Strategic Alliance, Multidisciplinary
Teamwork Enhance Field Development in Cotton Valley Trend,
Holly Krus, Larry Brit, Kevin England, Nick Piskurich, Robert A. Woodroof, Oil
and Gas Journal, March 31, 1997.
ABSTRACT
Strategic Alliance,
Multidisciplinary Teamwork Enhanced Field Development in Cotton Valley Trend
A strategic alliance and multidisciplinary
teamwork improved economic performance of a field in the East Texas basin's
Cotton Valley trend.
Optimizing the development phase, and thus
improving the profitability, of Amoco Exploration & Production Co.'s
Glenwood natural gas field was the task assigned to a multidisciplinary
reservoir management team (RMT) in 1996. The team comprised personnel from
Amoco, Schlumberger companies Dowell Wireline & Testing and GeoQuest,
and ProTechnics International.
Members were chosen largely from an existing
Amoco/Schlumberger strategic alliance that had been in place for 4 years.
The team's primary emphasis was to strategically locate and
fracture-stimulate the remaining wells to be drilled in Glenwood field's
initial development phase.
This article illustrates the team process
used and decisions made that let to field cost savings and production
improvements before yearend 1996. Thorough data collection and evaluation
were critical project elements and enabled the field's hydraulic fracturing
program to be modified, thus improving incremental production and
eliminating ineffective fracturing costs.