Fossil Energy: Feasibility of Optimizing Recovery and Reserves from a Mature andGeological Complex Multiple Turbidite Offshore California Reservoir through the Drilling and Completion of a Trilateral Horizontal Well

摘要

In 1994 Pacific Operators Offshore, Inc. sought and won a United StatesDepartment of Energy Class III cost sharing project to perform reservoir studies leading to the drilling of a tri-lateral redevelopment well in their Carpinteria Offshore Field in the Santa Barbara Channel of California. The intent of the project was to increase production and extend the economic life of this mature field through the application of advanced reservoir characterization and drilling technology, demonstrating the efficacy of these technologies to other small operators of aging fields. Two study periods were proposed; the first to include data assimilation and reservoir characterization and the second to drill the demonstration well.