Economic recovery of oil trapped at fan margins using high angle wells and multiple hydraulic fractures. [Quarterly report], October 1--December 31, 1995
Objective is to use advanced technologies to demonstrate economic recovery of oil from the fan-margin portion of a slope-basin clastic reservoir. A high-angle well will be drilled in the fan margin and will be completed with multiple hydraulic-fracture treatments. Connectivity of thin reservoir layers will be established along the well path by the fracture planes. Geologic modeling, reservoir characterization, and fine-grid reservoir simulation will be used to select well location and orientation. Design parameters for the hydraulic-fracture treatments will be predicted (in part) by the microseismic logging of an offset well during the hydraulic-fracture treatment of the existing well. Design work began for a hydraulic-fracture treatment of an existing well in the Yowlumne Field, Kern Co., Calif. Localized geologic and reservoir description work was completed in the area of the well. Estimates of formation mechanical properties and stress profile were made using full-wave sonic log data and treating-pressure data from a hydraulically fractured well in the field. Fracture azimuth was predicted using field borehole breakouts identified from four-arm dual-caliper dipmeter logs.
- Research Organization:
- Atlantic Richfield Co., Bakersfield, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC22-95BC14940
- OSTI ID:
- 206403
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/BC/14940-1; ON: DE96006222
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 30 Jan 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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