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

Guoliang Zhao, Longxin Mun, Tianjian Sun

Search and Discovery.com

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

Applications of Scientific Core Drilling in North Carolina: Cumberland-Marlboro Basin (Hoke, Scotland and Cumberland Counties), and the Triassic Rift/Lacustrine Dan River Basin (Stokes County), North Carolina; #10897 (2016)

Jeffrey C. Reid, Kenneth B. Taylor, Katherine J. Marciniak, Walter T. Haven, Ryan A. Channell, Ann T. Shields, Chandler I. Warner

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... previously unreported gassy coals, coaly intervals, and coarse silt intervals. Beginning at a depth of 253.1 ft, the sidetrack core hole (SO-C-1A-15...

Hydrocarbon Prospectivity Definition, The Kra Basin, Northern Gulf of Thailand; #20357 (2016)

Tianpan Ampaiwan, Minarwan Minarwan, Paul Swire, Paolo Tognini

Search and Discovery.com

... sidetrack wells) were used in the post drill analysis and were integrated with prior knowledge of the basin. Biostratigraphy was used for regional...

New Approach to Geomechanics Solves Serious Horizontal Drilling

Shannon Higgins-Borchardt, Tony Krepp, Marcelo Frydman, Jason Stichler

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... obtained necessary geological information in a pilot hole. The process is completed before the rig is ready to drill a lateral or sidetrack, so no rig...

Drilling Experiences at Devils Fence Anticline, Jefferson County, Montana: Baseline Data for Future Activity in a Promising Overthrust Province

David W. Ballard, Bradford R. Burton, David R. Lageson, John R. Warne

Montana Geological Society

... of the Lombard Thrust and generally 5 to 10° in the footwall. With the exception of the sidetrack at 4526 ft (1380 m), deviation azimuths were...

Rotary Steerable System Performance in Tangara-1 ST3-ST4 Exploratory Well , Piedemonte, Llanos Orientales, Colombia

E. Zapata, M. Arevalo, G. Grillo, J. Chialvo

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... performed by the mentioned command in the power drive PDX5* tool. III. Tangara 1 ST 4 8 1/2 hole section : (Carbonera C6 & C7) The sidetrack...

Maximizing Asset Value of Mature Offshore Gas Field through Proactive Reservoir Surveillances and Implementation of Structurally Production Optimization Efforts

Yusuf Alfyan Praditya, Medianestrian, Andi A. Wibowo, Budiyono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., workover, drilling and well sidetrack. Premier Oil Indonesia has built a comprehensive process as part of the efforts in managing the opportunity...

Idle Wells Reactivation … The Indonesia Story

Sani Ogosti Wahyu, Sutrisno Sunjoyo, Made Sumandra, Adi Firmansyah, Satria Panji Kauripan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., idle well slot reuse for well sidetrack to access other potential reserves nearby, or utilizing new technologies to enhance production efficiency...

Significance of Shales and Mudrocks in Oil and Gas Exploration and Reservoir Development

Slatt, Roger M.

GCAGS Transactions

... (at 8936ft. on the Fig. 13 log) so bypassed reserves should be present. A horizontal sidetrack well (09-35A) was drilled directly beneath the shale...

Oligocene Hackberry Formation of Southwest Louisiana: Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Hydrocarbon Potential (1)

STEPHEN P. J. COSSEY and RICHARD E. JACOBS

AAPG Bulletin

... of the slide, and the sidetrack penetrated the hanging wall. The strata in the footwall are almost flat lying in the orientation of this cross section...

Chapter 15: Liza Field, Guyana: The Finding of a Stratigraphic Giant, from Early Exploration to Production

Linda M. Price, Randy A. Perkey, Erik J. Oswald, Elizabeth A. Elkington

AAPG Special Volumes

...°. A bypass, sidetrack wellbore, was drilled to acquire conventional cores with approximately 140 m (450 ft) of core recovered (Figure 20). The Liza-1...

The Halladale„Speculant Fields: The First Nearshore Gas Fields to Be Developed from Mainland Australia

Andrew Constantine, Glenn Morgan, Robin O’ Leary, Simon Smith

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... Energy (now Lattice Energy) drilled three onshore-to-offshore ERD wells and a geological sidetrack in the Otway Basin with horizontal offsets of 1929...

Horizontal Well Drilling in the Kutubu Project, Papua New Guinea

M. S. DeVries, R. D. Parrish, J. L. Ryan

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

..." liner w / 4 ECP's stuck at 2967m (23' off bottom) 2. 25 bits required for 8-1/2" hole (2 bits for a sidetrack around a bit). 3. 710m of open hole...

High-Angle, Shallow Depth Drilling in the South China Sea

Saadon Bin Kairon, D. R. Schroeter

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... and 2 sidetrack holes) where attempts to run the standard logging tool were unsuccessful. The two production holes were the two long reach wells drilled...

Exploration and Appraisal Year in Review 2022

Adam Craig

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... difficulties, a sidetrack exploration hole was drilled into the Lower Pacoota Sandstone without inter­ secting hydrocarbons (Central Petroleum 2022...

2022 Exploration & Appraisal Year in Review

Adam Craig

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... was originally planned to be deepened to the Arumbera Sandstone exploration objective, but due to drilling difficulties, a sidetrack exploration hole...

Lower Tertiary Wilcox Play with Prospective Wells, Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Jean Pierre Malbrough, Abu Kabir Mostofa Sarwar

GCAGS Transactions

.... The Tiber 2ST (sidetrack) was drilled in search of oil-water contacts. Pressure and fluids indicated two separate compartments in the shallow Eocene...

Drilling an exploration prospect downdip: Quantifying the trade-offs between chance of success and associated resource potential

Mark Schneider, Gary P. Citron, Paul Haryott, and David Cook

AAPG Bulletin

.... A dry hole drilled downdip with a thick, porous reservoir may lead a decision maker to sidetrack updip. This paper describes the reduction...

Results and Conclusions of a Horizontal-drilling Program at South Pass 62 Salt-dome Field, by E.P. Mason, M.J. Bastian, R. Detomo, M.N. Hashem, and A.J. Hildebrandt, #20018 (2004).

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The Application of Exploration Principles to Define the Potential of the S.E. Gobe Field Forelimb

M. Daniels, M. I. Jacobson, J. D. Lee, D. T. Moffat, K. C. Richards

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... it offered more potential sidetrack options. The major objective of subsequent sidetracks would be to penetrate any fluid contacts of which the oil...

Jurassic Trend of South Texas

E. Gerald Rolf

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... sample descriptions sidetrack your search for solving our mystery. The Jurassic stratigraphic section (Figure 1) indicates a mostly non-marine clastic...

The Sweet Home (Sligo) Field, Lavaca County, Texas

Mark E. Thompson

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... Matthew well which was drilled in 1978 to a sidetrack hole depth of 16,223 feet into the Sligo at a location in the James Hall Survey, 2 miles...

Unleashing the Mad Dog

Thomas Smith

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... They drilled an updip sidetrack to the well and found a wet compartment. Drilling problems arose on additional deep tests when several six meter-thick, mobile...

Lost Circulation Challenges Drilling Thick Carbonate Gas Reservoir, Natuna D–Alpha Block

J. M. Davis

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... flocculate the drilling mud in the annulus, resulting in stuck pipe with subsequent partial loss-of-hole and the need to sidetrack on four occasions in three...

Improving Drilling Performance in an Area of High Tectonic Stress in the Llanos Foothills of Colombia

Nigel Last, Paul Sullivan, Richard Herbert

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... the need to sidetrack. T h e added complication of severe hole rugosity through interbedded sand-shale sequences makes tripping, running casing and logging...