Logging system adds value to field rejuvenation efforts

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1997 · Petroleum Engineer International

OSTI ID:562282

Peters, D; Bartenhagen, K ^[1]; Santolamazza, A ^[2]

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1. Schlumberger Wireline and Testing, Sugar Land, TX (United States)
2. Schlumberger Wireline and Testing, Liberal, KS (United States)

As with any rejuvenation scheme, the first step is always identification and evaluation of potential producible reserves. But economic and physical factors made evaluation using traditional logging techniques problematic. The constraints that inhibited earlier logging tools have been addressed by a new, compact integrated system called Platform Express (PEX). Oil companies operating in two of the most mature producing regions of the US, the Hugoton-Panhandle Field and the Southwest Nena Lucia Field in West Texas, discuss the physical and economic advantages they are reaping using PEX technologies. Hugoton-Panhandle Field, discovered around 1920, sprawls across parts of three south-central states and has been one of the world`s largest gas producers. Despite continuing pressure declines in this aging gas giant, the entire region has undergone restoration in the last few years. In its Kansas portions, a modest oil production has almost doubled since 1990 and a steep gas decline has been completely turned around. These production gains have come from an active program of recompletions, the deepening of old holes and new drilling. The story in the southwest Nena Lucia Field is much the same. Operator Oryx Energy has been active in the field, located west of Abilene, Texas, since its discovery in the 1950s. The goal with this field is to use advanced technologies to reverse the production declines that began years ago. Such a reversal began in mid-1996 and has been sustained thus far.

• OSTI ID: 562282
• Journal Information: Petroleum Engineer International, Journal Name: Petroleum Engineer International Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 70; ISSN 0164-8322; ISSN PEEID4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
KANSAS
NATURAL GAS FIELDS
NATURAL GAS WELLS
OIL FIELDS
OIL WELLS
OKLAHOMA
PRODUCTIVITY
REENTRY
RESISTIVITY LOGGING
TEXAS
WELL COMPLETION