Improved Recovery Week articles from September 1996

Improved Recovery Week archives from September 1996

Clair field may work, thanks to technology, says BP. (Clair oil field; British Petroleum Ltd.)
September 23, 1996... Precision drilling seems to have paid off for partners in the big Clair field in the U.K. Atlantic. According to industry reports, extended testing of a horizontal well drilled in the field by British Petroleum Ltd. has exceeded the 15,000...

Horizontal re-entry begun off Tunisia. (Ecumed Petroleum Tunisia Ltd.)
September 23, 1996... A Tunisian company owned by two Canadian companies is drilling a deep horizontal re-entry well off that North African country. Ecumed Petroleum Tunisia Ltd. has begun drilling in the El Biban field, located in the Mediterranean Sea about 11...

Alberta's first insulated pipeline OK'd.
September 23, 1996... Two Calgary-based companies last week received regulatory approval to build an insulated pipeline to move undiluted, heated heavy oil from producing wells in the Elk Point-Lindbergh area of Alberta to a terminal some 93 miles to the south....

Firms join to develop 'smart well' system.
September 23, 1996... In their efforts to come up with reliable, less expensive tools that communicate oil and gas well data to the surface via sound waves up the production tubing, members of the oil service industry are forming "strategic alliances" to develop the...

3-D origin: three men and a new technology. (seismic prospecting)
September 23, 1996... Three former vice presidents of now-defunct Geophysical Services Inc. (GSI) recently were honored as the "fathers" of 3-D seismic technology. Although Exxon Corp. did some early in-house work with 3-D seismic, industry experts say Milo...

Imperial tests ethane on deep oil sands bitumen. (Imperial Oil Ltd.)
September 9, 1996... Imperial Oil Ltd. is trying ethane injection in a deep Alberta oil sands deposit, and if the technology works and the economics are right, oil sands reservoirs that are too deep to mine - and are not "amenable" to cyclic steaming - could come...

TORP research waterflood triples flow. (Tertiary Oil Recovery Project)
September 9, 1996... Waterflooding of an oil field in southwestern Kansas, instituted last October as part of a joint-venture IOR research project, has nearly tripled production. According to research engineers with the Univ. of Kansas at Lawrence' Tertiary Oil...

Coalgas draft EIS due Oct. 1. (environmental impact statements for the expansion of the first major coalbed methane production site in Utah)
September 9, 1996... The long-awaited draft environmental impact statement (EIS) is expected to be issued Oct. 1 on expanding the first major coalbed methane production in Utah. The EIS, in the works for more than two years, assesses plans by River Gas of Utah...

Norway hiking N. Sea gas, WAG injection. (North Sea; water-alternating-gas)
September 9, 1996... The volume of gas injected to improve recovery from Norwegian oil fields is expected to more than double during the next four years, according to a prediction by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). This will mean annual volumes of gas...

Daleco finals chalk well. (Daleco Resources Corp. announces completion results from an Austin Chalk horizontal re-entry in Texas)
September 9, 1996... A Canadian producing company soon to be headquartered in the United States recently announced completion results from an Austin Chalk horizontal re-entry in Texas. Daleco Resources Corp. of Vancouver, B.C. said its Westlands Resources Corp....

Total drills Argentine E-R wells. (Total Compagnie Francaise des Petroles S.A.)(extended-reach)
September 9, 1996... New producing horizons in Argentina's one offshore oil field are being developed with extended-reach wells drilled from existing production platforms, says the French company Total. The company moved a jackup mobile drilling trait from the...

3-D ranges where mighty herds grazed. (seismic prospecting; Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Corp.)
September 9, 1996... Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Corp., Oklahoma City, has contracted with Western Geophysical to shoot an initial 30 square miles of 3-D seismic over some rugged, sparsely drilled ranch land in Dickens and King counties, east of Lubbock, Texas....