While every effort is put forth before drilling begins to ensure a successful well, not every well hits hydrocarbons at a commercially productive level. Statistically, wildcat (or exploratory) wells ...

Modern reservoir engineering must accommodate for a complex set of heterogeneous phases contained in the well and petroleum reservoir. Achieving the optimal solution to reservoir problems involves ...

Experience in 1999 during appraisal of the Peng Lai 19-3 field, off China, showed that a cased-hole formation tester has numerous benefits with few drawbacks. This concluding article of a two-part ...

Initial flows from first test interval yields a combination of drilling mud, formation water, gas and traces of oil from the unstimulated perforated interval at a liquid rate between 240 to 290 ...