Evaluating reservoir production mechanisms and hydraulic fracture geometry in the lewis shale, San Juan Basin

摘要

In 1998, Burlington Resources initiated an extensive data-gathering program to characterize the Lewis Shale interval across the San Juan Basin. The Lewis Shale can be completed and commingled with existing producing zones in several hundred wells (and potentially thousands), if economics justify the work. The data-gathering program entails collecting geological, petrophysical, reservoir, stimulation, and production data in 10 wells. This paper presents the results from one of the program wells; the San Juan 27-5 Unit #140 M (#140 M).