Enhanced Oil Recovery
142724 – The Role of Diffusion for Nonequilibrium Gas Injection Into a Fractured Reservoir
Y. Yanze and T. Clemens
143035 – Validation of Toe-to-Heel Air-Injection Bitumen Recovery Using 3D Combustion-Cell Results
M. Greaves, L.L. Dong, and S.P. Rigby
144234 – Thermally Active Polymer To Improve Sweep Efficiency of Waterfloods: Simulation and Pilot Design Approaches
R. Garmeh, M. Izadi, M. Salehi, J.L. Romero, C.P. Thomas, and E.J. Manrique
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
137313 – Storage of CO2 as Hydrate in Depleted Gas Reservoirs
O.Y. Zatsepina and M. Pooladi-Darvish
Reservoir Simulation
140935 – Gas Lift Optimization Using Proxy Functions in Reservoir Simulation
Q. Lu and G.C. Fleming
Formation Evaluation
128249 –
Characterization of Sampling-While-Drilling Operations
S. Villareal, J. Pop, F. Bernard, K. Harms, A. Hoefel, A. Kamiya, P. Swinburne, and S. Ramshaw
132491 –
High-Resolution Reservoir Monitoring Using Crosswell Seismic
A. Nalonnil and B. Marion
Tight Gas
138843 –
Impacts of the Number of Perforation Clusters and Cluster Spacing on Production Performance of Horizontal Shale-Gas Wells
Y. Cheng
143666 –
Probabilistic Production Forecasting for Unconventional Reservoirs With Stretched Exponential Production Decline Model
B. Can and C.S. Kabir
143990 –
A New Analytical Method for Analyzing Linear Flow in Tight/Shale Gas Reservoirs: Constant-Rate Boundary Condition
M. Nobakht and C.R. Clarkson
Gerd Kleemeyer, SPE, Shell–Global Solutions Upstream
Following an increased investment in advanced seismic solutions, we have experienced some remarkable boundary shifts in seismic-data quality in recent years.
Renzo Angeles, SPE, Senior Engineering Specialist, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
The value of information has a ubiquitous and sometimes pervasive role in modern well testing. From exploration to field management to surveillance, well-test practitioners deal with a wide array of measurements (e.g., pressure, flow rates, temperature, and fluid analysis) that, more often than not, encompass large amounts of data. Yet what seems to be a relative abundance of data often is challenged by the complex environments in which we operate and by our need to assess its value against associated costs and business risks.
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Pressure-Transient-Test Applications
149567-PA – Pressure-Pressure Deconvolution Analysis of Multiwell-Interference and Interval-Pressure-Transient Tests
M. Onur, Istanbul Technical University; and C. Ayan and F.J. Kuchuk, Schlumberger
125043-PA – Practical Solutions for Pressure-Transient Responses of Fractured Horizontal Wells in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
M. Brown, SPE, and E. Ozkan, SPE, Colorado School of Mines; R. Raghavan, SPE, Phillips Petroleum; and H. Kazemi, SPE, Colorado School of Mines
149807-PA – Semisteady-State Productivity of a Well in a Rectangular Reservoir Producing at Constant Rate or Constant Pressure
Jacques Hagoort, Consultant
137062-PA – Interpretation of Immiscible WAG Repeat Pressure-Falloff Tests
B.A. Stenger, SPE, Oryx Petroleum Services; S.A. Al Kendi, SPE, A.F. Al Ameri, SPE, and A.B. Al Katheeri, SPE, ADCO
Robin Beckwith, Staff Writer JPT/JPT Online
With oil shale estimates vastly overshadowing those for crude oil, why does oil shale remain a scarcely touched resource?
Syed A. Ali, SPE, Research Advisor, Schlumberger
Revitalizing mature fields embraces multiple objectives, especially maximizing production while minimizing capital expense and reducing the inevitable decline rate and minimizing the operating expense. The collective approach to meet these objectives is application of practical and focused engineering and geology tied with the application of enabling technologies.
Baojun Bai, SPE, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
In spite of continued investment and advances in exploiting alternative energy sources, oil and natural gas will continue to be a significant portion of US and global energy portfolios for decades. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) uses unconventional
hydrocarbon-recovery methods that target the approximately two-thirds of the oil volume remaining in reservoirs after conventional-recovery methods have been exhausted. Though limited by high capital and operating costs, EOR techniques will have a substantial effect on the future supply of oil.
Delores Hinkle, SPE, Director, Corporate Reserves, Marathon Oil Company
Recently, many of the reserves papers have focused on changes in reserves and resource estimation resulting from the introduction of the Petroleum Resource Management System (PRMS) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Modernized Rules. Last year, many of the papers dealt with theoretical aspects of reserves estimation in unconventional plays. This year, most of the papers dealt with unconventional reserves, focusing on integration of theoretical and practical aspects of the engineering principles used to estimate reserves and resources. Several papers went full circle to address how issues around PRMS or the SEC’s Modernized Rules affect reserves and resource estimation in unconventional resources.
Seismic Data Integration
131310-PA – Preselection of Reservoir Models From a Geostatistics-Based Petrophysical Seismic Inversion
M. Le Ravalec-Dupin, SPE, G. Enchery, A. Baroni, and S. Da Veiga, IFP Energies Nouvelles
131538-PA – Seismic History Matching of Nelson Using Time-Lapse Seismic Data: An Investigation of 4D Signature Normalization
Alireza Kazemi, Karl D. Stephen, SPE, and Asghar Shams, Heriot-Watt University
Advanced Numerical Techniques
141207-PA – Near-Well-Subdomain Simulations for Accurate Inflow-Performance-Relationship Calculation To Improve Stability of Reservoir/Network Coupling
B. Gűyagűler, SPE, and V.J. Zapata, SPE, Chevron; H. Cao, SPE, Total; H.F. Stamati and J.A. Holmes, SPE, Schlumberger
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