1999•Unpublished venueOpen access

Increasing Waterflood Reserves in the Wilmington Oil Field through Improved Reservoir Characterization and Reservoir Management

Donald D. Clarke, Roy M. Koerner, Dan Moos, John Nguyen, Christopher C. Phillips, Kwasi Tagbor, S. E. Walker

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This project used advanced reservoir characterization tools, including the pulsed acoustic cased-hole logging tool, geologic three-dimensional (3-D) modeling software, and commercially available reservoir management software to identify sands with remaining high oil saturation following waterflood. Production from the identified high oil saturated sands was stimulated by recompleting existing production and injection wells in these sands using conventional means as well as a short radius redrill candidate.

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Key concepts: Reservoir modeling, Petroleum engineering, Geology, Oil sands, Reservoir simulation, Oil field, Saturation (graph theory), Well logging