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Native American Initiative

Native American Initiative. For GAO Review 1997-2007 August 09, 2007. Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil. Program Description. Targets resources on tribal lands 890 million bbls oil 5.6 trillion ft 3 of gas

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Native American Initiative

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  1. Native American Initiative For GAO Review 1997-2007 August 09, 2007 Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil

  2. Program Description • Targets resources on tribal lands • 890 million bbls oil • 5.6 trillion ft3 of gas • Helps tribes develop and manage energy resources while protecting the environment • Stimulates economic development of oil & gas • Promotes Tribe-industry partnerships • 22 projects funded from 1994 to 2004

  3. Participating Tribes • Assiniboine & Sioux • Crow (2) • Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho • Hopi • Inupiat • Jicarilla Apache (3) • Northern Cheyenne • Osage (5) • Southern Ute • Three Affiliated Tribes • Ute • Ute Mountain Ute

  4. Goals • Promote dialogue among tribes, industry, and researchers • Develop and demonstrate innovative petroleum technologies • Increase exploration and development activity on tribal lands • Increase oil and natural gas production on tribal lands • Create jobs for tribal members

  5. Budget Level

  6. SuccessEnhanced Oil Recovery by Horizontal Waterflooding Osage Tribe and Grand Resources Inc. Goal: • Demonstrate that horizontal waterflooding can be technically and economically successful Accomplishments: • An abandoned field was revived • Technology successfully used in a nearby 100 year old field • Production went from 0 to a total of 100 bopd for the two fields • Expected ultimate production for the test wells is 29,000 bo

  7. Enhanced Oil Recovery by Horizontal Waterflooding - Osage Tribe cont’d Benefits: • Technology can increase production in poorly performing waterfloods and thereby reduce field abandonments • Demonstration scale horizontal waterflood could generate $2.9 million over 6 years • Vertical waterflood would generate $1.4 million in 30 years

  8. SuccessNorth Hill Creek 3-D Seismic Exploration Ute Tribe and Wind River Resources Corp. Goals: • Use 3D seismic surveys to assess oil and gas potential Accomplishments: • 15 wells drilled with a 100% success rate • Royalty revenue for the Ute Tribe was $5,000 per day • Identified 1 formation that had never been produced commercially • 1 formation had never been produced in that part of the basin

  9. North Hill Creek 3-D Seismic Exploration Ute Tribe and Wind River Resources Corp. cont’d Benefits: • Demonstrated the value of 3D seismic surveys • Success spawned 11 additional surveys during the year following project • Survey cost of $1.5 million is less than cost of 1 dry hole • Increased gas production on Ute Tribal lands • Provided a new revenue stream for the Ute Tribe

  10. Program Accomplishments • 1.84 BCF natural gas produced • 2 TCF unconventional gas resource identified • 19 Exploration leads discovered • 2 plays with high potential for oil and gas • Estimated $260 million in economic activity on tribal lands plus • $40 million in direct tribal royalty payments expected from the program over next 20 years

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