Earth Stress Measurements in the South Belridge Oil Field, Kern County, California

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (04) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Kirk S. Hansen ◽  
W.R. Purcell
Author(s):  
V.N. Melikhov ◽  
N.A. Krylov ◽  
I.V. Shevchenko ◽  
V.L. Shuster

Regarding the South Caspian oil and gas province, it is concluded that the Pliocene productivity prevails in the western part of the province, and that the gas and oil prospects of the eastern land side in the Mesozoic are prioritized. A retrospective analytical review of geological and geophysical data and publications on the Mesozoic of Southwestern Turkmenistan was carried out, which showed the low efficiency of the performed seismic and drilling operations in the exploration and evaluation of very complex Mesozoic objects. A massive resumption of state-of-the-art seismic exploration and appraisal drilling in priority areas and facilities performed by leading Russian companies is proposed. For some areas, a new, increased estimate of the projected gas resources is given. An example of modern high-efficiency additional exploration of the East Cheleken, a small Pliocene gas and oil field, which turned this field into a large one in terms of reserves, is given.


1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Crank

The Barrow Island oil field, which was discovered by the drilling of Barrow 1 in 1964, was declared commercial in 1966. Since then 520 wells have been drilled in the development of this field which has resulted in 309 Windalia Sand oil producers (from about 2200 feet), eight Muderong Greensand oil wells (2800 feet), five Neocomian/Upper Jurassic gas and oil producers (6200 to 6700 feet), eight Barrow Group water source wells and 157 water injection wells.Production averages 41,200 barrels of oil per day, and 98% of this comes from the shallow Windalia Sand Member of Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian) age. These reserves are contained in a broad north-plunging nose truncated to the south by a major down-to-the-south fault. The anticline is thought to have been formed initially from a basement uplift during Late Triassic to Early Jurassic time. Subsequent periods of deposition, uplift and erosion have continued into the Tertiary and modified the structure to its present form. The known sedimentary section on Barrow Island ranges from Late Jurassic to Miocene.The Neocomian/Jurassic accumulations are small and irregular and are not thought to be commercial in themselves. The Muderong Greensand pool is also a limited, low permeability reservoir. Migration of hydrocarbons is thought to have occurred mainly in the Tertiary as major arching did not take place until very late in the Cretaceous or early in the Palaeocene.The Windalia Sand reservoir is a high porosity, low permeability sand which is found only on Barrow Island. One of the most unusual features of this reservoir is the presence of a perched gas cap. Apparently the entire sand was originally saturated with oil, and gas subsequently moved upstructure from the north, displacing it. This movement was probably obstructed by randomly-located permeability barriers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Ali Duair Jaafar ◽  
Dr. Medhat E. Nasser

Buzurgan field in the most cases regards important Iraqi oilfield, and Mishrif Formation is the main producing reservoir in this field, the necessary of so modern geophysical studies is necessity for description and interpret the petrophysical properties in this field. Formation evaluation has been carried out for Mishrif Formation of the Buzurgan oilfield depending on logs data. The available logs data were digitized by using Neuralog software. A computer processed interpretation (CPI) was done for each one of the studied wells from south and north domes using Techlog software V2015.3 in which the porosity, water saturation, and shale content were calculated. And they show that MB21 reservoir unit has the highest thickness, which ranges between (69) m in north dome to (83) m in south dome, and the highest porosity, between (0.06 - 0.16) in the north dome to (0.05 -0.21) in the south dome. The water saturation of this unit ranges between (25% -60%) in MB21 of north dome. It also appeared that the water saturation in the unit MB21 of south dome has the low value, which is between (16% - 25%). From correlation, the thickness of reservoir unit MB21 increases towards the south dome, while the thickness of the uppermost barrier of Mishrif Formation increases towards the north dome. The reservoir unit MB21 was divided into 9 layers due to its large thickness and its important petrophysical characterization. The distribution of petro physical properties (porosity and water saturation) has shown that MB 21 has good reservoir properties.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Macêdo Cruz de Oliveira ◽  
Paulo Henrique Prado Stefano ◽  
Luiz Alberto Vedana ◽  
Jhonattas Carvalho de Carregosa ◽  
Mirna Marierse Nepomuceno Santos ◽  
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