... Abstract Production results from capital or operational investments are often difficult to identify and quantify due to a field's decline and other factors that introduce noise in the data. This was the case with a series of operational improvements in a tight gas field of 80 mostly marginal...

... investment was also performed. In spite of being technically less successful, the West Buffalo "B" Red River Unit (WBBRRU) under waterflooding has shown greater economic benefit over its "twin" West Buffalo Red River Unit (WBRRU) under air injection. This results primarily from the low oil prices (less than...

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... into this region. In the new markets, gas producers will be competing with other energy providers by pitting the energy advantages of natural gas against electricity, oil, or coal. Indeed, another form of a competitor in the end-use market is money. Most end-use applications will require the investment of large...

... ABSTRACT Searching for stability in a commodity market sounds like the pursuit of the Holy Grail. The potential rewards for finding it outweigh the uncertainties of whether it actually exists. Oil consumers and suppliers are investing billions of dollars in pursuit of the flexibility necessary...

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... of a relatively small, individual site development approach. Finally, economic viability has, and will most likely continue, to control the extent to which the private business sector is willing to make the necessary investments required to recover and use the coal bed methane resource. On this basis the system...

... Introduction The purpose of this paper is to review certain investment aspects of the offshore petroleum development that started with such a flurry early this year, after what seemed am interminable delay, in opening one of the world's remaining great prospective areas to exploration...

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..., lease brokers, and other independents. The results of drilling must live up to the expectations of the investor. Investment capital may be raised through broker-type groups, incliviclual sales or more typically through direct offerings by the operator. Recently the offerings are commonly structured...

.... As the reservoir is depleted and pressure is de- creased, the ability of the producing wells to lift the water is reduced. At some point, the wells may load up with this water and gas production can only be restored by artificially lifting the water. Capi- tal investment may be re~uired to install such lift e...

.... This affords the contractor a short term payout and long term operation through service contracts if desired. Drilling supplies may be on site or remote from the development. Storage, modes of investment, mechanics of a cooperative and a balance sheet example complete the discussion. Introduction Oilfield...

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... with various operators in this area reveals that their increase in storage volume is connected with the conversion or recently round gas fields in Kentucky to storage fields. P. 1^ investment storage field Gauthier Upstream Oil & Gas Aquifer Storage peak shaving requirement natural gas...

.... With increasingly large capital outlays for producing operations, it has become critical that investment be made as effective as possible. For this reason, considerable attention has been given to techniques for insuring maximum benefits from dollar expenditures. It is to our industry's credit that many...