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Title: Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming

Abstract

The NIPER Reservoir Assessment and Characterization Research Program incorporates elements of the near-term, mid-term and long-term objectives of the National Energy Strategy-Advanced Oil Recovery Program. The interdisciplinary NIPER team focuses on barrier island reservoirs, a high priority class of reservoirs, that contains large amounts of remaining oil in place located in mature fields with a high number of shut-in and abandoned wells. The project objectives are to: (1) identify heterogeneities that influence the movement and trapping of reservoir fluids in two examples of shoreline barrier reservoirs (Patrick Draw Field, WY and Bell Creek Field, MT); (2) develop geological and engineering reservoir characterization methods to quantify reservoir architecture and predict mobile oil saturation distribution for application of targeted infill drilling and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes; and (3) summarize reservoir and production characteristics of shoreline barrier reservoirs to determine similarities and differences. The major findings of the research include: (1) hydrogeochemical analytical techniques were demonstrated to be an inexpensive reservoir characterization tool that provides information on reservoir architecture and compartmentalization; (2) the formation water salinity in Patrick Draw Field varies widely across the field and can result in a 5 to 12% error in saturation values calculated from wireline logs ifmore » the salinity variations and corresponding resistivity values are not accounted for; and (3) an analysis of the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential of Patrick Draw Field indicates that CO{sub 2} flooding in the Monell Unit and horizontal drilling in the Arch Unit are potential methods to recover additional oil from the field.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Inst. for Petroleum and Energy Research, Bartlesville, OK (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10138619
Report Number(s):
NIPER-634
ON: DE93000130
DOE Contract Number:  
FC22-83FE60149
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 58 GEOSCIENCES; WYOMING; OIL WELLS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; OIL FIELDS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; PRODUCTION; DRILLING; OIL SATURATION; HYDROLOGY; SALINITY; INTERSTITIAL WATER; PETROLEUM; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING; CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION; NUMERICAL DATA; 020300; 580000; DRILLING AND PRODUCTION; GEOSCIENCES

Citation Formats

Jackson, S. Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10138619.
Jackson, S. Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10138619
Jackson, S. 1993. "Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10138619. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10138619.
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title = {Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming},
author = {Jackson, S},
abstractNote = {The NIPER Reservoir Assessment and Characterization Research Program incorporates elements of the near-term, mid-term and long-term objectives of the National Energy Strategy-Advanced Oil Recovery Program. The interdisciplinary NIPER team focuses on barrier island reservoirs, a high priority class of reservoirs, that contains large amounts of remaining oil in place located in mature fields with a high number of shut-in and abandoned wells. The project objectives are to: (1) identify heterogeneities that influence the movement and trapping of reservoir fluids in two examples of shoreline barrier reservoirs (Patrick Draw Field, WY and Bell Creek Field, MT); (2) develop geological and engineering reservoir characterization methods to quantify reservoir architecture and predict mobile oil saturation distribution for application of targeted infill drilling and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes; and (3) summarize reservoir and production characteristics of shoreline barrier reservoirs to determine similarities and differences. The major findings of the research include: (1) hydrogeochemical analytical techniques were demonstrated to be an inexpensive reservoir characterization tool that provides information on reservoir architecture and compartmentalization; (2) the formation water salinity in Patrick Draw Field varies widely across the field and can result in a 5 to 12% error in saturation values calculated from wireline logs if the salinity variations and corresponding resistivity values are not accounted for; and (3) an analysis of the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential of Patrick Draw Field indicates that CO{sub 2} flooding in the Monell Unit and horizontal drilling in the Arch Unit are potential methods to recover additional oil from the field.},
doi = {10.2172/10138619},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10138619}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
}