Open AccessIMPLEMENTING A NOVEL CYCLIC CO2 FLOOD IN PALEOZOIC REEFS
Author(s) -
James R. Wood,
W. Quinlan,
A. Wylie
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/820958
Subject(s) - reef , slicing , geology , paleozoic , amplitude , structural basin , facies , reservoir modeling , paleontology , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , petroleum engineering , engineering , geotechnical engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Recycled CO2 will be used in this demonstration project to produce bypassed oil from the Silurian Charlton 6 pinnacle reef (Otsego County) in the Michigan Basin. Contract negotiations by our industry partner to gain access to this CO2 that would otherwise be vented to the atmosphere are near completion. A new method of subsurface characterization, log curve amplitude slicing, is being used to map facies distributions and reservoir properties in two reefs, the Belle River Mills and Chester 18 Fields. The Belle River Mills and Chester18 fields are being used as typefields because they have excellent log-curve and core data coverage. Amplitude slicing of the normalized gamma ray curves is showing trends that may indicate significant heterogeneity and compartmentalization in these reservoirs. Digital and hard copy data continues to be compiled for the Niagaran reefs in the Michigan Basin. Technology transfer took place through technical presentations regarding the log curve amplitude slicing technique and a booth at the Midwest PTTC meeting
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