Western gas sands project. Status report, April-May-June 1981
During the quarter, CK GeoEnergy field work on the outcrop analysis in the Rifle Gap area of Colorado was begun. Activities for the Multi-Well Experiment centered upon site acquisition, experiment planning and preparation, limited field activities, and analysis and evaluation. In Bartlesville Energy Technology Center's Reservoir Simulator Studies, development and refinement of the 2D and 3D lenticular reservoir/well simulator programs continued. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has continued developing their codes to model fluid flow and pressure evolution in an expanding crack; efforts during the quarter have been directed toward the solution of a calculational instability, which develops when a constant pressure inlet boundary condition is imposed. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, effort was focused on two main areas: (1) field mapping of the double Helmholtz coil pair and (2) NMR T/sub 1/ relaxation measurements were carried out on a set of artificial ceramic rock samples to investigate the effect of pore size on the NMR relaxation rate. At Sandia National Laboratory, data from three field tests of the borehole seismic system have been analyzed and their results are included in this report. Although the Colorado Interstate Gas Company's cyclic dry gas injection experiment was essentially completed in March, follow-up work continued through this quarter. The DOE Well Test Facility remained in Las Vegas during the quarter and enhancements and modifications continued in preparation for use in the Multi-Well Experiment. In conjunction with Sandia National Laboratory's work in a tunnel complex of the Nevada Test Site, a 100-ft hole was drilled and cased in preparation for the follow-up Perforation Fracturing Experiment.
- Research Organization:
- CER Corp., Las Vegas, NV (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-79BC10003
- OSTI ID:
- 5692341
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BC/10003-24; ON: DE82004509
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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