Development-Well and Execution Planning in a Complex Subsurface Environment—The Effect of Large- and Small-Scale Modeling on Well Deliverability

The Thylacine gas field is in the Otway basin (offshore southeast Australia). The interplay of intrafield faulting and the layered geology provide potential for a high degree of compartmentalization. A significant proportion of the reserves is thought to reside in reservoirs of the Thylacine sandstone member, which contains poor-quality marine sands interbedded with successions of shale and thinly bedded sand/shale. Key to designing wells to achieve satisfactory deliverability was an understanding of the distribution of net reservoir in the background of nonreservoir.

View a Synopsis of SPE 101874 as published in JPT.

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 101874, “Development-Well and Execution Planning in a Complex Subsurface Environment—The Impact of Large- and Small-Scale Modeling on Well Deliverability,” by G. Philip, SPE, S.K. Twartz, SPE, and J. DePledge, Woodside Energy, prepared for the 2006 SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Adelaide, Australia, 11–13 September.

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