Understanding Production Drivers in the Vaca Muerta Shale Using an Integrated Reservoir Simulation Approach

Raphael Altman, Dario Pederiva, Reza Mehranfar, Marcelo Frydman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) Horizontal well geometry (for example toe-up or toe-down) s) Perforation cluster spacing t) Well Spacing Rather than drilling shale wells geometrically...

Origin, Detection, Involvement in Hydraulic Stimulation and Consequences for Field Development of large-scale Structural Lineaments in the Marcellus and Duvernay plays

Ben Stephenson, Earl Galan, Mathew Fay, Alexei Savitski, Taixu Bai

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 4 or 5 stages (near the toe) in the 4H, which is also a poor producer? There is a heel to toe bias in event density due to the proximity...

Faster Tight Oil Decline Rates Could Mean Growing Project Spend and More Deals

Ryan Dunman, Robert Clarke

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

....  The two-mile distance between the toe of the lateral and the vertical section leads to greater chances of slugging.  Horizontal wells will also...

New Deepwater Interpretation Concepts – Slopes, Sequences and Stacking Patterns of Deepwater Clinoforms

Nick Hoffman, Daniel Palmowski

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., carrying relatively coarse particles further. At the toe of slope, defined by the limit of tilting, these fast currents slow down and dump their load...

Happening 30, 40, 50 years agoƒ

Don Poynton

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... 21 Planet 30/ San toe Uran DeY ..,. ., - 14 41 3/4 " - The third significant discovery was made by the Pa lm Valley-1 well in the Amadeus Basin...

The Oil-Prone Morum Sub-basin Petroleum System, Otway Basin, South Australia

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... into this toe-thrust inversion which may contain the interpreted late Albian marine source rocks mentioned previously. Numerous sea-surface anomali es...

Backset Bedding Developed in Shooting Flow in Laboratory Experiments: NOTES

Alan V. Jopling , Everett V. Richardson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... were comparable (30°-35°). The "blast" of the current at the toe of the upstream slope maintained the gravity slope of the backset bedding...

Stacked Completion and Production of Lacustrine Shale Oil Deposit Lateral Wells in the Kongdian Formation, China

Pingqi Zhao, Guofeng Wen, Tianlu Ni, Haihua Shen, Hongbo Yuan, Lingjiang Yang, S. Wu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that the heel (18, 19, 20, 21), middle (14) and toe (3, 4) sections have obvious larger contributions to the productions. URTeC 5577 Figure 3. Vertical...

Anthropologist Hunting Dragon Gas

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... on the ASX in 2009 and today way to keep his toe in the water- but it soon the maj ority of its staff of 30 are sub-surface "I don't know why you...

Submarine Lithification of Jamaican Reefs: NOTES

Lynton S. Land, Thomas F. Goreau

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of a "quarry" excavated at the toe of a reef buttress 26 meters below sea level. The top of the photograph is essentially the reef-water interface...

Validating Conductive Fracture Imaging With Cross-well Strain and Permanent Fiber Optic Flow Profiling

Scott Taylor, Anton Reshetnikov, Anna Nazarova

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... at the toe-half of the lateral, imaged with the B5PH vertical data well, is compared against the cross-well strain. The strain data displayed is only...

Chapter 10: The Role of Integrated Reservoir Petrophysics in Horizontal Well Evaluations to Increase Production in the Eagle Ford Shale

Kevin B. Fisher

AAPG Special Volumes

... determination. The toe of the lateral passes through units where ash beds occur with greater frequency. Production here is lower than elsewhere along...

Classification and Interpretation of Disturbed Bedding Types in Jackfork Flysch Rocks (Upper Mississippian), Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas

Robert C. Morris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of inception down to the toe. End_Page 413------------------------ and plastic flow were all involved. Flow over longer distances, or perhaps multiple...

Melbana Magic Woos Cowardly Capital to Hydrocarbon Haven in Communist Cuba

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

....” Melbana, somewhat tentatively at first, began to dip its toe into the warm tropics of the Caribbean, located only 530km from the nearest US island, Key...

Temporal Scales of Mass-Wasting Sediment Transport on the Mississippi River Delta Front Delineated by 210Pb/137Cs Geochronology

Jeffrey Duxbury, Samuel Bentley

GCAGS Transactions

...-radiography, overlying a homogenized, methane bearing deposit extending to the base of the core. This represents the toe of a mudflow system, extending...

Depositional Processes, Sedimentary Structures, and Predicted Vertical Sequences in Barred Nearshore Systems, Southern Oregon Coast

Ralph E. Hunter, H. Edward Clifton, R. Lawrence Phillips

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... produced a flat gravel lag. Near the toe of the bar, we have on several days seen lunate megaripples facing obliquely offshore, suggesting the helical flow...

Geology of Ham Gossett Oil Field, Kaufman County, Texas

Peter N. Wiggins, III

AAPG Bulletin

... the distance R^prime by the component cd. If sediments were rotated through angle ^Thgr, crowding on the "toe" of the downthrown block would result...

3.2 Basement Involved: 3.2.1 Crustal Profiles: COCORP Deep Seismic Profiles Across the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming

AAPG Special Volumes

... River fault (vibrator point VP 250, line 1). Precambrian rocks in the upper plate at the toe of the thrust are intensely crushed and broken. Inadequate...

Passive Margins: Aggrading and Prograding Infill of Buried Cenozoic Seaways, Northwestern Great Bahama Bank

Gregor P. Eberli and Robert N. Ginsburg

AAPG Special Volumes

... features along the toe-of-slope of the this similar, accretionary slope (Mullins et al., 1984; Austin et al., 1987). Prograding Phase--Straits of Andros...

Passive Margins: Seismic Stratigraphy of the Exmouth Plateau

R. D. Erskine and P. R. Vail

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the clinoforms in either well, and the seismic pinch-out of the lowstand-fans and lowstand-wedge turbidites at the toe of the slope, supports...

Section 3: Displays of Seismic Sections: The New Hebrides Trench, Lines 1 and 12

Michael A. Fisher and H. Gary Greene

AAPG Special Volumes

... floor along the toe of the slope. A fault plane reflection from this fault is evident on the migrated seismic section. Some thrust faults can be traced...

Carbonate Depositional Sequences and Systems Tracts--Responses of Carbonate Platforms to Relative Sea-Level Changes: Chapter 1

C. Robertson Handford, Robert G. Loucks

AAPG Special Volumes

... toe-of-slope limestones, member of the Bell Canyon Formation, McKittrick Canyon, Texas, USA. (abstract): Dolomieu Conference on Carbonate Platforms...

Stratigraphic-Tectonic Relations in Spain's Cantabrian Mountains: Fan Delta Meets Carbonate Shelf

Kathy R. Bruner, Richard Smosna

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-supported, is the most prominent rock type of the toe-of-slope facies association. Some conglomerates are normally graded; a small number...

Chapter 30: Architecture of a Laterally Migrating Channel Complex: Channel 4, Isaac Formation, Windermere Supergroup, Castle Creek North, British Columbia, Canada

Ciarán J. O’Byrne, Mark D. Barton, Gary S. Steffens, Carlos Pirmez, Heinz Buergisser

AAPG Special Volumes

...), are interpreted by Arnott and Ross (op. cit.) to represent an immense slope to toe-of-slope, passive-margin, clastic fan system with sediment...

Chapter 98: Conglomeratic Channels, Brockie Lake, Idaho, USA

T. H. Nilsen, G. S. Steffens, B. E. Prather

AAPG Special Volumes

.... These more recent workers still favor an interpretation of deep-marine channels in a mid-slope to toe-of-slope environment. However, interpretations...