Some New Thoughts on Improving Oil Recovery from the Minnelusa Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Significant oil reserves remain in many Minnelusa fields and detailed reservoir characterization is a key to developing optimal EOR strategies. Sequence stratigraphic principles have shown great promise in being able to adequately map flow units within these complex reservoirs and help indicate ways to improve production.  Not only can sequence stratigraphic mapping in the Minnelusa help improve production in existing fields, but together with modern 3D seismic data it may further improve EOR efforts as well as helping to locate new fields.