By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 21 -- Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has been operating several dozen workover rigs in recent months in Wyoming, where it operates carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery projects in Salt Creek, Monell, and Sussex fields.
Gross quarterly CO2 flood area production from giant Salt Creek field in Campbell County of the Powder River basin averaged 4,200 b/d in the quarter ended June 30 compared with 3,900 b/d in the previous quarter. The field set a single-day production record of 4,900 b/d in the second quarter of 2006.
Anadarko in the quarter ended June 30 in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado averaged 10 operated drilling rigs and 33 operated pulling units and ran 11 to 17 nonoperated rigs. It completed 242 wells with 10 rigs in Salt Creek field.
The Monell Unit in Patrick Draw field west of Rawlins in Sweetwater County in the Green River basin averaged 2,400 b/d, up14% quarter to quarter on good CO2 response.
Anadarko reported producing a combined 2.5 MMcfd of gas from three wells in new producing horizons in the Cretaceous Upper Almond sand below the CO2-flooded Upper Almond 5 oil zone.
The company also began operating a pipeline to transport water produced from Powder River basin coalbed methane wells for injection into the Mississippian Madison aquifer in Salt Creek field.