Incremental natural gas resources through infield reserve growth/secondary natural gas recovery
The primary objective of the Infield Reserve Growth/Secondary Natural Gas Recovery (SGR) project is to develop, test, and verify technologies and methodologies with near- to midterm potential for maximizing the recovery of natural gasfrom conventional reservoirs in known fields. Additional technical and technology transfer objectives of the SGR project include: To establish how depositional and diagenetic heterogeneities in reservoirs of conventional permeability cause reservoir compartmentalization and, hence, incomplete recovery of natural gas. To document examples of reserve growth occurrence and potential from fluvial and deltaic sandstones of the Texas gulf coast basin as a natural laboratory for developing concepts and testing applications to find secondary gas. To demonstrate how the integration of geology, reservoir engineering, geophysics, and well log analysis/petrophysics leads to strategic recompletion and well placement opportunities for reserve growth in mature fields. To transfer project results to a wide array of natural gas producers, not just as field case studies, but as conceptual models of how heterogeneities determine natural gas flow units and how to recognize the geologic and engineering clues that operators can use in a cost-effective manner to identify incremental, or secondary, gas.
- Research Organization:
- Texas Univ., Austin, TX (United States). Bureau of Economic Geology
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG21-88MC25031
- OSTI ID:
- 10119053
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/25031-94/C0297; CONF-931156-17; ON: DE94006015; BR: AB0520000/AB0530050
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fuels technology contractors` review meeting,Morgantown, WV (United States),16-18 Nov 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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NATURAL GAS WELLS
PRODUCTIVITY
US GULF COAST
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
OPTIMIZATION
TEXAS
PERMEABILITY
SANDSTONES
GEOLOGY
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
GEOPHYSICS
WELL LOGGING
RESERVOIR ROCK
HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS
TESTING
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