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Title: Increasing waterflood reserves in the Wilmington oil field through improved reservoir characterization and reservoir management. Quarterly technical progress report, March 21, 1995--June 30, 1995

Abstract

The main objective of this project is the transfer of technologies, methodologies, and findings developed and applied in this project to other operators of Slope and Basin Clastic Reservoirs. This project will study methods to identify sands with high remaining oil saturation and to recomplete existing wells using advanced completion technology. The identification of the sands with high remaining oil saturation will be accomplished by developing a deterministic 3-D geologic model and by using a state of the art reservoir management computer software. The wells identified by the geologic and reservoir engineering work as having the best potential will be logged with a pulsed acoustic cased-hole logging tool. The application of the logging tools will be optimized in the lab by developing a rock-log model. The wells that are shown to have the best oil production potential will be recompleted. The recompletions will be optimized by evaluating short radius and ultra-short radius lateral recompletions. Technical progress is reported for the following tasks: Reservoir characterization; reservoir engineering; 3-D geologic modeling; pulsed acoustic logging; and technology transfer.

Authors:
;  [1]; ; ;  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Long Beach City Dept. of Oil Properties, CA (United States)
  2. Tidelands Oil Production Co. (United States)
  3. Stanford Univ. (United States)
  4. MPI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Long Beach City Dept. of Oil Properties, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
104797
Report Number(s):
DOE/BC/14934-1
ON: DE95017085
DOE Contract Number:  
FC22-95BC14934
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 26 Jul 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; CALIFORNIA; OIL WELLS; WELL LOGGING; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RESERVOIR ROCK; OIL SATURATION; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; WATERFLOODING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WELL COMPLETION; PROGRESS REPORT

Citation Formats

Sullivan, D, Clarke, D, Walker, S, Phillips, C, Nguyen, J, Moos, D, and Tagbor, K. Increasing waterflood reserves in the Wilmington oil field through improved reservoir characterization and reservoir management. Quarterly technical progress report, March 21, 1995--June 30, 1995. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.2172/104797.
Sullivan, D, Clarke, D, Walker, S, Phillips, C, Nguyen, J, Moos, D, & Tagbor, K. Increasing waterflood reserves in the Wilmington oil field through improved reservoir characterization and reservoir management. Quarterly technical progress report, March 21, 1995--June 30, 1995. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/104797
Sullivan, D, Clarke, D, Walker, S, Phillips, C, Nguyen, J, Moos, D, and Tagbor, K. 1995. "Increasing waterflood reserves in the Wilmington oil field through improved reservoir characterization and reservoir management. Quarterly technical progress report, March 21, 1995--June 30, 1995". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/104797. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/104797.
@article{osti_104797,
title = {Increasing waterflood reserves in the Wilmington oil field through improved reservoir characterization and reservoir management. Quarterly technical progress report, March 21, 1995--June 30, 1995},
author = {Sullivan, D and Clarke, D and Walker, S and Phillips, C and Nguyen, J and Moos, D and Tagbor, K},
abstractNote = {The main objective of this project is the transfer of technologies, methodologies, and findings developed and applied in this project to other operators of Slope and Basin Clastic Reservoirs. This project will study methods to identify sands with high remaining oil saturation and to recomplete existing wells using advanced completion technology. The identification of the sands with high remaining oil saturation will be accomplished by developing a deterministic 3-D geologic model and by using a state of the art reservoir management computer software. The wells identified by the geologic and reservoir engineering work as having the best potential will be logged with a pulsed acoustic cased-hole logging tool. The application of the logging tools will be optimized in the lab by developing a rock-log model. The wells that are shown to have the best oil production potential will be recompleted. The recompletions will be optimized by evaluating short radius and ultra-short radius lateral recompletions. Technical progress is reported for the following tasks: Reservoir characterization; reservoir engineering; 3-D geologic modeling; pulsed acoustic logging; and technology transfer.},
doi = {10.2172/104797},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/104797}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 1995},
month = {Wed Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 1995}
}