An Unconventional Approach to a Difficult-to-Develop Target: Application of Geomechanics and Clay Speciated Workflow to Successfully Drill the Wolfcamp D Formation in the Midland Basin

David Brannan, C. Lance Reynolds, Shawn Renaud, Ryan Adams, Foster Bowman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for a variety of operators. Two facies-models were developed using wireline logs to determine stress parameters used to decrease Wolfcamp D hole...

Understanding the Drivers of Parent-child Depletion: A Machine Learning Approach

Dillon Niederhut, Alexander Cui

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for percent change in infill oil production The dataset was split into a training and a testing set by randomly selecting 20% of the child wells as holdouts...

Environmental and Economic Benefits of Using Produced Water for Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bakken

Kelsey Erickson, Davon Crane, Devon Landsford, Jeff Leavitt, Jordan Slagle, Kathryn Liska, Jesse Krieg, Eric Fry

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... selecting an FR for high TDS fluids, a choice must be made between friction reduction and viscosity enhancement, as achieving both was deemed...

Testing the Impact of Stratigraphic Target Selection on Drilling Performance, Cap-Ex, and Reservoir Drainage in the Anadarko Basin

Dustin Ward, Brian Collins, Tyler Bodine, Jana Bachleda, Shuangyu Ge, Jiang Wu, Faye Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the unit. The asymmetry of drainage overlap is not easily explained given that inter-well spacing and completions parameters were held constant...

Deep-Well Acid Disposal--Planning and Completion

G. Warren Ostroot , Joe Ramos

AAPG Special Volumes

... SELECTION AND SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY There are many legal aspects that must be considered when selecting a site for drilling a disposal well. State governments...

Are There Better Alternatives to Standard Rose Diagrams?

Neil A. Wells

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Polymodality further increases problems, as once again the researcher ends up making statistically unjustifiable decisions about selecting subsets...

Diagenesis and Microscopic Heterogeneity of Lacustrine Deltaic and Turbiditic Sandstone Reservoirs (Lower Cretaceous), Potiguar Basin, Brazil (1)

MARCO A. S. MORAES

AAPG Bulletin

... information useful for selecting efficient development and enhanced oil recovery strategies. In addition, the identification of the main controls...

Prospect risk, pot odds, and efficient drill or no-drill decision making: What the exploration business can learn from high-stakes poker

Frank J. Peel

AAPG Bulletin

... parts (choosing to participate and selecting a bid level). A commonly encountered type 1 decision is an opportunity to farm in to the drilling...

A New Parallel Fold Construction Method from Borehole Dip for Structural Delineation; #41969 (2016)

Tetsushi Yamada, Isabelle Le Nir, Eric Moscardi, Arnaud Etchecopar

Search and Discovery.com

... available data, but mainly based on borehole dips. The main decisions concern defining the limits of structures, stratigraphic polarity, and selecting...

A Mineralogical Study of Some Lower Devonian (Helderberg) Rocks of the Central Hudson Valley, New York

Roger L. Borst

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... CRONOBLE, W. R., AND MANKIN, C. J., 1965, Petrology of the Hogshooter Formation (Missourian) Washington and Nowata Counties, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geol. Survey...

Chapter 12: Mowry Shale–Belle Fourche Shale, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA—A Mesozoic Clastic-Biosiliceous Shelf System: A Prolific Source Rock with Associated Mudstone Reservoir Potential

K. M. Bohacs, O. R. Lazar, R. D. Wilson, J. H. S. Macquaker

AAPG Special Volumes

... and Wyoming: US Geological Survey Bulletin 1787-L, 11 p. Cobban, W. A., I. Walaszczyk, J. Obradovich, and K. C. McKinney, 2006, USGS Zonal Table for the Upper...

Orbital forcing and Mississippian sea level change: time series analysis of marine flooding events in the Visean Windsor Group of eastern Canada and implications for Gondwana glaciation

Peter S. Giles

CSPG Bulletin

.... 821-834. Bell, W.A. 1929. Horton-Windsor District, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 155, 268 p. Berger, A. 1978. Long-term variations...

AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, June 7-10, 2009 Denver, Colorado, - Abstracts, #90090 (2009).

Search and Discovery.com

40Ar/39Ar age of the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, southwestern Nova Scotia

Daniel J. Kontak, Douglas A. Archibald

Atlantic Geology

... these features for selecting samples of volcanic rocks for whole-rock 40Ar/39Ar dating; failure to follow these suggestions may result in excess argon...

Core Magnetostratigraphy: Chron 33r in the Southern Alberta Plains

Taslima Anwar, Andrew J. Mumpy, Dunia Blanco, Vadim A. Kravchinsky, Octavian Catuneanu

CSPG Bulletin

..., Geological Survey of Canada. Folinsbee, R.E., Baadsgaard, H., Cumming, G.L. and Nascimbene, J. 1964. Radiometric dating of the Bearpaw Sea. American...

Well Logging by Radioactivity

William L. Russell

AAPG Bulletin

... after further amplification, it operates an automatic pen recorder which draws the log in the field while the survey is in progress. It is a great...

Geophysical and Petrological Study of Precambrian of Central Alberta, Canada

G. D. Garland , R. A. Burwash

AAPG Bulletin

.... GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, 1951, Tectonic Map of Canada. HAYFORD, JOHN F., AND WILLIAM BOWIE, 1912, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Spec. Pub. 10...

Problems and Principles of Sandstone-Body Classification

Gordon Rittenhouse

AAPG Special Volumes

.... GENERAL Busch, D. A., 1959, See under "References Cited." Gilbert, G. K., 1890, Lake Bonneville: U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 1, 438 p. Guilcher...

Synthetic Seismic-Reflection Profiles of Rift-Related Structures

Martha O. Withjack , D. J. Drickman Pollock

AAPG Bulletin

... for stratigraphic traps: Geophysics, v. 39, p. 770-780. Garfunkel, Z., and Y. Bartov, 1977, The tectonics of the Suez rift: Geological Survey of Israel...

Distribution, controlling factors, and oil-source correlation of biodegraded oils in the Bohai offshore area, Bohai Bay basin, China

Jinqiang Tian, Fang Hao, Xinhuai Zhou, and Huayao Zou

AAPG Bulletin

... depends on selecting biomarker parameters that most effectively reflect the geochemical nature of potential source rocks (Peters et al., 2005, 2007...

Application of LANDSAT Imagery to Petroleum and Mineral Exploration

Michel T. Halbouty

AAPG Bulletin

..., 50 p. Carter, W. D., 1974, EROS Program and ERTS-1 satellite applications to geophysical problems, in Symposium on approaches to earth survey...

A Subsurface Study of the Fernvale and Viola Formations in the Oklahoma Portion of the Arkoma Basin

Tom Mairs

Oklahoma City Geological Society

..., Tectonic map of Oklahoma: Okla. Geol. Survey, GM-3. Barker, J. C., 1950, The geology of a portion of the Lawrence uplift Pontotoc County, Oklahoma: Tulsa...

Biomerization: An Ecologic Theory of Provincial Differentiation

Christopher J. Durden

Special Publications of SEPM

... it is possible to prepare estimates of provincial distribution and diversity by selecting a higher taxon for analysis of known specific and using...

FLNG or FGTL? Investment Decision Input

W.D. Hartell, J.R. Greenwald

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... facility issues include capital requirements and timing; purchase or lease; depreciation; cost recovery. Product pricing issues include selecting...

Implementing an Integrated Production Surveillance and Optimization System in an Unconventional Field

Diego Molinari, Sathish Sankaran, Dave Symmons, Michael Perrotte, Edward Wolfram, Ilsa Krane, Jichao Han, Neha Bansal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a large number of wells quickly under challenging conditions – namely data gaps, sparsity, data quality, uncertain parameters, incomplete knowledge...