Prospectus: Ongoing and Future Projects
2020-2021
The 2020-2021 prospectus consists of 89 projects, which are presented individually after the introduction. Each project description starts with a “SUBSURFACE APPLICATION” header, which lists specific reservoir or oil and gas plays to which the study might be applied. Some applications are briefly listed here to highlight the diverse types of reservoir systems and spectrum of ages that KICC researchers study. Details found in each individual project highlight the wide range of approaches and disciplines used and integrated to examine these systems.
Subsurface application examples include:
- Permian Basin Unconventionals such as Avalon, Wolfcamp, Bone Spring, Leonard, Wolfbone
- Low Resistivity Pay such as STACK and Middle East reservoir systems
- Mississippian Reservoirs in the US Midcontinent including SCOOP and STACK
- Hydrothermal Porosity Alteration including Ghawar Field, North Field, Ladyfern, presalt Brazil/Angola, Mississippian Lincoln County Colorado, Tengiz, Trenton-Black-River, Arbuckle/Ellenberger, Pennsylvanian Permian Basin and Midcontinent, Mississippian Lime in Kansas and Oklahoma, Shale plays of the Permian Basin, and Bakken/Lower Lodgepole play
- Deepwater and slope carbonates in general including Tengiz and Korolev Fields in Kazakhstan, Miocene in southeast Asia, Avalon, Wolfcamp, Leonard, Bone Spring in Permian Basin, Cretaceous of Mexico
- Niobrara
- Eagle Ford
- Organic Geochemistry and Porosity in Unconventionals in general
- Carboniferous Midcontinent Reservoirs
- Lacustrine Analogs to presalt Brazil and offshore Angola
- Microbial Reservoirs such as Brazil, Angola, Smackover, Arbuckle
- Heterozoan Carbonate Analogs to offshore Venezuela and Offshore Vietnam
- Sweet Spots in Unconventionals based on diagenetic, sedimentologic and stratigraphic studies
- Cretaceous Plays of Mexico
- Jurassic-Cretaceous analogs to Middle East, offshore north Atlantic, offshore west Africa reservoirs
- Permian Basin Conventional Reservoirs such as Grayburg-San Andres, Canyon, Cisco, Strawn, Wolfcamp
- Dolomitized Reservoirs such as Smackover, Midcontinent Mississippian, Arbuckle, Grayburg/San Andres of Permian Basin, Mississippian Williston Basin, Arab
- Unconformity-Related Porosity and Cementation such as San Andres, Tengiz, Arbuckle/Ellenburger/Tarim, Pennsylvanian/Permian of Permian Basin and Midcontinent, Mississippian Midcontinent, Shuaiba, Lisburne Group of Alaska
- Isolated Platform Reservoirs such as Tengiz, Malampaya field, Philippines; Luconia province, Malaysia, Indonesia
- Oolitic Reservoirs such as Cretaceous and Jurassic of Texas, Mexico, Middle East, North Africa, Permian of Texas, New Mexico, Carboniferous of Midcontinent
- Reefal Reservoirs such as Cenozoic reservoirs in Southeast Asia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, offshore west Africa, and the Gulf of Suez
- Williston Basin Plays such as Bakken-Lower Lodgepole
- New Seismic Attribute advances
- New Petrophysical advances
- New Geochemical approaches
- Improved EOR techniques
The prospectus is organized around several themes:
- Stratigraphic Controls on Facies Distribution in Carbonates
- Diagenetic Controls on Porosity and Permeability in Carbonates
- Geophysical Signatures of Facies, Porosity, and Fractures
- Controls on Facies Distribution and Architecture of Holocene Carbonates
- Reservoir Characterization, Petrophysics and Modeling
- Carbonate-Rich Unconventional Reservoirs: Geobiology, Porosity, Sedimentology, Geochemistry, and Reservoir Controls
- Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Flooding/Sequestration in Carbonates
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