Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoirs of South Texas. [Quarterly] technical progress report, April 1, 1995--June 30, 1995
Advanced reservoir characterization techniques are being applied to selected reservoirs in the Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstone (Vicksburg Fault Zone) trend of South Texas in order to maximize the economic producibility of resources in this mature oil play. More than half of the reservoirs in this depositionally complex play have already been abandoned, and large volumes of oil may remain unproduced unless advanced characterization techniques are applied to define untapped, incompletely drained, and new pool reservoirs as suitable targets for near-term recovery methods. This project is developing interwell-scale geological facies models and assessing engineering attributes of Frio fluvial-deltaic reservoirs in selected fields in order to characterize reservoir architecture, flow unit boundaries, and the controls that these characteristics exert on the location and volume of unrecovered mobile and residual oil. The results of these studies will lead directly to the identification of specific opportunities to exploit these heterogeneous reservoirs for incremental recovery by recompletion and strategic infill drilling. Project work during the second quarter of 1995 consisted of (1) documentation of Phase II tasks associated with the delineation of untapped and incompletely drained reservoir compartments and new pool reservoirs in selected Frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone intervals in Rincon and Tijerina-Canales-Blucher (T-C-B) fields, as well as (2) tasks related to the transfer of the technologies to industry that aided in delineation. Text and figures have been prepared to support the geological-based compartment architecture and petrophysical analysis is being undertaken to provide a volumetric assessment of remaining resources and recoverable reserves. Petrophysical work during this period has focused on Rincon field reservoirs because of the availability of core material for special core analysis.
- Research Organization:
- Texas Univ., Austin, TX (United States). Bureau of Economic Geology
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC22-93BC14959
- OSTI ID:
- 102276
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BC/14959-14; ON: DE95016217
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 30 Jun 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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