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mobility of the fluids. The investigators assumed that the field<br />

would be produced until the water cut reaches 96 percent of produced<br />

fluids. These same methods were used in determining future<br />

production rates.<br />

The estimates of reserves <strong>and</strong> ultimate recovery are sensitive to<br />

the degree to which the empirical analysis method continues to<br />

duplicate performance. This is, of course, controlled by the<br />

applicability of the method <strong>and</strong> the proper selection of reservoir<br />

<strong>and</strong> fluid parameters in each of the reservoir segments. The latter<br />

is difficult 1n dirty s<strong>and</strong>-shale sequences. Relatively firm,production<br />

decline trends in the important reservoir segments have not<br />

yet been established. Also, development in the newer eastern<br />

extension of the field is not entirely complete.<br />

The FEA report on the Wilmington Field was prepared by the U.S.<br />

Bureau of Mines, Department of Interior, under Interagency Agreement<br />

CG-05-50085-00. .<br />

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