NEW REGIONAL RESERVOIR PLAY CHARACTERIZATION PROGRAMS

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• NEW REGIONAL RESERVOIR PLAY CHARACTERIZATION
  PROGRAMS
• IN TEXAS NEW MEXICO
• at the Bureau of Economic Geology

• GEOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF THE PALEOZOIC OF THE
  PERMIAN BASIN (PBGSP)
• CARBONIFEROUS GAS SHALE RESOURCES IN TEXAS (CGSR)

Principal Investigators Stephen C. Ruppel
Robert G. Loucks
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GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE
Permian Basin study area
Barnett shale study area
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PROGRAM GOALS

• Produce a detailed, comprehensive history of
  Paleozoic depositional and reservoir systems in
  the Permian Basin
• Create spatially integrated data bases of
  depositional, stratigraphic, lithologic, and
  petrophysical properties

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TARGET RESOURCES

• Development Target 23 billion barrels of
  mobile oil remaining in existing reservoirs
• Exploration Target 3.5 billion barrels of
  undiscovered oil and NGL resources

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VALUE

• Provide fundamental stratigraphic and
  reservoir-specific data in a readily accessible
  and useable format.
• Integrated data will decrease the risk and
  increase the efficiency of exploitation
• Integrated data will define new opportunities for
  drilling.
• Integrated data will form the basis for new
  engineering approaches and completion practices

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SOURCE DATA

• Reservoir studies
• Cores
• Wireline logs
• 3D 2D seismic
• Outcrop studies
• Published reports
• Company data
• NEW STUDIES

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DELIVERABLES

• Text Written synthesis of history, stratigraphy,
  facies, structural history, and reservoir
  development in Permian Basin.
• Data ARC/INFO GIS-based regional structure maps,
  facies maps, cross sections, core descriptions
  and data, outcrop descriptions and sections, core
  data, reservoir data, production data,
  publications, etc for each play.

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TEXT

• First-year report on depositional history and
  stratigraphy of the Cambrian-Permian
• Incremental play reports as completed.

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DELIVERABLE DATA
PBGSP
Barnett/Woodford

• Regional structure and facies maps
• Regional cross sections
• Core descriptions and data
• Core photographs
• Reservoir cross sections
• Reservoir models
• Outcrop models
• Depositional facies models
• Seismic models
• Production data

• Geothermal gradient maps
• Organic geochemistry data
• Fracture data
• Biostratigraphic data
• Production data
• Rock mechanics data

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REGIONAL STRUCTURE MAPS
Woodford Structure
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FACIES MAPS
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REGIONAL CROSS-SECTIONS

• Sequence stratigraphic framework
• systems tracts
• bounding surfaces/unconformities
• Unit correlations
• Facies correlations

• Unit correlations
• Facies correlations
• Payzone continuity
• Wireline attributes

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OUTCROP MODELS
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DEPOSITIONAL MODELS
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RESERVOIR MODELS
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CORE DESCRIPTIONS
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CORE PHOTOGRAPHS
Ooid/skeletal Lime Grainstone
Separate Vug Porosity
Porosity 23.1 Permeability 17 md
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CORE ANALYSIS DATA
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RESERVOIR CROSS-SECTIONS

• Cycle stratigraphic framework
• Facies stacking patterns
• Reservoir architecture

• Payzone continuity
• Wireline attributes

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SEISMIC SECTIONS
NW
SE
Yates
Grayburg reservoir
Queen
Grayburg
Lowstand wedge
Glorieta platform margin
U San Andres
M
L
Clear Fork
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PRODUCTION DATA
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PUBLICATIONS
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DATA DELIVERY FORMATS

• Written summary reports on each play
• Digital paper delivery
• Digital data (GIS ARC-View)
• CD format
• Online web-based (ARC-IMS)

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FUNDING

• DOE 800k
• Industry Sponsors
• Bureau of Economic Geology Leveraging
• RCRL
• STARR
• Current Funding Level 400k /year

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BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP

• Exclusive priority access to data products and
  deliverables for minimum of 1 year.
• Access to data digitally as it becomes available.
• Input as to focus and deliverables of project.
• Direct access to project staff.
• Attendance at annual project meetings.

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PROJECT START DATE AND TERM

• Start January 1, 2005
• Initial term 3 years
• Continuation based on funding availability.

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COST OF SPONSORSHIP

• Basic Sponsorship 19,000 (annual)
• Two-year Sponsorship 37,000
• Three-year Sponsorship 54,000

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PROJECT STAFF

• BEG Full-time Staff Steve Ruppel (PI)
• Bob Loucks (PI, STARR)
• Sedimentologists - Stratigraphers - 8
• Petrophysicist
• Structural Geologist
• Reservoir engineers - 2
• UT Students
• Collaborating Staff (non-BEG)
• Biostratigrapher
• Organic Geochemist

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PROJECT CONTACTS

• Steve Ruppel
• 512-471-2965
• Stephen.ruppel_at_beg.utexas.edu
• Bob Loucks
• 512-471-0366
• Bob.loucks_at_beg.utexas.edu