The light blue colored area represents the lower section of the Birds Nest. Enhanced recovery wells were added into the Google Earth Pro model to give an idea of how many Class II wells are injecting in the Birds Nest for disposal or enhance recovery. The blue colored dots in Figure 4 represent the enhance recovery wells. Enhance recovery wells inject produced water to help increase the production oil and gas. The produce water results from these wells were not selected because the injected water will not stay in the aquifer or formations permanently. The red colored dots in Figure 4 represent the studied salt water disposal wells. The information and location for these wells was retrieved from the Utah DOGM website, which is publicly available.
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This data helped to consider the total volume of the Birds Nest. The depth of the Birds Nest aquifer was collected by using the Utah 147 study which is available online and by requesting a Data CD from the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Additional to this information collected, salt water disposal wells permit and logs from the Utah DOGM website were used to verify the depth of the two sections of the Birds Nest. The total volume number will be the 100 percent of the Birds Nest, including anything inside this aquifer (i.e. sandstone, shale, etc.). Only one percent of the total volume will be selected to represent the porous area that can receive fluids for this study purpose as a base scenario to investigate if is possible for injected water to migrate outside the aquifer …show more content…
Top Section of the Birds Nest Aquifer Length. (Google Earth Pro, 2016) The dark blue area representing the upper section of the Birds Nest aquifer in this figure is the area with with the vacuum and most of the wells that are injecting in this section are set to a maximum pressure of 300 psi. The length of the upper section of the Birds Nest aquifer is 34.38 miles. The yellow line in the upper section shows the measured distance. The ruler box in Figure 6 also shows the measured
This data helped to consider the total volume of the Birds Nest. The depth of the Birds Nest aquifer was collected by using the Utah 147 study which is available online and by requesting a Data CD from the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Additional to this information collected, salt water disposal wells permit and logs from the Utah DOGM website were used to verify the depth of the two sections of the Birds Nest. The total volume number will be the 100 percent of the Birds Nest, including anything inside this aquifer (i.e. sandstone, shale, etc.). Only one percent of the total volume will be selected to represent the porous area that can receive fluids for this study purpose as a base scenario to investigate if is possible for injected water to migrate outside the aquifer …show more content…
Top Section of the Birds Nest Aquifer Length. (Google Earth Pro, 2016) The dark blue area representing the upper section of the Birds Nest aquifer in this figure is the area with with the vacuum and most of the wells that are injecting in this section are set to a maximum pressure of 300 psi. The length of the upper section of the Birds Nest aquifer is 34.38 miles. The yellow line in the upper section shows the measured distance. The ruler box in Figure 6 also shows the measured