PAPERS OF INTEREST

Boyer, Kieschnick, Suarez-Rivera, Lewis and Waters from Oilfield Review, Autumn 2006 is a great geochemistry article Producing Gas from Its Source (click here)

Beims in American Oil and Gas Reporter, August 2005 on Plays in Williston Basin Limited Only By Rig Supply (click here)

DOE paper Three-Dimensional Reservoir Characterization of the Bakken Geologic System - Technology Status Assessment (click here)

Jenkins, DeGolyer and MacNaughton and Boyer paper from JPT from February 2008 on Coalbed and Shale-Gas Reservoirs (click here)

Some of Julie LeFever’s (North Dakota State Geologist) Papers:

The Potential for Horizontally Drilling the Middle Memeber of the Bakken Formation, North Dakota delivered in 2005 at the Bakken Core Workshop (click here)

Diagenesis and Fracture Development in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin: Implications for Reservoir Quality in the Middle Member (click here)

Evolution of OIl Production in the Bakken Formation circa 2004 (click here)

Some of Michael Lewis’s (our President) Papers and Presentations:

The Application of Specialized “Unconventional” Techniques: Back to the Rocks for The Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays sponsored by the London Geological Society in London on 5 October, 2010 (click here)

Transforming a Train Wreck...the Bakken Express delivered to the EMGI in July 2007 (click here)

Transforming a Train Wreck...the Bakken Express delivered to the EMGI in June 2006 (click here)

Fred Meissner paper, very astute and forward thinking, even predicting the Elm Coulee Field area, from the Economic Geology of the Williston Basin: The Montana Geological Society 24th Annual Conference, 1978 Williston Basin Symposium, p. 207-227, Petroleum Geology of the Bakken Formation Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana (click here)

Petroleum Engineering Department of Texas A&M University paper on Build Curve Design from 2004 (click here)

Bill Walker’s (Headington Oil Company) presentation Elm Coulee Oil Field (click here)

Wiley, Barree, Eberhard and Lantz on Improved Horizontal Well Stimulations in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, Montana (click here)

Wiley, Eberhard, Barree and Lantz SPE Presentation from September 2005 on Bakken Horizontal Best Practices Review (click here)

Peggy Williams paper from April 2004 OIl and Gas Investor The Bakken is Back (click here)

Fekete Associates, Inc. has produced several high quality papers (click here). In particular, they have produced an excellent educational series called Reservoir Engineering for Geologists which is available here:
Part 1 - Overview (click here)
Part 2 - COGEH Reserve Classifications (click here)
Part 3 - Volumetric Estimation (click here)
Part 4 - Production Decline Analysis (click here)
Part 5a - Material Balance Anaysis (click here)
Part 5b - Material Balance for Oil Reservoirs (click here)
Part 6 - Well Test Interpretation (click here)
Part 7 - Rate Transient Analysis (click here)
Part 8a - Monte Carlo Simulation/Risk Assessment (click here)
Part 8b - Monte Carlo Simulation/Risk Assessment (click here)
Part 8c - Monte Carlo Simulation/Risk Assessment (click here)
Part 9 - Coalbed Methane Fundamentals (click here)
Part 10 - Geological Storage of CO2 (click here)
Part 11 - Reservoir Simulation (click here)