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Western Gas Sands Project. Status report, 1 May-31 May, 1980

Description: This report summarizes the progress of the government-sponsored project directed towards increasing gas production from the low permeability gas sands of the western United States. The planning activities for the multi-well experiment continued in May. Bartlesville Energy Technology Center continued formation evaluation and reservoir simulation studies. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory continued calculations of fracturing near interfaces. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory focused work on the perman… more
Date: January 1, 1980
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the gas production economics of the gas hydrate cyclic thermal injection model. [Cyclic thermal injection]

Description: The objective of the work performed under this directive is to assess whether gas hydrates could potentially be technically and economically recoverable. The technical potential and economics of recovering gas from a representative hydrate reservoir will be established using the cyclic thermal injection model, HYDMOD, appropriately modified for this effort, integrated with economics model for gas production on the North Slope of Alaska, and in the deep offshore Atlantic. The results from this e… more
Date: May 1, 1985
Creator: Kuuskraa, V.A.; Hammersheimb, E. & Sawyer, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Eastern Gas Shales Program. Completion and stimulation of five New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Wells Allegany and Cattaraugus Counties, New York

Description: In order to evaluate the potential of the Devonian Shales as a source of natural gas, DOE/METC in Morgantown, West Virginia, has undertaken the Eastern Gas Shale Program (EGSP); not only to characterize and identify the resource, but also to enhance and improve the productivity of wells completed in the shale. One of the methods used to achieve improved productivity is hydraulic fracturing and, more specifically, foam fracturing. The efforts by DOE/METC included completion and stimulation of fi… more
Date: November 1, 1981
Creator: Rdissi, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report of the Workshop on Arctic Oil and Gas Recovery Held at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 30-July 2, 1980

Description: This report is the result of a workshop on Arctic offshore oil and gas recovery, held at Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 30-July 2, 1980. Research priorities for the technology related to Arctic offshore oil and gas production were defined. The workshop was preceded by a report entitled, A Review of Technology for Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Recovery, authored by Dr. W. M. Sackinger. The mission of the workshop was to identify research priorities without considerin… more
Date: September 1, 1980
Creator: Sackinger, W. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of environmental health and safety issues associated with the commercialization of unconventional gas recovery: Tight Western Sands

Description: Results of a study to identify and evaluate potential public health and safety problems and the potential environmental impacts from recovery of natural gas from Tight Western Sands are reported. A brief discussion of economic and technical constraints to development of this resource is also presented to place the environmental and safety issues in perspective. A description of the resource base, recovery techniques, and possible environmental effects associated with tight gas sands is presente… more
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Riedel, E.F.; Cowan, C.E. & McLaughlin, T.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Demonstration projects for coalbed methane and Devonian shale gas: Final report. [None]

Description: In 1979, the US Department of Energy provided the American Public Gas Association (APGA) with a grant to demonstrate the feasibility of bringing unconventional gas such as methane produced from coalbeds or Devonian Shale directly into publicly owned utility system distribution lines. In conjunction with this grant, a seven-year program was initiated where a total of sixteen wells were drilled for the purpose of providing this untapped resource to communities who distribute natural gas. While co… more
Date: April 1, 1987
Creator: Verrips, A.M. & Gustavson, J.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stimulation model for lenticular sands: Volume 2, Users manual

Description: This User's Manual contains information for four fracture/proppant models. TUPROP1 contains a Geertsma and de Klerk type fracture model. The section of the program utilizing the proppant fracture geometry data from the pseudo three-dimensional highly elongated fracture model is called TUPROPC. The analogous proppant section of the program that was modified to accept fracture shape data from SA3DFRAC is called TUPROPS. TUPROPS also includes fracture closure. Finally there is the penny fracture a… more
Date: July 1, 1987
Creator: Rybicki, E.F.; Luiskutty, C.T.; Sutrick, J.S.; Palmer, I.D.; Shah, G.H. & Tomutsa, L.
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Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoir Heterogeneity

Description: The ultimate objective of this cooperative research project is to characterize Alaskan petroleum reservoirs in terms of their reserves, physical and chemical properties, geologic configuration in relation to lithofacies and structure, and development potential. The project has two tasks: Task 1 is a geological description of the reservoirs including petrophysical properties, i.e., porosity, permeability, permeability variation, formation depth, temperature, and net pay, facies changes and reser… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Sharma, G. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Massive hydraulic fracturing well, Federal No. 498-4-1, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Final report

Description: This project is an MHF of a previously untreated Mesaverde interval in a well in northwest Colorado. The rocks involved may have been deposited during a marine invasion of long-continued, swamp environments. If so, they would have possessed superior primary reservoir properties. The logging program, identical to those used in the nearby Rio Blanco Nuclear and MHF Project wells, supplied contradictory information. The frac could furnish better understanding of the log suite, better parameters fo… more
Date: April 1, 1977
Creator: van Poollen, H.K.; Ishteiwy, A.A. & Chancellor, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geologic and production characteristics of the Tight Mesaverde Group: Piceance Basin, Colorado

Description: The Mesaverde Group of the Piceance Basin in western Colorado has been a pilot study area for government-sponsored tight gas sand research for over 20 years. This study provides a critical comparison of the geologic, production and reservoir characteristics of existing Mesaverde gas producing areas within the basin to those same characteristics at the MWX site near Rifle, Colorado. As will be discussed, the basin has been partitioned into three areas having similar geologic and production chara… more
Date: July 1, 1989
Creator: Myal, F. R.; Price, E. H.; Hill, R. E.; Kukal, G. C.; Abadie, P. A. & Riecken, C. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Research projects needed for expediting development of domestic oil and gas resources through arctic, offshore, and drilling technology

Description: This document contains the research projects which were identified at an industry-government workshop on Arctic, Offshore, and Drilling Technology (AODT) held at Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, January 5-7, 1981. The purpose of the workshop was to identify those problem areas where government research could provide technology advancement that would assist industry in accelerating the discovery and development of US oil and gas resouces. The workshop results are to be used to guide an eff… more
Date: April 1, 1982
Creator: Canja, S. & Williams, C.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy reserves. [Summary of reserve estimates and economic supply models for exhaustible resources]

Description: There is an increasing concern about scarcity of the world's remaining natural energy resources and, in particular, the future supply of oil and natural gas. This paper summarizes recent estimates of energy reserves and economic supply models for exhaustible resources. The basic economic theory of resource exhaustion is reviewed, and recent estimates of both discovered and undiscovered energy resources are presented and compared. Domestic and world-wide reserve estimates are presented for crude… more
Date: March 1, 1977
Creator: Tessmer, R.G. Jr.; Carhart, S.C. & Marcuse, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selecting major Appalachian basin gas plays

Description: Under a cooperative agreement with the Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) the Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium (AONGRC) is preparing a geologic atlas of the major gas plays in the Appalachian basin, and compiling a database for all fields in each geologic play. the first obligation under this agreement was to prepare a topical report that identifies the major gas plays, briefly describes each play, and explains how the plays were selected. Four main objectives have be… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Patchen, D. G.; Nuttall, B. C.; Baranoski, M. T.; Harper, J. A.; Schwietering, J. F.; Van Tyne, A. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Western gas sands project. Status report, 1 April-30 April, 1980

Description: The progress of the government-sponsored projects directed towards increasing gas production from the low permeability gas sands of the western United States is summarized. Planning activities continued for the multi-well experiment. Bartlesville Energy Technology Center continued formation evaluation studies for the WGSP. Theoretical analyses continued at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for fracture growth across frictional interfaces and fluid flow in a fracture. Studies have begun at Los Alamo… more
Date: January 1, 1980
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of the eastern gas shales

Description: The outgassing characteristics of the shale are being investigated using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. An extensive geochemical characterization of the samples is also being performed. This characterization includes the identification of secondary resources. Mechanical testing and mass spectrometry have been integrated to provide some insight into the mechanical properties of the shale and gas released from the shale as a function of newly exposed surface area. Mechanical tests are … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Zielinski, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potential for generation of natural gas in sediments of the convergent margin of the Aleutian Trench Area

Description: Sediment being subducted in the eastern part of the convergent margin of the Aleutian Trench has a potential to generate large volumes of natural gas, perhaps as much as 2.8 x 10/sup 6/ m/sup 3/ of methane per km/sup 3/ of sediment, even though the content of organic carbon in the sediment is very low, averaging about 0.4%. This high potential for gas generation results primarily from the enormous volume of sediment undergoing subduction. Along the eastern Aleutian Arc-Trench system a 3-km thic… more
Date: January 1, 1983
Creator: Kvenvolden, K.A. & von Huene, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A novel geotechnical/geostatistical approach for exploration and production of natural gas from multiple geologic strata, Phase 1

Description: This research program has been designed to develop and verify a unique geostatistical approach for finding natural gas resources. The project has been conducted by Beckley College, Inc., and BDM Engineering Services Company (BDMESC) under contract to the US Department of Energy (DOE), Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC). This section, Volume II, contains a detailed discussion of the methodology used and the geological and production information collected and analyzed for this study. A co… more
Date: May 1, 1991
Creator: Overbey, W. K. Jr.; Reeves, T. K.; Salamy, S. P.; Locke, C. D.; Johnson, H. R.; Brunk, R. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A novel geotechnical/geostatistical approach for exploration and production of natural gas from multiple geologic strata, Phase 1

Description: This research program has been designed to develop and verify a unique geostatistical approach for finding natural gas resources. The research has been conducted by Beckley College, Inc. (Beckley) and BDM Engineering Services Company (BDMESC) under contract to the US Department of Energy (DOE), Morgantown Energy Technology Center. Phase 1 of the project consisted of compiling and analyzing relevant geological and gas production information in selected areas of Raleigh County, West Virginia, ult… more
Date: May 1, 1991
Creator: Overbey, W. K. Jr.; Reeves, T. K.; Salamy, S. P.; Locke, C. D.; Johnson, H. R.; Brunk, R. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geochemical characterization of Devonian gas shale

Description: Detailed geochemical analyses are being used to provide an accurate assessment of the oil and gas resources present in the Devonian shales in the Appalachian and Illinois Basins. The suite of geochemical analyses is designed to evaluate the organic richness, the hydrocarbon potential, the type of organic matter and the thermal maturity of the organic matter. Laboratory techniques such as pyrolysis gas chromatography and mass balance thermal extraction were also employed to measure thermally der… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Zielinski, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Synthesis of organic geochemical data from the Eastern Gas Shales

Description: Over 2400 core and cuttings samples of Upper Devonian shales from wells in the Appalachian, Illinois, and Michigan Basins have been characterized by organic geochemical methods to provide a basis for accelerating the exploitation of this unconventional, gas-rich resource. This work was part of a program initiated to provide industry with criteria for locating the best areas for future drilling and for the development of stimulation methods that will make recovery of the resource economically at… more
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Zielinski, R. E. & McIver, R. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rulison Field massive hydraulic fracturing experiment. Final report

Description: One of the seven producing gas wells in the Rulison Field, Garfield County, Colorado, was selected for a massive hydraulic fracturing experiment. The fracture treatment (Aug. 1976) was applied in two stages treating separately the gross perforated intervals from 6198 to 6363 ft (Stage 1) and 5170 to 5630 ft (Stage 2). 485,000 gallons of gelled water, 1,070,000 pounds of sand, and 500 scf of nitrogen per barrel were used. A brief cleanup flow period was allowed between stages. The treatment was … more
Date: July 1, 1977
Creator: Reynolds, M. Jr.
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Interactive data management and analysis system for the Eastern Gas Shale Program

Description: A versatile, easy-to-use data base system is described. The system provides flexibility in display formats as well as input and output options such as format compatibility adaptive to field data. Both on- and off-line capability exists. Versatility is attained through logical, boolean, ana arithmetic expressions. Consequently, computational capability is available so that data input can be minimized. Browsing and recursive searches are available through a search criteria command that allows the… more
Date: January 1, 1977
Creator: Seabaugh, P.W. & Zielinski, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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