Assessing and Forecasting, by Play, Natural Gas Ultimate Recovery Growth and Quantifying the Role Technology Advancements in the Texas Gulf Coast Basin and East Texas.

Fisher, W. L. ; Kim, E. M.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Natural gas;    Enhanced recovery;    Texas;    Assessments;    Forecasting;   

RP-ID  :  DE2004823955

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

A detailed natural gas ultimate recovery growth (URG) analysis of the Texas Gulf Coast Basin and East Texas has been undertaken. The key to such analysis was determined to be the disaggregation of the resource base to the play level. A play is defined as a conceptual geologic unit having one or more reservoirs that can be genetically related on the basis of depositional origin of the reservoir, structural or trap style, source rocks and hydrocarbon generation, migration mechanism, seals for entrapment, and type of hydrocarbon produced. Plays are the geologically homogeneous subdivision of the universe of petroleum pools within a basin. Therefore, individual plays have unique geological features that can be used as a conceptual model that incorporates geologic processes and depositional environments to explain the distribution of petroleum.