· Technical Papers

Details of the technologies developed and results obtained in the NDP project have been reported at various conferences and in technical papers. A list of the technical papers resulting from the NDP project is provided below.

Martin F.D., et al: "Advanced Reservoir Characterization for Improved Oil Recovery in a New Mexico Delaware Basin Project," Proc. Fourth International Reservoir Characterization Technical Conference, Houston, (1997) March 2?4, 703-26, and revised in Reservoir Characterization-Recent Advances, AAPG Memoir 71, R.A. Schatzinger and J.F. Jordan (eds.), AAPG, Tulsa, (1999) 93-107.

Martin, F.D., et al: "Reservoir Characterization as a Risk Reduction Tool at the Nash Draw Pool," paper SPE 38916 presented at the 1997 SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, San Antonio, Oct. 5-8, Proc. SPE Reservoir Engineering, 751-66, and revised in SPE Reservoir Eval. & Eng., 2 (2), (April 1999) 169-79.

Stubbs, B.A., et al: "Using Reservoir Characterization Results at the Nash Draw Pool to Improve Completion Design and Stimulation Treatments," paper SPE 39775 presented at the 1998 SPE Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, Midland, March 23-26.

Martin, F.D., et al: "Implementation of a Virtual Enterprise for Reservoir Management Applications," paper SPE 38868 presented at the 1997 SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, San Antonio, Oct. 5-8.

Hardage, B.A., et al: "3-D Seismic Imaging and Interpretation of Brushy Canyon Slope and Basin Thin-Bed Reservoirs, Northwest Delaware Basin," GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 63 No. 5 (September-October 1998) 1507-19.

Hardage, B.A., et al: "3-D Instantaneous Frequency Used as a Coherency/Continuity Parameter to Interpret Reservoir Compartment Boundaries Across an Area of Complex Turbidite Deposition," GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 63 No. 5 (September-October 1998) 1520-31.

Balch, R.S.; Stubbs, B.A.; Weiss, W.W.; Wo, S.; "Using Artificial Intelligence to Correlate Multiple Seismic Attributes to Reservoir Properties," SPE 56733 presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineer Annual Convention in Houston, Texas on October 3-7, 1999.

"Nash Draw Field, Delaware Basin: An Integrated Reservoir Characterization Study," Petroleum Frontiers, Volume 16, No. 2, IHS Energy Group, Englewood, CO (1999).

Hart, D.M., Balch, R.S., Tobin, H.J., and Weiss, W.W.: "Time-to-Depth Conversion of Nash Draw "L" Seismic Horizon Using Seismic Attributes and Neural Networks," SPE 59555 presented at the SPE Permian Basin Oil & Gas Recovery Conference, Midland, Texas, March 21-23, 2000.

Weiss, W. W., Stubbs, B.A. Balch, R.S.: "Estimating Bulk Volume Oil in Thin-Bedded Turbidites," SPE 70041 Paper presented at the SPE Permian Basin Oil & Gas Recovery Conference, Midland, Texas, May 14-17, 2001.

Weiss, W. W., Stubbs, B.A. Balch, R.S.: "A New Tool for Lower Brushy Canyon Completion Decisions," Presented at the West Texas Geological Society Fall Symposium, Midland TX, October 25-26, 2001.

Weiss, W. W., Balch, R.S., and Stubbs, B.A.: "How Artificial Intelligence Methods Can Forecast Oil Production," Paper SPE 75143 presented at the 13th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK 13-17 April 2002.

Balch, R.S., Hart, D.M. and Weiss, W. W.: "Regional Data Analysis to Better Predict Drilling Success: Brushy Canyon Formation, Delaware Basin New Mexico," Paper SPE 75145 presented at the SPE 13th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, April 13-17, 2002.