While every effort is put forth before drilling begins to ensure a successful well, not every well hits hydrocarbons at a commercially productive level. Statistically, wildcat (or exploratory) wells ...

A detailed, computer-assisted procedure has been developed for plotting pore pressures from electric logs. This new procedure differs from the traditional procedure in two ways. For atypical 10,000-ft ...

Formation testing is the downhole process of measuring in-situ reservoir pressure, estimating permeability/mobility, and capturing representative fluid samples before committing to completion and ...