While every effort is put forth before drilling begins to ensure a successful well, not every well hits hydrocarbons at a commercially productive level. Statistically, wildcat (or exploratory) wells ...

Formation testing and sampling tools with wireline (WFT) and formation pressures and sampling while-drilling (FPWD/FSWD) are widely used in exploration/appraisal and field development projects. During ...

Experience in 1999 during appraisal of the Peng Lai 19-3 field, off China, showed that a cased-hole formation tester has numerous benefits with few drawbacks. This concluding article of a two-part ...

3D Energi has validated a new gas-condensate discovery in the offshore Otway Basin, with advanced formation testing confirming reservoir quality and deliverability at the Essington-1 exploration well ...