3D waterflood monitoring at Lost Hills with crosshole EM

Wilt, Michael; Morea, Michael F.

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“…Beginning in the late 1980's, improvements in hydraulic fracturing design and implementation yielded results which justified an aggressive diatomite primary development well program on 2-½ acre producer spacing 1 . Beginning in the late 1980's, improvements in hydraulic fracturing design and implementation yielded results which justified an aggressive diatomite primary development well program on 2-½ acre producer spacing 1 .…”

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Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Hejl¹,

Madding²,

Morea³

et al. 2006

Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Hejl¹,

Madding²,

Morea³

et al. 2006

Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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“…Beginning in the late 1980s, improvements in hydraulicfracturing design and implementation yielded results that justified an aggressive diatomite primary-development-well program on 2½-acre producer spacing (Wilt and Morea 2004). Beginning in the late 1980s, improvements in hydraulicfracturing design and implementation yielded results that justified an aggressive diatomite primary-development-well program on 2½-acre producer spacing (Wilt and Morea 2004).…”

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“…The Lost Hills field is located along the western margin of the San Joaquin basin, approximately 45 miles northwest of Bakersfield, California (Wilt and Morea 2004). The field is approximately 8 miles long and 1 mile wide and is situated on a northwest/ southeast-trending asymmetric anticline that is oriented nearly parallel to the trend of the San Andreas fault, located 25 miles to the west, as shown in Fig.…”

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“…Beginning in the late 1980s, improvements in hydraulicfracturing design and implementation yielded results that justified an aggressive diatomite primary-development-well program on 2½-acre producer spacing (Wilt and Morea 2004). The previous standard designs were becoming borderline economic, and if development was to continue, then either production response had to improve or costs had to be reduced.…”

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Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Hejl

Madding

Morea

et al. 2007

SPE Drilling &Amp; Completion

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In an attempt to improve production response, fracturing designs in the Lost Hills field went from a standard three-to six-stage design to an extreme 15-to 18-stage design to stimulate approximately 1,000 ft of net pay. The previous standard designs were becoming borderline economic, and if development was to continue, then either production response had to improve or costs had to be reduced. Previous emphasis was placed on reducing fracturetreatment costs by pumping fewer stages and lower proppant volumes, but the cumulative production response decreased as a result. Previous tests using an increased number of fracture stages did not improve economics because of the increased fracturing costs and minimal production increases. When a new coiled-tubing fracturing technique was implemented to perform multistage jobs at reduced costs and the stage count per well was increased, production response and economics improved. This paper will discuss the differences in job execution, analysis of vertical fracture coverage using surface and downhole tiltmeter data, and cumulative production response from the different designs tested. Both treatment and stage design with this fracturing technique are being refined further as the performance and statistical analysis of previous design changes are completed. Field-Development SettingA large part of California's oil production occurs in several San Joaquin Valley giant fields that have heavy oil or low permeability. These fields remain highly oil saturated (several have more than 1 billion bbl of remaining oil in place), even though they were discovered and initially developed in the early 1900s. Thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR), waterflooding, and/or hydraulicfracturing techniques are now applied to these fields.Lost Hills is one such field; it was discovered in 1910, remains largely undepleted, and is currently near all-time high production rates because of a combination of hydraulic fracturing and waterflooding. Beginning in the late 1980s, improvements in hydraulicfracturing design and implementation yielded results that justified an aggressive diatomite primary-development-well program on 2½-acre producer spacing (Wilt and Morea 2004). Waterflooding began in the early 1990s to reduce well failures caused by subsidence and to improve recovery. The 2½-acre development program was completed in 1997, drilling approximately 60 wells per year. Beginning in 1998, infilling began to reduce production well spacing to 1¼ acres in the waterflooded area, and this program continued until it was completed in 2004. In 2001, a 5 ⁄8-acre infill pilot was installed, with the pilot being expanded in 2004 because of the encouraging initial results. In 2003, a large waterflood expansion began northward at an accelerated pace, with more than 100 wells being drilled each year until 2005, when more than 200 wells were drilled to complete the north waterflood expansion at 1¼-acre producer spacing.As with any finite natural resource, the Lost Hills field's reservoir quality varies. With developm...

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“…The Belridge Diatomite in the Lost Hills Field in San Joaquin Valley, California, contains over 2 billion barrels of original oil in place (Wilt and Morea, 2004). This represents one of the largest components of the State's oil reserves estimated at over 24 billion barrels (Bopp, 2006).…”

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Vertical Sweep Evaluation in the Lost Hills Diatomite Waterflood Using Carbon/Oxygen Logs

Badruzzaman¹,

Morea²,

Julander³

2007

Proceedings of SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

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fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractWe discuss our experience to date with the Carbon/Oxygen logging technique to determine vertical sweep in Belridge Diatomite in the Lost Hills Field. We describe early interpretation challenges with overly optimistic saturation estimation. This required in-house Monte Carlo modeling to understand the tool response in very high porosity reservoirs. A newer vendor algorithm, however, underestimated the oil saturation. In-house test algorithms were then developed with significantly more accurate estimation of the oil saturation from a centralized-detector C/O tool in water-filled boreholes; results reported here are primarily for this tool. The C/O technique is also being tested in producers using the corresponding focused tool; we include an example of a successful test of the tool in an uperforated well. The paper identifies further development needed to use C/O techniques, especially the focused tool, optimally in either monitor or producer wells in diatomite.

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3D waterflood monitoring at Lost Hills with crosshole EM

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Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Extreme Multistage Fracturing Improves Vertical Coverage and Well Performance in the Lost Hills Field

Vertical Sweep Evaluation in the Lost Hills Diatomite Waterflood Using Carbon/Oxygen Logs

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