Exploitation of Untapped Oil Through Conventional Inclined Wells in a Multilayered Giant Offshore Carbonate Field - A Case Study, #20105 (2011)

Uma Goyal, Gulfaraj Anjum, S.K. Anand, S. Chandrasekaran

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... of infill wells. Drilling of infill and sidetrack wells is a proven incremental recovery option and to recover more of bypassed mobile oil in complex...

Placement Matters: Improving Survey Accuracy by Using Continuous Directional Data and Drilling Parameter Settings; #41856 (2016)

Ed Stockhausen, Richard Ball, Pete Clark, Richard Mongan, Philip Rice

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... to back up and sidetrack rather than drill ahead. Overall, the CDEM adds value and understanding across disciplines, providing for better communication...

Rejuvenation of a Mature Field Through Application of a Unique Frequency Enhancement Technology, by Marcus L. Countiss, #40076, (2003)

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The Raven Field: Planning for Success

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... changes, which was confirmed by drilling sidetrack wells and the acquisition of core and pressure data. We soon realised that we would have to take...

Andy’s Mesa Field

Edward B. Coalson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... shallower than expected. A sidetrack hole (FF#5 ST; not illustrated) drilled farther north encountered the salt stratigraphically lower and found good gas pay...

Two Frontier Basins Come to Light

Ian Davison, Menno G. Dinkelman, Wouter Kool, GEO International Ltd., ION’s G

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Most recently, Shell drilled the Dooish well 12/2-1 and sidetrack -1z in 2003 proving a gas condensate sandstone reservoir of probable early Permian...

High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Mexican Gulf of Mexico based on interpretation of well and seismic data

Cian OReilly, Elisabeth Royce-Rogers

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... stratigraphic interpretation workflow the highest possible quality dataset for the interpretation. For the Mexico project, parent and sidetrack...

Alaska North Slope: Source Rocks Hold Promise

Thomas Smith

GEO ExPro Magazine

...’s president, Ed Duncan, “Our initial plans were to drill a couple of horizontal sidetrack wells from the original vertical wells to test oil production...

Cane Creek T. 26–27 S., R. 20-21 E., SLPM, Grand County, Utah

Kenneth T. Smith

Four Corners Geological Society

.... Failure to successfully complete in the Cane Creek zone also led to sidetrack operations in the No. 2 Government well, but none was successful...

Lake Washington Field Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

R. Kirk Clem

New Orleans Geological Society

... with real-time sidetrack decisions, Meticulous interpretation at numerous reservoir levels making use of older, tried and true principles of subsurface...

South West Queensland Exploration

Andrew F. Mayers

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... ST was drilled ahead on 1 December following a sidetrack of the hole. The well penetrated a thinner than expected Permian section without significant...

De-Risking the Cabora Bassa Basin

Jamie Vinnels

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., and subsequent sidetrack, in the Cabora Bassa Basin of Northern Zimbabwe. Jamie Vinnels discusses the geological outcomes of the well. P H O T O G R A P H Y: B I...

NEW GAS

Mariel Rëitsma

GEO ExPro Magazine

... and data acquisition issues in the Tai-1 well. A sidetrack had to be drilled, but yet again, wireline logging could not be run. However, thanks to cuttings...

Extended Abstract: Statistical Review, 1992

Bob Laws

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... spudded (including one sidetrack). 1982 In Papua New Guinea drilling has been at historically high levels following the success in the Papuan Fold Belt...

Exploration and Production News

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to further explore the Tikorangi Limestone structure in t he company's "TAWN" (Tari ki, Ah uroa, Wai hapa/Ngaere) field . sidetrack to improve...

The First 3 Re-Drill Drilling Wells Performances to be Utilized as Key References to Drill Another 4 New Wells of The Sapi Re-Activated Development Drilling Wells in East Kalimantan Area

Hendrazid Hendradiz, Made Allan Pribadi, Ramadhan Aristya, Jane Honey Susanta, Romadona Yoga P.

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-drill wells drilled sidetrack from existing wells through existing slots on the original Sapi platform before continuing to drill the other 4 New...

Josephine Prospect, Cognac Field, MC195 A "Typical" Shelf Deep Pool Discovery

Robert Rooney, Tim Bourgeois, Christina Davis, Michiel deGroot, Dave French, Machelle Johnson, John Leftwich, Brian O'Neill, Keerthi McIntosh

GCAGS Transactions

... problems lead to a later sidetrack of the original well, and to date the reservoir has produced over 12.4 billion cubic ft of gas, 334,000 barrels of oil...

Challenges in Structure Prediction When Developing Remaining Field Reserves Using 3D Seismic, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, Offshore Louisiana

Ingo Steinhoff, William A. Hill

GCAGS Transactions

... well, the planned original new hole and the deep sidetrack reveals actual structural setting in the area while approximate position of seismic reflectors...

A New Approach to 3-D Geological Modeling of Complex Sand Injectite Reservoirs: The Alba Field, United Kingdom Central North Sea

P. N. Fretwell, W. Gordon Canning, J. Hegre, R. Labourdette, M. Sweatman

AAPG Special Volumes

...-while-drilling response and by elastic impedance seismic character. An abundance of multiple horizontal well sidetrack data (commonly in the same vertical...

A Decade of 4D Seismic Monitoring of Carbonate Gas Reservoirs in Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia (Paper A6)

Paul Hague, Chiem Boon Hong

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., leaving no real pockets of by-passed gas. Based on this observation, the decision was taken not to drill a costly additional subsea well or sidetrack...

Abstract: At 68 Wilmington Still Has Life: New Technology Revitalizes The Old Field, by D. D. Clarke and C. C. Phillips; #90923 (1999)

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GCTime-Lapse 4-D Technology: Reservoir Surveillance, by David H. Johnston, #40142 (2005).

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Subsurface Structure and Stratigraphy of a Transient, Fault-Controlled Thermogenic Hydrate System at MC-118, Gulf of Mexico, #50356 (2010)

James H. Knapp, Camelia C. Knapp, Leonardo Macelloni, Antonello Simonetti, Carol Lutken

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...: 2,782’ Total depth: 8,900’ Logged interval: 6,750’-8,900’ Sidetrack: 11,850’ Logged interval: 6,750’-11,850’ • Plugged and abandoned • Inferred...

Hild East (North Sea, Norway): How Geosciences Integration Led to the Re-Birth of an Old Discovery; #20128 (2012)

Christian H. Mathieu, Rune Hope, and Louis Bruckert

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... and wireline logging of both objectives, the Frigg and Brent sandstones. Pressure data gathered during this pilot hole allowed us to go for a simpler sidetrack...

Classification and Characterization of Barrier-Intercalations in Sandy Braided River Reservoirs of HE Oilfield, Sudan, #20283 (2014).

Guoliang Zhao, Longxin Mun, Tianjian Sun

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..., 9 horizontal wells, 2 sidetrack, 8 recompletion wells and 7 liquid increment wells are proposed. Compared to do nothing case, 8.9 million barrels...