1. Seismic Reservoir Characterization of the Morrow A Sandstone Thomas L. Davis & Robert D. Benson CSM Scott Wehner, Chaparral Energy, and Michael D. Raines and Roger Freidline, Whiting Oil and Gas Corp Postle Field, Texas County, Oklahoma

2. Postle Field Site of the 24-5 Well

3. Location of Postle Field Modified from Johnson (1989) Postle Field

4. Morrow Stratigraphic Section

5. Postle Field – Geologic Setting Pennsylvanian Morrow (~217Ma) paleogeography. Modified from Bowen and Weimer (2003).

6. Study Location in the Hovey Morrow Unit

7. Net Pay A Sand

8. Postle Reservoir Parameters Depth 6100’ Producing formation Upper Morrow sand Average Thickness 28’ (10-70) Porosity 17% (10-23) Permeability 50 mD (20-500) Soi 70% Reservoir Temp 140 F Reservoir pressure Initial 1630 psi Reservoir Pressure Current 200 - 2300 - 4500 psi Minimum Miscibility Pressure 2100 psi Oil Gravity 40 API Oil FVF orig 1.28 Oil FVF current 1.20 Well spacing 40 Ac (80-Ac 5-spot inj. patterns) Area 26000 Ac Cumulative Production 120 MMBO (40% OOIP) OOIP ~300 MMBO

9. Motivation Dry holes drilled

10. Cross Section 6300 ft 6000 ft Morrow A West East Valley – Fill Sandstones

11. Binocular Microscope Image The Morrow Sandstone

12. Dipole Sonic Log – Postle Field

13. Where is the Sand? Acoustic impedance contrast between Morrow sandstone and shale is small (<10%). The Morrow A is a thin sandstone reservoir below seismic resolution. Average ~45 ft.

14. 4-D, 9-C Seismic Survey

15. Field Survey Layout

16. 4-D, 9-C Seismic Acquisition Parameters 4-D, 9-C Seismic Acquisition Parameters Type survey4-D, 9-C (time-lapse) Subsurface bin size55 feet X 55 feet Number of receiver locations1920 Number of source locations1920 Total number of source points5760 Type receiver spreadStationary: 13,200’ X 13,200’ InstrumentationI/O System IV, 2 ms sample rate, 4/5 sec. record length Receiver arraySingle 3-C Digital Sensor (VectorSeis) Source (P-wave)Vertical vibrator: 6-100 hz linear sweep, 8 sec duration, 4 sweeps Source (S-wave)Horizontal vibrator: 4-60 hz linear sweep, 8 sec duration, 4 sweeps, one source oriented N-S, one source oriented E-W Special Thanks to Paragon

17. Reservoir Characterization Project Phase XII P StackS11 Stack 800 1500 2850 1300 1050 2500 2000 A

18. P-Wave Synthetic Seismogram Well 17-6 Correlation: 73% 18

19. P-Wave Inline 50 - Baseline 19 south north Lateral Scale 2.5 Miles

20. S11-Wave Synthetic Seismogram 20 Well 17-6 Correlation: 72%

21. S11 Inline 50 - Baseline 21 Atoka Morrow Shale Morrow A Lateral Scale 2.5 Miles

22. Postle Seismic Survey

23. VSP Well Tie P-Wave Corridor STK March 08 in Inline 45 S-Wave Corridor STK March 08 in Inline 45 Tamimi 2009

24. P-Wave Max Peak Amplitude Pmig4 Band Pass 30,35 Morrow Peak 20 ms Center Correlation: 0.42 Wyllie, 2008

25. S -Impedance 17840 12893 Correlation Coeff.65

26. Seismic guided Morrow A Sandstone 4000 ft (ft) Multicomponent guided Isopach 14.73 CC From Pinto 2011

27. Final Map With 94% correlation to Morrow A thickness of well data. Includes P-P amp, S11 and S22 amplitudes, and time-lapse P-P data From Minaei, 2011 Thickness (ft)

28. Where is the CO2 Going?

29. Seismic/Simulation P-Wave: 1 st Monitor-Base 29 From Heris 2011 From Zerpa 2011

30. Seismic/Simulation S11-Wave: 1 st Monitor-Base 30 From Heris 2011 From Zerpa 2011

31. Revitalization of HMU, Postle Field, OK Discovery 19581961 Start of Production 1974 Start of Waterflood May 2007 March 2008 Dec. 2008 February 2010 Start of CO 2 Flood Baseline Survey 1 st Monitor Survey 2 nd Monitor Survey Seismic Acquisition (Modified from Heris, 2011) Production history of Postle Field in the RCP area 31

32. Production History & Field Revitalization 3068

33. Conclusions The Morrow A Sandstone Reservoir is better imaged with shear waves Reservoir conformance mapping with shear waves provides the insight to change or adjust the current injection-production pattern to improve CO2 conformance

34. Reservoir Characterization Project Phase XII Thanks to RCP Sponsors of Phases XII and XIII