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Modeling optimizes casing points in Persian Gulf wells

01/05/2009
Researchers modeled casing-point setting depths in National Iranian Oil Co.’s RSH field using various tools and scenarios to save as much as 15%.RSH field is in the central Persian Gulf, to the east of the Qatar/Fars Arch. The RSH structure, although not affiliated prominently with salt, lies where salt tectonics dominates development of structures, many of which have major oil and gas accumulations.Qatar/Fars Arch divides the Persian Gulf Precambrian salt basin into northern and southern salt basins. The RSH structure is in the southern basin, which has more eminent exposed salt plugs as the Persian Gulf Islands, and many unexposed plugs and swells that have formed four-way dip clo...
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