Rebirth of a 30 year old, offshore Gulf of Mexico field using horizontal drilling in ultra thin oil reservoirs
This paper discusses the pre-drill evaluation and post-drill results of a four well horizontal drilling program in two bottom water drive reservoirs with 20 foot oil columns. The pre-drill evaluation consists of a multidiscipline reservoir interpretation that combines 3-D seismic, stratigraphy, oil correlation, reservoir model simulation, and performance. Factors critical to the successful execution of the drilling program were hole size, rig selection and drill-in fluids. Program results are derived from measured while drilling open hole logs, well performance, flowing pressure data, and production logging. The paper analyzes the complexities of production log interpretation in two phase horizontal flow.
- OSTI ID:
- 468118
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961003-; TRN: 96:006578-0012
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 71. annual technical conference and exhibition of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver, CO (United States), 6-9 Oct 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 1996 SPE annual technical conference and exhibition: Reservoir engineering; PB: 833 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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