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PLUM BUSH CREEK FIELD By: Melody Ulen

"J" Sandstone Tipperary Oil and Gas Corp.
TzS, R55&56W
Washington County, Colorado

GEOLOGY Water Saturation: 30 %

Regional Setting: Gently west-dipping east flank of Initial Field Pressure (psi):1290
Denver Basin Type of Drive: Solution-gas expansion drive
Surface Formations: Cretaceous Pierre Shale Original Gas, Oil and Water Contact Datums: OWC -
Discovery Method: Subsurface mapping Oil Characteristics:
Type of Trap: Stratigraphic-structural Color: Brown
Producing Formation: Cretaceous-Dakota, "J" sands Type: Sweet
Thickness and Lithology of Reservoir Rocks: 5-45', sandstone Gravity (OAPI): 40
Geometry of Reservoir Rock: Channel sand Gas-Oil Ratio (cu fttbbl): 130
Other Shows: None Gas Characteristics:
Oldest Stratigraphic Horizon Penetrated: Cretaceous Specific Gravity: 0.85
Dakota Composition by Molecular Percentage:
nitrogen .09 %
DISCOVERY WELL co2 1.5 %
Name: Kimbark Co., Ltd. and Sterling Drilling Co. No. I methane 4.21 %
Porter ethane 2.37 %
Location: C SW SW (660' FSL, 660' FWL) Sec. 30-T2S - R55W propane 6.44 %
Elevation (KB): 4669 feet isobutane 1.84 %
Completed: December 7,1954 normal butane 5.44 %
Total Depth: 5150 feet isopentane 2.63 %
Casing: 8-518" at 163' with 80 sacks, 5-112" at 5138' with normal pentane 3.16 %
100 sacks hexanes 4.78 %
Perforations: 4984 feet to 4987 feet heptanes 67.54 %
Treatment: None Estimated Primary Recovery: 8,975,600 BO
Initial Potential: 120 BOPD pumped Type Pressure Maintenance or Enhanced Recovery:
Pressure (psi):1290 Waterflood
Estimated Ultimate Recovery: 19 million BO
DRILLING AND COMPLETION PRACTICES Market Outlet: Arapahoe Pipeline
Normal drilling and completion practices consisted of
setting 8-518" - 10-314" surface casing between 80 feet and FIELD COMMENTARY
220 feet, drilling to the top of the Niobrara with natural Plum Bush Creek Field is located approximately sixty (60)
mud, converting to an oil emulsion mud, and drilling or coring miles east of Denver. The trapping mechanism for this field
through the "J" sand pay sections. Drill stem tests were run in is a permeability pinchout updip on a slight structural nose.
some wells, but often casing was run through the sands and The geometry of the sand body indicates a channel sand.
selected zones were perforated based on shows and electric There are three separate benches of "J" sand in the field: The
logs. The normal suite of logs consisted of an electrical log first and third benches are the principal producers in the
and a microlog. Porosity tools were not well-developed or northeast part of the field, and the first and second benches
common at the time this field was discovered and developed. are the principal producers in the southwest part of the field.
Upon perforating, the wells were placed on pump, using no The production history is typical of solution-gas expansion
artificial stimulation. drive reservoirs. The initial production rates were high with a
rapid decline in production and bottom hole pressures.
RESERVOIR DATA A study was made to determine the feasibility of either a
Proven Productive Area: 1920 acres gas-injection or waterflood secondary recovery program.
Spacing: 40 acres, order #57-1 The engineering committee determined that water-flooding
Net Pay-Maximum: 45' would be more effective and the program was instituted in
Average: 20' 1959. The field was unitized in 1958. Since 1961 the field
From 34 cores J-1& J-2 J-3 production has declined annually, and presently only eight (8)
Porosity: 23% 18.8% wells are producing. The remaining wells are either shut-in
Permeability: 334.8 md 276.3 md or have been converted to water injection wells.

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REFERENCES
Arbuckle, Walter K., Personal Communication.
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Production
Data and Well Data Files.
Kimbark Operating Company, Production and Field Data
Files.

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Field u n i t i z e d September, 1958

Operated by Conoco now; discovered by Kimbark

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