Case History: 3-D seismic imaging and interpretation of brushy canyon slope and basin thin-bed reservoirs, northwest Delaware basin

摘要

A study was done at Nash Draw field, Eddy County, new Mexico, to demonstrate how engineering, drilling, geologic, geophysical, and petrophysical technologies should be integrated to improve oil recovery from Brushy Canyon reservoirs at depths of approximately 6600 ft (2000 m) on the northwest slope of the Delaware basin. These thin-bed reservoirs were deposited in a slope-basin environment by a mechanism debated by researchers, a common model being turbidite deposi- tion.