Unlocking the Potential and Revitalize a Mature Basin: A Case Study from a Rhaetian Oil Field

In a mature petroleum basin like the Paris Basin, critical thinking and new technologies are key to unlock development or exploration success. Detailed cores studies, basin scale sedimentary studies, geophysical concept application performed over the last 10 years combined with new drilling practices and technologies brake the low oil rate decline observed globally in the Paris Basin. This case study sums up the difficulties encountered and resolved through complete subsurface and engineering studies in the Vert-La-Gravelle (“VGR”) Rhaetian sandstones oil field.