Extended Abstract: Strong Start to New Zealand Exploration Activity for 2001

Lindsay Clark

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... reached 4530 metres but was plugged and suspended in mid-january w ith the prospect of a further sidetrack to evaluate o il shows. Four Austra lian...

Integrated Risk Assessment Approach Helped in Successful Drilling in a Horizontal Well in Complex Geological Settings - A Case Study From Offshore South East Asia

Avirup Chatterjee, Amitava Ghosh

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... (like tight hole, pack off, stuck pipe etc.) in the shallow overburden section leading to sidetrack of wells. The deeper section encountered more...

Illuminating the Dual Casing Exit Operations Blind SpotŽ with a Supervised Machine Learning Model to Improve the Milling Roadmap in Offshore Mahakam

Chang Karsten, Rafli Herdiansyah, Himawan Kartaatmadja, Lucky Wibisono, Boby Wijaya Hendarno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... As a consequence, the sidetrack point in some wells will be shallower than the 13-3/8” surface casing and should exit from the double casing window. A total...

Genesis 4-D Project Status and Preliminary Lookback

Tom Hudson, Bernard Regel, John Bretches, Pat Condon, James Rickett, Brian Cerney, Phil Inderwiesen, Russ Ewy

GCAGS Transactions

...: • One anticipated sidetrack has been eliminated saving over $10 million dollars. • The geological risk of one sidetrack was reduced and the original...

Mg/Ca Ratio and Salinity: Two Controls over Crystallization of Dolomite: DISCUSSION

John C. Deelman

AAPG Bulletin

... be altered correspondingly. This observation on the role of time is not merely a philosophical sidetrack; the time factor still dominates certain...

Developments in Atlantic Coastal Plain in 1979

Bruce A. Heise, Roger V. Amato

AAPG Bulletin

... encountering mechanical difficulties. The sidetrack hole reached 15,786 ft (4,812 m). Tenneco reported 2 zones in their 642-2 well. The first...

Three-dimensional structural modeling and its application for development of the El Portn field, Argentina

Gonzalo Zamora Valcarce, Toms Zapata, Andrs Ansa, Gustavo Selva

AAPG Bulletin

... dipping to overturned limbs, through 5060 m (164196 ft) of productive reservoir avoiding pilot and sidetrack wells. The results of the modeling have...

Designing A Real-Time Geomechanics Program For A 7Km Borehole To Intersect The Nankai Subduction Zone In Japan

Search and Discovery.com

AAPG Hedberg Conference, 14-18 March 2011, Napa, California, #90128 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

Liner Hanger Installation in Challenging Offshore Well Conditions, #42003 (2017).

David Luna, Roberto Elizalde, Wantuadi Diwaku

Search and Discovery.com

... production, a major oil Company in Angola decided to re-enter the case of study well in early 2016. A sidetrack was opened in the 9 5/8 in casing, drilling...

Evolution of Structural Interpretations in Lagifu/Hedinia Field, Papua New Guinea

P. R. Lamerson

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

.... A sidetrack was planned to test oil reserves predicted from pres­ sure gradient data from H-1X, I-2X and I-5X. Top Toro intersection was predicted to be 700m...

Log evaluation, borehole image interpretation, and core calibration of deep-water reservoir rocks: A case study in the Gulf of Mexico

Chunming Xu

AAPG Bulletin

... is then applied in two appraisal sidetrack wells with different available log suites but without cores in the Vito field as a mini-case study. Practical...

Compartmentalization of the Codell and Terry (Sussex) Formations Using Clay Smear Technology, Wattenberg Field Area, Denver Basin, Colorado

Thomas J. Birmingham

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... historical producers and simulated Codell infill locations. Contour Interval = 5 feet. Codell intercept location of HSR #6-13X sidetrack well...

Pseudo Tear Faults at Red Lodge, MT: Clues to Late-stage Basin Understuffing and Tectonics of the Greater Beartooth Block

Donald U. Wise

Montana Geological Society

...) The well was spudded in at 6240' elevation, ultimately to drill a main well and a sidetrack. The thrust...

Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers Offshore Tanzania

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

... and its sidetrack Zafarani-1A designed to test and prove the flat spot and contact on the western flank of the structure and two further appraisal...

Three-dimensional structural model of the Rhourde el Baguel field, Algeria

Shankar Mitra, William Leslie

AAPG Bulletin

... of units observed in a number of deep wells on the west flank of the structure. The model has been used to sidetrack some existing deep wells...

Deep-Marine Bottom-Current Reworked Sand (Pliocene and Pleistocene), Ewing Bank 826 Field, Gulf of Mexico

G. Shanmugam, T. D. Spalding, D. H. Rofheart

Special Publications of SEPM

... G-5800 Well No. 3, and two cores (13,360.00-13,416.70 ft) from Well No. 3ST (Sidetrack) (Fig. 17) were described High Resolution Radiometry (AVHRR...

Chapter 12: The Discovery Process behind the Giant Johan Sverdrup Field

Hans Chr Rønnevik, Arild Jørstad, Jan Erik Lie

AAPG Special Volumes

... mud losses occurred. The loss was cured with lost circulation material (LCM), and a technical sidetrack 20 m (66 ft) from the main bore hole...

Geomechanical and Hydraulic Stimulation Integrated to Evaluate a Deviation in Productivity: A Case Study

Medina Rodrigo, Daciuk Cecilia, Galarza Paula

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Well.x-1, the Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT) parameters measured in the horizontal sidetrack well, and from other nearby wells too. All...

Pangea III: At the Heart of E&P

Pierre-Olivier Lys, Paul Robin

GEO ExPro Magazine

... typically, just a couple of weeks. A areas correspond to high velocity salt bodies. decision on, for example, drilling or updating a sidetrack wellbore...

Evaluation of Logging While Drilling Technology, Offshore, East Kalimantan

S. Sutiyono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., sidetrack, or abandon the well, when the LWD data indicated that a well was deviated away from the target and into another fault block...

The Utilization of 3D Seismic for Small Fields in the South Natuna Sea Block B

Kenneth M. Dickerman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the drilling of an unnecessary well. An average development well costs US$2.5 million to drill and complete and an average sidetrack operation to find...

Eliminate Pilot Holes. An innovative solution to successful landing and production

L. Pontarelli, M. Viandante, G. Skinner, Y. Liu, B. Yang, M. Rigden

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... sidetrack and second attempt at landing. Landings performed in Australia to date have faced numerous challenges; TVD uncertainty of seismic surface...

Resurgence of Salt Dome Exploration in the Gulf Coast Mesozoic Basins in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

James R. Turner, Carl E. Gray, Nick B. Pollard

GCAGS Transactions

... Peak a total depth of 10926 ft (3330 m) in the fourth sidetrack hole. Production was found in the Pettet Formation between the depths of 10,466 ft...

Comparison of Data Sources to Constrain Fracture Intensity in Static Fracture Models

R. A. Nelson

GCAGS Transactions

... where fracture data was available from two horizontal well; an original and a parallel sidetrack. One horizontal wellbore had a horizontal core...