Improved Production Profiling Using Thermal Balance and Statistical Modeling in the Pinedale Anticline of the US Rocky Mountains

摘要

The Pinedale anticline is located in the Green River Basin of Southwestern Wyoming, USA. The field is the largest tight gas discovery for the onshore region of the United States in the last twenty years (Robinson and Shanley 2004). Gas production is from very tight, stacked clastic reservoirs that are Upper Cretaceous in age, with productive intervals in excess of 6000 feet. The large productive intervals require multiple hydraulic fracture stages to complete.