FIG. 2

Gulf of Mexico

RESIDUAL OIL ZONE FAIRWAYS, OIL FIELDS

New Mexico
MEXICO
UNITED
STATES
Lubbock
Midland
Tall Cotton
Slaughter-Levelland

Slaughter Fairway

Salt
Creek
Katz

Roswell Fairway

Texas
Vacuum Wasson

Artesia Fairway

Hobbs SACROC Seminole Robertson-Flanagan

Capitan Fairway North Cowden
Goldsmith-
Andector
South Cowden
Howard
Glasscock
McElroy-Dune

CONTENTS

Apr. 3, 2017 Volume 115.4

REGULAR FEATURES

NEWSLETTER 6

LETTERS/CALENDAR 16

JOURNALLY SPEAKING 22

EDITORIAL 24

SERVICES/SUPPLIERS 85

STATISTICS 87

MARKET CONNECTION 90

ADVERTISERS INDEX 91

EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE/ WATCHING GOVERNMENT 92

OG&PE

P1

52

SPECIAL REPORT
NE W FINANCIAL STRUCTURES
SPECIAL REPORT
EOR UPDATE
COVER

Kinder Morgan injects carbon dioxide to enhance oil recovery for nearly all of its Texas oil production. The cover shows a drilling rig in Kinder Morgan’s Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators (SACROC) unit in Scurry County, Tex. The EOR special report, beginning on p. 52, summarizes fndings by various companies and research groups into residual oil zones, which underlie many felds in the Permian basin. EOR applications are being studied for ROZ felds. The second story in the special report discusses how various pore structures infuence EOR in China’s Changqing feld. Photo from Kinder Morgan.