Volume 192
Petroleum Development and Technology 1951
Petroleum Branch Papers and Discussions Presented before the Branch at Meetings held at New Orleans, October 4-6, 1950; Los Angles, October 12-13, 1950; St. Louis, February 19-22, 1951 and Oklahoma City, October 3-5, 1951
Title Page
Foreword, By R. W. French
A.I.M.E. Officers and Directors
Contents
Errata
Petroleum Branch Officers
Petroleum Branch Past Chairman
The Anthony F. Lucas and Medal
Petroleum Branch Certificate of Service

PAPERS:

Drilling and Fluids and Cement

TITLE AUTHOR
Carrying Capacity of Drilling Muds C. E. Williams, Jr., and G. H. Bruce
Plastic Flow Properties of Drilling Fluids-Measurement and Application J. C. Melrose and W. B. Lilienthal
A Modified Low-Strength Cement B. E. Morgan and C. K. Dumbauld
An Analysis and the Control of Lost Circulation George C. Howard and P. P. Scott, Jr.

Equipment

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A Gravel Pack Completion for Exclusion of Gas and Water Thomas S. West
Surface Indicating Pressure, Temperature and Flow Equipment M. B. Riordan

Fluid Injection

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The Shuler Jones Sand Pool; Nine Years of Unitized Pressure-Maintenance Operations Jack Tarner, W. R. Evans and H. H. Kaveler
Effect of Free Gas Saturation on Oil Recovery by Water Flooding C. R. Holmgren and R. A. Morse
Primary High Pressure Water Flooding in the Pettit Lime Haynesville Field D. W. Akins Jr.
Report on Mamou Field Pressure Maintenance Project William O. Crego and James R. I. Henagan
Results of Gas Injection in the Cedar Lake Field R. M. Leibrock, R. G. Hiltz, and J. E. Huzarevich

Logging

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An Investigation of the Electrokinetic Component of the Self Potential Curve M. R. J. Wyllie
The Quantitative Application of Radioactivity Logs Robert E. Bush and E. S. Mardock
The Laterolog: A New Resistivity Logging Method with Electrodes Using an Automatic Focusing System H. G. Doll
The Guard Electrode Logging System System By John E. Owen and Walton J. Greer

Measurements of Physical Properties

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Laboratory Measurements of Relative Permeability J. S. Osoba, J. G. Richardson, J. K. Kerver, J. A. Hafford, and P. M. Blair
Capillary Pressure Investigations Harry W. Brown
Relative Permeability to Liquid in Liquid-Gas Systems L. A. Rapoport and W. J. Leas
Experimental Investigation of Factors Affecting Laboratory Relative Permeability Measurements T. M. Geffen, W. W. Owens, D. R. Parrish, and R. A. Morse
Use of Centrifuge for Determining Connate Water, Residual Oil, and Capillary Pressure Curves of Small Core Samples R. L. Slobod, Adele Chambers, and W. L. Prehn, Jr.
Further Developments in the Laboratory Determination of Relative Permeability B. H. Caudle, R. L. Slobod, and E. R. Brownscombe
Relative Permeability Studies Irving Fatt and Herman Dykstra
Interstitial Water Determination by an Evaporation Method E. S. Messer

Natural Gas

TITLE AUTHOR
Low Temperature Dehydration of Natural Gas Louis R. Records and Dwight H. Seely, Jr.
Transient Flow in Gas Transmission Lines R. H. Olds and B. H. Sage
Measuring the Water Vapor Content of Gases Dehydrated by Triethylene Glycol Irwin Politziner F. M. Townsend, and L. S. Reid
The Calculation of Pressure Drop in the Flow of Natural Gas Through Pipe (discussion to p. 317) Fred H. Poettmann

Reservoir Engineering

TITLE AUTHOR
Pressure Behavior in the Woodbine Sand John S. Bell and J. M. Shepherd
A Study of the Dornick Hills-Springer Sand Reservoir, Velma Pool, Oklahoma W. R. Davis
Special Considerations in Predicting Reservoir Performance of Highly Volatile Type Oil Reservoirs Alton B. Cook, G. B. Spencer, and F. P. Bobrowski
Interfacial Tensions at Reservoir Pressures and Temperatures; Apparatus and the Water-Methane System E. W. Hough, M. J. Rzasa, and B. B. Wood
Variable Characteristics of the Oil in the Tensleep Sandstone Reservoir, Elk Basin Field, Wyoming and Montana Ralph H. Espach and Joseph Fry
Vaporization Characteristics of Carbon Dioxide in a Natural Gas-Crude Oil System Fred H. Poettmann
The Southwest Antioch Gibson Sand Unit T. E. Ockershauser
Steady Flow of Two-Phase Single-Component Fluids Through Porous Media Frank G. Miller
Phase Equilibria in Hydrocarbon-Water Systems, III -The Solubility of Methane in Water at Pressures to 10,000 PSIA 0. L. Culberson and J. J. McKetta, Jr.
The Phase Behavior of a Natural Hydrocarbon System Charles F. Weinaug and Howard B. Bradley
Fluid Saturation in Porous Media by X-Ray Technique A. D. K. Laird and John A. Putnam
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Gravity Drainage Performance P. L. Terwilliger, L. E. Wilsey, Howard N. Hall, P. M. Bridges, and R. A. Morse
Phase Equilibria in Hydrocarbon-Water Systems, IV-Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Constants in the Methane-Water and Ethane-Water Systems 0. L. Culberson and J. J. McKetta, Jr.
The Effect of Withdrawal Rate on the Uniformity of Edgewater lntrusion M. Muskat
A Reservoir Analyzer Study of the Woodbine Basin R. C. Rumble, H. H. Spain, and H. E. Stamm, III
Porosity-Measurement Comparisons by Five Laboratories B. J. Dotson, R. L. Slobod, P. N. McCreery, and James W. Spurlock

Miscellaneous

TITLE AUTHOR
Mineralogical Studies of California Oilbearing Formations, I - Identification of Clays P. G. Nahin, W. C. Merrill, A. Grenall, and R. S. Crog
Relaxation Methods Applied to Oilfield Research (discussion to p. 227) Herman Dykstra and R. L. Parsons

Separate Discussions

Technical Notes

TITLE AUTHOR
A New Technique for the Measurement of the Formation Factors and Resistivity Indices of Porous Media F. Morgan, M. R. J. Wyllie, and P. F. Fulton
Fluid Distributions Characterizing Gas-Liquid Flow Walter Rose
The Calculation of Water Resistivities from Chemical Analysis H. F. Dunlap and R. R. Hawthorne
Theoretical Note on Linear Absorption Methods of Determination of Fluid Saturation in Porous Media Leonard B. Lipson
The Interpretation of Chemical Water Analysis by Means of Patterns Henry A. Stiff, Jr.
A High Temperature Gauge Glass for the Visual Observation of Critical Phenomena John R. Spencer
A Note on the Interrelationship Between Wetting and Non-Wetting Phase Relative Permeability M. R. J. Wyllie

Index

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Index