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MOBIL SETS RECORDS AT WELL IN GERMANY
… Erdgas-Erdol GmbH, a Mobil Corp. unit operating in Germany, has claimed a world depth mark for a horizontal well at a drillsite about 40 miles southwest of Hamburg. Mobil drilled Z-10 Soehlingen to a record 15,688 ft true vertical depth, cutting …
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Unconventional technology renews production for Mississippi Lime
… in April that it had spud 10 wells this year to date, fully 50% ahead of its 20-24 planned wells for 2013. Photo from drillsite in Logan County, Okla. In the partnership's Nemaha Ridge project, only the solid member of the Mississippian is present …
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ARCO's Villano project: Improvised solutions in Ecuador's rainforest
ARCO Oriente Inc.'s Villano drillsite was designed along the lines of Alaskan ..... model Because the field and proposed drillsite lay in a pristine area of rainforest ..... has installed a "small-footprint" drillsite at Villano with a single drillpad and …
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Resource plays could help refill trans-Alaska pipeline
… 105 rig drilled to 10,812 ft. Targeted intervals included the Shublik, Kingak, and HRZ shale formations. The Alcor-1 drillsite is constructed of rig mats with a herculite liner and bermed to create an entirely contained drill pad. Whole core samples …
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OGJ Newsletter
… It is the first exploratory well on the block to targets deeper than the Middle Bhuban on the Atharamura anticline. The drillsite is 6.7 km southwest and updip from the Ambasa North exploratory well. Matabari-1, projected to 4,070 m measured depth …
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Jubilant spuds wildcat near 2012 Tripura gas discovery
… It is the first exploratory well on the block to targets deeper than the Middle Bhuban on the Atharamura anticline. The drillsite is 6.7 km southwest and updip from the Ambasa North exploratory well. Matabari-1, projected to 4,070 m measured depth …
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Drought raising water costs, scarcity concerns for shale plays
… natural gas liquids from the water. Finally, the water goes into the 500,000-bbl pond for storage until being moved to a drillsite for another frac job. The use of membrane filtration to recycle water from fracturing flowback was among the research projects …
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OGJ Newsletter
… continue drilling. The primary exploration target at the time was the Cretaceous Mardin Group at 3,300 m. The Bostanci drillsite is 35 km west of Tawke field in northern Iraq and 12 km northeast of Karatchok field in Syria. Over the next few months …
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Detailed gravity, magnetics successful in exploring Azerbaijan onshore areas
… Vol. 94, 1997, pp. 91-96 (in Russian). 11. Land, J.P., "Nonseismic methods can provide many views of a drillsite ," OGJ, Vol. 94, No. 9, 1996, pp. 69-73. 12. Yunxiang, L., Xiaofang, X., and Hualu, S., "The study of …
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Petrobras finds good quality oil in Guara Sul presalt
… SPS (1-SPS-96) discovery well detected 27° gravity oil in carbonate reservoirs below salt on wireline tests. The drillsite is in 2,202 m of water 320 km off Sao Paulo state in the southern part of Sapinhoa field. The well is being deepened to …
