Geologic and Engineering Characterization of East Ford Field, Reeves County, Texas

Technical Report · Mon Aug 16 04:00:00 EDT 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/9727· OSTI ID:9727

Dutton, Shirley P ^[1]; Flanders, William A; Guzman, Jose I; Zirczy, Helena

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1. National Petroleum Technology Office

The objective of this Class III project is to demonstrate that detailed reservoir characterization of slope and basin clastic reservoirs in sandstones of the Delaware Mountain Group in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and New Mexico is a cost-effective way to recover a higher percentage of the original oil in place through geologically based field development. The project focused on reservoir characterization of the East Ford unit, a representative Delaware Mountain Group field that produces from the upper Bell Canyon Formation (Ramsey Sandstone). The field, discovered in 1960, is operated by Oral Petco, Inc., as the East Ford unit: it contained an estimated 18.4 million barrels (MMbbl) of original oil in place.

• Research Organization: National Petroleum Technology Office, Tulsa, OK (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FC22-95BC14936
• OSTI ID: 9727
• Report Number(s): DOE/BC/14936-12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
MOUNTAINS
NEW MEXICO
PETROLEUM DEPOSITS
SANDSTONES
TEXAS