1999 Oil and Gas Conference

Table of Contents

• Disclaimer
• Foreword [PDF-10KB]
• Participants List [PDF-99KB]
• Speeches
• Papers and Presentations
  • Session 1. Converting Your Resources into Reserves
  • Session 2A. Converting Your Resources into Reserves 
  • Session 2B. Clarifying Your Subsurface Vision
  • Poster Presentations
  • Session 3A. Converting Your Resources into Reserves
  • Session 3B. High Performance, Cost Effective Drilling, Completion, Stimulation Technologies

Disclaimer
This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government or any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Speeches

Welcome/Opening Comments [PDF-20KB]
Robert W. Gee, Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy
Philip D. Vasquez, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology, U.S. Department of Energy

Techinomics [PDF-565KB]
Edward J. (Jed) Di Paolo 
Senior Vice President, Global Business Development
Halliburton Energy Services and Brown & Root Energy Services

Technology is Key to Establishing a Competitive Advantage [PDF-320KB]
Leo A. Schrider 
Senior Vice President, Belden & Blake Corporation
Board of Directors Chairman, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council

DOE Natural Gas Program[PDF-18KB]
Rita A. Bajura
Director, Federal Energy Technology Center
U. S. Department of Energy

Successes and Challenges for the Oil Program [PDF-17KB]
William F. Lawson
Director, National Petroleum Technology Office
U.S. Department of Energy

Reason for Optimism[PDF-290KB]
Rhys J. Best, President, 
Chairman, and CEO; Lone Start Technologies, Inc.

Papers and Presentations

Session 1. Converting Your Resources into Reserves

1.1 A Resource Development Manual for Secondary Gas Recovery in Conventional-Permeability Sandstone Reservoirs [PDF-18KB]
Robert J. Finley, 
Bureau of Economic Geology - The University of Texas at Austin

1.2 A Small Independent’s Flue-Gas-Injection Project [PDF-119KB]
John Goodwin, Driver Production

1.3 Air Injection in a Gulf Coast Light Oil Field [PDF-7KB]
Ken Haley, BP-Amoco

1.4 Overview of the CO2 Pilot in the Spraberry Trend Area [PDF-3762KB]
David S. Schechter
New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center

Session 2A. Converting Your Resources into Reserves 

2A.1 Sizing Gelant Treatments in Hydraulically Fractured Production Wells [PDF-119KB]
Randy Seright, New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center

2A.2 Increasing Production and Profitability by Use of a Computer Monitoring Program [PDF-83KB]
Jerry James
Gene Huck
James Engineering, Inc.

2A.3 Improved Oil Recovery in Fluvial Dominated Deltaic Reservoirs of Kansas — Near-Term [PDF-59KB]
Rodney R. Reynolds
Kansas Geological Survey - University of Kansas

>2A.4 Increased Oil Production and Reserves Utilizing Secondary/Tertiary Recovery Techniques on Small Reservoirs in the Paradox Basin, Utah[PDF-7081KB]
Craig D. Morgan, Utah Geological Survey

2A.5 Cost-Effective Techniques for Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs of Kansas — Near Term — Class 2 [PDF-2458KB]
Timothy R. Carr, Kansas Geological Survey - University of Kansas

2A.6 MEOR — A Low Cost Solution for Enhanced Waterflood Performance [PDF-391KB]
James O. Stephens, Hughes Eastern Corporation

Session 2B. Clarifying Your Subsurface Vision

2B.1 Studies of Natural Gas Resources in Deep Sedimentary Basins [PDF-177KB]
Thaddeus S. Dyman, U.S. Geological Survey

2B.2 Discrete Feature Network (DFN) Methods for IOR in Heterogeneous Reservoirs [PDF-5524KB]
William Dershowitz, Golder Associates, Inc.

2B.3 Analysis of Rift Basins for Optimum Development: Mississippi Interior Salt Basin [PDF-3199KB]
Ernest A. Mancini, University of Alabama

2B.4 Basin-Scale Mapping and Visualization of Dolomite "Chimneys" in the Michigan Basin [PDF-791KB]
James R. Wood, Michigan Technological University

2B.5 New Techniques for Using Old Geophysical Logs in Reservoir Characterization: Examples from Bell Canyon Sandstones, Ford Geraldine and East Ford Units, Delaware Basin, Texas [PDF-286KB]
Shirley P. Dutton, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

2B.6 Application of a New Exploration Strategy for Unconventional Basin Center Hydrocarbon Accumulations in the Riverton Dome Area [PDF-1105KB]
Ronald C. Surdam, Institute for Energy Research, University of Wyoming

Poster Presentations

P.1 The Use of Advanced Acoustic Cavitation for Applications in the Oil and Natural Gas Industry [PDF-42KB]
Michael L. Wilkey, Argonne National Laboratory

P.2 Ruggedized Optical Fiber Sensors for Downhole Monitoring [PDF-99KB]
Russell May, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

P.3 Electrical Resistance Tomography Using Steel Cased Boreholes as Long Electrodes [PDF-347KB]
Robin Newmark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P.4 Microhole Drilling and Instrumentation [PDF-5KB]
James N. Albright, Los Alamos National Laboratory

P.5 Advances in Crosswell Electromagnetics: Steel Cased Boreholes [PDF-1654KB]
Barry Kirkendall, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P.6 Design and Development of Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone Compact Separators for Three-Phase Flow [PDF-1823KB]
Ram S. Mohan, University of Tulsa

P.7 Performance Characteristics of an Extended Throat Flow Nozzle for the Measurement of High Void Fraction Multi-Phase Flows[PDF-99KB]
Richard Rice
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

P.8 Large Downhole Seismic Sensor Array [PDF-10KB]
Dave M. Weinberg
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Larry A. Walter
Geospace Instruments

P.9 Biological Oxidation of Sulfides in Oilfield Brines [PDF-17KB]
Greg A. Bala
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Gary Jenneman
Phillips Petroleum Company

P.10 Suction Pulse Drilling System [PDF-423KB]
Jack J. Kollé, Tempress Technologies, Inc.

P.11 Development of an Advanced Cuttings Transport Facility and Optimization of Wellbore Hydraulics at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures [PDF-74KB]
Ergun Kuru, University of Tulsa

P.12 Interpretation of Deep Complex Structure in a Limited-Quality 3-D Seismic Image [PDF-305KB]
Bob A. Hardage, The Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

P.13 Seismic Data Acquisition Through Tubing [PDF-598KB]
Fred Followill, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P.14 Application of High Resolution Seismic Imaging Methods for Fracture Quantification [PDF-1724KB]
Ernest L. Majer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

P.15 Bed-Isolation Treatments of a Mature Well in the Bluebell Field of the Uinta Basin, Utah, That Has Undergone Numerous High Volume Shotgun Completions [PDF-279KB]
Craig D. Morgan, Utah Geological Survey

P.16 GGRB Production Improvement Project, Rock Island Unit #4-H, Table Rock Field, Frontier Formation[PDF-1611KB]
Lee Krystinik
Frank Lim
Union Pacific Resources

Session 3A. Converting Your Resources into Reserves

3A.1 Low Cost, Efficient Methods for Finding Gas, Gas Shales, and Coalbed Methane [PDF-1397KB]
Vello A. Kuuskraa, Advanced Resources International, Inc.

3A.2 Optimization of Infill Drilling in Naturally-Fractured Tight-Gas Reservoirs of the San Juan Basin [PDF-11KB]
Lawrence W. Teufel, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

3A.3 Major Pennsylvanian Fluvial-Deltaic Light Oil Reservoir Systems in Oklahoma [PDF-76KB]
Jock A. Campbell, Oklahoma Geological Survey

3A.4 Incorporating Seismic Attribute Porosity into a Flow Model of the Grayburg Reservoir in the Foster-South Cowden Field [PDF-476KB]
Robert C. Trentham, Laguna Petroleum Corporation

3A.5 Multi-Disciplinary and High-Resolution Seismic Survey on Native American Lands in Osage County, Oklahoma [PDF-3096KB]
T. K. Reeves

3A.6 Improvement in Performance of a Mature Oil Field Through Horizontal Well Drilling [PDF-192KB]
Mohan Kelkar, University of Tulsa

3A.7 Advanced Oil Recovery Technologies for Improved Recovery from Slope Basin Clastic Reservoirs, Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool, Eddy County, New Mexico [PDF-1333KB]
Bill Weiss, Strata Production Company

Session 3B. High Performance, Cost Effective Drilling, Completion, Stimulation Technologies

3B.1 Advanced Fracturing Technologies for Marginal Oil and Gas Wells  [PDF-247KB]
Scott R. Reeves, Advanced Resources International

3B.2 A Well Completion Technique for Controlling Unconsolidated Sand  Formations by Using Steam [PDF-796KB]
Scott Hara, Tidelands Oil Production Company

3B.3 Coiled-Tubing High-Pressure Jet Drilling System [PDF-501KB]
William C. Maurer, Maurer Engineering, Inc.

3B.4 High-Power Drilling Motor Field Tests [PDF-476KB]
John H. Cohen, Maurer Engineering, Inc.

3B.5 Advanced Mud Hammer Systems [PDF-3096KB]
DavidS. Pixton, Novatek

3B.6 New High Strength and Faster Drilling TSP Diamond Cutters  [PDF-19KB]
Robert P. Radtke, Technology International, Inc.

3B.7 New Lightweight Fluid for Underbalanced Drilling [PDF-812KB]
William J. McDonald, Maurer Engineering, Inc.

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