Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs at South Texas. Annual report, October 1994--October 1995

Holtz, M; Knox, P; McRae, L

doi:10.2172/189112

Title: Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs at South Texas. Annual report, October 1994--October 1995

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The Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstone oil play of South Texas has produced nearly 1 billion barrels of oil, yet it still contains about 1.6 billion barrels of unrecovered mobile oil and nearly the same amount of residual oil resources. Interwell-scale geologic facise models of Frio Fluvial-deltaic reservoirs are being combined with engineering assessments and geophysical evaluations in order to determine the controls that these characteristics exert on the location and volume or unrecovered mobile and residual oil. Progress in the third year centered on technology transfer. An overview of project tasks is presented.

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Holtz, M; Knox, P; McRae, L ^[1]

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Publication Date:: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

Research Org.:: Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 189112

Report Number(s):: DOE/BC/14959-17
ON: DE96001211; TRN: 96:001432

DOE Contract Number:: FC22-93BC14959

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 02 PETROLEUM; SANDSTONES; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PROGRESS REPORT; TEXAS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; FLUID FLOW; POROSITY; PERMEABILITY; PETROGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; ENHANCED RECOVERY; PETROLEUM

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                    Holtz, M, Knox, P, and McRae, L. Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs at South Texas. Annual report, October 1994--October 1995.  United States: N. p., 1996. 
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                    Holtz, M, Knox, P, & McRae, L. Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs at South Texas. Annual report, October 1994--October 1995.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/189112

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                    Holtz, M, Knox, P, and McRae, L. 1996.  
        "Revitalizing a mature oil play: Strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs at South Texas. Annual report, October 1994--October 1995".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/189112.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/189112.

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  abstractNote = {The Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstone oil play of South Texas has produced nearly 1 billion barrels of oil, yet it still contains about 1.6 billion barrels of unrecovered mobile oil and nearly the same amount of residual oil resources. Interwell-scale geologic facise models of Frio Fluvial-deltaic reservoirs are being combined with engineering assessments and geophysical evaluations in order to determine the controls that these characteristics exert on the location and volume or unrecovered mobile and residual oil. Progress in the third year centered on technology transfer. An overview of project tasks is presented.},

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