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Publications
Final
report summarizing the results of the project [PDF]
Play
maps in PDF format
Reservoir
Database [Excel]
Annual
report summarizing the results of the first year of the
project [PDF]
Permian Basin
oil well.
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Play
Analysis and Digital Portfolio of
Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: Application and Transfer
of Advanced Geological and Engineering Technologies for Incremental
Production Opportunities
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Researchers
at the Bureau of Economic Geology and the New Mexico Bureau of Geology
and Mineral Resources have completed a Department of Energy (DOE)
research initiative titled "Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio
of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: Application and Transfer
of Advanced Geological and Engineering Technologies for Incremental
Production Opportunities," which was designed to increase reserves
and improve recovery of oil from existing reservoirs in the basin.
This project was part of DOE's Identification and Demonstration
of Preferred Upstream Management Practices (PUMP II) for the Oil
Industry program.
The target of
this study was the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeast New
Mexico, which, containing 29% of estimated future oil reserve growth
(Root and others, 1995), has the biggest potential for additional
oil production in the country. Workers on the project (1) developed
an up-to-date portfolio of oil plays in the Permian Basin of West
Texas and southeast New Mexico, (2) studied key reservoirs
from some of the largest or most active plays to incorporate information
on improved practices in reservoir development in the portfolio,
and (3) submitted a Final
report to DOE.
Workers on the
play portfolio grouped into plays all 1,339 reservoirs in the Permian
Basin having a cumulative oil production greater than 1 million
barrels and summarized key reservoir characteristics and preferred
management practices of each play.
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The project updates
and expands the information in the pioneering volume Atlas of Major
Texas Oil Reservoirs (Galloway and others, 1983), which included only
reservoirs in the Texas part of the Permian Basin that had produced more
than 10 million barrels of oil.
The Final
report (pdf format) to DOE has been posted on this web page, as well
as the reservoir database (Excel format)
and PDF versions of the play maps.
The report will be published as a BEG Report of Investigations on a CD-ROM
containing the database of reservoirs within each play, maps in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) format showing play outlines and reservoir locations,
and summary information on reservoir heterogeneity and development practices.
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References
Galloway, W. E., Ewing,
T. E., Garrett, C. M., Jr., Tyler, Noel, and Bebout, D. G., 1983, Atlas
of major Texas oil reservoirs: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau
of Economic Geology Special Publication, 139 p.
Root, D. H., Attanasi,
E. D., Mast, R. F., and Gautier, D. L., 1995, Estimates of inferred reserves
for the 1995 USGS National Oil and Gas Resource Assessment, U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 95-75L, 29 p.
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