09-29-2012, 01:22 PM
'admin' pid='10492' datel Wrote:And another question, how (and when) would they determine whether the reservoir is pressure depletion or water drive depletion. Will that only reveal itself when they start producing the gas?
GLJ thinks they already know it will be a pressure depletion based on the Antelope aquifer being higher pressure than would be expected. I suppose they could be wrong but probably not.
Once production begins if the reservoir pressure does not fall as fast as expected for a pressure depletion drive that will indicate that there is water entering the reservoir and keeping the pressure from falling. Oddly enough this would seem to be a good thing and that more gas would be recovered but, in fact, water drive gas reservoirs acutally recover less gas because the wells go to water sooner than they will with a pressure depletion drive.

