Offshore Namibia: The sleeping giant deep-water hydrocarbon frontier has awakened

Marcio Rocha Mello

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... analyzed from most of the 24 rotary sidewall core (RSWC) EOMs recovered in the Wingat-1 entire Barremian siliciclastic section (Fig. 3; Mello et al...

Ultimate Recovery of the L-1 Sand, Benakat Timur Field, South Sumatra

R. S. Trijaya Kartoatmodjo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... well, a conventional full hole core was cut. In three wells sidewall cores were taken. In 26 other wells drill cuttings were recovered and analyzed...

The Age of Uncertainty

James Crampton, Lucia Roncaglia, Miko Fohrmann, Anne Raymond

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., derived ‘float’ in the composite. Those that converged in the resulting from 2,829 cuttings, sidewall core, and conventional core solution were...

Exploration of Vaca Muerta Formation in Southern Mendoza: First Horizontal Wells. Neuquen Basin, Argentina

L. Carolina González, Julián Fantín, Leonardo Rodríguez Arias, Cintia Ponce

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... recorded in the zone of interest and cutting samples and rotary sidewall cores (RSWC) were collected for geochemical and petrophysical studies (Figure 4...

Vaca Muerta … Los Molles Multiple Formation Landing Zone Sweetspots, an Emerging Frontier Play for Unconventional Shale Exploration. Puesto Parada (Vaca Muerta)-Punta Senillosa (Los Molles) Discoveries Case Study, Southern Neuquen Basin

Alfonso Mosquera, Alan Buchanan, Ricardo Veiga, Alejandra Galan, Sebastian Olmos, Ailin Lopasso, Hector Villar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... wells. Well information consisted of, complete set of logs, mudlogs and sidewall cores and 450km2 of 3D seismic coverage were available. For the Vaca...

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...