September 2002
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About the Petroleum Technology Digest

Welcome to the Petroleum Technology Digest, a joint effort by World Oil and the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) to provide independent producers with field-proven solutions to their technical problems. In this publication, the editors and PTTC staff present several recent case studies of exploration, drilling and production techniques that have been tested successfully in oil and gas fields within the U.S. These case studies have been solicited and developed by the PTTC. No specific application of products or services is endorsed by PTTC. Reasonable steps are taken to ensure the reliability of sources for information that PTTC disseminates; individuals and institutions are solely responsible for the consequences of its use.


Sept. 2002 Supplement 
Case Study 

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Case studies for Independent Producers

Welcome to the Petroleum Technology Digest, a joint effort by World Oil and the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) to provide independent producers with field-proven solutions to their technical problems. In this publication, the editors and PTTC staff present several recent case studies of exploration, drilling and production techniques that have been tested successfully in oil and gas fields within the U.S.

These case studies have been solicited and developed by the PTTC. No specific application of products or services is endorsed by PTTC. Reasonable steps are taken to ensure the reliability of sources for information that PTTC disseminates; individuals and institutions are solely responsible for the consequences of its use.

The not-for-profit Petroleum Technology Transfer Council was formed by the U.S. oil and natural gas industry in 1994 to accelerate the dissemination of technology to independent exploration and producing companies, and to communicate industry’s needs to the R&D community. PTTC is funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, through the National Petroleum Technology Office and Strategic Center for Natural Gas within the National Energy Technology Laboratory, with additional funding from universities, state geological surveys, several state governments and industry donations.

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Case studies sought for future issues of this publication. Contact PTTC’s national office for details at http://www.pttc.org

Petroleum Technology Transfer Council
2916 West TC Jester
Suite 103
Houston, Texas 77018
Phone: 1-888-THE-PTTC
Fax: 713-688-0935
http://www.pttc.org
hq@pttc.org

Executive director: Donald F. Duttlinger
Project manager: E. Lance Cole
Office Manager: Norma Gutierrez

PTTC Regional Resource Centers:

Appalachian
Director: Doug Patchen, Appalachian Oil / Natural Gas Research Consortium at West Virginia University
Phone: 304-293-2867 ext. 5443
http://karl.nrcce.wvu.edu

Central Gulf
Director: Bob Baumann, Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies
Phone: 225-578-4400
http://enrg/lsu.edu/pttc_cgr.html

Eastern Gulf
Director: Ernest Mancini, University of Alabama
Phone: 205-348-4319
http://egrpttc.geo.ua.edu

Midwest
Director: David Morse, Illinois State Geological Survey
Phone: 217-244-5527
http://pttc.isgs.uiuc.edu

North Midcontinent
Director: Rodney Reynolds, University of Kansas Energy Research Center
Phone: 785-864-7398
http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/ERC/pttcHome.html

Rocky Mountain
Director: Sandra Mark, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Phone: 303-273-3107
http://www.pttcrockies.org

South Midcontinent
Director: Charles Mankin, Oklahoma Geological Survey
Phone: 405-325-3031
http://www.ou.edu/special/ogs-pttc/pttchome.htm

Southwest
Director: Robert Lee, Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech
Phone: 505-835-5408
http://octane.nmt.edu/sw-pttc/index.htm

Texas
Director: Scott Tinker, Bureau of Economic Geology at UT-Austin
Phone: 512-471-0320
http://www.energyconnect/pttc

West Coast
Director: Iraj Ershaghi, University of Southern California
Phone: 213-740-0321
http://www.usc.edu/dept/peteng/pttc.html

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