Oil and Gas Developments in Australia in 1985

A. W. Lindner

AAPG Bulletin

..., with sidetracks (6A and 6B) in an attempt to intersect the northeast-southwest-trending axial fractures of the Palm Valley anticline. Sidetrack 6B was in progress...

The effect of temperature on sealing capacity of faults in sandstone reservoirs: Examples from the Gullfaks and Gullfaks Sor fields, North Sea

Jonny Hesthammer, Per Arne Bjorkum, Lee Watts

AAPG Bulletin

..., no studies supporting drilling of a sidetrack well. Furthermore, because core studies indicate that the whole area is heavily deformed (results from...

The Umiak field discovery, Northwest Territories, Canada

Gary Prost, and Guy Peasley

AAPG Bulletin

... Formation. The Umiak N-16 well and Umiak N-05 sidetrack (ST) are shown. Depth is true vertical depth in meters. The location of this line is shown in Figure...

The Smackover-Norphlet Petroleum System, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Oil Fields, Oil Shows, and Dry Holes

Theodore J. Godo

GCAGS Journal

... the structure looking for an appraisal oil-water contact, found 700 ft (213.4 m) TVDT of Norphlet (Fig. 14). The sidetrack drilled updip from the original well...

Chapter 4: The Appomattox Field: Norphlet Aeolian Sand Dune Reservoirs in the Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico

Ted Godo

AAPG Special Volumes

... in Mississippi Canyon (MC) blocks 391, 392, 347, and 348. The discovery well for this field is the MC292-1 well and was followed up with 2 downdip sidetrack...

Chapter 11: Pikka Field and the Opening of the Nanushuk Play, North Slope, Alaska

Jesse V. Sommer, Kevin Dorrington, Colby VanDenburg, James R. Bonelli, Jr., José Luis Algibez Alonso

AAPG Special Volumes

... and 107 md permeability and oil samples recovered from MDTs demonstrated the productive potential. A sidetrack, the Qugruk 3A, was drilled in the same...

Petroleum Production and Well Data, Summit County, Utah (OFR-326)

Douglas A. Sprinkel

Utah Geological Survey

...|Cuttings|300|8673|CT| 43-043-25078-0000|Cuttings|2740|12250|CT| 43-043-25078-0000|Cuttings|12300|15700|CT| 43-043-25078-0000|Cuttings(SideTrack)|11200...

Development of an Infill Well Program to Maximise Economic Return from the Iagifu-Hedinia Field: Part II. Development of Infill Well Production Forecasts With a Full Field History Matched Simulation Model

R. E. Fitzmorris

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... of the risks associated with intersecting hydrodynamic water. If a vertical well intersected water, a portion of the interval could be produced or a sidetrack...

Petroleum Geology of the Hides Gas Field, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

D. C. Johnstone, J. K. Emmett

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... then current LKG, hence the possibility of an oil leg in equilibrium with the established gas cap was considered possible. Hides-3 and a sidetrack (Hides-3 Dev...

Section Four: Geologic Techniques for Operations on Diapiric Structures

New Orleans Geological Society

... an updip directional sidetrack from an unsuccessful original hole. There is usually only one opportunity to run a dipmeter on a well, so don't lose...

Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Neoproterozoic Officer Basin, Western Australia

K. A. R. Ghori

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., Item S2281 (unpublished). THE SHELL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LTD, 1985, Lungkarta 1 and Lungkarta 1 Sidetrack 1 well completion report (Officer Basin, EP178...

Enhanced Recovery from A Tight Gas Sand Through Hydraulic Refracturing: Codell Formation, Wattenberg Field, Colorado

T.J. Birmingham, D.M. Lytle, R.N. Sencenbaugh

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... be successfully applied, but is costly and manpower-intensive, especially when operational problems occur using standard directional or cased-hole sidetrack...

Measurement and Analysis of Fractures in Core

John C. Lorenz, Robin E. Hill

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... t-I Figure 10. Comparison between the location and volume of gas shows in the horizontal portion of the SHCT-1 sidetrack (top line; volume of gas...

Coalbed Gas Development in the Rockies - Analogues for the World

D. Keith Murray, Stephen D. Schwochow

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... interval; and 6) limited understanding of the effects of this type of Cavity Sidetrack “Failed” Cavity FractureStimulated Figure 6. Types of open...

Multi-Disciplinary Approach for a Landing Point Criteria in Vaca Muerta Formation

Iván Lanusse Noguera, Manuel A. Fantin, Pablo A. Crespo, Luisa C. Crousse, Hernan Reijenstein, Raul A. Varela, Andres Bonelli, Fidel Morales

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be the combination of a vertical pilot for data acquisition and a horizontal well as a sidetrack for production test performance of the most promising identified...

West Ekofisk Field--Norway Central Graben, North Sea

Michel D'Heur

AAPG Special Volumes

... in 1977 and reached a peak of 85,000 BOPD and 533 MMcfg/d in 1978. Additional infill and sidetrack wells were drilled between 1978 and 1987. At the end...

Worldwide and Local Composite Standards: Optimizing Biostratigraphic Data

Richard W. Aurisano, James H. Gamber, H. Richard Lane, Edward C. Loomis, Jeff A. Stein

Special Publications of SEPM

... sidetrack to graph to and Well X shows the interpret the same general se operational paleontology FIG lay to 24 I 21150 CompoeitII m...

Origin of Dolomites in the Boat Harbour Formation, St. George Group, in Western Newfoundland, Canada: Implications for Porosity Development

K. Azmy, I. Knight, D. Lavoie, G. Chi

CSPG Bulletin

.... Langdon and Mireault, 2004) from the Aguathuna Formation (Azmy et al., 2008), uppermost unit of the St. George Group, and recent testing of a sidetrack...

Problems of Underground Gas Storage in Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania

F. H. Finn , J. J. Schmidt , J. B. Corrin, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... wells has been quite satisfactory. In some cases, we have found it necessary to sidetrack the hole somewhat above the producing sand and drill a new hole...

Extension of the Papua New Guinea PNyang Gas Play into the Oksibil Area of Indonesia

Robert Maxwell, Francis Waina, Simon Youens

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... underlying the gently dipping Darai Limestone massif. The reservoirs are complexly disharmonic folded as revealed by the Muruk -1 sidetrack wells...

The Geometry, Distribution, and Development of Clastic Injections in Slope Systems: Seismic Examples from the Upper Cretaceous Kyrre Formation, Mly Slope, Norwegian Margin

Christopher A.-L. Jackson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 35/9-3 T2 (sidetrack of 35/9-3), and 36/7-3. All three wells penetrated the distal edge of one of the studied Upper Cretaceous slope systems...

Petroleum Developments in Africa in 1952

Hollis D. Hedberg

AAPG Bulletin

..., dolomite, and shale section. At 1,444 m. (4,736 feet) the hole caved at 400 m. (1,312 feet) in the Oligocene sand section; an attempt to sidetrack...

Petroleum Developments in Middle East and Adjacent Countries in 1957

Henry Hotchkiss

AAPG Bulletin

... requiring the use of 127-lb. mud. A loss of circulation near bottom caused a complicated fishing job and preparations were being made to sidetrack...

Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Solve Complex Structural Problems: An Application with Pitfalls in the Helena Salient of the Montana Disturbed Belt, West Central Montana

P. Ted Doughty, Kevin R. Chamberlain, Michael C. Pope

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the first sidetrack) and with increased frequency starting at ∼12,330 ft (3758.1 m), when lost circulation became a major problem. In many cases, the well...

Fluid-Release Mechanisms in Compacting Marine Mudrocks and Their Importance in Oil Exploration

Maurice C. Powers

AAPG Bulletin

...) "sticky clay trouble" which was so bad at ab ut 6,000 feet in one well that a sidetrack had to be drilled. In another New Guinea well, they reported...