Part 4 - Berg - Hughes Center
Part 4 - Berg - Hughes Center
Part 4 - Berg - Hughes Center
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only those wells favorably located with respect to present structure, as well as to structure<br />
during deposition and diagenesis, are productive.<br />
According to Moore and Druckman (1981), the upper Smackover is a blanket ooid<br />
grainstone 300 to 400 ft thick and covering approximately 4,000 sq mi in east Texas,<br />
southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana. Their work in burial diagenesis of the<br />
Smackover indicates that porosity is affected to a greater degree by burial diagenetic<br />
processes than by depositional environment processes. They indicate zones with porosity<br />
values ranging from 11 to 22%, and permeabilities of 1 to 100 millidarcys at the site of<br />
some of the larger upper Smackover discoveries of the 1960s, such as Walker Creek<br />
field, that eventually led to new exploration across the entire Smackover fairway.<br />
Zimmerman’s (1992) study of the sparsely drilled area in the northeast corner of<br />
Louisiana indicates that the extensively fractured intervals observed in Smackover<br />
conventional cores in the area can be attributed to wrench and normal faulting. Although<br />
located on the border of the North Louisiana Salt Basin, this area is an example of<br />
tectonic fracturing that may have future exploration and production potential in the<br />
Smackover interval.<br />
In summary and regarding reservoir conditions of the Smackover in north Louisiana,<br />
depth to pay ranges from 8,600 to 11,600 ft with net pay of producing intervals ranging<br />
from 20 to 120 ft. The oolitic and pisolitic limestones tend to be tight with porosities of<br />
11 to 22% and permeability less than 1 to 100 md. The hydrocarbons produced are<br />
generally 42º to 53º API gravity crudes and condensates.<br />
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