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USING RECENT ADVANCES IN 2D SEISMIC TECHNOLOGY AND SURFACE GEOCHEMISTRY TO ECONOMICALLY REDEVELOP A SHALLOW SHELF CARBONATE RESERVOIR: VERNON FIELD, ISABELLA COUNTY, MI

In this project two major field demonstrations were carried out in conformity with the goals of the Class Revisit Program. The first demonstration was at Vernon Field in Isabella County Michigan, and the second was the Springdale demonstration in Manistee County, MI (Figure 1). The Vernon Field project targeted the Devonian Dundee Formation, a prolific producer in Michigan while the Springdale project targeted the ?Brown Niagaran? an informal stratigraphic unit in the Lower Silurian (Figure 2). The first well at Vernon Field, the State Vernon & Smock #13-23 (Permit: 53945), was spudded on October 12, 2000 but was not economically successful, even though an extensive geochemical program was carried out. A second well, the Bowers 4-25 HD (Permit: 54950), was drilled to test the geochemical anomaly, but was also plugged and abandoned on December 3, 2002. No further wells were drilled at Vernon Field.

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Development of a High-Pressure/High- Temperature Downhole Turbine Generator

An increasing percentage of production, particularly natural gas production, will come from deeper and hotter wells than have been exploited to date. Estimates are that the producible gas in deep, hot formations is greater than 150 tcf. A fair percentage of the wells required to produce that deep, hot gas will encounter borehole temperatures in the 437?F to 482?F (225?C to 250?C) range. Producers and contractors have recognized this, and have for some time been making preparations to accommodate drilling and producing these reservoirs. Technologies that can be developed, or adapted, and applied to "intelligent" bottom hole assemblies (BHA's), such as logging-while-drilling (LWD) or measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tools, to allow operation of these systems in the extreme temperature environments expected, are being sought out, studied and applied.

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INTEGRATED SYNTHESIS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: DATA AND MODELS FOR RECOVERING EXISTING AND UNDISCOVERED OIL RESOURCES FROM THE LARGEST OIL-BEARING BASIN IN THE U.S.

During the second six months of the project, work has continued to focus on preparation of written summaries of the geology of major hydrocarbon-producing systems in the Permian Basin. Work is now under way on 17 of the 24 targeted summaries. Data collection is also now well under way. Efforts are being focused on three plays: the Lower Devonian Thirty-one Formation, the Upper Devonian Woodford Formation, and the Mississippian Barnett Formation.

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Montana Department of Environmental Quality

Re: MAR Notice No. 17-23 1 : In the matter of the amendment of ARM 17.30.670 and 17.30.1202 pertaining to nondegradation requirements for electrical conductivity (EC) and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) and definitions for technology-based effluent limitations, and the adoption of new rules I through X pertaining to minimum technology-based controls and treatment requirements for the coal bed methane industry.

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Bullfrog 5-12 Core Report

The Bullfrog 5-12 core was a planned core taken in the First Frontier sand member of the Cretaceous Frontier Formation at a starting measured depth of 17,815’in the Bullfrog Unit, section 12, Township 36 N, Range 87W, Natrona County, Wyoming. The cored interval was from 17,815’ MD to 17,856’ MD. Recovery was 100%; 41 feet cored and recovered. The core intersects a spectacular natural fracture complex that appears to control productivity in the well. The purpose of this report is to document the nature of the fractures and their geometry with respect to the wellbore

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E&P Focus Vol. 2, No. 1

Collaboration on oil and natural gas research among DOE?s national laboratories has yielded significant energy, economic, and environmental benefits to America. The Natural Gas and Oil Technology Partnership (NGOTP), launched in 1988, brings together the expertise of DOE?s national laboratories in collaborative projects with each other and with the Nation's oil and gas producers, service companies, and academic institutions.

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An Advanced Fracture Characterization and Well-Path Navigation System for Effective Redevelopment and Enhancement of Ultimate Recovery from the Complex Monterey Reservoir of the South Ellwood Field Offshore California

The project goal was to redevelop the Monterey Formation, a slope and basin turbidite reservoir at South Ellwood field offshore Santa Barbara, CA. The objective is to locate oil reserves in large fracture blocks, where 3-D seismic surveys cannot be used.

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ADVANCED OIL RECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVED RECOVERY FROM SLOPE BASIN CLASTIC RESERVOIRS, NASH DRAW BRUSHY CANYON POOL, EDDY COUNTY, NM

The Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool in Eddy County New Mexico was a cost-shared field demonstration project in the U.S. Department of Energy Class III Program. A major goal of the Class III Program was to stimulate the use of advanced technologies to increase ultimate recovery from slope-basin clastic reservoirs. Advanced characterization techniques were used at the Nash Draw Pool (NDP) project to develop reservoir management strategies for optimizing oil recovery from this Delaware reservoir. The objective of the project was to demonstrate that a development program, which was based on advanced reservoir management methods, could significantly improve oil recovery at the NDP. Initial goals were (1) to demonstrate that an advanced development drilling and pressure maintenance program can significantly improve oil recovery compared to existing technology applications and (2) to transfer these advanced methodologies to other oil and gas producers.

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Deep Trek High Temperature Electronics Program

Program has resulted in significant technical accomplishments -High-temperature wafer process is in production -High-temperature design infrastructure (libraries/toolkits) in place -Precision Amplifier and FPGA design success on the 1stpass -Demonstrated High-temperature non-volatile memory capability -A-to-D design and fabrication complete, ready for evaluation ?Objectives to date are being met -Vote of confidence last fall with SOPO revision and additional funding from JIP partners and DOE -JIP is on-board for 2006 ?There is a clear path forward to achieve the program goals

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Basin Analysis and Petroleum System Characterization and Modeling, Interior Salt Basins, Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico

The principal research effort for Year 3 of the project is basin modeling and petroleum system identification, comparative basin evaluation and resource assessment. In the first six (6) months of Year 3, the research focus is on basin modeling and petroleum system identification and the remainder of the year the emphasis is on the comparative basin evaluation and resource assessment. No major problems have been encountered to date, and the project is on schedule.

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Development of Radar Navigation and Radio Data Transmission for Microhole Coiled Tubing Bottom Hole Assemblies

Design, manufacture, and test two advanced technologies for the oil and gas industry  1. Real-time measurement-while-drilling (MWD) for guidance and navigation of coiled tubing drilling in hydrocarbon reservoirs [Drill String Radar (DSR)] 2. Two-way inductive radio data transmission (DTS) ? On the surface of the coiled tubing ? Via an insulated slickline fed inside the coiled tubing

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DOE/NETL IGCC Dynamic Simulator Research and Training Center Volume 1: Scoping Study

Volume 1: Scoping Study Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) is emerging as an attractive technology option for providing clean, low-cost electricity for the next generation of coal-fired power plants and will play a central role in the development of high-efficiency, zero-emissions power plants. Several major utilities and developers recently announced plans to build IGCC plants and other major utilities are evaluating IGCC?s suitability for base-load capacity additions. This recent surge of attention to IGCC power generation is creating a growing demand for education and experience with the analysis, operation, and control of commercial-scale IGCC plants. To meet this need, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has launched a project to develop a generic, full-scope, IGCC dynamic plant simulator and establish a state-of-the-art simulator research and training center. The flagship location for the DOE/NETL IGCC Dynamic Simulator Research & Training (DSR&T) Center will be at NETL in Morgantown, WV, with a satellite location at West Virginia University's (WVU) National Research Center for Coal and Energy (NRCCE). This report describes the results of the initial phase of that work, a scoping study to define the IGCC simulator requirements and features, as well as identify potential operator training system (OTS) frameworks and suppliers, R&D technology collaborators, and members of an advisory board to guide simulator development and establishment of the training center.

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Elastic Wave Field Stratigraphy:A New Seismic Imaging Technology

The objective of this project is to demonstrate the value of elastic-wavefield seismic stratigraphy, a new seismic interpretation science based on the principles that: ? All modes of an elastic wavefield have equal value for studying subsurface geology. ? One wave mode of a multicomponent (i.e., elastic) seismic wavefield often reveals depositional sequences and depositional facies across a stratigraphic interval that cannot be detected with the other modes of that wavefield.

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Elastic Wave Field Stratigraphy ?A New Seismic Imaging Technology

Objectives of the Project: -Demonstrate the value of elastic-wavefield seismic stratigraphy, a new seismic interpretation science based on the principles that: -All modes of an elastic wavefield have equal value for studying subsurface geology -One wave mode of a multicomponent(i.e., elastic) seismic wavefield often reveals depositional sequences and depositional facies across a stratigraphic interval that cannot be detected with the other modes of that wavefield

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Increasing Heavy Oil Reserves in the Wilmington Oil Field Through Advanced Reservoir Characterization and Thermal Production          Technologies.

The overall objective of this project is to increase heavy oil reserves in slope and basin clastic (SBC) reservoirs through the application of advanced reservoir characterization and thermal production technologies. The project involves improving thermal recovery techniques in the Tar Zone of Fault Blocks II-A and V (Tar II-A and Tar V) of the Wilmington Field in Los Angeles County, near Long Beach, California. A primary objective is to transfer technology that can be applied in other heavy oil formations of the Wilmington Field and other SBC reservoirs, including those under waterflood.

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Offsite Commercial Disposal of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Waste:  Availability, Options and Costs

A survey conducted in 1995 by the American Petroleum Institute (API) found that the U.S. exploration and production (E&P) segment of the oil and gas industry generated more than 149 million bbl of drilling wastes, almost 18 billion bbl of produced water, and 21 million bbl of associated wastes. The results of that survey, published in 2000, suggested that 3% of drilling wastes, less than 0.5% of produced water, and 15% of associated wastes are sent to offsite commercial facilities for disposal.

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Oil Technology Program E&P Detailed Project Summaries

Oil and natural gas are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Together they account for more than 60 percent of the energy consumed in the United States, and oil accounts for 97 percent of transportation fuel. Although the United States is the third-largest oil producer in the world, we import about 60 percent of our oil needs, while two-thirds of all the oil discovered in the country remains in the ground.

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Improved Oil Recovery from Upper Jurassic Smackover Carbonates through the Application of Advanced Technologies at Womack Hill Oil Field, Choctaw and Clarke Counties, Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain

Pruet Production Co. and the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies at the University of Alabama, in cooperation with Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, and Wayne Stafford and Associates proposed a three-phase, focused, comprehensive, integrated and multidisciplinary study of Upper Jurassic Smackover carbonates (Class II Reservoir), involving reservoir characterization and 3-D modeling (Phase I) and a field demonstration project (Phases II and III) at Womack Hill Field Unit, Choctaw and Clarke Counties, Alabama, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Phase I of the project has been completed. The principal objectives of the project are: increasing the productivity and profitability of the Womack Hill Field Unit, thereby extending the economic life of this Class II Reservoir and transferring effectively and in a timely manner the knowledge gained and technology developed from this project to producers who are operating other domestic fields with Class II Reservoirs.

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Coiled tubing drilling A look at industry interest

CT drilling acceptance in Canada - Thousands of wells drilled annually (allowing continuous drilling, not one and off). -Relatively soft, predictable sediments (infrequent sticking). -Rigs designed precisely to fit 3,000 ft wells, experienced crews. -Small to no footprint, wells close together reducing transit time. -Fast move in and rig up time ? 2 to 3 hours, fast penetration rates. -All weather operations.

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Counter-Rotating Tandem Motor Drilling System (CRTMDS)

Evolutionary Advance Over Existing Technology -  High Penetration Rate Drilling System Suitable for drilling 3-1/2? Boreholes Using Coiled Tubing Develop Microhole Technology to Reduce Cost of E&P Down to 5000 ft. in Wellbores as Small as 3-1/2?

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Origin Of Scale-Dependent Dispersivity And Its Implications For Miscible Gas Flooding

Over thirty years of field experience in using carbon dioxide in oil reservoirs shows that ultimate oil recovery efficiencies are small, typically 10% to 20%. The amount of carbon dioxide injected to recover a barrel of oil is large. The maintenance of minimum miscible enrichment and minimum miscibility pressure is an important design consideration that strongly affects efficiency and carbon dioxide utilization. In turn, hydrodynamic dispersion is a key mechanism that influences these operational factors. Dispersivity is known to be scale dependent, but a satisfactory method has yet to be developed that accounts for dispersivity in the simulations on which laboratory interpretation and field design rely. By establishing a better fundamental basis for modeling displacements at multiple scales, this project will provide better tools for industry to improve the effectiveness of gas flooding projects.

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Characterization of In-Situ Stress and Permeability in Fractured Reservoirs

The purpose of this project is to develop and implement large-scale numerical models (running on parallel Linux clusters) to quantify the effects of fracture parameter variations on seismic reflection signals and in-situ stress variations on flexural modes in boreholes. These forward-modeling efforts will be used to develop data analysis and inversion routines for estimating the heterogeneous fracture distribution in fractured reservoirs from seismic and borehole field data.

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4-D High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Monitoring of Miscible CO2 Injected into a Carbonate Reservoir

The objective of this research project is to acquire, process, and interpret multiple high-resolution 3-D compressional wave and 2-D, 2-C shear wave seismic data in an attempt to observe changes in fluid characteristics in an oil field before, during, and after the miscible carbon dioxide (CO2) flood that began around December 1, 2003, as part of the DOE-sponsored Class Revisit Project (DOE #DE-AC26-00BC15124). Unique and key to this imaging activity is the high-resolution nature of the seismic data, minimal deployment design, and the temporal sampling throughout the flood. The 900-m-deep test reservoir is located in central Kansas oomoldic limestone's of the Lansing-Kansas City Group, deposited on a shallow marine shelf in Pennsylvanian time. After 30 months of seismic monitoring, one baseline and eight monitor surveys clearly detected changes that appear consistent with movement of CO2 as modeled with fluid simulators and observed in production data.

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Integrated MWD/LWD Measurement System for Microhole Applications

Enabling Technologies: Los Alamos Microhole BHA Concept ? At the Top: Crossover Sub to CT ? Orienting Sub ? Main Instrument Sub ? Telemetry Interface to Surface ? Wireless Link to Instrumented Near Bit Sub ? Additional Sensors ? Safety Release Sub ? Mechanical Isolation Sub ? High Speed / Low Torque / Low Flow Drilling Motor ? Instrumented Near Bit Sub ? Inclination Sensor ? Natural Gamma Sensor ? Weight on Bit (WOB) & Torque on Bit (TOB) Sensors ? Wireless Link to Main Instrument Sub ? At the Bottom: High Speed / Low WOB Drill Bit

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MULTICOMPONENT SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND CALIBRATION TO IMPROVE RECOVERY FROM ALGAL MOUNDS: APPLICATION TO THE  ROADRUNNER/TOWAOC AREA OF THE PARADOX BASIN, UTE MOUNTAIN UTE RESERVATION, COLORADO

This report describes the results made in fulfillment of contract DE-FG26-02NT15451, ?Multicomponent Seismic Analysis and Calibration to Improve Recovery from Algal Mounds: Application to the Roadrunner/Towaoc Area of the Paradox Basin, Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, Colorado?, for the Sixth Semi-Annual Report covering the time period November 1, 2005 through April 30, 2006.

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Automatic Flaw Detection and Identification for Coiled Tubing

Even though funding was cut based on the original proposal and awarded project, significant work was accomplished during the course of the project. The remainder of this report is made up of 2 parts: one, a letter of support of the project written by our industrial partnership which commends the efforts across the project; and two, three technical papers that were written for publication that resulted from this work. Currently, two of these papers have been published and the third is being submitted for publication as the project closes. Continuation, of this research is being pursued with our industrial partnership, although the realization for further work remains unclear at the writing of this final report.

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T-R Cycle Characterization and Imaging: Advanced Diagnostic Methodology for Petroleum Reservoir and Trap Detection and Delineation

The project goal is to develop through transgressive-regressive (T-R) cycle characterization and modeling a sequence stratigraphic predictive model that can be used for improved petroleum trap and reservoir imaging, detection, and delineation by using the characteristics and geometries of T-R cycle units and their associated bounding surfaces to provide a reliable and advanced approach for targeting stratigraphic traps and specific reservoir facies associated with continental and coastal plain geologic systems. This model also could be used to demonstrate the importance of using T-R cycles in the formulation of advanced exploration strategies in the search for underdeveloped and undiscovered petroleum resources associated with stratigraphic traps and with specific continental and coastal plain facies.

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T-R Cycle Characterization and Imaging: Advanced Diagnostic Methodology for Petroleum Reservoir and Trap Detection and Delineation

The project goal is to develop through transgressive-regressive (T-R) cycle characterization and modeling a sequence-stratigraphic predictive model that can be used for improved petroleum trap and reservoir imaging, detection, and delineation by using the characteristics and geometries of T-R cycle units and their associated bounding surfaces to provide a reliable and advanced approach for targeting stratigraphic traps and specific reservoir facies associated with continental and coastal plain geologic systems. This model also could be used to demonstrate the importance of using T-R cycles in the formulation of advanced exploration strategies in the search for underdeveloped and undiscovered petroleum resources associated with stratigraphic traps and with specific continental and coastal plain facies.

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Expanding Conventional Seismic Stratigraphy into the Multicomponent Seismic Domain

The objectives of this research are to create examples that illustrate that different stratal surfaces are imaged by different elastic wave modes, and to demonstrate how this new seismic imaging technology should be applied to improve geologic understanding of oil and gas systems. The technology developed in this research will provide the oil and gas industry a subsurface interpretation technology that may revolutionize the way geophysicists interpret and map subsurface strata. The intent of the research is to replace conventional P-wave seismic stratigraphy with the broader discipline of elastic-wavefield seismic stratigraphy.

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF METHANE OXIDATION AT THE SULFATE-METHANE INTERFACE IN A METHANE-RICH CORE FROM THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

A unique opportunity to sample across the sulfate-methane interface (SMI) in a gas-rich continental margin sediment core from the Gulf of Mexico was provided by the giant gravity coring capability of the ship R/V Marion Dufresne. This core (MD02-2571) has revealed a detailed record of the biogeochemical changes that occur across this boundary. Porewater sulfate concentrations are nearly depleted by 300 centimeters below the seafloor (cmbsf) and methane concentrations rise sharply below 300 cmbsf simultaneously with formation of a bubble-textured sediment.

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Improving Geologic and Engineering Models of Midcontinent Fracture and Karst-Modified Reservoirs Using New 3-D Seismic Attributes

We are conducting an integrated study, including reservoir characterization, geomodel building, and reservoir simulation, of three Midcontinent karst-modified reservoirs: the Permian San Andres in west Texas, the Mississippian Spergen in Colorado, and the Ordovician Arbuckle in Kansas, in order to address our project goal of developing innovative seismic-based workflows for the incremental recovery of oil from karst-modified reservoirs within the onshore continental United States. During this third reporting period, from October 1, 2005, through March 31, 2006, we have made significant progress in reservoir characterization for our three study areas and have developed a workflow for geomodel building. Our primary focus for the San Andres and Mississippian study areas has been to estimate key petrophysical parameters from core and log data and make seismically-based interpretations of reservoir compartment boundaries and vertical fluid conduits for input into reservoir geomodels. For the Arbuckle study area, we have characterized karst geomorphology on a regional scale, since different terrains exhibit differences in oil productivity. We have also used geostatistical analyses of the 3-D seismic data to predict the probability of untapped remnant Arbuckle highs between existing wells in areas where there is no seismic data.

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