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Vol. 58 No. 1
January 2006
Old Field - New Life
The East Tunstill field is a tight, undersaturated sandstone reservoir with a 9% recovery factor on primary depletion. Marginal production and a previous relatively unsuccessful waterflood did not show the potential value of the field. A detailed analysis revived the field.
View a Synopsis of SPE 94669 published in JPT.
For a limited time, the full-length paper is available free to SPE members. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Source
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 94669, "New Life to an Old Field," by J.S. Swanson, SPE, and D.C. Swanson, SPE, GrailQuest Corp.; M. Jarvis, Penn Virginia Oil & Gas Corp.; and R. Hall, SPE, GrailQuest Corp., prepared for the 2005 SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, Dallas, 3-5 April.
