Revisiting Conventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs: A New World of Opportunities
Channel: E-Learning Corgi
Date: 2022-04-08

Presenters: 
Tom Bowman, TDB Oil Corporation
Steve Zody, Zody Geoscience

The time has come to revisit conventional oil and gas reservoirs. Thanks to years of investment in technology, we can apply unconventional tools and techniques to conventional prospect generation, drilling, and completion for faster, better operations and reduced risk. Please join Steve Zody and Tom Bowman, both of whom have extensive in operating conventional and unconventional wells, to discuss meeting the demand for energy with new technologies that incorporate new technologies and achieving ESG goals.
Topics:
Presentations
• What are the tools from unconventionals that we can use for conventional prospects?
o Structural traps
o Stratigraphic traps
• Using information from unconventional exploration for conventionals
o Well logs (anything over the producing horizon could be a target of opportunity)
o Seismic (reprocessing old seismic; looking at microseismic, etc in a new way)
• What was old is new again
o Old seismic
o Gravity-magnetics / magnotellurics
• Rethinking shale
o What we now know about the source rock
o Migration / fracture networks
o What shale isopachs can tell us about the basin, the depositional environment, potential oil volumes in conventional wells, etc.
• Economics for conventionals
• Drilling conventionals – what are the technological advances from unconventionals that we can apply to conventional drilling?
• Completions: what we know from unconventionals that we can apply to conventionals (sands and carbonates)
• Leasing situations and opportunities
o Obtaining farm-outs on acreage held by production (farming-in from a company that does not want to develop its conventional potential)
o Orphan wells – may be on land held by production
o Which areas have relatively simple ownership (acreage near production, for example) - cornershots
o Advances in checking records, leasing, lease-records (Tracts.co an example)
Round-table discussion of current projects and opportunities