224 (2015)

Mike J. Perz and Hassan Masoomzadeh

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... on the far cables in a wide-tow 3D survey and which is not perfectly honoured in the-p transform. Despite these issues, we typically observe...

Abstract: Using Seismic-While-Drilling (SWD) Data to Assist in Selecting Casing Depths: Case Histories, by A. Manzur and J. Meyer; #90982 (1994).

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Selecting Optimum Completion Designs in Deepwater Multilayered Tight Sand Applications

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Acid Fracturing Stimulation Treatments in the Arun Field — A Case Study of the Results

Royke Kristanto, William L. Cannan, Seno Sardjono, Virgil C. Stone

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to selecting well candidates for acid fracturing stimulation based on the formation properties is described in the following paper. The method...

Multi-Physics Pore-Scale Modeling of Particle Plugging Due to Fluid Invasion During Hydraulic Fracturing

Yuliana Zapata, Tien N. Phan, Zulfiquar A. Reza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... compute transport and retention of particles, and permeability changes due to fracturing-fluid invasion. These parameters are interfaced...

Preliminary Study of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Potential in Muara Wahau Area, Kutai Basin

Ragil Pratiwi, Widya Kurniawan, Hadi Nugroho

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... meter and seam B2 is 14.79 meter. Laboratory analysis was used to evaluate the quality parameters of coal in research area. The value of the quality...

The Value of Microseismic Monitoring and Interpretation of Microseismic Event Hypocenters … Myths, Misconceptions, Realities, and Opportunities

Erkan Ay, Nigel Payne, Joel Le Calvez, Herve Denaclara

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the hypocenter determination and calculations of the various source parameters and attributes are impacted (e.g., well head location, deviation survey, velocity...

An Analytic Approach to Sweetspot Mapping in the Eagle Ford Unconventional Play; #80406 (2014)

Murray Roth, Michael Roth, Ted Royer

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... locations and optimal drilling and completions parameters is required to drive enhanced well production. While the breadth of engineering, geology...

Optimization of Unconventional Well-Pad Area Using Reservoir Simulation and Intelligent Sequential Sampling

Eric Robertson, Naresh Iyer, Robert Klenner, Guoxiang (Gavin) Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the drilling, completion, and production of unconventional reservoirs are complex and time intensive due to the many different optimization parameters...