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Title: Application of Integrated Reservoir Management and Reservoir Characterization to Optimize Infill Drilling

Abstract

Infill drilling if wells on a uniform spacing without regard to reservoir performance and characterization foes not optimize reservoir development because it fails to account for the complex nature of reservoir heterogeneities present in many low permeability reservoirs, and carbonate reservoirs in particular. New and emerging technologies, such as geostatistical modeling, rigorous decline curve analysis, reservoir rock typing, and special core analysis can be used to develop a 3-D simulation model for prediction of infill locations.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Federal Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1590
Report Number(s):
DE-FC22-94BC14989-15
ON: DE00001590
DOE Contract Number:  
FC22-94BC14989
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; Petroleum Deposits; Well Drilling; Three-Dimensional Calculations

Citation Formats

. Application of Integrated Reservoir Management and Reservoir Characterization to Optimize Infill Drilling. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. doi:10.2172/1590.
. Application of Integrated Reservoir Management and Reservoir Characterization to Optimize Infill Drilling. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1590
. 1998. "Application of Integrated Reservoir Management and Reservoir Characterization to Optimize Infill Drilling". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1590. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1590.
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abstractNote = {Infill drilling if wells on a uniform spacing without regard to reservoir performance and characterization foes not optimize reservoir development because it fails to account for the complex nature of reservoir heterogeneities present in many low permeability reservoirs, and carbonate reservoirs in particular. New and emerging technologies, such as geostatistical modeling, rigorous decline curve analysis, reservoir rock typing, and special core analysis can be used to develop a 3-D simulation model for prediction of infill locations.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1998},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1998}
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