Report documenting the suitability of New Mexico for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials, water sources, and local interest

The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate that a development program based on advanced reservoir management methods can significantly improve oil recovery at the Nash Draw Pool (NDP). The plan includes developing a control area using standard reservoir management techniques and comparing its performance to an area developed using advanced reservoir management methods. Specific goals are (1) to demonstrate that an advanced development drilling and pressure maintenance program can significantly improve oil recovery compared to existing technology applications and (2) to transfer these advanced methodologies to oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin and elsewhere throughout the U.S. oil and gas industry.

The Nash Draw Brushy Canyon Pool (NDP) in southeast New Mexico is one of the nine projects selected in 1995 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for participation in the Class III Reservoir Field Demonstration Program. The goals of the DOE cost-shared Class Program are to: (1) extend economic production, (2) increase ultimate recovery, and (3) broaden information exchange and technology application. Reservoirs in the Class III Program are focused on slope basin and deep-basin clastic depositional types. Production at the NDP is from the Brushy Canyon formation, a low-permeability turbidite reservoir in the Delaware Mountain Group of Permian, Guadalupian age. A major challenge in this marginal-quality reservoir is to distinguish oil-productive pay intervals from water-saturated non-pay intervals. Because initial reservoir pressure is only slightly above bubble-point pressure, rapid oil decline rates and high gas/oil ratios are typically observed in the first year of primary production. Limited surface access, caused by the proximity of underground potash mining and surface playa lakes, prohibits development with conventional drilling. Reservoir characterization results obtained to date at the NDP show that a proposed pilot injection area appears to be compartmentalized. Because reservoir discontinuities will reduce effectiveness of a pressure maintenance project, the pilot …

Data collected as part of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Program including laboratory data on waters and sediments as well as field data.

Data collected as part of hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance for the Tularosa quadrangle, New Mexico including laboratory data on waters and sediments as well as field data.

Data collected as part of a report on the Clifton New Mexico quadrangle including laboratory data on waters and sediments as well as field data.

Data collected as part of a report on the Raton New Mexico quadrangle including laboratory and field data on waters and sediments.

From introduction: The purpose of this survey was to document the pre-event and post-event condition of all existing surface facilities within a 10-mile radius of ground zero for Project GNOME.

Abstract: Field and laboratory data are presented for 776 water samples and 1,333 sediment samples from the Raton Quadrangle, New Mexico. Uranium values have been reported by Los Alamos National Laboratory in Report GJBX-138(78). The samples were collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

From Abstract: "Field and laboratory data are presented for 451 water samples and 900 sediment samples from the Clifton Quadrangle, New Mexico; Arizona."

Abstract: Field and laboratory data are presented for 284 water samples and 1,847 sediment samples from the Tularosa Quadrangle, New Mexico. Uranium values have been reported by Los Alamos National Laboratory in Report GJBX-104(78). The samples were collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

From Abstract: "Field and laboratory data are presented for 331 water samples and 1,693 sediment samples from the Aztec Quadrangle, New Mexico. Uranium values have been reported by Los Almos National Laboratory in Report GJBX-129(78). The samples were collected by Los Almos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee."

A field investigation undertaken to determine the applicability of electric-radiometric logging techniques

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Las Cruces quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.

Data gathered at well water sites in the Las Cruces quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Roswell quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.

"Field and laboratory data are presented for 842 water samples and 1270 sediment samples from Roswell Quadrangle, New Mexico. The samples were collected by Los Alamos National Laboratory; laboratory analysis and data reporting were performed by the Uranium Resource Evaluation Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee."

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Roswell quadrangle.

Data gathered at well water sites in the Roswell quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.

Data gathered at well water sites in the Fort Sumner quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.

This report presents field and laboratory data for 647 water samples and 1136 soil samples collected from the Fort Sumner quadrangle in New Mexico.

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Fort Sumner quadrangle.

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Fort Sumner quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Carlsbad quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.