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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database

West Texas Geological Society

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In Search of New Permian Basin Oil and Gas Fields: Using Today's Technologies and Tomorrow's Ideas for Exploration, Development, and 3D Seismic in a Mature Basin, 1995
Pages 17-22

Eastern Shelf Exploration Yields to Multiple Techniques

Mike Verseckes, Gaylon E. Wilson

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Hydrocarbon exploration along the Eastern Shelf of Texas is challenging, particularly in multi-pay areas. One group of Eastern Shelf explorationists is improving their drilling results using an innovative multi-technique approach. They are combining seismic and near surface geochemical data with subsurface geologic information and dramatically increasing their commercial success. Using this method has yielded total success rates over 70% in an area that typically exhibits completion ratios of some 30%. A field discovery demonstrates this approach.


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