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Western gas sands project status report

Description: The Western Gas Sands Project Plan, Project Implementation Plans, Project Plan Document FY 78 and the Quarterly Basin Activities Report are in various stages of preparation. Information gathering by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of the initial data base for many of the project activities is continuing. Some base maps are complete and field investigations in the principal areas of interest are being conducted. Investigation of tight gas sands with scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffract… more
Date: December 1, 1977
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Western Gas Sands Project. Status report

Description: The progress during December, 1977 of the major government sponsored endeavors undertaken to increase gas production from the low permeability gas sands of the western United States is summarized. The USGS is continuing geological and geophysical studies in the four major western basins to better characterize the resource base. Shipping arrangements for the core donated to the USGS by Inexco WASP (a well drilled for possible nuclear explosive stimulation in Wyoming) have been made, and cores fo… more
Date: February 1, 1978
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Western gas sands project status report

Description: The Western Gas Sands Project Plan, Project Implementation Plans and Project Plan Document FY 78 are in various stages of preparation. Information gathering by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of the initial data base for many of the project activities is nearing completion. Some base maps are complete and field investigations in the principal areas of interest are being conducted. Research and development by Energy Research Centers and National Laboratories were directed toward new tools and inst… more
Date: November 1, 1977
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Western gas sands project status report

Description: The Western Gas Sands Project Implementation Plan, Project Plan Document FY 78, and the Quarterly Basin Activities report are in various stages of preparation. Resource assessment by the USGS is continuing. Some base maps are completed and others are being prepared. Core from the Book Cliffs area has been made available to USGS for study and core sampling from the northern Green River Basin is continuing with fourteen additional samples submitted for paleoanalysis. Research and Development by E… more
Date: January 1, 1978
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Rulison: radiation contamination clearance report

Description: Under contract with Austral Oil Company, Eberline Instrument Corporation provided supervision and technicians to radiologically support the well plugging and site abandonment activities at the Project Rulison site during the period September 1, 1976 through October 12, 1976. The purpose of the support was to identify and prepare for removal of all radioactively contaminated materials remaining on site. The emplacement and reentry wells were successfully plugged without a serious radiological in… more
Date: June 1, 1977
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Western gas sands project status report

Description: The Western Gas Sands Project Plan, Project Implementation Plans and Project Plan Document FY 78 are in various stages of preparation. Several related studies are being conducted. Resource assessment activities reported consist of those conducted by U.S.G.S. in Denver and the outcrop study of the eastern Uinta Basin conducted by CK Geoenergy Corporation. Information gathering by U.S.G.S. of the initial data base for many of the project activities is nearing completion. Some base maps are comple… more
Date: September 1, 1977
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SolarOil Project, Phase I preliminary design report. [Solar Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery project]

Description: The preliminary design of the Solar Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery (SolarOil) Plant is described in this document. This plant is designed to demonstrate that using solar thermal energy is technically feasible and economically viable in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The SolarOil Plant uses the fixed mirror solar concentrator (FMSC) to heat high thermal capacity oil (MCS-2046) to 322/sup 0/C (611/sup 0/F). The hot fluid is pumped from a hot oil storage tank (20 min capacity) through a once-through … more
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Baccaglini, G.; Bass, J.; Neill, J.; Nicolayeff, V. & Openshaw, F.
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Integrated real-time fracture-diagnostics instrumentation system

Description: The use of an integrated, real-time fracture-diagnostics instrumentation system for the control of the fracturing treatment during massive hydraulic fracturing is proposed. The proposed system consists of four subsystems: an internal-fracture-pressure measurement system, a fluid-flow measurement system, a borehole seismic system, and a surface-electric-potential measurement system. This use of borehole seismic and surface-electric-potential measurements, which are essentially away-from-the-well… more
Date: January 1, 1983
Creator: Engi, D
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Assessment of environmental health and safety issues associated with the commercialization of unconventional gas recovery: Devonian shale

Description: The purpose of this study is to identify and examine potential public health and safety issues and the potential environmental impacts from recovery of natural gas from Devonian age shale. This document will serve as background data and information for planners within the government to assist in development of our new energy technologies in a timely and environmentally sound manner. This report describes the resource and the DOE eastern gas shales project in Section 2. Section 3 describes the n… more
Date: September 1, 1981
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Unconventional gas recovery program. Semi-annual report for the period ending March 31, 1979

Description: This document is the second semi-annual report describing the technical progress of the US DOE projects directed at gas recovery from unconventional sources. Currently the program includes: Methane Recovery from Coalbeds Project, Eastern Gas Shales Project, Western Gas Sand Project, and Geopressured Aquifers Project. This report is divided into five parts: a summary (Section 1), and a section devoted to each resource (Sections 2 through 5). Each resource section presents information which serve… more
Date: August 1, 1979
Creator: Wise, R.L. (ed.)
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Project Gasbuggy: radiation contamination clearance report

Description: Project Gasbuggy was the first US underground nuclear experiment for the stimulation of low-productivity natural gas reservoirs. The report describes the radiological health and safety operations required for site cleanup and restoration to return the site to approximately its original condition. These operations were conducted from August through September of 1978. All equipment on site which was radiologically contaminated during previous gas production test activities was steam decontaminate… more
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Western Gas Sands Project status report

Description: Progress of government-sponsored projects directed toward increasing gas production from the low-permeability gas sands of the western United States is summarized. A Technology Implementation Plan (TIP) meeting was held at the CER office in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 16--19 to initiate the implementation phase of the Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) working group activities. A WGSP Logging Program meeting was conducted on October 24, 1978, at CER offices to define the problems associated with logs i… more
Date: November 30, 1978
Creator: Atkinson, C.H.
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Environmental Development Plan (EDP). Enhanced gas recovery, FY 1977

Description: This Enhanced Gcs Recovery EDP addresses the environmental impacts of enhanced gas recovery processes in shale and sandstone, methane drainage from coalbeds, and methane recovery from geopressured aquifers. The EDP addresses planning in two basic areas: environmental research and environmental assessment. Environmental research can be categorized as follows: characterization of pollutants from EGR processes; selective application of monitoring and measuring techniques; evaluation of control/mit… more
Date: March 1, 1978
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Western Gas Sands Project: status report

Description: Progress of the major government sponsored projects undertaken to increase gas production from low permeability gas sands of the western United States during March 1978 is summarized. The Bartlesville Energy Research Center (BERC) and participating National Laboratories, funded by DOE, are continuing their work in the area of research and development. The emphasis is on the development of new tools and instrumentation systems, rock mechanics, mathematical modeling and data analysis. Field Tests… more
Date: May 1, 1978
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Western Gas Sands Project status report

Description: This edition of the WGSP status report summarizes September 1978 progress of the government-sponsored projects directed towards increasing gas production from the low-permeability gas sands of the western United States. Background information is provided in the September 1977 Status Report, NVO/0655-100. The Williston Basin Symposium was held in Billings, Montana, the 24th through the 27th of September 1978. The USGS continued work on characterization and assessment of the resource in the four … more
Date: October 31, 1978
Creator: Atkinson, C.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project Gasbuggy well plugging and site restoration plan

Description: The operational plan for conducting the final restoration work at the site of the first U.S. underground nuclear experiment for the stimulation of low-productivity natural gas reservoirs is given. The plan includes well plugging procedures, surface facilities decontamination and removal procedures, radiological guidelines, and environmental considerations.
Date: July 1, 1978
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Quantitative analysis of the economically recoverable resource

Description: The objective of this study is to obtain estimates of the economically recoverable gas in the Appalachian Basin. The estimates were obtained in terms of a probability distribution, which quantifies the inherent uncertainty associated with estimates where geologic and production uncertainties prevail. It is established that well productivity on a county and regional basis is lognormally distributed, and the total recoverable gas is Normally distributed. The expected (mean), total economically re… more
Date: May 1, 1981
Creator: Pulle, C.V. & Seskus, A.P.
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Western Gas Sands Project status report

Description: The status of government sponsored projects undertaken to increase gas production from low-permeability gas sands of the western United States during August 1978 is summarized. Background information is given in the September 1977 Status Report, NVO/0655-100. One of the largest massive Hydraulic Fracture (MHF) treatment to date was performed on Gas Producing Enterprises Well No. CIGE 2-29. C.H. Atkinson, Western Gas Sands Project (WGSP) Manager and D.C. Bleakly, CER Corporation were observers. … more
Date: September 30, 1978
Creator: Atkinson, C.H.
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Environmental impact assessment: chemical explosive fracturing project, Petroleum Technology Corporation/Sutton County, Texas

Description: The Nevada Operations Office of the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) has contracted with Petroleum Technology Corporation (PTC) to perform a gas stimulation program by chemical explosive fracturing (CEF) in the Canyon sands of the Val Verde - Kerr Basin of Sutton County, Texas. This lenticular tight sand deposit, underlying much of southwestern Texas, contains large volumes of natural gas. To date this formation has yielded only marginal amounts of gas because of its low po… more
Date: July 14, 1977
Creator: Tonnessen, Kathy A.
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Fiscal year 1978 program of research

Description: The responsibilities of the Bartlesville Energy Research Center in the areas of advanced research on coal, enhanced oil recovery, drilling and offshore technology, product characterization, enhanced gas recovery, waste oil recycling, and alternative fuels are briefly reviewed and the progress made indicated. (JSR)
Date: January 1, 1978
Creator: Linville, B. (ed.)
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A new method for determining fluid flow paths during hydraulic fracturing

Description: Although hydraulic fracturing is a popular method for increasing the productivity of oil and gas wells, there is no direct way other than drilling additional boreholes to determine where the injected fluid has gone and thus what direction a fracture has propagated. Information about fluid flow paths is important for designing subsequent fracturing operations for nearby wells. Determining the locations and orientations of permeable fractures is also important in studies of potential toxic waste … more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Fehler, M.
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Primary Factors Governing Hydraulic Fractures in Heterogeneous Stratified Porous Formations

Description: Some primary material, macrostructural and tectonic features of typical geological formations are identified, insofar as they affect the hydraulic fracturing operation whereby suitably treated fluid is pumped into massive crack(s) underground: the retardation or channeling due to strata interfaces, discontinuities and other heterogeneities is roughly characterized, in the context of fully three-dimensional crack shape evolution, and the initiation from oriented boreholes is discussed in detail.… more
Date: August 24, 1978
Creator: Cleary, M. P.
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