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1 Department of Geological Sciences and Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, Box 870338, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 34587-0338; emancini{at}wgs.geo.ua.edu
2 Department of Geological Sciences and Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, Box 870338, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 34587-0338; dbenson{at}as.ua.edu
3 New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801; hart{at}eps.mcgill.ca
4 New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801
5 Department of Geological Sciences and Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, Box 870338, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 34587-0338; parce001{at}bama.ua.edu
6 Department of Geological Sciences and Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, Box 870338, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 34587-0338; bpanetta{at}petromod.geo.ua.edu
Ernest A. Mancini is professor of geology in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, where he also serves as director of the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, an interdisciplinary petroleum research center, and as director of the Eastern Gulf Region of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, the primary technology transfer organization for the petroleum industry in the region. He is a former state geologist and oil and gas supervisor for the state of Alabama.Joe Benson received his B.A. degree from the College of Wooster and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. From 1973 until 1978 he was a geologist with the Lake Erie Section of the Ohio Geological Survey. In 1978 he joined the Department of Geology at the University of Alabama, where he is presently professor of geology and associate dean for science and mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the depositional and diagenetic history of carbonates with emphasis on controls on reservoir evolution and quality.
Bruce Hart was a petroleum geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources when this work was conducted. He is currently assistant professor with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University. He has taught short courses on three-dimensional seismic interpretation for SEPM, GSA, PTTC, and other organizations. His research focuses on integrating three-dimensional seismic methods with other approaches to understand subsurface physical properties and to address fundamental problems in stratigraphy and structural geology.
Robert Balch is a research associate in the Reservoir Evaluation and Advanced Computational Technologies Group of the Petroleum Recovery Research Center at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. His current research interests are primarily in the field of reservoir characterization using artificial intelligence tools such as fuzzy logic and neural networks. He has a B.S. degree from Evergreen State College and an M.S. degree and Ph.D. in geophysics from New Mexico Tech.
William Parcell is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Alabama. His primary research interests are carbonate sequence stratigraphy and stratigraphic modeling. He received his B.S. degree (1994) from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, and his M.S. degree (1997) from the University of Delaware. He has worked on facies analysis of Middle Jurassic carbonates in Montana and Wyoming and controls on the distribution of Upper Jurassic reefs in the United States Gulf Coast, France, and Portugal.
Brian Panetta received a B.S. degree (1992) in geology from the University of South Carolina and a M.S. degree (1995) in geology from the University of Kentucky. Since 1997 he has worked as a staff geologist for the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies at the University of Alabama, where he is also pursuing his Ph.D. His research is focused on three-dimensional modeling of petroleum reservoirs.
Appleton oil field, located in Escambia County, Alabama, was discovered in 1983 through the use of two-dimensional seismic reflection data. The field structure is a northwest-southeast-trending paleotopographic ridge comprised of local paleohighs. The field produces from microbial reef boundstones and shoal grainstones and packstones of the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation. Because Appleton field is approaching abandonment, owing to reduced profitability, an integrated geoscientific study of the field structure and reservoir was undertaken to determine whether drilling additional wells in the field would extend the productive life of the reservoir. The conclusion from the integrated study, which included advanced carbonate reservoir characterization, three-dimensional geologic visualization modeling, seismic forward modeling, porosity distribution analysis, and field production analysis, was that a sidetrack well drilled on the western paleohigh should result in improved oil recovery from the field. The sidetrack well was drilled and penetrated porous Smackover reservoir near the crest of the western paleohigh. The well tested 136 bbl oil/day.
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