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Gold/Mining/Energy : KOB.TO - East Lost Hills & GSJB joint venture
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To: Saverio who wrote (985)12/12/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: RSkarsten  Read Replies (1) of 15703
 
Here's a pm I got from a trial member. Sounds good to me.
Russ

"Here are answers to your 2 questions in trade for 2 answers to my questions. i can help with the geology stuff need help with the trading terms.

1. condensate refers to a light hydrocarbon liquid ( lighter in density and rich in lighter C1-C4 molecules) but heavier than crude oil. It can be present in this liquid state in the reservoir or fromed by drilling in a high pressure/temp gas reservoir and allowing that gas to move to a different pressure/temperature & volume conditions (ie. surface
conditions). So condensate may be a gas in the reservoir but some where on the way
to the surface it condenses in to liquid form.

2. conning refers to the movement of formation water from a waterzone to the well
bore ( which has been drilled in to the water zone )due to very high production rates of
through high permeability path ways ( fractures, less cementation, larger sand grain
size.

So in essence we likely have gas on top of possibly condensate (or not) and then a
water zone. The well have likey penetrated the gas zone (17ft) and maybe the gas
/water is at say 25 feet from the top of the top of the tremblor sand. Since the well
have been producing at such large flow rates ( ie. extreme pressure differentials
between wellbore in contact with the gas zone and the pressure in the sand)it may be
easier for the water to move in from a couple feet lower down than pulling gas -
inducing a pressure gradient - further and further laterally into the zone especially at
these high flow rates"
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