Abstract: Genesis 4D Project — Design and Execution Overview

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Abstract: Coring Deep Water Slope Valley Systems: Lessons Learned from Over a Decade of Coring “From-the-Fly” Operations in Block 14, Angola, by Oscar Yepes, Thomas H. Fate, and William Schweller; #90082 (2008)

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Geomechanics Considerations for Safe Drilling of ERD Wells in Western Offshore, India

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Liner Hanger Installation in Challenging Offshore Well Conditions

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Lucius Field, 5 Years From Discovery to First Oil in the US GOM

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ABSTRACT: Complex Production Behavior in a Topographically Controlled Turbidite Reservoir: Gannet A Field, United Kingdom Central North Sea; #90013 (2003)

Sean Kelly, Paul Hague, Craig McMeekin, Toon Weisenborn

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... survey was acquired 2000 in order to evaluate infill/sidetrack opportunities and has highlighted differences in the areas where early water breakthrough...

A New 3D Structural Modeling Technique Unravels Complex Structures within the MarcellusShale: Utilizing Borehole Image logs; #90131 (2011)

Aimen Amer, Steve Collins, Daniel Hamilton, Helena Gamero, Carmen Contreras, and Manish Singh

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... followed by a  sidetrack targeting zones with superior reservoir and completion quality. A common challenge  in drilling these wells is to remain...

Abstract: Hydrocarbon Prospectivity Definition, the Kra Basin, Northern Gulf of Thailand; #90253 (2016)

Tianpan Ampaiwan, Minarwan Minarwan, Paul Swire, Paolo Tognini

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... by external laboratories on cuttings, cores and fluid data collected from the Malida wells (Malida-1 plus two sidetrack wells) were used in the post drill...

Abstract: Integrated Field Scale mapping of Gharif Formation; #90254 (2016)

AHMED S. AL-ABRI

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... flank well encountered poor reservoir and a planned sidetrack, with the help of the Gharif reservoir fairway maps, was successful with confirmed oil...

Abstract: Exploitation of a Marginal Heavy Oil Field Using Unconventional Techniques: Enhancing Production with Horizontal Drilling, Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia; #90300 (2017)

Stephen Leslie, Peter Mullin, M. Heider

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... and drilled the Turpiales-3 horizontal sidetrack, with the goal of increasing the production rate to economic levels. The Turpiales-3ST is a 1000ft long...

Abstract: Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of the Karst Network in the Bassein Pay of Neelam Field, Mumbai Offshore Basin, India;

Tarun Mathuria, Harish Srivastava, K. Vasudevan

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... and sidetrack geometry required for development drilling in Neelam field, by selecting zones devoid of faults, fractures, karstified zones and the high water cut...

Abstract: Lessons Learned During the Horizontal Drilling in Thin-Bedded Reservoir Units: Quifa Southwest Field, Llanos Basin, Colombia;

Duncan Nightingale, Lino Castillo, Wildiman Reinoso, Wilson Parra, Cesar Morales, Fabian Hernandez

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... drilling, “pilot” holes and geosteering tools are used to decrease the sidetrack activities, and provide the ability to change the well-bore trajectory when...

Hankamer, South Field

Robert H. Appelbaum

Houston Geological Society

...) and fourth (a sidetrack) were in the gas cap. All were disappointments in 1951. By mid-1953 Gulf had drilled 16 tests (includes two sidetracks); five D&A...

Garden Banks 785 #1 and #1st

Michael E. Mitch New

Houston Geological Society

... was sidetracked due to a stuck underreamer, and Conoco drilled the sidetrack well to a depth of 19,403 ft MD. The 7.0 sec. objective was encountered at 18,540 ft MD...

Seismic Techniques in the Cotton Valley Reef Play in East Texas

Wayne Tittle

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... resolution than surface seismic. These images help to identify the actual location of a reef around a well missed by an original hole or sidetrack. More...

Compartmentalization between the GC0738_1 Mad Dog North Wellbores—Evidence for Post-Depositional Slumping in the Lower Miocene Reservoirs of the Deepwater Southern Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Christopher D. Walker, Glen A. Anderson, Paul G. Belvedere, Alison T. Henning, Francis O. Rollins, Eric Soza, Shalina Warrior

GCAGS Transactions

... (colors used are the same as in Figure 3). Sidetrack 01 and Bypass 01 The team moved on to the second objective of locating the downdip OWC. The OH...

Problem Wells

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... be facies or diagenetically related. The remedy may be to sidetrack the well or to fracture stimulate the reservoir.FAULT DAMAGEThere may be occasions...

Understanding Oligo-Miocene Carbonate Drilling Losses Causes and Achieving Zonal Isolation

Fikril Hakiki, Frank Musgrove, Yuehui Xiao, Ursula Handyastuti

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... systems around vertical faults associated with hydrothermal dissolution. To affirm those two possibilities, information from sidetrack wells was used...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Devils Tower Area: Rationalization of Geophysical Subtleties with Geologic Concepts Provides Basis for Successful Drilling Program

Wieg, Paul K. and Fingleton, W. George

GCAGS Transactions

... 773 #3, discovered pay in a new fault block. A sidetrack (the MC 773 #3st1) was immediately drilled to assess reservoir continuity...

African Swallow Field: Complex Muddy Sandstone Marine Transgressive Stratigraphic Trap in the Deep Powder River Basin, Wyoming

J.M. Perkins, L.F. Kuhmichel, B.E. Winkelman, P.M. Loftin

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... from composited data from multiple logging runs. The European Swallow sidetrack was logged while fishing. Note the sonic log, which shows...

Structural evaluation of column-height controls at a toe-thrust discovery, deep-water Niger Delta

Olga V. Kostenko, Steve J. Naruk, Willem Hack, Manuel Poupon, Hans-Jurg Meyer, Miguel Mora-Glukstad, Charles Anowai, Margaret Mordi

AAPG Bulletin

... and fold axial surfaces were constructed from dipmeter data recorded in both a vertical hole and a sidetrack well through the no-seismic-image zone...

The Downdip Yegua Trend: Dequincy (Yegua) Field, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Jack N. Pierson

Houston Geological Society

... Company - supported Spartan in its recommendation to sidetrack 600 feet to the south from the #1 Clifton. The Spartan Petroleum Corporation #1 F. C...

The Gibraltar case study, northern Llanos Foothills, Colombia. Success of a complex technical business in complicated environments.

T. Villamil, J. Muñoz, J. Sanchez, J. J. Aristizabal, J. Velasco, A. Fajardo, P. E. Luna, A. Mantilla, L. E. Peña, M. G. Paz, O. Silva, E. Sanchez, N. S. Meza, J. Martinez, L. A. Pachon, E. Gallardo

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... or refute a structural geological model with a sidetrack that would reach the Paleocene Barco Formation and demonstrate the presence of hydrocarbons...

Cimatti Field … An example of using seismic amplitude to determine in-place resource

Michael Micenko

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... contact was observed. An appraisal sidetrack (Cimatti-2) followed immediately with the aim of testing a downdip area near the edge of the field...

Characterization and Origin of Anhydrite-Rich Lateral Caprock Adjacent to Halite-Cored Salt Diapirs; Implications for Prospectivity in Salt Basins, #41254 (2013)

Christopher A-L. Jackson, Matthew M. Lewis, Aruna S. Mannie

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... (5936 m); sidetracked to 9/2-8ST2 (5680 m); T2 sidetrack stuck (6011 m); T3 sidetrack (5628.5 m) reached TD (7203 m), failed to penetrate reservoir...