January, 2002
The new year is well underway now, and with it, plans for the upcoming
year. On tap for the PTTC in February is a co-sponsored workshop
on Wellbore Management Programs, to be held on Wednesday, Feb. 13,
in Artesia, New Mexico. PTTC Texas' Permian Basin region is our
co-sponsor on this workshop, and has helped put together an excellent
program for the day. In March, we will be having a Computer Applications
workshop in the same area, to help introduce our GO-TECH users and
others to some of the software that we have run across that may
make their lives easier as they go about the business of producing
oil and gas. Then, in May, we are going to the Four Corners Oil
and Gas Show, where we will be putting on a Corrosion Management
workshop. June will find us at the Southwest Section meeting of
the AAPG in Ruidoso, New Mexico. We hope to see some of our readers
at one or more of these events.
November and December saw the Southwest section PTTC participate
in three co-sponsored events, all in Midland, TX. In November, there
was a workshop on Field-Oriented Research Projects
For Independents which presented the results of several projects
funded through the U.S. DOE's Technology for Independents Program
and the Stripper Well Consortium. Several of these projects looked
to be of benefit to NM OIl and Gas producers. The PTTC participated
in the very successful CEED CO2 conference in early December. The
conference had nearly 200 registrants this year, and offered both
a short course and theme sessions and case studies. December 18
saw the PTTC at "Part B:" of the Horizontal Well Technology
Workshops held in Midland, Texas, on May 11.This workshop provided
an overview of the application, capabilities, and limitations of
modern horizontal and directional drilling. The program was very
fast-paced and informative. If there is sufficient interest, Mr.
Knoll, the presenter, has offered to put on a 5 day school such
as they usually offer to their major oil company clients.
NEWS BRIEFS
DOE/Bureau-Funded Research on Low-Recovery-Efficiency Carbonate
Reservoirs in the Permian Basin
Dr. Stephen C. Ruppel, a winner of the US DOE's petroleum
research program aimed at developing new tools for increasing the
production of domestic oil, will compare data from a selected
Permian Basin Carbonate reservoir with geologically similar outcrops
in the Sierra Diablo Mountains of West Texas. The information
gathered will be used to develop a computer model of the
reservoir. For more information visit the NPTL website
at http://www2.fossil.energy.gov/techline/tl_baa2001_oil.shtml
or contact Dr. Stephen Ruppel at stephen.ruppel@beg.utexas.edu
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CO2
Flood, East Ford Field, Delaware Basin, West Texas
The Bureau of Economic Geology partnered with Orla Petco, Inc.,
recently completed a project that targeted East Ford field in Reeves
County, Texas. The project included reservoir characterization
followed by evaluation of a CO2 flood. The Project
demonstrated how CO2 Flooding can increase production
from deep-water sandstones of the Delaware Mountain Group and showed
how characterization studies provide essential information for
designing efficient production strategies. For more
information, contact Bureau Senior Research Scientist Dr. Shirley P.
Dutton : shirley.dutton@beg.utexas.edu
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