Industry Highlight:
Summary from SPE's Recent ATW on "Refracturing in Low
Permeability Reservoirs
Notes are brief, but the agenda was definitely laden with case studies of
experience in the Niobrara, Codell, Green River Basin, Barnett Shale, Fruitland
Coal and others. One has to do a little digging to locate speakers, but that can
be done.
DOE Highlight:
Technology Needs for Unconventional Gas
Last summer DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) sponsored three
workshops (Houston, Pittsburgh and Golden, CO) focused on obtaining industry
input on R&D needs for Unconventional Gas. Industry's input regarding needs
varied by location. See who participated, how input was solicited and
prioritized, and what the different needs are.
"New
DOE Solicitation: Enhanced O&G Production Through CO2 Injection"
PTTC Highlight: Major Upcoming Regional Events in Michigan and
Oklahoma
- Michigan Field Experiences, Carbonate Reservoirs (w strong case study
focus), March 23 in Mt. Pleasant
— Horizontal redevelopment projects
— Optimizing waterflood performance
— Exploration/exploitation concepts
— Ins and Outs of Drilling Sideways in the Arkoma
Hartshorne Coal by Orion Exploration, L.L.C
— Coalbed Methane Horizontal Drilling Case Study,
Osage County by AMVEST
— Hydrocarbon Potential of the Caney Shale in SE
Oklahoma by New Dominion, L.L.C.
Trivia Question:
Which early Oklahoma explorer was so successful that he/his company ended up
controlling a significant fraction (one tenth) of the world's oil reserves in
the early 1920s?
Trivia Answer: Building from his Oklahoma
discovery well in 1911,
E.W. Marland's exploration activities were so successful that
in 1922 he controlled one tenth of the world's oil reserves.
