Open AccessAn Integrated Study of the Grayburg/San Andres Reservoir, Foster and South Cowden Fields, Ector County, Texas
Author(s) -
William Robinson,
Robert C. Trentham,
Kevin Widner,
Richard Wienbrandt
Publication year - 1999
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/7917
Subject(s) - petroleum , corporation , oil field , petroleum engineering , fossil fuel , petroleum industry , field (mathematics) , engineering , geology , civil engineering , business , paleontology , finance , environmental engineering , waste management , mathematics , pure mathematics
A project to recover economic amounts of oil from a very mature oil field is being conducted by Laguna Petroleum Corporation of Midland, Texas, with partial funding from a U. S. Department of Energy grant to study shallow carbonate rock reservoirs. The objectives of the project are to use modern engineering methods to optimize oil field management and to use geological and geophysical data to recover untapped potential within the petroleum reservoirs. The integration of data and techniques from these disciplines has yielded results greater than those achievable without their cooperation. The cost of successfully accomplishing these goals is to be low enough for even small independent operators to afford. This article is a report describing accomplishments for the fiscal year 1997-1998