225C MWD Using Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Electronics
Creating a new high-temperature drilling and logging tool by:
1. Designing and demonstrating permanently installed pressure and temperature tool in a 175°C well.
2. Designing and demonstrating a 225°C MWD tool using a unique 225°C battery system.
The permanently installed electronics demonstrate both logging and Smart Well electronic circuits technology. The 225°C MWD tool fu... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW35107-50 | Project State: NM |
3D Analysis of Induction Logging (PARTNERSHIP)
Work that had been completed over the last ten years at Sandia had shown that finite difference methods employing a Cartesian grid can accurately model induction log responses, including the borehole effects, to within a few percent error. In order to analyze the effects of formation anisotropy on induction log measurements made in horizontal wells, anisotropy will be included int... Read more >
| Project ID: P-104 | Project State: NM |
A Semiautomatic System for Waterflood Surveillance and Control (PARTNERSHIP)
This project will develop a multiscale approach to management and control of large waterfloods. A successful waterflood depends on the proper operation of individual wells, and on maintaining the balance between water injection and production - pattern-by-pattern - over the entire project or field. If individual wells in every pattern are not balanced properly, the volumetric swe... Read more >
| Project ID: P-201 FEWG300 | Project State: CA |
Advanced Cuttings Transport Study (formerly HTHP)
Modify the existing University of Tulsa Low-Pressure Flow Loop for cuttings transport tests with compressible fluids. Design and construct a new high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) flow loop to investigate and characterize the properties of both incompressible and compressible drilling fluids at various pressures, temperatures, and inclinations. Conduct experiments, includin... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-99BC15178 | Project State: OK |
Advanced Drill Components by Microwave - Continued
Prior NETL funded work related to this program resulted in successful development of: 1) an efficient and economically viable microwave processing technique to process cobalt (Co) cemented tungsten carbide (WC) with improved properties; 2) new tungsten carbide - diamond (and similar) composites; and, 3) improved PDC configurations. The tungsten carbide developed proved to be 30% s... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT41023 | Project State: PA |
Advanced Fracture Characterization and Well Path Navigation System for Effective Re-Development and Enhancement of Ultimate Recovery from the Complex Monterey Reservoir of the South Ellwood Field, Offshore California/Class Revisits
This project intends to redevelop the Monterey Formation, a Class III basin reservoir, at the South Ellwood Field, Offshore Santa Barbara, CA. Well productivity in this field varies significantly. Productivity is primarily affected by the position of the well path with respect to the degree of formation, macro and micro faulting and fracturing, and the degree of aquifer support.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15127 | Project State: CA |
Advanced High-Pressure Coiled-Tubing Drilling System
The objective of this research effort is to develop and commercialize a high-pressure (10,000 psi) coiled-tubing jet-assisted drilling system. The purpose is to provide a system to the industry to increase the rate of penetration and reduce the costs of drilling oil and gas wells. Jet assisted drilling uses high-pressure jets to cut slots into the rock, forming ledges that are th... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-97FT33063 | Project State: TX |
Advanced Monobore Concept CFEX Self-Expanding Tubular Technology/Microhole 2 Breakout
The purpose of the project is to develop CFS' elastic-phase , self-expanding tubular technology called CFEX. The project will develop self-expanding casings to any diameter, although the technolgy has many additional downhole applictions. Development of CFEX casing will lead to improved methods and feasibility of monobore drilling and well construction. A further objective of th... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15483 | Project State: TX |
Advanced Mud System for Microhole Coiled Tubing Drilling / Microhole Breakout
The principal objective of this project is to develop a mud system compatible with a coil tubing drilling system to drill small diameter holes for vertical, horizontal, and multi-lateral drilling and completion applications. The mud system must be able to mix the required fluids, circulate that mixture downhole, clean and store the returned fluids, and be able to perform these f... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15476 | Project State: OK |
Advanced Ultra High Speed Motor for Drilling/Breakout
IMPACT Technologies LLC proposes to design and test the feasibility of an ultra high speed electric motor that, in connection with an appropriate drill bit and auxiliaries, will allow very fast drilling of small boreholes. A compact, yet powerful, DC motor will be developed to power the drill bit. The principal objective of this project is to perform a technical feasibility study... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15502 | Project State: OK |
An Innovative High-Temperature, High-Pressure Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) Tool
The objectives of this project are to design and commercialize a retrievable and reseatable high-temperature, high-pressure measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tool with real-time continuous
inclination, vibration detection, annular pressure, and gamma ray detection. A major goal is to improve the economics of deep well drilling by improving overall rate-of-penetration (ROP) and accu... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41835 | Project State: AK |
An Integrated Approach to Assessing Seismic Stimulation (PARTNERSHIP)
The research objectives of this project are to investigate the physical conditions or mechanisms by which low-frequency (1-500 Hz) stress (seismic or acoustic) waves enhance oil production rates in marginal reservoirs.
It attempts to provide a definitive assessment of the utility and applicability of stimulation. An important aspect of this work is that the scales of measuremen... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW02FE09 | Project State: NM |
Application of High Powered Lasers to Drilling and Completing Deep Wells
The conceptual design of a laser-based drilling system will be initiated. Continuation of the work funded by FETC (NETL) Solicitation DE-PS26-00FT40759 "Development of Technologies and Capabilities for Fossil Energy-Wide Coal, Natural Gas, and Oil R&D Programs". If this technology can be developed to cost-effectively drill deep wells, it could cause a revolution in the drilling i... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-49066 | Project State: IL |
Application of Solar Heating to Asphaltic and Parrafinic Oils Reducing Fuel Costs and Greenhouse Gases Due to Use of Natural Gas and Propane/Independent Award
Design and implement a system using solar energy to heat and treat the paraffinic oils. The design will include design of the solar collectors, detailed chemical analysis of the crude oil, and installation of ambient weather monitoring equipment. The equipment will be constructed and installed, followed by monitoring of the system and process performance.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15259 | Project State: CO |
Better Field Development and Reservoir Management Decisions Using New Technology and Computer Simulation/Independent Award
Compile a comprehensive reservoir data base using modern logging tools in operating wells, perform core analysis, including nuclear magnetic resonance examination, on existing cores and on fresh cores from a newly drilled well. Combine geostatistical reservoir description with 3-D simulation modeling to construct a model of porosity and permeability in the reservoir. Match the p... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15260 | Project State: OH |
Biocatalyst Desulfurization
Petro Star has requested a change in the scope of work for their BDS project. In the original project plan, Petro Star intended to use BDS, alone or in combination with their CED process (which was being developed in another DOE project), to remove sulfur from diesel fuel. At that time, the goal was to reduce the level of sulfur in diesel fuel to 500 ppm using biodesulfurization ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15340 | Project State: AK |
CavaChem Remediation of 8 Andres Wells
Stimulate eight San Andres formation wells with the "CavaChem" process, using an alkaline chemical called MSS-58.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15294 | Project State: TX |
Ceramic Borehole Sealants
This project focuses on development of novel Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramic (CBPC) borehole sealants based on a technology developed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Realizing the importance of these novel sealants in oil drilling and completions industry, LANL joined with ANL to tailor the sealants for subsurface engineering applications in the oil and gas industries. ... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-49025 | Project State: IL |
Ceramicrete Testing Program
This is a third party independent test of Argonne National Laboratory's Ceramicrete CBPC (Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramic Borehole Sealants) product for oil and gas industry use. To be accepted, commercialized and useful by the O&G industry, American Petroleum Institute (API) standard cement test must be run to determine various parameters such as strength, pumpability, and s... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AF26-01NT00946 | Project State: TX |
Coiled Tubing Deployed Microdrilling System With Real Time, Downhole Monitoring
This project is to develop and demonstrate microborehole drilling systems for deep exploration drilling. The goals are to reduce the footprint and costs of drilling exploration and test wells. This project was proposed to show that coiled-tubing deployed microdrilling can be applied in more realistic oil field rock and drilling situations than had been drilled to date. Equally i... Read more >
| Project ID: FEWA08E-01 | Project State: NM |
Counter-Rotating Tandem Motor Drilling System / Microhole 2 Breakout
The proposed CRTMDS is anticipated to achieve a high rate of penetration (ROP) and associated
low drilling costs using two counter-rotating cutter systems which reduce or eliminate the
reactive torque that a coiled tubing drill string must resist. This will allow the maximum weighton-
bit and rotational velocities that a coiled tubing drilling unit is capable of delivering.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15489 | Project State: IL |
Decommission and Transport Hydrates Flow Loop to Tulsa, OK
Assist with the decommissioning and transportation of the donated flow loop from Denver, CO to the University of Tulsa Campus in Tulsa, OK.
... Read more >
| Project ID: 75-02SW03817 | Project State: OK |
Demonstration of Microholes for Oil Production and Emplacement of Subsurface Seismic Instrumentation
The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of a highly mobile, self-contained, microhole drilling system as an enabling technology for commercially viable seismic-data acquisition. Succeeding in these objectives will result in reduced access (well) cost and improved quality of data. Air-filled microholes completed with PVC (or oth... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW04FE09 | Project State: NM |
Demonstration of the Use of Composite Coil Tubing to Drill Low Cost Deepwater Wells/Microhole 2 Breakout
The objective of this project is to demonstrate a novel low-cost method of deepwater exploration.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15481 | Project State: TX |
Design and Development of Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone Compact Separators for Three-Phase Flow
This project will be executed in two phases. Phase I (1997 - 2000) will focus on the investigations of the complex multiphase hydrodynamic flow behavior in a three-phase GLCC Separator. The activities of this phase will include the development of a mechanistic model, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulator, and detailed experimentation on the three-phase GLCC. The experim... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-97BC15024 | Project State: OK |
Design, Fabricate and Quality Check a Tandem Motor
Design, fabricate and quality control test the tandem motor composed of a pilot bit and a reamer with stablizer.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AF26-04NT40538 | Project State: TX |
Develop of Underbalanced Risk Information Tool UnRiskIT Software
DOE's primary objective in subscribing and participating in this JIP is to create a software program that leverages:
1. A common and easy to use graphical user interface
2. A comprehensive and flexible risk analysis
3. Comprehensive definitions of cost and revenue potential
4. An integrate platform of data and industry standard methods
5. Easy to interpret charts and reports... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AF26-01NT00980 | Project State: TX |
Development and Demonstration of Mobile Small Footprint Exploration and Development Well System for the Arctic Unconventional Gas Resources (ARCGAS)
This project will cost-share efforts underway at the Red Dog Mine, Alaska to develop the gas shale resources of the area as a fuel supply for power generation. Specifically the work will focus on the development of tools and techniques for obtaining important parameters from ultra slim (<3.0?) boreholes. Gathering reservoir data using small, readily available diamond-drilling rig... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15151 | Project State: AK |
Development and Manufacture of Cost Effective Composite Drill Pipe
The objective of this project is to develop and commercialize a design for composite drill pipe with steel connections which is both competitive with steel drill pipe and which represents a significant technological advance to currently used pipe. Key indicators of that advance will be the new pipe's durability and lighter weight in addition to its demonstrated capability for hig... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-99FT40262 | Project State: CA |
Development and Optimization of (GAGD) Process for Improved Light Oil Recovery
The purpose of this project is to develop a new gas-injection enhanced oil recovery process, which will efficiently recover the remaining trapped oil by overcoming the limitations of the water-alternating-gas (WAG) process that is currently applied in watered-out reservoirs. The new process is termed the "Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) process." ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15323 | Project State: LA |
Development of High Temperature Capacitor Technology and Manufacturing Capability
A Phase II effort is required to optimize the manufacturing process of an existing aerospace technology, Fluorene isophthalate terephalate (or Fluorene Polyester - FPE) for HT capacitors. The aerospace industry has been using metalized film capacitors for power conditioning, filtering and energy storage applications for decades. Metalized film capacitors have the ability to "clear... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-06NT42949 | Project State: IL |
Development of Micro-Organisms with Improved Transport Activities for Enhanced Oil Recovery
The three main objectives are: 1) develop microbial strains with improved biosurfactant properties that use cost-effective nutrients, 2) obtain biosurfactant strains with improved transport properties and 3) determine an empirical relationships between surfactant concentration and interfacial tension and insitu reactions kinetics and biosurfactant concentrations.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15321 | Project State: OK |
Development of New Types of Non-Damaging Drill-in and Completion Fluids
The Development of New Types of Non-Damaging Drill-in and Completion Fluids Project will consist of the development and testing of the new fluids. The project will be divided into two phases and will address the special problems of formation damage related to the use of completion fluids (CF) and drill-in fluids (DIF) in openhole well completions. Phase I of the project will test... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-98FT34174 | Project State: TX |
Development of SOI High Temperature Electronics
Honeywell is to establish a joint industry partnership (JIP) with tiered participation from representatives of the petroleum industry made up of service companies and operators to guide and direct the R&D effort for beneficial use in downhole tools needing HT electronic components. These HT tools are to be primarily used by the oil and Gas industry for drilling and producing HT/HP... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41834 | Project State: MN |
Development of Shallow Viscous Oil Reserves in North Slope
Develop tools to find optimum solvent, injection schedule, and well-architecture for a water-alternate-gas (WAG) oil recovery process for the Alaska North Slope shallow sand, viscous oil reservors.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15186 | Project State: TX |
Development of Smart Proppant Technology for Hydraulic Fracturing
Development of a second generation materials with sufficient structure and mechanical integrity to allow application as proppant or gravel pack materials. Inherent in the structure of the developed materials will be the ability to selectively release or activate materials of interest to maintain or improve fracture conductivity. Selective release or activation will be achieved by ... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-42C1-05 | Project State: ID |
Development of a High Pressure/High Temperature Downhole Turbine Generator
The objective of this project is to develop a downhole high-temperature turbine generator (HTTG) capable of operating at high pressures (>20,000 psi) and high temperatures (=250°C), to power equipment such as rotary steerable tools, MWD tools, LWD tools, and other components both currently commercial and those under development.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT42655 | Project State: IL |
Development of a High Temperature, Logging While Drilling Tool
The overall objective of this effort is to develop a high temperature, cost effective, logging while drilling (HT-LWD) system that will provide reliable commercial service and that will operate at 175 deg. C with greater than 100 hours mean time between failure (MTBF). This work will be done in two phases. The first is to design, construct, and test 2 prototypes in a laboratory e... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-97FT34175 | Project State: TX |
Development of a Low-Cost Rotary Steerable Drilling System
The recipient shall develop and commercialize a 6 ½-inch rotary-steerable system (RSS) capable of drilling 7 7/8-inch to 9 7/8-inch hole sizes at conventional pressures and temperatures (20,000 psi/150-175°C) that reduces operating costs by a minimum of 50% and lost-in-hole charges by at least 50% over currently offered systems. The proposed reduction in costs are to be realized th... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT42657 | Project State: TX |
Development of a Through Tubing (Microhole) Artificial Lift System/Microhole Breakout
Develop an economical artificial lift system that will allow operators in the Gulf of Mexico to re-activate wells that can no longer flow naturally due to fluids in the wellbore.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15472 | Project State: LA |
Development of an Advanced Hydraulic Fracture Mapping System
The objective of this project is to develop and test an advanced hydraulic fracture mapping system with improved instrumentation that incorporates both seismic sensors and tiltmeters in one tool.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT42108 | Project State: CA |
Development of an Advanced Hydraulic Fracture Mapping Tool
Provide engineering services to Pinnacle Technologies (NT42108) including instrumentation development and testing, project coordination support, field testing support, data analysis, advanced geophysical modeling and analysis, and model, algorithm and code development to develop an advanced hydraulic fracture mapping system.
... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW04-012298 | Project State: NM |
Dilute Surfactant Methods for Carbonate Formations
The goal of this research is to evaluate dilute surfactant methods for carbonate formations and identify conditions under which they can be effective. Adsorption, phase behavior, wettability alteration, IFT gradient driven imbibition, blob mobilization at high capillary and Bond numbers will be quantified. The results will be presented to the oil industry to help implement surfact... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15322 | Project State: TX |
Disposable Fiber Optic Telemetry System for Use with Coiled Tubing (PARTNERSHIP)
The purpose of this work is to determine the applicability to coiled tubing of the disposable fiber optic telemetry technology developed for conventional drill pipe. Coiled tubing offers the opportunity to combine two existing technologies, cable injection and disposable optical fiber telemetry, to provide a new level of telemetry to the industry. CTES is an industry leader in ca... Read more >
| Project ID: P-220 | Project State: NM |
Downhole Fluid Analyzer
The Downhole Fluid Analyzer Project will consist of the research and development of a downhole fluid analyzer which will measure downhole fluid fractions in real time without interfering with production. The system will employ permanent remote sensing and fiber optics and will provide the information to the surface in real time. The project is divided into two phases with Phase I... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-98FT40481 | Project State: CT |
Downhole Power Generation and Wireless Communications for Intelligent Completion Applications
The objective of this project is to develop a system that will provide sensor based wireless communications inside the wellbore and to develop a downhole power generator to provide electricity for the electro-mechanical and electronics components inside the well for Intelligent Wells applications (IWT). The wireless communications will free Intelligent Completion Systems (ICS) and ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT41601 | Project State: TX |
Drilling Optimization Utilizing Surface Instrumentation for Downhole Event Recognition
The objective of this project is to develop special algorithms to process critical drilling parameters measured by an instrumented surface sub in order to detect downhole events to optimize the rate of penetration and to maximize bottom-hole assembly component life. The fact that this equipment is relatively inexpensive surface instrumentation, increases its availability to land-b... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41782 | Project State: TX |
Drilling Vibration Monitoring and Control System
The objective of this project is to develop a unique Drilling Vibration Monitoring & Control System ('DVMCS') to both monitor and control drilling vibrations in a 'smart' drilling system. This system has two primary elements: The first is a unique, multi-axis active vibration damper to minimize harmful axial, lateral and torsional vibrations, and thereby increase both rate of pene... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT41664 | Project State: CT |
Dual Gradient Drilling System Using Glass Hollow Spheres
Maurer Technologies Inc. (MTI) has formed an industry wide JIP that shall develop a Dual Gradient Drilling (DGD) System utilizing mud pumps on the drill rig that eliminates all seafloor equipment including the complex seafloor mud pumps. This effort provides a method for DOE to leverage a relatively small amount of funding to obtain information on methods of drilling deep wells of... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-02NT41641 | Project State: TX |
E2S - Gas Supply Product Management Support
Provide Natural gas supply technical support to the Gas Supply & Exploration product manager.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AT26-02NT20208 | Project State: WV |
EM Telemetry Tool for Deep Well Drilling Applications
The objective of this project is to develop a wireless, electro-magnetic (EM) telemetry system for use in deep natural gas and other high-temperature drilling applications beyond 20,000 ft. and up to 392 degrees F (200 degrees C). The system is being designed to facilitate measurement-while-drilling (MWD) operations in the deep drilling environment. Achieving this capability is ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT41656 | Project State: TX |
Economic Implementation and Optimization of a Secondary Oil Recovery Process: St. Mary West Cotton Valley Unit, Lafayette County, AK
Comparatively study the economic optimization of secondary oil recovery processes in the small, nearly primary depleted, Arkansas oil field to identify the process that will provide the most efficient and least costly oil recovery and optimum operations.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15254 | Project State: TX |
Enhanced Oil Recovery with Downhole Vibration Stimulation in Osage County, OK
Install monitoring systems, including geophones in selected wells and a production monitoring system to measure the effects on individual offset wells in the pilot area. This work will be conducted in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory providing the surface and downhole geophones to record the signal generated by the DHVT.
Install the vibrating tool using a co... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15191 | Project State: OK |
Enhanced Wellbore Stabilization and Reservoir Productivity with Aphron Drilling Fluid Technology
The objectives of this project are to develop a comprehensive understanding of how aphrons behave at elevated pressures and temperatures, to measure the ability of aphron-based drilling fluids to seal permeable and fractured formations under simulated downhole conditions, and to determine the role played by each component of the drilling fluid.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT42000 | Project State: TX |
Environmental Services and Support
Provide technical support at the National Petroleum Technology Office, Tulsa, Oklahama to accomplish environmental reviews of the program.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AI26-01BC15240 | Project State: OK |
Evaluations of Radionucides of Uranium, Thorium, and Radium Associated with Produced Fluids, Precipitates, and Sludges from Oil, Gas, and Oilfield Brine Injection Wells in Mississippi
The objectives of this work consist of: 1) Obtaining baseline data regarding the geographic and geologic occurrence and concentration/isotopic composition of NORM in produced formation water, scale, and sludge which result from hydrocarbon production in the state of Mississippi; and 2) provide valid, unbiased NORM data and guidance to both industry and governmental agencies based ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15227 | Project State: MS |
Field Demonstration of Existing Microhole Coiled Tubing Rig (MCTR)/Microhole 2 Breakout
GTI proposes to evaluate the operating efficiency of a microhole coiled tubing rig for drilling and
completing boreholes in oil or gas formations to a depth up to 5,000 ft. The rig to be tested has been
fabricated by Coiled Tubing Solutions Inc. (CTS) and is currently deployed on leaseholds owned by
Rosewood Resources Inc. (Rosewood).
The objective of the testing will be to eva... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15482 | Project State: IL |
Field Testing and Optimization of CO2/Sand Fracturing Technology
The goal of this effort is to reduce formation damage to natural gas reservoirs associated with fracture stimulation treatments and to transfer carbon dioxide/sand fracturing technology to industry. Carbon dioxide based stimulation treatments do not introduce permeability-lowering fluids into limited deliverability reservoirs. As Such, fracturing based on this technology has the ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC21-94MC31199 | Project State: OH |
Formation Logging for Microborehole
This project is to design, test, and evaluate a suite of miniaturized logging tools for measurement of formation properties with wireline tools capable of running in microholes. Los Alamos is pioneering the miniaturization of coiled-tubing drilling technology for the purpose of achieving a very substantial reduction (ultimately 80-90%) in the cost of drilling deep exploration hol... Read more >
| Project ID: FEWA085-01 | Project State: NM |
Gas Injection/Well Stimulation Project
Changing conditions pose both challenges and can create opportunities. The proposed project technology is both secondary oil recovery (leases have not been waterflooded) and production management (conservation of resource and application of best practices). The objective is to use the currently available natural gas that is currently being vented and to repressurize the reservoir... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15292 | Project State: OK |
Gulf Petro Initiative
The objective of this project is to develop technologies for petroleum production and exploration enhancement in deep water and mature fields.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-NT0004651 | Project State: LA |
Harsh Environment Electronics Packaging for Downhole Oil and Gas Exploration
GE will develop new packaging techniques that are capable of withstanding greater than 400 °F while maintaining a small form factor and high vibration tolerance necessary for use in a downhole environment. These packaging techniques will also be capable of integrating a sensor and other electronics to form an integrated electronics and sensor module. The expertise and experience of... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-06NT42950 | Project State: NY |
Harsh-Environment Solid-State Gamma Detector for Down-Hole Gas and Oil Exploration
The objective of this project is to develop a revolutionary solid-state gamma-ray detector suitable for use in harsh environment downhole gas and oil exploration. This advanced detector shall employ wide-bandgap semiconductor technology to extend detector temperature capability and to provide ruggedness and reliability, which significantly exceeds current designs based on photomult... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT42107 | Project State: NY |
Heterogeneous Shallow-Shelf Carbonate Buildups in the Blanding Sub-Basin of the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado: Targets for Increased Oil Production and Reserves Using Horizontal Drilling Techniques/Class Revisits
Most of the Pennsylvania Paradox Formation fields are characterized by high initial production rates followed by a very short production life (primary) and hence premature abandonment. Only 15 to 25 percent of the original oil in place is recoverable during primary production from conventional vertical development wells. The small Ismay and Desert Creek fields are at high risk of... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15128 | Project State: UT |
High Resolution Microseismic Monitoring (PARTNERSHIP)
Development of inclusive robust event clustering procedures to classify diverse and spatially extensive event sets into similar groups.
... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW02FE08 | Project State: NM |
High Temperature Battery for Drilling Application
Develop prototype of high temperature rechargeable battery to power electronics which operate in drilling and logging systems in hot wells (>200 degrees C). Develop critical cell components which will be robust enough to sustain vibrations in the down-hole environment. Build and test prototype cell operation when subjected to vibrations at high temperatures.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-06NT42946 | Project State: TN |
High Temperature Capacitor Development
Giner, Inc. proposes the development of an all solid or immobilized electrolyte high-voltage electrochemical-electrolytic capacitor for high temperature operation, yielding a low-cost, low ESR device. The negative electrode or cathode will be made from highly conductive stabilized metal oxide (particulate formed (Ru-Ta)Ox, (Dempsey et al, 1982)) while the positive electrode or anod... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-06NT42945 | Project State: MA |
High Temperature MWD Development
The overall objective of this effort is to improve Halliburton/Sperry-Sun's (SSDS's) existing mud pulse based Measurement While Drilling (MWD) system for improved capabilities in high temperature drilling environments. This work is in support of present day deeper exploration drilling needs such as those being encountered in the Austin Chalk drilling in Texas and Louisiana. The f... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-97FT34345 | Project State: TX |
Hydraulic Pulse Drilling
Phase I of this project will involve theoretical and laboratory scale investigation of the mechanics of drilling with hydraulic pressure pulses. The feasibility study objectives are to: 1. Determine the intensity and frequency of pressure fluctuations required to cause spalling of fluid-saturated, pressurized rock; and 2. Demonstrate penetration of pressurized shale on a small-sc... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-97FT34367 | Project State: WA |
Improved Recovery by Relocation Steamflood Injections
Increase oil recovery and reduce operating expenses by utilizing a state of the art numerical simulator that will allow more effective thermal stimulation scenarios to be examined and implemented.
... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15291 | Project State: CA |
Improved Tubulars for Better Economics in Deep Gas Well Drilling Using Microwave Technology
The main objective of the proposed research program is to improve the rate-of-penetration in deep hostile environments by improving the life cycle and performance of coiled-tubing and/or drill-pipe, important components of a deep well drilling system for oil and gas exploration. This shall be accomplished by developing an efficient and economically viable continuous microwave proce... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT41662 | Project State: PA |
Increased Oil Production and Reserves Utilizing Secondary/Terriary Techniques on Small Reservoirs in the Paradox Basin, Utah
Increase production and reserves from the shallow shelf carbonate reservoir in the Paradox Basin of Utah and Colorado through geological and engineering investigations, leading to the application of advanced secondary recovery technology. Technical studies will be conducted on five diverse small fields located within the Navajo Nation to select the best candidate field to be targe... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC22-95BC14988 | Project State: UT |
Integrated Drilling System Using Mud Actuated Downhole Hammer as Primary Engine
Develop an integrated steerable drilling system that offers significant cost reduction in deep, medium-to-hard rock formations using a mud actuated hammer engine. Key aspects of R&D development will focus on the down-hole bit and rotation, sensing and control, directional drilling, and casing while drilling.
Significance:
1) The mudhammer will provide more economical access to ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-97FT34365 | Project State: UT |
Intelligent Computing System for Reservoir Analysis and Risk Assessment of Red River Formation/Class Revisits
An intelligent computing system will be developed and applied to reservoir-production models for analysis of seismic and geologic data relating to management, development and exploration problems in Class II reservoirs. Various software tools will be written. These tools can be broadly characterized as 1) clustering tools, 2) neural solvers, 3) multiple-linear regression, 4) ent... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15123 | Project State: CO |
Internet Access to Micro-Hole Seismic Data
The objective of the project is to provide a telemetry link between the University of Wyoming and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to allow the transmission of seismic data from the Department of Energy's micro-borehole drilling project located at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) to the Department of Geophysics at the University of Wyoming.
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| Project ID: DE-AP26-04NT40560 | Project State: WY |
Joint Geophysical Imaging
The objectives of this research are two fold. First to investigate the feasibility of simultaneously inverting different types of geophysical data linked through a rock physics model to produce a single self-consistent earth model parameterized by hydrologic parameters (porosity, fluid and gas saturations etc.) rather than geophysical parameters. Second, if such inversion is feas... Read more >
| Project ID: ESD02-006 (P300) | Project State: CA |
LANL: Technology Development and Demonstration of Microhole Oil Production at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Test Center
FY 2003
Join with the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Technology Center (RMOTC) in completing and producing oil from microholes drilled to a shallow regional target from which substantial productions obtained by independent operators.
FY 2004
The work for this year is intended to demonstrate the capability of drilling and completing instrumentation microholes for use in obtaining qu... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW03FE06-04 | Project State: NM |
Laser Drilling
To establish the technical and economic feasibility of using laser tools to drill natural gas wells.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT40917 | Project State: IL |
Laser Peening to Improve Fatigue and Corrosion Resistance of Drilling Equipment
Apply laser peening to oil and gas drilling hardware and equipment. Evaluate specific areas where cracking initiates, treat and test sample material, then actual hardware.
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| Project ID: FEW 0118 | Project State: CA |
Marginal Expense Oil Well Wireless Surveillance (MEOWS) Phase 2
This project will involve the development and testing of low cost pumping unit vibration and/or sensing devices which may be affordable and appropriate for stripper oil well production monitoring.
Devices will be field tested; sensing and monitoring information will be transmitted to a central data collection facility where the reliability or failure of oil pumping units can b... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15293 | Project State: CA |
Mechanism of Oil Recovery and Validation of Corefloods (PARTNERSHIP)
This project will generate 3D rock images at 1-10 micron resolutions, and translate these images into equivalent pore-networks. It will then calculate the absolute permeabilities, capillary pressures, and relative permeabilities by solving the basic equations of flow of immiscible fluids in the networks. To reproduce the pore space of permeable rocks, we propose to sue laborator... Read more >
| Project ID: FEWG304 | Project State: CA |
Microdrill Equipment Drawings and Design Specifications
Prepare drawings and design specifications of the current state of the art microdrilling system, based on the previous work done by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Objective was Changed to address the need for research and literature search to determine the state-of-the-art for two topics: Hydraulic Motion and Fluid Movement Through Small Diameter Pipes and Wellbores and C... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AD26-03NT30429 | Project State: TX |
Microhole Coiled Tube Bottom Hole Assemblies/Microhole 2 Breakout
The objective of the project is to combine existing technologies for Measurement While Drilling and Logging While Drilling into an integrated, low cost measurement system to facilitate low cost drilling of small, shallow (3.5? dia., <5000? depth) boreholes using coiled tubing drilling (CTD) technology. The project will deliver two prototypes ready for field testing.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15487 | Project State: TX |
Microhole Downhole Drilling Tractor/Microhole Breakout
Western Well Tool's proposal for the Microhole Coiled Tubing Bottom Hole Assembly topic of the Microhole Technology Development Project will achieve the objective of creating and demonstrating a Coiled Tubing downhole tool that facilitates drilling of long (2000+feet) horizontal well sections that are not possible with existing technology.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15475 | Project State: CA |
Microhole Smart Steering and Logging While Drilling System/Microhole Breakout
The overall goal of this project is to provide a modular and effective Coiled Tubing Drilling (CTD) system that allows operators to produce existing oil reservoirs, mainly on the North American Continent, in a much more effective way than is possible today. This will be achieved by providing accurate and precise real-time geosteering in a drilling operation. In accordance with pro... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15473 | Project State: TX |
Microhole Technology Development II - Self-Expanding Sandscreen Technology/Microhole 2 Breakout
The project is to develop an innovative, high-flow well-screen technology. The proposed technology incorporates intricate sand-retention efficacy and novel capabilities such as universal construction materials compatibility; high-erosion resistance; and applications with actual drilling operations.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15491 | Project State: TX |
NETL Acoustic Telemetry (MWD)
Development of a downhole acoustic telemetry system capable of operating at rates up to 100 baud. Measurement while drilling (MWD) and logging while drilling (LWD) was heavily supported by a DOE research funding. Current technology to transit the data from downhole to the surface uses pressure pulses in the mud flow. The physics of wave propagation in mud severely limits mudpulse... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-35107 | Project State: NM |
NMR Characterizations of Heterogeneous Porous Media
Development of reliable methods for predicting macroscopic properties that are important for describing the flow storage of one or more fluid phases in reservoirs at an intrinsic scale approaching that of a local volume average or representative element volume using nuclear magnetic resonancec.
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| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15202 | Project State: TX |
New High Strength and Faster Drilling TSP Diamond Cutters
The overall objective of this project is to develop advanced drilling systems which employ TSP diamond drag bits. The bits are to be capable of reducing overall system costs by increasing rates of penetration and bit life in medium-to-hard rock applications. Thus, there is the opportunity to allow economic development of remaining natural gas and oil resources in the US and to st... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-97FT34368 | Project State: TX |
Novel High-Speed Drilling Motor for Oil Exploration & Production/Breakout
The principal objective of this project is to design and develop a high speed mud motor assembly, compatible with a coiled tubing drilling system, to drill small diameter holes for vertical, horizontal, and multi-lateral wells. The drilling motor assembly must contain both a conventional mud motor and an efficient gearing system to produce drill bit speeds up to and including 10,0... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15501 | Project State: CT |
Offshore Oil Field Characterization with EM Methods (PARTNERSHIP)
Develop a high-temperature acoustic telemetry tool for the geothermal industry and also construct a low temperature version for our Geothermal tool capable of operating at raw baud rates up to 100.... Read more >
| Project ID: P-301 | Project State: NM |
Oil Well Remediation in Clay and Wayne Counties
Using three-phase process, during which they will conduct the following activities.
1. Select two promising abandoned well sites in Clay and Wayne Counties in Illinois. [Well Site (2) may contain more than one well and a salt-water disposal well.]
2. Prepare the selected sites, and drill through the existing formation.
3. Use gas gun technology to stimulate and connect oil-b... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15295 | Project State: IL |
Optical Fiber Sensor Technologies for Efficient and Economical Oil Recovery
The overall goal of this project is to develop cost-effective, reliable fiber sensors for the measurement of temperature, pressure, flow and acoustic waves, which are highly desirable in the oil industry. Eight technical tasks will lead to the sensor development: 1) Specify the technical requirements; 2) Design and fabricate the pressure, temperature, flow and acoustic sensors; ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-98BC15167 | Project State: VA |
Optimization of Infill Drilling in Naturally-Fractured Tight-Gas Reservoirs
The objective of this project is to develop a methodology, using reservoir/fracture characterization and simulation models, to determine the optimum well type (vertical vs. horizontal), well pattern, and well spacing to maximize gas recovery from naturally fractured tight gas reservoirs.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-98FT40486 | Project State: NM |
Optimization of Mud Hammer Drilling Performance
This program's objective is to benchmark the drilling penetration rate of selected mud hammers (Novatek, SDS Digger, Smith and others in industry as participation increases) and to compare mudhammer performance to conventional drilling methods. Operations oriented individuals from industry will serve as members of the project steering committee. Specifically, drilling tests under... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT40918 | Project State: UT |
Paraffin Deposition Research and Model Validation
The objectives of this three year continuation consortium, started June 2000, are to: utilize the test facilities developed in the previous JIP, as well as member company expertise; enhance our understanding of paraffin deposition in single and two-phase (gas-oil) flows; expand this technology to include a third phase (water); conduct focused experiments to better understand vario... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15150 | Project State: OK |
Pressure Sensor Electronics for High Temperature Drilling
Development and commercialization of an advanced semiconductor technology, i.e., nitride based materials, which have superior electronic properties for high temperature and harsh environment applications... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG02-02ER83549 | Project State: MN |
Q as a Lithological/Hydrocarbon Indicator: From Full Waveform Sonic to 3D Surface Seismic
The objective of this project is to develop a method to exploit viscoelastic rock and fluid properties to greatly enhance the sensitivity of surface seismic measurements to the presence of hydrocarbon saturation. The proposer will use well log, lithology, production, and 3D seismic data from an oil reservoir in north central Texas. The proposed program will provide` a methodolog... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15343 | Project State: TX |
Real-Time Monitoring of Reservoir Stimulation Procedures Via Electronic Wireline and Telemetry
The objective of this project is to develop and integrate a real-time diagnostic system with real-time stimulation innovations.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-99FT40129 | Project State: NM |
Real-Time Pore Pressure Prediction Ahead of the Bit Using a Suction Pulse Seismic Source
The objective of this Phase I, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project is to evaluate the feasibility of using the seismic signal radiated by the HydroPulse(TM) tool to predict pore pressure ahead of the bit. The repeated, impulsive HydroPulse(TM) source will radiate intense, broad-band compression (P) and shear (S) wave energy into the formation ahead of the bit regardl... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG03-00ER83111 | Project State: WA |
Reservoir Simulation/Horizontal Drilling, Round Mountain Unit Thermal Development Project, California/Independent Award
Develop a three-dimensional model of the entire Round Mountain Field to study the field's production history by computer simulation and make predictions of expected performance improvements from the drilling of horizontal wells in the lower, reduced-permeability sands. Based on the results of the simulation, one horizontal well will be drilled in the Vedder Sand.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15258 | Project State: CA |
Risk Reduction with a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool/Mega PRDA Breakout
PRRC will develop a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool (FEE Tool) that will realistically and conveniently model the decision-making mechanisms employed by oil exploration experts, who routinely deal with incomplete information and frequently produce predictions with different levels of certainty or confidence. It is expected that use of the FEE Tool, to be made available via the Inter... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15218 | Project State: NM |
Rotary Steerable Motor System for Deep Gas Drilling
Rotary steerable motor system is proposed which allows mud motors to deliver high torque to the bit and high powere to the bit by combination of ratory drilling speed and mud motor speed. The system continuously adjusts postion as the drill string is rotated, completely eliminating the old practice of "sliding" to position the hole when motor drilling. Phases I& II the recipient ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG02-02ER83368 | Project State: CT |
Scintillating Fiber Neutron Detectors for Well Logging
To improve the technology for reservoir fluid type measurement and monitoring by improving epithermal-to-thermal ratio measurements. This improvement will be brought about by replacing He-3 neutron detection by that of neutron sensitive scintillating fibers. Counting of epithermal neutrons can be improved by mixing detector with moderator, intimately, a process that is possible w... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-44273 | Project State: WA |
Seismic Stimulation for Enhanced Production of Oil Reservoirs (PARTNERSHIP)
Our research will focus on two main task areas: (1) laboratory fluid flow and production enhancement experiments on formation rock cores, (2) numerical and theoretical modeling of wave stimulation effects on 2-phase fluid flow in porous media, and (3) full-scale experimental field stimulation testing, source characterization, and production monitoring. The following briefly summari... Read more >
| Project ID: P-084 FEWAA01 | Project State: NM |
Signal Analysis for Coiled Tubing Inspection
To hold a meeting with consortium principals, and to develop a path forward for developing the technology necessary to accomplish real-time flaw classification in coil tubing.... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-4340-73 | Project State: ID |
Small Mechanically Assisted High Pressure Waterjet Drilling Tool/Microhole 2 Breakout
The intensifier will create high pressure jets that cut ahead of the bit. This will greatly reduce the thrust and torque required to drill ahead making it possible to drill longer laterals. The intensifier will also generate cyclic pressure loads on the coil that should also reduce static friction.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15484 | Project State: WA |
Start Up of a Public Geologic Core and Sample Repository in Houston, TX
Disseminate information concerning the natural resources of Texas to our citizens.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15290 | Project State: TX |
Step Change in Directional Drilling Control and Efficiency When Using Motor Steerable Systems
Participate as a sponsor for the "Slider" innovative drilling system, a project offered through the Drilling Engineering Association (DEA). "Slider" is a new technology, a surface system for drilling oil and gas wells that significantly increases the efficiency of a downhole motor/MWD directional drilling system. "Sliding" refers to drilling relying only on the downhole motor for ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AF26-05NT50396 | Project State: TX |
Stimulation Technology for Deep Well Completions
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Deep Trek Program is targeted to improving the economics of drilling and completing deep (>16,000 feet) and/or high temperature (>350F) and high pressure (>10,000psi) (HTHP) natural gas wells in the U.S. This effort is focused on the second objective of the Deep Trek program, " Improved Economics in Deep Well Completions." The objective of th... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT41663 | Project State: CA |
Super Cement Support
The purpose of the project is to develop novel supercements for hot and deep wells. These cements will be phosphate based and are expected to exhibit superior performance, especially in very deep wells where conventional drilling cements fail.... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP-49130 | Project State: IL |
Supercement for Annular Seal and Longterm Integrity in Deep, Hot Wells
The objective of this project is to improve deep-well economics through the development of cement capable of tightly sealing annuli and providing the long-term integrity required in deep, hot environments.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT41836 | Project State: TX |
Technology Commercialization to Benefit Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico
This Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") is entered into by the United States Department of Energy Office of Natural Gas and Petroleum technology ("NGPT") and the United States Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service ("MMS") (collectively the "Parties") for the purpose of formalizing their commitment to create, support and participate in technology development and c... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-MU26-01NTMU065 | Project State: VA |
Technology Development and Demonstration/Microholes for Designer Seismics in Support of CO2 EOR
Completion of up to 6 microholes at two CO2 EOR injection sites to monitor the CO2 injection. The 500 to 1500-ft deep microwells will be designed to support the deployment of seismic arrays by LBNL. The LANL drilling team will collaborate with LBNL, the commercial well field operators and project reservoir specialist to rill and complete microholes to optimize the collection of s... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW03FE06-6 | Project State: NM |
Testing and Validation of High Resolution Fluid Imaging in Real Time (PARTNERSHIP)
Although current logging methods provide a wealth of high resolution information on formation properties near the well bore, there is a critical need to extend this information to much larger distances. The Deeplook consortium has initiated an effort to use borehole seismic imaging supplemented with electromagnetic methods, to map fluid content at distance up to 200 meters from th... Read more >
| Project ID: P-225 FEWG306 | Project State: CA |
The Application and Use of Microdrilling for Vertical Seismic Profiling
The project goal is to evaluate and develop vertical seismic profiling ( VSP) technology for microholes to be used to enhance image resolution and depth penetration beyond current technology in a low-cst fashion.
They will design and test the capability of using micro-holes for Vertical Seismic Profiles for reservoir characterization. They will Demonstrate through field testing th... Read more >
| Project ID: FWP ESD04-006 (G324) | Project State: CA |
The Use of Predictive Lithostratigraphy to Significantly Improve the Ability to Forecast Reservoir and Source Rocks
We will investigate in detail how the occurrence of reservoirs and source rocks is related to insolation, climate, sediment supply, and glacioeustasy. Previously unrecognized associations among the processes and properties leading to these phenomena, properly analyzed, help us better understand lithostratigraphic variability (including variations in texture, porosity, and permeabi... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW49398 | Project State: IL |
Thermochemically Driven Gasdynamic Fracturing (TDGF) Technology
The Thermochemically Driven Gas Dynamic Fracturing (TDGF) technology is an effort to dramatically improve on the current technology of hydraulic fracturing by combining the fracturing capabiites of the latter with the benefits of thermal heating of the well. This is achieved by pumping a large volume of gas and liquid chemical reagents into a formation, warming the formation via h... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-05NT15479 | Project State: FL |
Transportation of Hydrocarbon Indicators by Migrating Formation Waters in Selected Basins
A novel approach to geochemical tracking of oil accumulations in an active hydrodynamic system is being developed. The technique will be based on detecting organic compounds dissolved in formation waters that have come in contact with oil accumulations as they flow down the hydrodynamic gradient. Highly soluble and mobile aromatic hydrocarbons (BTEX) are present in virtually ever... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW4340-53 | Project State: ID |
Tulsa University Drilling Research Projects Membership
1) To promote, for the common good of the industry, advancements in the state of the art drilling technology through basic and applied research. 2) To suitably utilize facilities and equipment gifted to the University of Tulsa; and 3) To provide a means for companies to supplement or supplant their own drilling research programs at a nominal cost.... Read more >
| Project ID: 75-00SW48769 | Project State: OK |
Ultra Deepwater Hydrocarbon Production System Development
The objective of this joint industry project is to manufacture, install and test a subsea oil and gas processing system at an offshore field in the Gulf of Mexico. The innovative system will have an isolation mechanism that allows incoming flowlines from subsea wells and outgoing product pipelines from a self-contained retrievable process module. The module will be designed for e... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT40964 | Project State: TX |
Ultra-Lightweight Cement
The objective of this project is to develop an improved ultra-lightweight cement using a novel additive: ultralight hollow glass spheres (ULHS). The use of ULHS to reduce fluid density has been previously investigated and demonstrated as generally feasible by MEI as part of a DOE-sponsored development of lightweight drilling fluids. This new project seeks to expand the applicat... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00NT40919 | Project State: TX |
Use of Bio-Stratigraphy to Reduce Risks, Increase Production & Reduce Environmental Concerns in Oil Well Drilling
The main objective of this study is to establish an age zonation containing biohorizons that can be used in the Blair/Barham Field, Santa Barbara County, California; as a standard for future drilling. Operators in this area can use this sequence of fossils:
to apply to the reservoirs, to map on this sequence, to determine which forms can be found above, within and below the reser... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15296 | Project State: CA |
Use of Low Maintenance Pump to Extend Life of Stripper Wells/Independent Award
Refit 16 wells in the Trenton Field with the Airlift systems. Other proposed developments for the system include a sensor to indicate when the bottom stage is full or empty for optimal cycle timing that will improve operating efficiency and increase production.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15261 | Project State: IN |
Very High-Speed Drill String Communications Network
To further develop and demonstrate a fast communications system on the order of computer modem speeds to enable information regarding drilling, reservoir and equipment status to be obtained real time between surface operations and drilling depths. Novatek's novel and robust means of transmitting data across a threaded tool joint (milli-hop coupler) system known as Intelliserv is t... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01NT41229 | Project State: UT |
Wettability & Oil Recovery by Imbibition and Viscous Displacement from Fractured and Hetero Reserve
" Wettability alteration at carbonate surfaces has been measured for more than sixteen crude oils.
" Sources of outcrop carbonate rock have been identified.
" Close similarities in wetting changes induced by specific crude oils have been identified for carbonates and sandstones.
" Correlations for imbibition into carbonate rocks for very strongly water-wet and crude oil-induced... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15344 | Project State: WY |
