Thesis (Professional Degree)--University of Missouri, School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1939. / "The sources of the material contained in this thesis are primarily the writer's own personal experiences and observations. These are supplemented to some extent by personal communications and data from various companies' activities which may not be quoted directly. As this thesis is not based on information taken from texts or other articles, there is no need for a bibliography", leaf 41. The entire thesis text is included in file. Typescript. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed March 25, 2010) Includes index (p. 42-43).

xiii, 84 p. : maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Economic models applied in Latin America tend to prioritize economic growth heavily based on extractive industries and a power distribution model that affects social equity and respect for human rights. This thesis advances our understanding of the social, political and environmental concerns that influenced the formation of a movement among the Achuar people, in response to oil exploitation activities in the Peruvian Amazon. This study is based on a political ecology analysis and a review of existing literature on local and global relations of environmental issues. The Corrientes River case reveals how Amazonian indigenous people gained competence to demand recognition of their collective rights to health and citizenship. The Achuar people's mobilization was a result of frustration of sterile dialogue with the authorities, the oil companies, and the pressure exerted by local people on their leaders. This mobilization resulted in an agreement that otherwise would likely not have been reached. / Committee in Charge: Derrick Hindery, Chair; Anita M. Weiss; Carlos Aguirre

This is the first academic study of well costs and drilling times for Australia???s petroleum producing basins, both onshore and offshore. I analyse a substantial database of well times and costs sourced from government databases, industry and over 400 recent well completion reports. Three well phases are studied - Pre-Spud, Drilling and Completion. Relationships between well cost factors are considered, including phase time, phase cost, daily cost, rig day rate, well depth, basin, rig type, water depth, well direction, well objective (e.g. exploration), and type of completion (P&A or producer). Times and costs are analysed using scatter plots, frequency distributions, correlation and regression analyses. Drilling times are analysed for the period 1980 to 2004. Well time and variability in well time tend to increase exponentially with well depth. Technical Limits are defined for both onshore and offshore drilling times to indicate best performance. Well costs are analysed for the period 1996 to 2004. Well costs were relatively stable for this period. Long term increases in daily costs were offset to some extent by reductions in drilling times. Onshore regions studied include the Cooper/Eromanga, Surat/Bowen, Otway and Perth Basins. Offshore regions studied include the Carnarvon Basin shallow and deepwater, the Timor Sea and Victorian Basins. Correlations between regional well cost and well depth are usually high. Well costs are estimated based on well location, well depth, daily costs and type of completion. In 2003, the cost of exploration wells in Australia ranged from A$100,000 for shallow coal seam gas wells in the Surat/Bowen Basins to over A$50 million for the deepwater well Gnarlyknots-1 in the Great Australian Bight. Future well costs are expected to be substantially higher for some regions. This study proposes methods to index historical daily costs to future rig day rates as a means for estimating future well costs. Regional well cost models are particularly useful for the economic evaluation of CO2 storage sites which will require substantial numbers of petroleum-type wells.

Understanding the stratigraphic architecture of geologically complex reservoirs, such as the heavy oil deposits of Western Canada, is essential to achieve an efficient hydrocarbon recovery. Borehole and 3-D seismic data were integrated to define the stratigraphic architecture and generate 3-dimensional geological models of the Mannville Group in Saskatchewan. The Mannville is a stratigraphically complex unit formed of fluvial to marine deposits. Two areas in west-central and southern Saskatchewan were examined in this study. In west-central Saskatchewan, the area corresponds to a stratigraphically controlled heavy oil reservoir with production from the undifferentiated Dina-Cummings Members of the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group. The southern area, although non-prospective for hydrocarbons, shares many similarities with time-equivalent strata in areas of heavy oil production. Seismic sequence stratigraphic principles together with log signatures permitted the subdivision of the Mannville into different packages. An initial geological model was generated integrating seismic and well-log data Multiattribute analysis and neural networks were used to generate a pseudo-lithology or gamma-ray volume. The incorporation of borehole core data to the model and the subsequent integration with the lithological prediction were crucial to capture the distribution of reservoir and non-reservoir deposits in the study area. The ability to visualize the 3-D seismic data in a variety of ways, including arbitrary lines and stratal or horizon slicing techniques helped the definition of stratigraphic features such as channels and scroll bars that affect fluid flow in hydrocarbon producing areas. Small-scale heterogeneities in the reservoir were not resolved due to the resolution of the seismic data. Although not undertaken in this study, the resulting stratigraphic framework could be used to help construct a static reservoir model. Because of the small size of the 3-D seismic surveys, horizontal slices through the data volume generally imaged only small portions of the paleogeomorphologic features thought to be present in this area. As such, it was only through the integration of datasets that the geological models were established.

ix, 271 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (col.), photographs (col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library / This thesis analyses in situ stress and overpressure throughout Brunei. The resultant in situ stress and pore pressure data is applied to establish the neotectonic evolution of the Baram Delta province and resolve a variety of current geomechanics issues affecting petroleum exploration and production in the region / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1097072 / Thesis(PhD)- National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, 2003

Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis analyses in situ stress and overpressure throughout Brunei. The resultant in situ stress and pore pressure data is applied to establish the neotectonic evolution of the Baram Delta province and resolve a variety of current geomechanics issues affecting petroleum exploration and production in the region / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1097072 / Thesis(PhD) - University of Adelaide, National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, 2003

Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis analyses in situ stress and overpressure throughout Brunei. The resultant in situ stress and pore pressure data is applied to establish the neotectonic evolution of the Baram Delta province and resolve a variety of current geomechanics issues affecting petroleum exploration and production in the region / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1097072 / Thesis(PhD) - University of Adelaide, National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, 2003

This is the first academic study of well costs and drilling times for Australia???s petroleum producing basins, both onshore and offshore. I analyse a substantial database of well times and costs sourced from government databases, industry and over 400 recent well completion reports. Three well phases are studied - Pre-Spud, Drilling and Completion. Relationships between well cost factors are considered, including phase time, phase cost, daily cost, rig day rate, well depth, basin, rig type, water depth, well direction, well objective (e.g. exploration), and type of completion (P&A or producer). Times and costs are analysed using scatter plots, frequency distributions, correlation and regression analyses. Drilling times are analysed for the period 1980 to 2004. Well time and variability in well time tend to increase exponentially with well depth. Technical Limits are defined for both onshore and offshore drilling times to indicate best performance. Well costs are analysed for the period 1996 to 2004. Well costs were relatively stable for this period. Long term increases in daily costs were offset to some extent by reductions in drilling times. Onshore regions studied include the Cooper/Eromanga, Surat/Bowen, Otway and Perth Basins. Offshore regions studied include the Carnarvon Basin shallow and deepwater, the Timor Sea and Victorian Basins. Correlations between regional well cost and well depth are usually high. Well costs are estimated based on well location, well depth, daily costs and type of completion. In 2003, the cost of exploration wells in Australia ranged from A$100,000 for shallow coal seam gas wells in the Surat/Bowen Basins to over A$50 million for the deepwater well Gnarlyknots-1 in the Great Australian Bight. Future well costs are expected to be substantially higher for some regions. This study proposes methods to index historical daily costs to future rig day rates as a means for estimating future well costs. Regional well cost models are particularly useful for the economic evaluation of CO2 storage sites which will require substantial numbers of petroleum-type wells.

Leaf 288 never printed but text is complete. / Bibliography: leaves 293-318. / xi, 323 leaves : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1998?

Orientadores: José Ricardo Pelaquim Mendes, Sérgio Nascimento Bordalo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica e Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T21:00:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ariza_SergioFernandoCelis_M.pdf: 2311163 bytes, checksum: 205045ed370e2fb450b8b874b521846b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O avanço tecnológico na instrumentação de poços de petróleo tem proporcionado um vasto volume de dados. A análise desses dados pode fornecer uma importante contribuição aos projetos de futuras instalações de produção. Para esta finalidade é necessário organizar e integrar informações que se encontram em diferentes setores, referentes ao poço, ao reservatório e às linhas de escoamento. Este processo de interpretação de dados requer o desenvolvimento de ferramentas e de métodos de análise. O Índice de Desempenho do Escoamento (IDE) é um parâmetro operacional que serve de instrumentação para estudar o desempenho das instalações de poços de petróleo utilizando os dados abundantes de campo que são medidos periodicamente em tempo real. O IDE permite, por exemplo, avaliar o desempenho das tecnologias empregadas nos poços. Neste trabalho, estuda-se o potencial de aplicação do IDE para poços que operam com gas-lift. O IDE é utilizado para verificar a influência da geometria do poço, comparar o desempenho de poços horizontais, verticais e direcionais em um mesmo campo e zona produtora, para comparar o tipo de contenção de areia, para identificar a presença de problemas no sistema de produção e no auxilio ao diagnóstico de tais problemas / Abstract: Technological advances in oil wells instrumentation have provided a volume of important data. The Analysis of these data can provide an important contribution to the projects of future production facilities. For this purpose is necessary to organize and to integrate information that are in different sectors, referring to the well, reservoir and flow lines. This process of data interpretation requires the development of tools and methods of analysis. The Flow Performance Index (FPI) is an operational parameter that can used to study the performance of oil wells facilities using the field abundant data which are measured periodically in real time. For example, the FPI allows assessment the technologies performance employed in the wells. In the present study, examines the FPI application potential for wells that operate with gas-lift. The IDE is used to verify the influence of well geometry to compare the performance of horizontal, vertical and directional wells for the same field and same producing area. The FPI is employed to compare the performance of the type of sand control technologic. The FPI is applied in identification of problems presence in the production system and in the aid to diagnosis these problems / Mestrado / Explotação / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo