3D Computer Modeling, Borehole Geophysics, and High Capacity Pumps to Improve Oil Production of Marginal Wells in TX Field
Use 3D computer geological reservoir simulation technology and advanced borehole geophysics technology to evaluate residual oil distribut5ion in economically marginal wells in the East Texas Field, then isolate key intervals and employ high capacity submersible pumps to reclaim more of the existing reserves.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15267 | Project State: CO |
A Built for Purpose Microhole Coiled Tubing Rig/Microhole Breakout
This project is focused on developing a microhole CTD rig that is aimed specifically at U.S. shallow oil and gas reservoirs. The rig will be capable of performing over and underbalanced drilling work for both new and existing wells. It will be designed to improve the economics of shallow-well drilling by using small and purposed-built equipment that is easy to move and fast to mobi... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15474 | Project State: TX |
A Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Project to Be Developed for the Poison Spider Field Chemical Flood Project, Wyoming
Demonstrate that the alkaline-surfactant-polymer technology can produce economic, incremental oil from a reservoir containing 150 to 300 cp crude oil.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15439 | Project State: CO |
A New Log Evaluation Method to Appraise Mesa Verde Re-Completion Opportunities Formation
Use new log interpretation methods based on artificial intelligence and neural networks to evaluate oil well recompletion opportunities in the Mesa Verde formation of New Mexico' San Juan Basin.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-01BC15264 | Project State: NM |
Acoustic Telemetry (MWD) (PARTNERSHIP)
We are developing a high-temperature MWD acoustic telemetry tool for the geothermal industry with funding from the Geothermal Technology Division. Geothermal temperatures severely compromise the acoustic actuators and electronics, and thus the raw baud rate of this tool, while adjustable, will probably not exceed 5. We have used the additional funding from the NGOTP to construct ... Read more >
| Project ID: P-211 | Project State: NM |
Advanced Reservoir Characterization in the Antelope Shale to Establish the Viability of CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery in California's Monterey Formation Siliceous Shales -- Class III
Increase oil recovery from the Monterey/Antelope Siliceous Shale through the application of an innovative reservoir management plan for CO2 flood project of the fractured siliceous shales of the Lost Hills Reservoir, CA.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC22-96BC14938 | Project State: CA |
Advanced Techniques for Reservoir Simulation and Modeling of Nonconventional Wells/Mega PRDA Breakout
This research is aimed at the development of innovative simulation tools to enhanced the ability of reservoirs engineers to optimize reservoir performance, particularly in non-conventional wells. All work will be simulation. There will be no experimental work. The project consists of three major tasks and fifteen subtasks. Task 1: Development of Advanced Reservoir Simulation T... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15213 | Project State: CA |
Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flooding and Reservoir Characterization of the Cypress and Bridgeport Reservoirs of the Lawrence Field/Class Revisits
The 60 acre alkaline-surfactant-polymer ASP project utilizing reservoir characterization is proposed for the fluvial dominated deltaic sandstone reservoirs in the Lawrence Field, Illinois. This enhanced oil recovery project will utilize three flood patterns with simultaneous ASP injection into Pennsylvania Bridgeport and Mississippian Cypress sandstones which are producing at less... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15126 | Project State: IL |
Application of Petroleum Technologies on Non-Allotted Native American Lands-Circle Ridge Field, Wind River Reservation, Arapaho and Shoshone Tribes. Improve Oil Recovery by Using Fracture Network Models
This project is designed to resolve several important structural and matrix parameter uncertainties through the integrated use of discrete fracture network modeling, three-dimensional palinspastic reconstruction, comprehensive re-interpretation of older logs, and single well and multiwell flow tests. The fully-integrated, 3D model resulting from the current project will form the b... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15190 | Project State: WA |
Assess and Compare Hydrocarbon-Detection Methods, and Apply One or Two of the Most Useful Technologies to Find and Access Oil
Phase I
Research Exploration Methods 4/3/2000 - 4/7/2000
Select methods to test 4/10/2000 - 5/15/2000
Solicit Geochemical Sub-Contractor bids 5/15/2000 - 6/15/2000
Select specific test sites
Select Sub-Contractors 6/15/2000 - 6/30/2000
Hire Field Assistant - Global Positional System Training
Method 1 Field Work Training 7/10/2000 - 7/14/2000
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-00BC15192 | Project State: MT |
Augmenting a Microbial Selective Plugging Technique with Polymer Flooding to Increase the Efficiency of Oil Recovery - a Search for Synergy/Mega PRDA Breakout
This project will improve the process of selectively redirecting reservoir fluid flow using a combination of microbial and polymer technologies. Building on the success of a completed DOE Class I Demonstration Project, which clearly demonstrates the ability of microbial flooding to increase oil production, Mississippi State researchers will combine this technology with the proven... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15210 | Project State: MS |
Behavior of Surfactant Mixture at Solid/Liquid and Oil/Liquid Interface in Chemical Flooding Systems
The proposed research is to help develop improved extraction processes that can mobilize and produce some of the oil left untapped using conventional techniques. It is our plan to develop and evaluate efficient novel mixtures of surfactants for improved oil recovery, especially in multi-components systems containing oil, polymers, emulsifiers and/or inorganics that are invariably ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15312 | Project State: NY |
Cavity Like Completions in Weak Sands - PUMP Breakout
Demonstrate the effectiveness of a new completion strategy in a field trial of a well located in the Wilmington Field, Long Beach, California. This project addresses the deliberate production of sand from a reservoir to increase productivity.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15275 | Project State: TX |
Coupled Geomechanical Deformation, Fluid Flow and Seismic (PARTNERSHIP)
The purpose of this project is to develop a sophisticated, state-of-the-art two-way coupled fluid flow and geomechanical deformation modeling code. The coupled code will be 3D, use finite element discretization, and will run in parallel. Output from this code will enable feasibility studies of time-lapse imaging of reservoirs in weak formations. In particular, computed changes i... Read more >
| Project ID: P-200 | Project State: NM |
Development Practices for Optimized MEOR in Shallow Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Demonstrate an economically viable and sustainable method of producing shallow heavy oil reserves in Southwest Missouri and South-East Kansas using a combination of microbial enhanced oil recovery and hydraulic fracturing in vertical wells.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15443 | Project State: MO |
Development of More-Efficient Gas Flooding Applicable to Shallow Reservoirs/Mega PRDA Breakout
The project will enhance the performance of gas flooding processes by improving both the local recovery of oil by gas and gas "sweep" -- the ability of gas to move oil through the reservoir. To improve process designs, the researchers will perform highly detailed, accurate simulations to determine how reservoir fluid dispersion and crossflow affect the mixing of oil with gas that ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15208 | Project State: TX |
Development of Radar Navigation and Radio Data Transmission for Microhole Coiled Tubing Bottom Hole Assemblies/Microhole Breakout
They will design and manufacture, and test two devices that comprise a measurement-while-drilling (MWD) technology applicable to microhole coiled tubing drilling. A radar distance measurement device will determine the distance from the drillbit to boundary layers; and a data transmission system will convey real-time reservoir data to the surface via the coiled tubing. Both compon... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-04NT15477 | Project State: NM |
Development of Reservoir Characterization Techniques and Production Models for Exploiting Naturally Fractured Reservoirs/Mega PRDA Breakout
This research program will determine a systematic procedure for properly characterizing a fractured reservoir system. A reservoir/horizontal well simulator model will be developed to select well locations and effective enhanced oil recovery processes to optimize the recovery of oil and gas from complex reservoir systems.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15212 | Project State: OK |
Development of a New Stratigraphic Trap Exploration Method Using Elastic-Wavefield Seismic Technology
The objective of this project is to develop a new seismic technology that will improve the exploration for stratigraphic traps. The new seismic technology will be tested on the Mission Canyon oolitic limestone stratigraphic traps in the Williston Basin of the Rocky Mountain Frontier. This technology involves the acquisition of 9-C seismic data that will allow independent P, SH, S... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15421 | Project State: TX |
Development of a Virtual Intelligence Technique for the Upstream Oil Industry - PUMP Breakout
The work involves cooperation with several Oklahoma producers and consists of characterization of the preferred management practices (PMP), development of a virtual intelligence technique for optimization of current practices, and field demonstration of the optimized process. Deliverables from the project will be two user-friendly software packages; a characterization tool that i... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15271 | Project State: IL |
Enhancing Reservoir Management in the Appalachian Basin by Identifying Technical Problems and Preferred Practices - PUMP Breakout
Develop a council to collect and disseminate best management practices that might benefit the Appalachian Basin area in an effort to enhance oil production.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15273 | Project State: WV |
Evaluation of Phytoremediation of Coal Bed Methane Product Water and Water of Quality Similar to that Associated with Coalbed Methane Reserves of the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming
*Assemblage, review, analyses, and summarization of existing information characterizing the chemistry of surface water and coalbed methane (CBM) product water.
*Accelerate greenhouse investigations of the potential of phytoremediation techniques using selected halophytes and super accumulator plants, biofilters and precipitation reactions.
*Laboratory studies of acceptable soil t... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-01BC15166 | Project State: MT |
Exploration and Optimization of Reservoir Performance in Hunton Formation, OK/Class Revisits
Since the initial production, the West Carney Field has exhibited unusual behavior. The initial production begins with high water cut and as the well is produced, the water cut decreases and oil cut increases. The main objective of the study is to understand the mechanism under which the oil is produced from Hunton Formation and to propose techniques to optimize performance of th... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15125 | Project State: OK |
Field Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Miscible Flooding in the Lansing-Kansas City Formation, Central Kansas/Class Revisits
The objective of the project is to determine the economic and technical feasibility of using CO2 miscible flooding to recover residual and bypassed oil in the Lansing-Kansas City Field in Central Kansas.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15124 | Project State: KS |
Field Demonstration of Horizontal Infill Drilling Using Cost-Effective Integrated Reservoir Modeling-Mississippian Carbonates, Central Kansas - PUMP Breakout
The objective of the project is the development of a cost-effective method to exploit over 550 million barrels of untapped mobile oil from mature Mississippian carbonate reservoirs of Kansas. The demonstrated tools, techniques, and procedures will be applicable to similar reservoirs in other parts of the U.S.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15276 | Project State: KS |
Field Trials of a Newly Developed Positive Displacement Submersible Pump
Install and test a new type of low-volume submersible pump to evaluate its ability to lower operating costs in a typical low-production marginal oil field.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-01BC15266 | Project State: OK |
Geographic Information System Approach for Play Portfolios to Improve Oil Production in the Illinois Basin/PUMP 2
Provide the data, data access, data management to enable industry to more quickly and easily identify and drill areas with high potential for increased oil production in and around existing oil fields in Illinois.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15132 | Project State: IL |
Heavy and Thermal Oil Recovery Production Mechanisms
To improve the recovery efficiency of heavy oil by conducting research in these five existing problem areas. Task 1: Multiphase Flow and Rock Properties, Task 2: Hot Fluid Injection, Task 3: Mechanisms of Primary Heavy Oil Recovery, Task 4: In-situ Combustion, and Task 5: Reservoir Definition.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15311 | Project State: CA |
Improved Approaches to Design of Polymer Gel Treatments in Mature Oil Fields: Field Demonstration in Dickman Field, Ness County, KS
Major aspects of the proposed study involve a series of tasks to determine and demonstrate critical technologies for polymer gel treatment design in Mississippian water drive reservoirs, demonstrate its application, and evaluate its success. The target for this study, the Dickman Field, Ness County is typical of small Mississippian reservoirs in Kansas. The challenge is to design ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-03NT15438 | Project State: KS |
Improved Miscible Nitrogen Flood Performance Utilizing Advanced Reservoir Characterization
" Improved understanding of flow mechanisms in the Pennsylvanian Hoxbar formation of the Eastern Anadarko Basin.
" Successfully drilled and completed three horizontal wells in the Pennsylvanian Hoxbar formation of the Eastern Anadarko Basin, in which only one horizontal well had previously been drilled.
" Tested the viability of horizontal wells in a tight sandstone formation und... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15121 | Project State: WY |
Improved Oil Recovery from Upper Jurassic Smackover Carbonates (Class II Reservoir) Through the Application of Advanced Technologies at Womack Hill Oil Field, Choctaw and Clarke Counties, Alabama, Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain/Class Revisits
An integrated, multidisciplinary study of the Womack Hill oil field is proposed. The objective is to increase productivity and profitability thereby extending the reservoir life. The technologies used to address these problems include advanced reservoir characterization, data integration, data mining and neural networks, 3-D stratigraphic and structural modeling, 3-D seismic imag... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15129 | Project State: AL |
Improved Waterflooding Through Brine/Improved Waterflooding by Injection-Brine Modification (PARTNERSHIP)
The variables that are the most critical to understanding the recovery process are crude oil type, rock type, and water composition (both the formation water and the injection water). Specific tasks are listed in the following paragraphs.
Task 1. Different crude oils produce major differences in flooding behavior and response to injection-brine modification. Important crude oi... Read more >
| Project ID: P-042 | Project State: ID |
Increased Oil Recovery from Mature Oil Fields Using Gelled Polymer Treatments/Mega PRDA Breakout
This research seeks to improve the performance of polymer gels systems when used in the waterflooding of mature oil fields. The gel systems modifies fluid flow paths and improves the recovery efficiency of the waterflood and reduces operational costs by minimizing the production of water produced with oil.
This research will study methods of improving the prediction of gel pl... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15209 | Project State: KS |
Innovative MIOR Process Utilizing Indigenous Reservoir Constituents/Mega PRDA Breakout
Microbiological and chemical analyses of reservoir waters will be performed to assess reservoir ecology. Various inorganic salts will be evaluated for their ability to stimulate distinct physiological groups of reservoir microflora and enhance the production of beneficial bioproducts in situ. Comparative laboratory studies demonstrating in situ production of microbial products as o... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15214 | Project State: OK |
Investigation of Multiscale and Multiphase Flow, Transport and Reaction in Heavy Oil Recovery Processes/Mega PRDA Breakout
To conduct research directed toward the improvement of heavy oil recovery - foamy oil production, in-situ steam drive, in-situ combustion, effects of heterogeneity, and steam foams.
Task A. "The Study of the Processes Involving Internal Phase Change in Porous Media" - Experiments and pore-network simulations will be conducted to study the liquid-to-vapor phase change that ta... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-AC26-99BC15211 | Project State: CA |
Major Oil Plays in Utah and Vicinity/PUMP 2
Develop the play portfolio concept for the major oil producing provices in Utah and adjacent areas of Colorado and New Mexico.
The overall objectives of this proposed study are to : (1) increase recoverable oil from existing field reservoirs, (2) add new discoveries, (3) prevent premature abandonment of numberoius small field, (4) increase deliverability through identifying t... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15133 | Project State: UT |
Measuring Sucker-Rod Pump Dynamics (PARTNERSHIP)
This project has developed an instrumented sucker-rod pump to directly measuring the conditions inside a downhole pump. Measurements with this pump can be compared to predicted downhole dynamometer cards to improve our understanding of sucker-rod pump performance. Initially, a full-scale transparent pump was constructed and installed in the University of Texas at Austin closed l... Read more >
| Project ID: P-101 | Project State: NM |
Mechanistic Studies of Improved Foam EOR Processes
Provide the scientific and engineering basis for improved design of foam processes for enhanced oil recovery, by studying (a) polymer-enhanced foam, (b) gas trapping in the presence of foam, and (c) mechanisms of foam generation, through both laboratory study and mathematical modeling of the physical processes involved. ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15318 | Project State: TX |
Mentor-Based Effort to Advance in Implementation of Preferred Upstream Management Practices (PUMP) - PUMP Breakout
Develop mentor-based relationships and networks through which a mutual exchange of ideas will facilitate technology ahd improved process transfer, thus increasing production.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15272 | Project State: OK |
Mercury Removal from Barite for the Oil Industry
Develop a viable technology to reduce the concentration of mercury in Barite ore which is a common component of drilling fluids used by the petroleum industry.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-98FT40320-01.23 | Project State: ND |
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery - Surfactant from Waste Products and Biotechnologies for Oilfield Application
The FY03 approach will focus on biologically produced surfactants and polymers.
1) The surfactant work will focus on the application of materials in corefloods to better understand potential application parameters and economics, as well as answer the fundamental question associated with the identification of a recovery mechanism (reduction of residual oil saturation through a re... Read more >
| Project ID: FEW5AC312 | Project State: ID |
NM WAIDS: A Produced Water Quality and Infrastructure GIS Database for NM Oil Production
The primary objective of this proposal is to design and implement a robust, secure, and dynamic, Geographical Information System or GIS-based system on the Internet to provide New Mexico producers in the Permian Basin integrated services comprising the multiple functions of:
1. Data Warehousing-including a Produced Water Quality Database, an Infrastructure Database and a Legacy D... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15134 | Project State: NM |
Oil Reservoir Characterization and CO2 Injection Monitoring in the Permian Basin with Cross-Well Electromagnetic Imaging
The research will cover three phases and thirteen Tasks. Phase 1: CROSS-WELL SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE UPGRADES; Task 1.1 Preliminary Field Tests; Task 1.2 Transmitter Power Upgrades; Task 1.3 Receiver Sensitivity Upgrades; Task 1.4 Field Test and Calibration; Task 1.5 Software Upgrades; Task 1.6 Phase 1 Report. Phase 2: RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; Task 2.1 Cro... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-00BC15307 | Project State: CA |
Optimizing Fracture Treatment in a Mississippian "Chat" Reservoir, South-Central Kansas
Use low-cost tools and techniques to characterize a mature Mississippian "chat" reservoir in south-central Kansas, and design an effective infill and hydraulic fracture treatment.... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FG26-02NT15268 | Project State: KS |
Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: Application and Transfer of Advanced Geological and Engineering Technologies for Incremental Production Opportunities/PUMP 2
Project Internal Objective:
Develop a digital oil play portfolio composed of thirty two different geologic plays based on reservoir stratigraphy, lithology, depositional environment, and structural and tectonic setting.
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| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15131 | Project State: TX |
Preferred Waterflood Management Practices for the Spraberry Trend Area - PUMP Breakout
The objective of this project is to design and test different waterflood techniques that have never been utilized in the Spraberry Trend Area. The new waterfloods will align injection wells along the fracture trend with production wells. New injection wells will be drilled that will not be artificially fractured to test whether specific zonal isolation is the primary key. Exist... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15274 | Project State: TX |
Reviving Abandoned Reservoirs with High-Pressure Air Injection: Application in Fracture & Karsted Dolomite Reservoirs
The primary objectives of the project are to develop, test, and document optimal methods for deploying high-pressure air injection (HPAI) technology to recover remaining hydrocarbons from an abandoned carbonate reservoir. This will be accomplished in three phases of activity. The reservoir characterization phase (Phase 1) will consist of (1) analysis of the reservoir stratigraphy a... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-02NT15442 | Project State: TX |
Use of Cutting Edge Horizontal, Underbalanced Drilling Technologies, Subsurface Seismic Techniques to Explore, Drill, Produce Reservoir Oil & Gas from the Fractured Monterey Formation Below 10,000 in the Santa Maria Basin of CA - AT2 Breakout
The primary objective of the work is to prove that reservoired oil and gas can be explored, drilled and produced safely and economically from a fractured Monterey reservoir beneath 10,000 feet in the Santa Maria Basin of California by employing cutting edge horizontal and underbalanced drilling methods, and subsurface seismic exploratory techniques. Two previous wells in ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15426 | Project State: CA |
Using Cable Submersible Pumps to Reduce Production Costs to Increase Recovery in the San Juan Basin Region
Enerdyne LLC - (Albuquerque, New Mexico) proposes to field test their newly developed low volume,efficient, sand resistant submersible oil well pump technology with the goal of reducing oil field capital and operating costs by 50%. Enerdyne hopes to demonstrate this new cutting edge technology would permit marginally economic oil reservoirs to remain in production and profitable... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-03NT15422 | Project State: NM |
Waterflood Design and Implementation in a South-Central Kansas Mississippian Carbonate Reservoir Using Cost-Effective Reservoir Characterization and Simulation
Demonstrate the application of inexpensive but modern tools to build an integrated reservoir model, based on geologic, geophysical, and engineering characterization techniques.
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| Project ID: DE-FG26-01BC15265 | Project State: KS |
Wettability and Prediction of Oil Recovery from Reservoirs Developed with Modern Drilling and Completion Fluids
Improve understanding of the wettability alteration of mixed-wet rocks that result from contact with the components of synthetic oil-based drilling and completion fluids formulated to meet the needs of arctic drilling.
1) to improve understanding of the wettabilitiy alteration of mixed-wet rocks that results from contact with the components of synthetic oil-based (SBM) drilling ... Read more >
| Project ID: DE-FC26-01BC15164 | Project State: NM |
