Ideal Analogues for Directional Drilling
Directional Drilling Analogues This week’s Analogue Spotlight focuses on directional drilling. Since the first horizontal well was drilled in the 1920’s the accuracy of directional drilling has greatly improved. ...
The Tulian B1 Reservoir – An Ideal Analogue on In-situ Seismic Stimulation
The Tulian B1 Reservoir This week’s Analogue Spotlight is the Tulian B1 Reservoir in Russia. This global oil and gas analogue provides an excellent case study on in-situ ...
The Kristin Field – An Ideal Analogue on HPHT Wells
The Kristin Field This week’s Analogue Spotlight is the Kristin Field in Norway. This global oil and gas analogue provides a novel case study demonstrating how to successfully develop and ...
The Nagylengyel Field – An Ideal Analogue on the Effectiveness of CO2 Injection
The Nagylengyel Field This Analogue Spotlight is the Nagylengyel Field in Hungary. This global oil and gas analogue provides a fascinating case study on the effectiveness of CO₂ injection ...
The Algyö Field – An Ideal Analogue for Double-Sided Water Injection
The Algyö Field This Analogue Spotlight is the Algyö Field in Hungary. This global oil and gas analogue provides an excellent case study on the efficacy of double-sided water ...
The Machar Field – An Ideal Analogue for Phased Development Strategies
The Machar Field This Analogue Spotlight is the Machar Field in the UK North Sea. This global oil and gas analogue provides a perfect example of how phased development ...
The Bati-Raman Field – An Ideal Analogue for Heavy Oil Fields
The Bati-Raman Field An ideal analogue for heavy oil fields is the Bati-Raman Field in Turkey which contains heavy (10-15 °API), undersaturated and highly viscous oil. Due to ...
The Gryphon Field – An Ideal Analogue for Sand Injectites
The Gryphon Field Are sand injectites economically and technically viable to produce? Although often thought of as unconventional and uneconomic to produce, sand injectites have a high porosity ...
The Al Khlata Reservoir – An Ideal Analogue for Glacial Reservoirs
The Al Khlata Reservoir Now buried beneath the desert of Oman, the Al Khlata oil reservoir was deposited in a very different environment from today’s: a glacial plain. ...
The Postle Field – An Ideal Analogue for Seismic Imaging
The Postle Field Which seismic techniques have you used that proved effective when experiencing issues detecting a target reservoir? At the Postle Field in Oklahoma, USA, traditional P-wave ...
The Zama Trend – An Ideal Analogue for Repurposing Equipment and By-Products
The Zama Trend Have you ever repurposed existing equipment and by-products in a novel way to improve the incremental recovery of an oil and gas project? In the ...
The Pikes Peak Field – An Ideal Analogue for Steam Injection
The Pikes Peak Field Would you use steam injection as an EOR technique in a reservoir with heavy oil? And how heavy does it need to be? More ...
The Tahe Field – An Ideal Analogue for Karstic Reservoirs
The Tahe Field What is the greatest challenge that you have faced while developing a karstic reservoir? In the Tahe Field, production challenges include isolated caves, bypassed oil ...
The Cranfield Reservoir – An Ideal Analogue for CO2 Storage
The Cranfield Reservoir Are late-stage fields viable for CCS? Our answer… Yes. Global analogues provide an abundance of transferable field knowledge which can be applied to CCS projects. ...
Ideal Analogues for Submarine Fan Reservoirs
Submarine Fan Reservoirs Until recently, submarine fans were considered unique to lowstand systems. Now, exploration geologists are looking at the potential of deep-water sands in highstand deposits. Our ...