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 …

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

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

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

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

Document certifying the incorporation of the San San Simon Cattle and Canal Company and outlining its basic objectives, stocks, and territories. The notarization location and date of the document are scratched out in pen ink and replaced with handwritten corrections. The document is notarized by George W. Jalouick and signed by Claiborne Walker Merchant, James H. Parramore, J. M. Hall, T. B. Hadley, and W. L. Purcell. A handwritten note on the back by the notary public includes Purcell in the notarization, who was initially left off. A second handwritten note below explains that the document is a copy, along with where the original was signed and located.

Newspaper clipping with articles about the New York Herald Tribune participating in air races, the death of Jack Woolams, Senator Carl Hatch's opposition to bomb tests, and more.

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

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.

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 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.

Photograph of a scene on Nine Mile Hill, along Route 66.

Photograph of a scene on Nine Mile Hill, along Route 66.

Photograph of Emack & Bolio's, in the Nob Hill section along Route 66.

Photograph of a scene on Nine Mile Hill, along Route 66.

Photograph of Emack & Bolio's, in the Nob Hill section along Route 66.

Photograph of a scene in Historic Old Town, off Route 66.

Photograph of a scene on Nine Mile Hill, along Route 66.

Photograph of a scene on Nine Mile Hill, along Route 66.

Photograph of the Kimo Theatre, off Route 66.

Photograph of a scene in Historic Old Town, off Route 66.