Geology of the Kern River Field

Geoff Nicholson

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., percussion sidewall samples commonly are taken, especially in wells along the fringes of the field. The freshness of the formation water does have its...

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

J. M. Davis

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the obtaining of cuttings, adequate analysis was carried out. A heavy sidewall core program was carried out to help compensate for the lack of good cuttings...

Section Two: Exploration Drilling Phase

New Orleans Geological Society

... are common offshore. No attempt is made to test or complete these initial tests. They are drilled, logged, sidewall sampled and then abandoned...

Observations on the Sealing Properties of Faults in Sumatra

Teofilo Villarroel

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to provide an effective seal was not present. Although Ratna–1 encountered two zones with good oil shows observed in the sidewall cores, no oil...

Depositional Framework and Major Lithostratigraphic Variations of the Barrow Group

S. C. Eriyagama, L. B. Collins, R. M. Hocking

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...). Well data (26 wells) were studied using wireline logs, sidewall core and cuttings descriptions, and a limited amount of conventional core. Well...

Palynological Age-Dating of Seismic Horizons D, E and F, Beagle and Dampier Sub-Basins

M. Aziz Islam

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... sidewall-core samples, 10 conventional core samples and 21 ditch-cutting samples. The number of samples examined varied from well to well. In most...

A method to extract azimuth information from narrow azimuth data and its application in fracture detection

Hongbo Ding, Dekui Xu, Xinyi Duan, Guangrui Xiao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is archaeozoic buried hill, and the effective reservoir space type is fracture-pore type and pore-fracture type. The thin section and sidewall core indicate...

Pelahatchie Field -- Mississippi Giant?

Harold E. Karges

GCAGS Transactions

... the "brown-dense lime zone," and consists of a gray, fine to medium-grained sand. There were measured permeabilities in sidewall cores up to 2440...

The Neoproterozoic Gillen Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia: An Intra-Salt Petroleum System and Viable Exploration Target?

Phillip S. Plummer

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... brecciated anhydrite (grey in wet sectioned core – top; white in dry core – bottom) within halite (orange). (b–d) Sidewall cores and sections, from...

Sand Ridges - Ignored Stratigraphic Traps

David R. Davies

New Orleans Geological Society

... environments. Thin sections of sidewall cores (routinely taken for formation analysis) should confirm the origin of a sand body as a sand ridge. CONCLUSIONS...

Hiding in the Basement

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... of wireline techniques including borehole image logs, sidewall cores and formation pressure and fluid sampling. A key factor in evaluating basement...

Horizontal Drilling Applications in California

W. A. Goldman, K. M. Nero

Pacific Section of AAPG

... and is designed to be run through the curve. The integral wear knots minimize sidewall contact and downhole torque and drag. The advantages of a medium...

Tulare Formation

Michael J. Campbell

Pacific Section of AAPG

... from the lower member of the Tulare Formation Resistivities of productive units commonly range from 10 to 40 ohm-meters. Sidewall and whole core data...

Environmental Criteria - Their Use and Misuse

Glenn S. Visher

GCAGS Transactions

... slices, and samples. We are geologists, not log shufflers, and we again need to look to the rocks for our answers. Even sidewall cores, core slices...

Cross Correlation of Wire Line Data and SEM Based Mineralogical and Textural Vertical Well Data: A New Tool for Intelligent Completion Designs and Better Production Predictions.

Mark Mulkern, Chad Cunningham, Chi V. Ly, Graham Spence, Guy Oliver, John K. Flavin, Charlie Jackson, Sergio Centurion

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... review the development of an integrated subsurface completion program combining pilot hole wireline and sidewall rotary core data, with cuttings-based...

A Depositional Model for the Early Middle Miocene Ngrayong Formation and Implications for Exploration in the East Java Basin

Wayan Ardhana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on conventional core and sidewall core samples. Robertson Research report #456 prepared for J.O.B. Pertamina Trend Tuban (unpublished). Crimes, T.P. & J.C. Harper...

Carbonate Characterization and Classification from In-Situ Wellbore Images

J. W. Roestenburg

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... focus in the visual analysis of core, sidewall core, cuttings and outcrop data. In situ classification based on electrical images provides another...

Structural Geology of the Morales Canyon and Taylor Canyon Area of the Cuyama Basin, Southern California

Jeannette A. Calhoun

Pacific Section SEPM

... electric logs, directional surveys, dipmeter logs, descriptions of core, sidewall core, and ditch samples, paleontological reports, and well histories...

Critical Water Estimates for Gulf Coast Sands

Raymond J. Granberry , Dare K. Keelan

GCAGS Transactions

... and porosity values are available from either sidewall or conventional core analyses. Figure 3 is a generalized correlation for Gulf Coast Tertiary...

Extended Abstract: Exploration Potential of the Eastern Surat

Dennis Morton, John Carmody

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... were tight they contained a 20 m oil column sitting directly on basement. Oil was extracted from sidewall cores and analysed. The Strathpine prospect...

A Regional Re-Evaluation of the Mississippi Lime Play, South-Central Kansas: The Risks and Rewards of Understanding Complex Geology in a Resource Play

Bruce Mitchell, Kathleen Simpson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and horizontal electric logs, sidewall cores, imaging logs, and isotube data. Shell also acquired 3D and 2D seismic data over the acreage position...

Abstract: Second-Order Accommodation Cycles and Points of Stratigraphic Turnaround: Implications for High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of the Haynesville and Cotton Valley Lime Pinnacle Reefs of the East Texas Salt Basin

Robert K. Goldhammer

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... and petrophysical parameters, each pinnacle is vertically heterogeneous. End_Page 18--------------- Inspection of thin sections from cuttings and rotary sidewall...

The Kavango Onshore Namibia … Reconafricas Exploration Program in One of the Most Underexplored Basins

Ansgar Wanke, Jim Granath

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Fortunately, the wireline logs, closely spaced cuttings samples and over 180 rotary sidewall cores provided a wealth of information to better...

A Novel Approach for Integrated Sanding Prediction: Case Study AR Field Development, Block-A Project

Farid Ghozali, Yulywanto, Pipin Ariyanto, Danny Hutagalung, Tri Atmojo Priyantoro, Anak Agung Iswara, Maranu Ricardo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Control Absolutely Necessary?. Corelab Indonesia - Asamera Oil Ltd., 1993, Thin Section Descriptions of Sidewall Core Sample From Alur Rambong -1, Int...

An Occurrence of High Gravity Oil in an Oligocene Vicksburg Age Sandstone in Jim Hogg County, Texas

L. W. Smith, Neal Hilton

GCAGS Transactions

... southeast of the E-1 (fig. 5). Well cuttings and sidewall cores from the overall interval 850 to 6380 feet were collected and canned. A summary ofthe organic...