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hydrocarbsson Jul 25, 2018 1:18pm
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RE:RE:Huge stakes
RE:RE:Huge stakeshttps://www.epmag.com/chasing-shales-mexico-1707496#p=1
ROE has vastly superior knowledge and understanding of the Tampico-Misantla basin...
The core of Renaissance’s technical team is a group of geoscientists and an engineer who worked together at Mitchell Energy with the goal of commercializing the world’s first unconventional play, the Barnett Shale. After that success, these pioneers went on to work on shale resource plays across the U.S. and the world. The team now has reunited to tackle the task of commercializing Mexico’s first shale play. Integral to the team is drilling and completions engineer Nick Steinsberger, who designed and implemented the slickwater frack, solving the Barnett Shale. Steinsberger has gone on to drill and complete more than 1,200 shale wells using a constantly evolving set of new technologies and completion techniques. Along with his former Mitchell Energy colleagues, he is bringing his extensive experience and understanding of unconventional resource development to Mexico, where the shale oil potential is yet untouched.
Leading our understanding and mapping of the petroleum systems in Mexico is geochemist Dan Jarvie, who in the early days of the energy reform had unprecedented access for a team member of an international oil company to the extensive core and log libraries in Mexico. Jarvie acquired data from 60 wells drilled across the Tampico-Misantla Basin, including several cores taken from deeper wells drilled at Amatitlan, that penetrated the thick shale formations. He took these samples to modern labs in Houston for geochemical analysis that allowed for a detailed comparison to the rock composition of successful unconventional plays from across the world. Jarvie concluded that the Upper Jurassic shales are very comparable to another marine carbonate formation, the Eagle Ford shales of South Texas, with the predominant difference being that the Upper Jurassic shales are on average more than three times thicker than the Eagle Ford shales. He had the opportunity to closely study the Eagle Ford and many other global shale resources during his previous role as chief geochemist at EOG Resources Inc.,