Amount Of Cement Necessary
Amount Of Cement Necessary The Amount Of Cement Required To Fill Certain Spaces In An Oil Well Should Be Approximately Known When A Job Is Commenced And Table Ii, Where The Space Is Exactly Stated, Can Be Used For Such A Purpose. In Actual Practice The Exact Cavity May Not ...
Assembling Of Information Relative
Assembling Of Information Relative To Under Ground Conditons Underground Conditions Affecting The Flow Of Oil Into Wells Can Only Be Conjectured After A Careful Consideration Of The Facts Dis Closed Above Ground. In The Preceding Chapter Were Outlined Some Of The More Important Facts Which Should Be Observed, And The ...
California Kern Riverfield
Kern River Field, California A Detailed Investigation Of A Flooded Area In The Kern River Field Was Made In 1916, Which Led To The Plugging Of Two Wells. This Work More Than Doubled The Output Of Oil And Reduced The Daily Output Of Water From 16,000 Bbl. To About 250 ...
Collapsing Strength Of Steel
Collapsing Strength Of Steel Casing The Question Of Strength Of Casing To Resist Collapse Is Of Vital Importance To Oil Operators Contemplating Deep Wells, Because It Must Be Remembered That After The Well Is Completed It Will Some Times Stand Nearly Empty And Therefore The Casing Will Be Sub Jected ...
Deepening And Abandoning Wells
Repairing, Deepening And Abandoning Wells The Increasing Demand For Oil Will Doubtless Cause Wells On Many Properties To Be Repaired For The Purpose Of Increasing Pro Duction. A Great Many Oil Fields Have Been Developed Having Regard For Nothing Except Immediate Production. Such Proce Dure Has Usually Resulted In Leaving ...
Development Program
Development Program Location And Spacing Of Wells.—the First Problem Which Pre Sents Itself, When Development Of A Tract Of Oil Land Begins, Is The Location Of The First Well And The Determination Of The Area Which Individual Wells Shall Be Expected To Drain. Frequently, The Operator Is Allowed No Choice ...
Discovery And Importance Of
Discovery And Importance Of Intermediate Edgewater Following Is A Brief Summary Of Conditions And Operations Leading Up To The Discovery Of The Intermediate Edgewater Sand, Which Sand Has Been The Principal Cause Of Water Trouble In The Field.' A Number Of New Wells, Which Had Encountered What Wa.g Termed "bottom," ...
Drilling Policy In Zone
Drilling Policy In Zone Of Edgewater The Policy For Wells Which Are Drilled Outside Of The Central Dome And In The Zone Of Edgewater Calls For A Water Shut-off Above The First Oil Zone And A Production From This Zone Only, Unless A Solid Oil String Is Cemented Above The ...
Drilling Of Oil Wells
Drilling Of Oil Wells The Drilling Of Oil Wells Is A Branch Of Skilled Labor Which, Like All Other Trades, Can Be Learned Only By The Actual Doing. The Tools For Carrying On Drilling Work Are Supplied By Manufacturing Concerns Who Are Alive To The Necessity Of Providing Improved Devices ...
Gauging Output Of Wells
Gauging Output Of Wells There Are Several Ways In Which The Amounts Of Water And Of Oil Coming From A Well May Be Determined. It Is Not Always Possible To Get Absolutely Accurate Figures. The Following Methods Of Gauging Or Estimating Differ In Accuracy And Can Be Applied To Properties ...
Gravity Of Oil Produced
Gravity Of Oil Produced By Various Zones The Average Gravity Of The Oil Produced From The First Or Upper Zone Is 20° Baum& This Includes Oil Produced From The Inter Mediate Edgewater Sand In The Central Dome, Which At This Point Has Been Grouped With The First Zone. The Average ...
Method Of Procedure In
Method Of Procedure In The Analysis Of Water For Chlorine "pour 25 Cubic Centimeters Of The Water To Be Tested Into A White Porcelain Dish. Add About One-half A Cubic Centimeter Of Chromate Solution And Run In Standard Silver-nitrate Solution From A Burette Until The First Faint Reddish Tint Appears. ...
Methods Of Shooting Wells
Methods Of Shooting Wells In Order To Allow The Setting Of Plugs It Is Most Advantageous To Shoot Wells Where Oil And Water Bearing Formations Are Penetrated By Casing Which Can Not Be Removed. It Is Necessary To Shoot Wells Which Have One Or More Strings Of Sidetracked Casing (which ...
Riiles For Abandonment Of
Riil.es For Abandonment Of Wells 1. In Most Cases Sufficient Casing Should Be Left In A Well To Serve As A Conductor From The Ground Surface To The Point Of Shut-off. This Requirement Is Based On The Fact That It Is Fre Quently Impossible To Prove Immediately And Directly The ...
Testing The Condition Of
Testing The Condition Of Oil Wells At Various Stages In The Progress Of Drilling An Oil Well, It Is Necessary, If Good Work Is Desired, To Test The Mechanical Condi Tion Of The Well And Casing. Bailing Test.—the Exclusion Of Water From An Oil Well Is Of Prime Importance. Tests ...
The Value Of Oil
The Value Of Oil Land The Value Of Oil Land Depends Upon The Prospective Profit To Be Obtained By Extracting The Oil. In Order To Perform Most Efficiently Special Duties Involved In The Production Of Oil, Each Person In A Producing Organization Should Have A Clear Understanding Of The Ultimate ...
Underground Structure And How
Underground Structure And How Determined For The Purpose Of Correlating Formations Penetrated, Various Ideas Were At First Used, Such As Base Of Conglomerate, Top Of Brown Shale As Logged, And First Oil Showings As Reported. Cor Relation Based On Any One Of The Above Methods Was Found To Be Roughly ...
Wells
Wells As Briefly Outlined Above, Drilling In This Field Is Further Complicated By The Presence Of A Lower Intermediate Water Bearing Formation Below The Second Oil Zone And Between This Zone And The Third Oil Zone. The Lower Intermediate Water Has Been Encountered In Wells Nos. " Baldwin" 3, 6, ...