Improved Recovery Week articles from April 1998

Improved Recovery Week archives from April 1998

Nutrient injection for MEOR in mature Alabama field deemed successful as flow decline curve flattens out. (microbially enhanced oil recovery)
April 6, 1998... More research on microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is proving that the technology is advancing and producers can, indeed, recover incremental oil when bugs already present in the reservoir are fed and allowed to go to work. Current...

Oil price crisis in mind, U.S. senators propose tax incentives for stripper wells.
April 6, 1998... Three oil-state senators are extending a helping hand to owners of marginal "stripper" wells with new tax relief legislation. Republican Senators Frank Murkowski of Alaska, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Don Nickles of Oklahoma are...

Horizontal gravel packing, perseverance aid Texaco with extended well test in North Sea heavy oil field. (Texaco North Sea U.K. Co.)
April 13, 1998... In their ongoing campaign of developing smaller, satellite oil and gas fields in the North Sea area, producers often draw on new technology from all over the world. For example, Texaco North Sea U.K. Co., London, says an extended well test...

BlackRock mulls expansion of Cold Lake pilot; plan includes two additional SAGD wll pairs. (BlackRock Ventures Inc.; steam-assisted gravity drainage; Cold Lake, Alberta)
April 13, 1998... Canadian heavy oil producer BlackRock Ventures Inc., Toronto, Ont., says based on results so far, it expects to expand its pilot steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) pilot project near Cold Lake, Alta. The company says it probably will add...

Company scores with exhaust gas injection as newest method for drilling horizontal wells underbalanced. (Underbalanced Drilling Systems Corp.)
April 20, 1998... In engineering, complex ideas usually take time to mature into practical field applications. But simple ideas often take a lot longer. Nobody knows that better than Gene Moody, President and CEO of Calgary, Alta.-based Underbalanced Drilling...

LSU research group seeks funding to help test sizable Louisiana coalgas reserves. (Basin Research Institute of Louisiana State University)
April 20, 1998... The Basin Research Institute at Louisiana State Univ. at Baton Rouge plans to determine the feasibility of developing possible coalbed methane reserves in central Louisiana. According to BRI associate professor John B. Echols, the objectives...

GRI study catalogues producer success in adding reserves; existing fields donate most. (study conducted by the Gas Research Institute on oil and gas reserves)
April 20, 1998... A new report released last week documents to U.S. producers what they already knew, intuitively: They've been adding a lot of new oil and gas reserves in the last decade or so - considerably more than the U.S. government and others have...

Suncor announces three enhancement projects led by application for C$2.2 billion Project Millennium. (Suncor Energy Inc)
April 27, 1998... Last week was a big one for Calgary-based Suncor Energy Inc., one of Canada's largest oil sands bitumen/heavy oil producers. On the same day, the company announced: * It had filed a 3,000-page application with the Alberta Energy & Utilities...

New Wytch Farm field plan to include E-R water injectors; one 6.8-mile lateral set. (plans to add extended-reach wells and downhole pumps at British Petroleum's Wytch Farm field in southern England)
April 27, 1998... Four additional extended-reach wells and the upgrading of downhole pumps are planned at British Petroleum's Wytch Farm field in southern England as part of a scheme to achieve recovery of at least 60% of oil in place. The program will focus on...

Cotton Valley drills first horizontal injector in Queen sand; hydro-jetting also under test. (Cotton Valley Resources Corp)
April 27, 1998... Dallas-based Cotton Valley Resources Corp. is operating a proposed pilot project in which horizontal drilling technology is being used to drill new wells - and coiled tubing-based water jetting used to drill laterals from existing vertical...

Union Texas subsidiary buys 75% of Azerbaijan PSC; sets 'EOR' program in five onshore fields. (Union Texas Lok Batan Ltd's enhanced oil recovery agreement with BMB Oil Inc)
April 27, 1998... A unit of Houston-based Union Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc. has signed an agreement with a New Jersey-based producing company to acquire 75% of a production-sharing agreement with the State Oil Co. of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR). Under the...