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Case History of an Outstanding Horizontal Bakken Well: Slawson Sidewinder 1-7, Billings County, North Dakota

Dean C. Brooks

Montana Geological Society

... directional drilling operations. Kick off point (KOP) was reached on day 15 at a total depth of 9804'. At this time, a multi...

Application of Seismic Surveying to Recognition of Productive Part of Gas-Oil Strata

V. V. Churlin, L. A. Sergeyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... V., Voskresenskiy, Yu. V., and Rapoport, M. B., 1962, Theory and practice of the seismic method of regional directional pickup: Tr. MINKh i GP, vyp...

Inflow Control Device Applications for Water Coning Mitigation in High Permeability Sandstone Reservoir, PN Field, Sumatera, Indonesia

Aulia Rahman, Eric A. Flodin, Ahmad Syahputra, Nattapon Nampratchayakul, Usman Jauhari, Dwiyanto Sutyastomo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... vertical / directional wells is characterized by high rate, dry oil production, followed by water-cut increase to 85% within a month after initial production...

Locating Bypassed Reserves in Geologically Complex Mature Fields Environments, #41022 (2012)

Mike Dautel, Jason Pitcher, Michael Bittar

Search and Discovery.com

... reading resistivity tools, which provide directional real-time deep measurements necessary to detect bed boundaries and fluid contacts, are used...

Mapping Basement Structures in the Peace River Arch of Alberta Using Monogenic Signal Decomposition of Magnetic Data; #41498 (2014)

Hassan H. Hassan

Search and Discovery.com

...) and two secondary attributes (directional Hilbert and Riesz transform). Although many magnetic attributes have been utilized to map subtle geologic...

The application of phased-array vibrator system in deep seismic exploration

Minghao Yu, Xiangbo Gong, Xiaojie Wan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... demonstrates the ability of the phased-array vibrator system to excite the seismic wave in a directional manner and improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR...

Horizontal well: The key factor to improve oil recovery in Bohai Bay

Xiaoming Chen, Yingxian Liu, Hui Cai, Meinan Wang, Junting Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... well pattern > combined well pattern > directional well pattern; Comparing the displacing pressure gradient magnitude and displacing pressure gradient...

Rotary Drilling of a Horizontal Well, West Java Sea

P. Simorangkir, O. S. Adisapoetra, J. Handoyo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... assembly thereafter. A plunger valve directional tool was used for taking directional surveys in place of the MWD tool which was lost in hole. The sea...

Directional Features of an Experimental Turbidite Fan a Report of Progress

Monty A. Hampton, Ivan P. Colburn

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Directional Features of an Experimental Turbidite Fan a Report of Progress Monty A. Hampton, Ivan P. Colburn 1967 Vol. 37 No. 2. (June...

Distribution of Fault Controlled, Wave-Tide Dominated, Prograding Oolitic Shoals of the Miocene Carbonate-Evaporite Successions of the Ar-Rajmah Group, Al-Jabal Al-Khdar Uplift and Soluq Trough, Cyrenaica, NE Libya

Khaled S. Amrouni, Michael C. Pope, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Adel A. Obeidi, Aimen Amer, Essa A. Elbileikia, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani

GCAGS Transactions

... oolitic clinoforms. The oolitic facies of the Cyrenaican Miocene Platform are mapped. Also, the directional paleocurrent data are plotted on the maps...

Assessment of the Reliability of Reserves Estimates of Public Companies in the US and Canada

Diana Gomez, W. John Lee, Duane McVay

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... only 1P, were somewhere between (1) extreme overconfidence and neutral directional bias and (2) moderate overconfidence and extreme optimism. Three...

The Sedimentology of a Braided River

Peter F. Williams , Brian R. Rust

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... between channels, and invariably erosional. The origin and directional significance of hierarchical orders of sedimentary structures were studied. Six...

Precision Placement for Successful Horizontal Wells in Heterogenous Reservoirs: A Case Study in Alpha Field, Central Sumatera Basin

Usman Jauhari, Ahmad Syahputra, Bangun Yulianto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be situations in which conventional directional drilling completion and even fracturing technology might be unsuccessful. This paper gives examples...

PDC Bits and Steerable Downhole Mud Motors Improve Drilling Performance, East Kalimantan

N. Sawolo, W. B. Hatcher

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Study Comparison of Wells Drilled With and Without MWD Directional Surveys on the Claymore Platform in the North Sea", J. Pet. Tech pp. 1867-1876. 11...

Horizontal Wells in Environmental Geology

Milovan S. Beljin, George Losonsky

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... is crucial (Karlsson et al., 1992). Jetting and moling are by far the least expensive methods, but they lack directional control. Motor systems, although...

Extended Abstract: A Steady-State Approach for Surge and Swab Pressures Calculation of Herschel-Buckley Fluids in Directional/Horizontal Wells

Wenlong Jiang, Honghai Fan, Rongyi Ji, Deqiang Tian, Wen Zixiang, Yuan Gao, Rui Dai, Fuxin Han, Sun Yizhen

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

...Extended Abstract: A Steady-State Approach for Surge and Swab Pressures Calculation of Herschel-Buckley Fluids in Directional/Horizontal Wells...

Horizontal Well Drilling in the Arun Field

Fahmi Urip

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... were employed as needed to maintain or increase hole angle. Directional data in the 6" hole was obtained by running magnetic multishot surveys (MMS...

Novel Integrated Hole Cleaning Concept Reduces Well Construction Time By 3 Rig Days

Norbert Heitmann, Euro Chacin, Rafael Molero, Willy Graterol, Yazid Ouali, Elias Chamat Burgos, Agustin Cisneros

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the deployment of critical well construction services with drill bits, directional drilling and MWD/LWD services, drilling fluids and solids control...

Cost Study for Offshore Exploratory Drilling Operation

Saifullah, Septoratno Siregar, Pudjihanto Suwarno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... exploratory drilling operations. The model will be used to estimate cost for straight hole or directional drilling operations until the dry hole stage has...

A New Method for Obtaining Significant Average Directional Measurements in Cross-Stratification Studies

O. B. Raup, A. T. Miesch

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...A New Method for Obtaining Significant Average Directional Measurements in Cross-Stratification Studies O. B. Raup, A. T. Miesch 1957 Vol. 27 No. 3...

Erin Bay Field Trip Guide

Hasley Vincent

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... (Figure 2). Processes Major active processes within tidal dominated deltas include: o Bi directional tidal currents (ebb and flood) o Lateral...

Understanding the Trade-offs in Drilling the Perfect Horizontal Well

Keith C. Oren

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The Directional Driller (DD) soon realized that the existing drilling assembly (BHA) was not aggressive enough to drill back into the targeted zone; so...

The South Crawford Mountain Prospect, Rich County, Utah: A Case History

Valen D. Ott, Eric C. Potter, Kenneth R. Kreckel

Utah Geological Association

... with the crest of the surface anticline (fig. 2). However, due to the inclined axial plane, it was apparent that directional drilling was the only way to reach...

Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers

Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson , Steven C. Young

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson , Steven C...