Completion Practices and Reserve Estimates for Pecos Slope Abo Gas Field

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Boneau ◽  
Joe Braswell ◽  
Albert R. Stall ◽  
Robert E. Tisdale
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1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
S. Bevan Devine ◽  
Colin G. Gatehouse

The concept of Genetic Increments of Strata (GIS) has been applied to correlations of the non-marine rocks of the Early Permian Patchawarra Formation of the Cooper Basin. Boundaries of GIS in the non-marine rocks are related to a dynamic model of non-marine deposition in which discrete sandstone bodies result from channel activity.In the 9 wells in the Toolachee Gas Field area of about 150 sq. miles, log correlations based on these principles determined eight major sandstone bodies, six of which hold gas reserves. The sandstone bodies are elongate and sinuous. They have cross-sectional dimensions of about 5 miles wide by up to 60 ft thick. Faulting and differential compaction have influenced the locations of the axes of the channel sandstone bodies.The value of mapping the geometry of the channel sandstones in the Cooper Basin lies in establishing a possible trapping mechanism which is independent of structural closure and which requires only a structural dip nonperpendicular to the channel sandstone direction; and providing a geologic basis for gas reserve estimates, the positioning of future appraisal and development wells and the prediction of field extensions and nearby new fields.An estimate of the proven-probable gas in place in the Toolachee Gas Field (560 BCF) based on the channel sandstone mapping is comparable with estimates based on lumping all pay intervals together in each well and drawing geometric pay isoliths. Estimates of possible reserves are increased by the mapping because of the introduction of the trapping mechanism of sandstone margins. The Toolachee Field has the potential to be perhaps doubled in size.


1985 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
M. Sabet ◽  
L. Franks

During the past 18 years, estimations of reserves of the Palm Valley gas field were the subject of many unpublished studies and one that was published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology by Strobel, Gulati and Ramey in 1976. The unpublished studies relied on standard methods of volumetric and material balance calculations. Because the Palm Valley reservoir is naturally fractured, static reservoir pressure estimates made from pressure buildup tests are erroneous unless a well is closed to a Horner time ratio of 1.5 or less. This was not done at Palm Valley and consequently all material balance estimates of gas-in-place were uneconomically low.The estimates of Stobel et al. (1976) were based on matching interference test data observed in two wells during a constant flow period of 18.75 days, which was followed by a pulse test. However, their model matched the pressure observed at one well and failed to match the pressure observed at the second, more distant well. Their reserve estimates were also very low.In this study, a reservoir simulator was used to formulate a model that matched the observed pressures in both wells. Except for the reservoir area, all of the reservoir parameters derived by Strobel from the interference test data were used. The results show that the Palm Valley reservoir contains between 262 and 356 billion standard cubic feet of gas-in-place in the fracture system and the higher permeability matrix rock. Based on our model and including gas in the tight matrix, it is quite possible that the total gas-in-place ranges between 726 billion standard cubic feet and 1.106 trillion standard cubic feet.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulqawi Alfakih ◽  
Amir Galaby ◽  
Robert Famiev ◽  
Nauman Sadiq
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