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Use and Abuse of Wireline Measurements for Potash Exploration and Reserves Estimates

Donald Hill1 and Laurence Teuful2


1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM


April 4-8, 2020 (Cancelled) – AAPG Pacific Section Convention, 2020 Vision: Producing the Future, Mandalay Beach, Oxnard, CA

Posted: May 22, 2020

Abstract

A technical dispute between a mining company and oil and gas producers in SE New Mexico opened the door to a world of technical and political intrigue. What started out as an exercise involving evaluation of an over-reaching wireline evaluation by partially informed individuals morphed into an Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy world of IPO promotions, misleading requests to outside consultants, and litigation, as well as Congressional and government agency lobbying. The resulting case history should serve as a cautionary tale for all petrophysicists, whether they are working as outside consultants or on an internal evaluation team. The pressures can be the same, in both cases.

AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90372 © 2020 AAPG Pacific Section Convention, 2020 Vision: Producing the Future, Mandalay Beach, Oxnard, CA, April 4-8, 2020 (Cancelled)