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DOE-Funded Technology That 'Looks Ahead'of Drillbit Commercialized

A U.S. Department of Energy-funded technology that establishes a "downhole Internet" for drilling oil and natural gas wells is now available for commercial use. The technology turns ordinary drill pipe into a highway for transmitting drilling and geological formation data at blazing speed from the bottom of a well to the surface and vice-versa. The potential benefits of the new technology include decreased drilling costs, improved safety, and reduced environmental impacts of drilling. Grant Prideco's announcement of the commercial launch of its IntelliServ Network and related Intellipipe? capped 5 years of research sponsored by DOE and managed by DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory. Oil & Gas Journal, the petroleum industry's leading trade publication, recently reported on BP America Inc.'s successful deployment of the technology to collect real-time measurement-while-drilling data from its wells in Oklahoma 's Arkoma Basin . For decades, drillers have dreamed of a technology that would allow them to gather a wide range of downhole data-pressure, temperature, well position, formation characteristics, etc.-in as close to real time as possible in order to navigate wells efficiently, thoroughly assess downhole conditions, and accurately characterize the geologic and hydrologic environment being drilled. The ideal technology would acquire and process data quickly for drillers to "look ahead" of the drillbit.

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An Integrated Approach to Characterization Bypassed Oil Saturation in Heterogeneous & Fractured Reservoirs Using Tracers

The goal of this project is to develop a systematic and cost-effective approach to the design and interpretation of Partitioning Interwell Tracer Tests (PITT) to infer hydrocarbon saturation distribution in highly heterogeneous and fractured reservoirs. The key elements of this approach are a very fast streamline-based flow simulation technique and a rapid and novel history- matching technique that exploits an analog between streamlines and seismic ray tracing. This approach will be orders of magnitude faster than conventional history matching, resulting in significant savings in computation time and manpower. The integrated approach will take advantage of the dense spatial coverage of the seismic data for static modeling and the strong coupling of interwell saturation variations to partitioning tracer response. The outcome of this research will be a systematic approach to the design and interpretation of tracer data and practical, PC-based software tools providing high-resolution saturation estimates in the interwell region by combining well log, seismic, and partitioning tracer data.

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IMPLEMENTING A NOVEL CYCLIC CO2 FLOOD IN PALEOZOIC REEFS

Recycled CO2 is being used in this demonstration project to produce bypassed oil from the Silurian Dover 35 Niagaran pinnacle reef located in Otsego County, Michigan. CO2 injection in the Dover 35 field into the Salling-Hansen 4-35A well began on May 6, 2004. A second injection well, the Salling-Hansen 1-35, commenced injection in August 2004. Oil production in the Pomerzynski 5-35 producing well increased from 9 BOPD prior to operations to an average of 165 BOPD in December, 2004 and has produced at an average rate of 61 BOPD (Jan-Dec, 2005). The Salling-Hansen 4-35A also produced during this reporting period an average of 29 BOPD. These increases have occurred as a result of CO2 injection and the production rate appears to be stabilizing. CO2 injection volume has reached approximately 2.18 BCF.

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Investigation of Water Issues Related to Coal Mining, Coal to Liquids, Oil Shale, and Carbon Capture and Sequestration

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a leader in evaluating the relationship between water and energy. The Environmental Water Resources program and Geological Sciences Division at NETL have evaluated the impact of energy development on water quality and availability and pioneered means of decreasing water consumption and resource impairment. To date, NETL?s research has focused on evaluating water use and consumption in thermoelectric power plants, quantifying legacy acid mine drainage, advancing water management options for resource extraction, and developing creative solutions to remediate water quality leading the way with research to support the National Laboratories Energy-Water Nexus Roadmap to Congress. This activity involves all the national laboratories in the development of a research and development plan for technologies and methodologies that reduce the impact of energy development on water and water demands in energy production. NETL has a portfolio of innovative technologies, expertise, and knowledge to continue minimizing the impact of fossil energy use on water quality and availability and ensure the success of the Energy-Water Nexus.

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Amplitude -Preserving Kirchhoff Migration

We are developing realistic and workable approaches for amplitude-preserving Kirchhoff migration and Amplitude vs. Angle (AVA) analysis to delineate reservoir physical properties. These will lead to improved images and increase the amount and reliability of information that can be obtained from the images. Our effort will focus on (1) obtaining more information from images by implementing ?Amplitude-Preserving Migration? through the use of more realistic imaging conditions and proper accounting for transmission loss, wave conversions, anisotropy, (2) the use of AVA to evaluate formation properties and to carry out velocity analysis and (3) the use of limited aperture Kirchhoff migration to obtain better trace weights for use in amplitude-preserving migration, and (4) investigation of the effects of various implementations of Kirchhoff migration on the resolution of the seismic image; e.g. how small an object can be resolved and how is this influenced by the migration approach.

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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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Amplitude - Preserving Kirchhoff Migration

We are developing realistic and workable approaches for amplitude-preserving Kirchhoff migration and Amplitude vs. Angle (AVA) analysis to delineate reservoir physical properties. These will lead to improved images and increase the amount and reliability of information that can be obtained from the images. Our effort will focus on (1) obtaining more information from images by implementing ?Amplitude- Preserving Migration? through the use of more realistic imaging conditions and proper accounting for transmission loss, wave conversions, anisotropy, (2) the use of AVA to evaluate formation properties and to carry out velocity analysis and (3) the use of limited-aperture Kirchhoff migration to obtain better trace weights for use in amplitude- preserving migration, and (4) investigation of the effects of various implementations of Kirchhoff migration on the resolution of the seismic image; e.g. how small an object can be resolved and how is this influenced by the migration approach.

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Assess Carbon Dioxide Capture Options for Illinois Basin Carbon Dioxide Sources

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) is one of seven regional partnerships funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The MGSC partnership is investigating the geological sequestration options for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the 60,000-mi2 Illinois Basin. The Basin covers most of Illinois, western Indiana, and western Kentucky.

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Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) Volume I

As terrestrial sequestration activities have been initiated and are beginning to emerge as a standard bearer for GHG emissions management projects, the relatively less well-known and less practiced domain of geologic carbon sequestration merits substantially more examination and analysis at this time to ensure that appropriate regulatory, permitting, and accounting frameworks emerge around the arena. To support this effort, USDOE NETL has provided funding support to the above-referenced the IOGCC Task Force, which was formed by IOGCC with funding support from USDOE and empowered with two primary objectives: ? Examine the technical, policy, and regulatory issues related to safe and effective storage of CO2 in the subsurface (oil and natural gas fields, coal-beds and saline formations), whether for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery or long-term storage; and ? Produce of a final report containing (a) an assessment of the current regulatory framework likely applicable to geologic CO2 sequestration, and (2) recommended regulatory guidelines and guidance documents. The Final Report and the documents contained therein will lay the essential groundwork for a state regulated, but nationally consistent, system for geologic sequestration of CO2 in conformance with national and international law.

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A Geologic Play Book for Trenton-Black River Appalachian Basin Exploration

Appalachian basin architecture during Middle Ordovician time was dominated by a Black River ramp to the northwest flanked by the central Appalachian basin along its southeast margin, with the deeper Sevier basin still farther to the east and southeast. The ramp margin, which marked the western edge of the central Appalachian basin, was in the approximate location of the western edge of the Rome trough. Black River carbonate rocks were deposited on this broad, stable, shallow-water ramp as empiric seas transgressed much of what is now the Appalachian region, while thick, shaley carbonates were being deposited within the trough-influenced foredeep and clastic sediments were being deposited in the Sevier basin. The elongate, north-northeast-trending depocenter that developed during early Black River time would continue to exist and even expand throughout the remainder of the Ordovician Period.

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A Geologic Play Book for Trenton-Black River Appalachian Basin Exploration

Appalachian basin architecture during Middle Ordovician time was dominated by a Black River ramp to the northwest flanked by the central Appalachian basin along its southeast margin, with the deeper Sevier basin still farther to the east and southeast. The ramp margin, which marked the western edge of the central Appalachian basin, was in the approximate location of the western edge of the Rome trough. Black River carbonate rocks were deposited on this broad, stable, shallow-water ramp as epeiric seas transgressed much of what is now the Appalachian region, while thick, shaley carbonates were being deposited within the trough-influenced foredeep and clastic sediments were being deposited in the Sevier basin. The elongate, north-northeast-trending depocenter that developed during early Black River time would continue to exist and even expand throughout the remainder of the Ordovician Period.

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Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration

The Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration completed its Phase I program in December 2005. The main objective of the Southwest Partnership Phase I project was to evaluate and demonstrate the means for achieving an 18% reduction in carbon intensity by 2012. Many other goals were accomplished on the way to this objective, including (1) analysis of CO2 storage options in the region, including characterization of storage capacities and transportation options, (2) analysis and summary of CO2 sources, (3) analysis and summary of CO2 separation and capture technologies employed in the region, (4) evaluation and ranking of the most appropriate sequestration technologies for capture and storage of CO2 in the Southwest Region, (5) dissemination of existing regulatory/permitting requirements, and (6) assessing and initiating public knowledge and acceptance of possible sequestration approaches.

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Development of a 400-Level 3- component(3c) Clamped Down-Hole Receiver Array for High Resolution Seismic Imaging of Gas Reservoirs

The goal is to improve the quality and economics of borehole seismic imaging, and specifically to develop and build a clamped down-hole receiver array with 400 levels and capability for measuring p- and s-wave arrivals and producing high resolution 3-D images of deep and complex gas reservoirs.

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Use of Cutting Edge Horizontal and Underbalanced Drilling Technologies and Subsurface Seismic Techniques to Explore, Drill and Produce Reservoired Oil and Gas from the Fractured Monterey Below 10,000 Feet in the Santa Maria Basin of California

The project goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of horizontal and underbalanced drilling to penetrate and produce the deep fractured Monterey formation that historically has been so productive of oil and gas in the shallower old oilfields of the Santa Maria Basin of California.

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Amplitude - Preserving Kirchhoff  Migration

We are developing realistic and workable approaches for amplitude-preserving Kirchhoff migration and Amplitude vs. Angle (AVA) analysis to delineate reservoir physical properties. These will lead to improved images and increase the amount and reliability of information that can be obtained from the images. Our effort will focus on (1) obtaining more information from images by implementing ?Amplitude- Preserving Migration? through the use of more realistic imaging conditions and proper accounting for transmission loss, wave conversions, anisotropy, (2) the use of AVA to evaluate formation properties and to carry out velocity analysis and (3) the use of limited-aperture Kirchhoff migration to obtain better trace weights for use in amplitude- preserving migration, and (4) investigation of the effects of various implementations of Kirchhoff migration on the resolution of the seismic image; e.g. how small an object can be resolved and how is this influenced by the migration approach.

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AN INTEGRATED MULTI-COMPONENT PROCESSING AND INTERPRETATION FRAMEWORK FOR 3-D BOREHOLE SESMIC DATA

The goal of this project is to develop, build a prototype for, and test an efficient framework for processing and interpreting multicomponent 3-D vertical seismic profiling (VSP) data. Paulsson Geophysical is developing a full featured, fast, interactive 3-D multi-component processing and interpretation tool for VSP data. Existing pieces of processing software are being combined with novel display capabilities and a framework to perform complex processing tasks interwoven with the analysis and interpretation of 3-D multi-component VSP data.

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Online, Optimization-Based Simulation of Fractured and Nonfractured Reservoirs

The goals of this project were to: -Complete the development of the University of Utah discrete-fracture model so that an alternative production-level fractured reservoir model is available. - Incorporate the most modern numerical schemes in reservoir simulation algorithms and implement the simulator on large PC clusters to demonstrate affordable parallel reservoir simulation. - Develop optimization-based reservoir simulators so that exploitation of oil reservoirs is planned in an economically optimal fashion and oilfields are operated optimally over their lifetime. -Implement the entire package on the internet so that the technology is available and accessible to a wide group of independents.

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Sequestration Potential Of Petroleum  Reservoirs In The Williston Basin

The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership region has significant potential for carbon sequestration. While the methods employed in this study look specifically at the potential sequestration capacity of oil fields within the Williston Basin, they can be used to determine reconnaissance-level sequestration capacity in any oil-producing region. Two methods have been utilized to estimate capacity, one based on oil pools undergoing enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and the other assuming that the reservoir pore space can be filled to capacity with carbon dioxide (CO2). The focus of the work described in this paper is to broadly characterize the potential CO2 sequestration capacity of Williston Basin oil fields.

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Nanoscale Pore Imaging and Pore-Scale Fluid Flow Modeling in Chalk

The project goal is to analyze nanoscale pore chalk structure in the context of challenges of producing oil from chalk. The project highlights include the following: -Achieving the first direct nanometer-scale 3-D imaging of pores in chalk using the FIB technique. - Achieving the first direct prediction of capillary pressure curves in chalk using the MIS method. The method bypasses the pore network step and does not modify the pore system. - Obtaining results from the combined FIB/MIS method in very good agreement with experimental data.

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Addressing the Critical Link Between Fossil Energy and Water

The production of energy from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) is inextricably linked to the availability of adequate and sustainable supplies of water. While providing the United States with almost 60% of its annual energy needs a, fossil fuels also place a high demand on the Nation's water resources in terms of both use and quality impacts.1 Thermoelectric generation is water intensive ? on average each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity generated via the steam cycle requires approximately 25 gallons of water to produce. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), power plants rank only slightly behind irrigation in terms of freshwater withdrawals in the United States.2 Water is also required in the mining, processing, and transportation of coal to generate electricity all of which can have direct impacts on water quality. Surface and underground coal mining can result in acidic, metal-laden water that must be treated before it can be discharged to nearby rivers and streams. In addition, the USGS estimates that in 2000 the mining industry withdrew approximately 2 billion gallons per day of freshwater. Although not directly related to water quality, about 10% of total U.S. coal shipments were delivered by barge in 2003.3 Consequently, low river flows can create shortfalls in coal inventories at power plants. Natural gas and oil production can displace significant quantities of ground water. Approximately 10 barrels (420 gallons) of ?produced water? are pumped to the surface for each barrel of oil in the U.S.4 The development of coalbed natural gas resources, commonly referred to as coalbed methane (CBM), can also generate a substantial volume of produced water that may require expensive treatment and disposal. Water management issues can and do materially impact domestic natural gas and oil development projects ? at a time when commodity prices are extremely high and additional supplies are sorely needed

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Sedimentary Basin Database for Washington and Oregon States for the Geologic Carbon Dioxide Assessment

As part of the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB), Terralog Technologies USA, Inc., reviewed current state and federal regulations related to carbon dioxide capture and storage within geologic formations and enhanced carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems. We have evaluated and summarized the current and possible future permitting requirements for the six states that comprise the West Coast Regional Partnership. Four options exist for CO2 injection into appropriate geologic formations, including storage in: (1) oil and gas reservoirs, (2) saline formations, (3) unmineable coal beds, and (4) salt caverns. Terrestrial CO2 sequestration involves improved carbon conservation management (e.g. reduction of deforestation), carbon substitution (e.g., substitution for fossil fuel-based products, energy conservation through urban forestry, biomass for energy generation), and improved carbon storage management (e.g., expanding the storage of carbon in forest ecosystems). The primary terrestrial options for the West Coast Region include: (1) reforestation of under-producing lands (including streamside forest restoration), (2) improved forest management, (3) forest protection and conservation, and (4) fuel treatments for the reduction of risk of uncharacteristically severe fires (potentially with associated biomass energy generation). The permits and/or contracts required for any land-use changes/disturbances and biomass energy generation that may occur as part of WESTCARB?s activities have been summarized for each state.

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Sequestration Potential Of The Madison Of The  Northern Great Plains Aquifer System (Madison Geological Sequestration Unit)

A large regional aquifer system underlies much of the northern Great Plains physiographic province. The northern Great Plains aquifer system consists of a series of five aquifers that have similar geohydrological characteristics. In general, fluid flow in this system is to the north and northeast. Recharge of the aquifers is from in the Black Hills and Rocky Mountains to the west. Aquifers in the system have significant regional sequestration potential.

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Preliminary Assessment of the Potential for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Settings in Nevada

In this report we present a preliminary assessment of the potential for CO2 disposal by sequestration in geological settings in Nevada using analysis with geographic information systems (GIS). The key assumptions made are that for CO2 disposal in saline aquifers it is wisest to (1) avoid underground disposal in areas of fractured bedrock and restrict the assessment to parts of alluvial basins that are thick enough to provide a seal against leakage and have sufficient pressure to keep the CO2 in a condensed phase; (2) stay away from active faults whose fracture zones may allow leakage of CO2 from underground injection sites; (3) avoid areas that in the foreseeable future have a reasonably high probability of being explored and developed for mineral, geothermal, or water resources; (4) avoid current urban areas and areas that are likely to experience significant population growth during the 21st century; and (5) avoid restricted lands, such as parks and military reservations. The data sets used in the GIS analysis are made available in the electronic version of this report, so that others may reevaluate the approach with different assumptions and data sets.

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Health, Safety, and Environmental Screening and Ranking Framework for Geologic CO2 Storage Site Selection

This report describes a screening and ranking framework (SRF) developed to evaluate potential geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites on the basis of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) risk arising from possible CO2 leakage. The approach is based on the assumption that HSE risk due to CO2 leakage is dependent on three basic characteristics of a geologic CO2 storage site: (1) the potential for primary containment by the target formation, (2) the potential for secondary containment if the primary formation leaks, and (3) the potential for attenuation and dispersion of leaking CO2 if the primary formation leaks and secondary containment fails. The framework is implemented in a spreadsheet in which users enter numerical scores representing expert opinions or general information available from published materials along with estimates of uncertainty to evaluate the three basic characteristics in order to screen and rank candidate sites. Application of the framework to the Rio Vista Gas Field, Ventura Oil Field, and Mammoth Mountain demonstrates the approach. Refinements and extensions are possible through the use of more detailed data or model results in place of property proxies. Revisions and extensions to improve the approach are anticipated in the near future as it is used and tested by colleagues and collaborators.

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