The American
institute of formation evaluation (AIFE) has analyzed data from 170,000
US plus 430,000 worldwide drill stem tests (DST). AIFE evaluates test
quality prior to calculating permeability, formation damage and other
indicators. The data is provided as Horner plots, fluid types, flow
rates, formation temperature and water salinity.
Pressure,
formation depth and other data are now available as a comma separated
value file which can be downloaded for further investigation and
regional mapping. Also new is the ability to calculate a potentiometric
surface to investigate hydrodynamic regional flow and identify flow
barriers and possible stratigraphic traps.
The AIFE
database is available marketed on a graduated pricing scale from $90
for a single report. This reduces to $3.00 per test with the maximum
volume discount applied. AIFE reports that six major oil and gas
companies have access to the entire database, five from the AIFE’s
hosted server. More from AIFE.
This article originally appeared in Oil IT Journal 2015 Issue # 3.
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