Correlations Company has direct experience in using artificial intelligence tools to predict waterflood performance based on state regulatory agency records and to find oil and gas behind pipe. Results of this work are presented in technical papers.
The Company has managed three Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants, two of which resulted in Phase II awards, plus a Phase I grant. As contractor on these awards, the Company has met all reporting requirements in a timely manner. The results of the initial SBIR award using fractals to distribute reservoir parameters are described in SPE 38128 A Comprehensive Tool for PC Platforms. The Company currently has an ongoing DOE contract for chemical stimulation of oil wells via water imbibition that includes the use of fuzzy ranking and neural networks to evaluate field experiments. Results of the initial field work on the chemical stimulation of oil wells project is reported in SPE 89457 Artificial Intelligence Used to Evaluate 23 Single-Well Surfactant Soak Treatments. The accompanying laboratory work is presented in SPE 89424 Improved Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs by Chemical Stimulations.
Additionally the Company has worked with small oil companies to secure grants under the DOE’s NPTO “Technology Development with Independents” program. Three companies won awards one of which is reported in SPE 71057 Data Mining at a Regulatory Agency to Forecast Waterflood Recovery.
DOE/SBIR grants
- Forecasting Reservoir Thickness with Fractals
Award : $825,000 (DOE grant DE-FG05-94ER81821) - Imaging the Distribution of Reservoir Properties with Time
Award : $75,000 (DOE grant DE-FG03-99ER82769) - Chemical Stimulation of Oil Wells Producing from Carbonate Reservoirs
Award : $825,000 (DOE grant DE-FG03-01ER83226)
DOE NETL/NPTO grant
DOE NPTO Technology Development with Independants grants
- Solving the Shugart Queen Sand Penasco Unit Declining Production Problem
Award : $75,000 - A Quick Method to Evaluate the Herboldsheimer Field Waterflood Potential
Award : $75,000 - A New Log Evaluation Method to Appraise Mesaverde Re-Completion Opportunities
Award : $75,000
Selected Technical publications
- Ouenes, A., Craig, C., Patel, K., Wang, J.: "A Comprehensive Tool for PC Platforms", SPE 38128. Presented at the Petroleum Computer Conference, Dallas, TX. 8-11 June 1997
- Weiss, W. W., Wo, S., Weiss J.: "Data Mining at a Regulatory Agency to Forecast Waterflood Recovery", SPE 71057. Presented at the 2001 SPE Rocky Mountain Technical Conference, Keystone, CO. 21-23 May 2001
- BMG: "New Log Evaluation Method to Appraise Mesaverde Re-Completion Opportunities", DOE grant DE-FG2601NT15264, final report. December 2003
- Weiss, W. W., Xie, X., Weiss, J. W., Subramaniam, V., Taylor, A., Edens, F.: "Artificial Intelligence used to Evaluate 23 Single-Well Surfactant Soak Treatments", SPE 89457. Presented at the 14th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK. 17-21 April 2004
- Xie, X., Weiss, W. W., Tong, Z., Morrow, N.: "Improved Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs by Chemical Stimulations", SPE 89424, Presented at the 14th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK. 17-21 April 2004
