Gulf of Mexico

William E. Galloway

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-eastern Gulf yielded multiple 100+ million boe discoveries in the 1990's that are now being brought on stream. A swath of oil discoveries along...

ABSTRACT: Source Rock Sequence Stratigraphy - A Test for Lake Basin Connectivity in an Active Rift System, by A. J. Lomando, S. Teerman, R. Bate, R. Wang, J. Dahl, S. Sundararaman, and M. Schoell; #90913(2000).

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Empirical and Numerical Geomechanical Approaches to Unconventional Resources

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Acoustic Velocity Modeling of Unconventional Reservoirs

Alessandra Simone, Lori Hathon, Michael Myers

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... properties). Studies that have examined organic rich shale properties at multiple scales have successfully correlated kerogen content and thermal...

Abstract: Pressure Trends in Lower Viosca Knoll and Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico Deep Water: Implications for Seals, Column Heights and Hydrocarbon Migration

Bruce E. Wagner

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... The small differences between pore pressure and fracture pressure in the shallow section of a well directly influence the openhole drilling distance...

A New Approach to Pore Pressure Predictions: Generation, Expulsion, and Retention Trio—Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Selim Simon Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... and differential pressure between the bottom and top of each compartment in this zone. The pressure estimation in B zone follows Darcy’s Law. The discharge segment...

Paleogeographic Evolution of Early Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico and Margins, Jurassic to Middle Cretaceous (Comanchean)

Charles D. Winker , Richard T. Buffler

AAPG Bulletin

... of lesser and greater crustal attenuation, respectively. The expected inverse correlation between crustal thickness and early differential subsidence has...

Analogue modeling of domino-style extensional basement fault systems with prekinematic salt

O. Ferrer, E. Carola, K. McClay, and N. Bufaliza

AAPG Bulletin

... considered herein: with a single salt horizon and with multiple salt horizons. The interplay between salt and overburden thicknesses has been tested...

Operational Application of Chow Pressure Group Methodology in the Midland Basin and Resulting Development Impact

Zachary Petter, Carl Warren, Raul Paz, Jamie Bacon, Alaina Carter, Bailey Stang, M D. Rincones

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... et al. 2018) and the implications of this number on expected communication between primary horizontal targets across the Midland Basin. Methods...

ERRATASalt Tectonics as Related to Several Smackover Fields Along the Northeast Rim of the Gulf of Mexico Basin

Dudley J. Hughes

GCAGS Transactions

... differential growth from deposition of earliest overburden through Upper Cretaceous times. Commonly a primary graben was developed during the Jurassic...

ABSTRACT: Seafloor Morphology and Sediment Paths of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater

Jia Y. Liu and William R. Bryant

GCAGS Transactions

... on top of over 3 km of salt since Late Jurassic. The buoyancy of the salt accompanied with sediment differential loading and salt gravity spreading has...

Abstract: Process Hierarchies Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Allen Lowrie, Susan Moffett

GCAGS Transactions

... geologic processes exist on and shape a passive continental margin. These include tectonics (basement, salt, sediment, and interactions between), sea-level...

Is the Bend in the Bolivian Andes an Orocline?

B. M. Sheffels

AAPG Special Volumes

... is interpreted as an active, thin-skinned pull-apart basin, developed along tear faults that accommodate differential movement between thrust faults...

Electron Microscopic Studies of Planktonic Foraminifera: ABSTRACT

A. W. H. BE, L. Schulz, A. McIntyre

AAPG Bulletin

... having constricted pores, obscure spine bases, and surficial encrustment of calcite crystals. Distinguishing between variations in primary test features...

Nearshore Sands Off Southeastern Virginia: ABSTRACT

John E. Sanders

AAPG Bulletin

... offshore ripples occur only on submarine ridges. Differential impregnation of longitudinally cut core surfaces with epoxy cement revealed numerous primary...

Exploring the Formation, Microtexture, and Petrophysical Properties of Deformation Bands in Porous Sandstone, by S. G. Ahlgren; #90902 (2001)

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Multiple World First Technology Applications on Julimar Development Phase 2 - Multizone Openhole Gravel Packing with Enhanced Shunted Screens and Zonal Isolation in High Rate Gas Wells and 18Ž Reel Lay for Corrosion Resistant Alloy (CRA) Flowlines

Ben Witton, Ross Markham

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... with ~400 psi differential between zones. For this reason, an enhanced shunt screen with shunt tube isolation valve was selected by the project...

A Success Case of Mature Field Rejuvenation, Post-Tertiary CO2 Flood, Salt Creek Field, West Texas, by Linda M. Price, Dave P. Smith, Pak Wong, and Curtis Whitacker; #90029 (2004)

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Primary Stratigraphic Traps in Sandstones: Geologic Exploration Methods

David B. MacKenzie

AAPG Special Volumes

... at the right time and place to intercept migrating oil. In a primary End_Page 48------------------------- stratigraphic trap, the boundary between...

ABSTRACT: Controls on Fluvial Stratigraphy in Actively Subsiding Salt-Walled Mini-Basins, by Banham, Steven G.; Mountney, Nigel P.; McCaffrey, William D.; Collinson, John D.; Kane, Ian A. ; #90142 (2012)

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Architectural Characterization and Three-Dimensional Modeling of a Carbonate Channel–Levee Complex: Permian San Andres Formation, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Ryan M. Phelps, Charles Kerans

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... quantifying the amounts of levee aggradation and channel incision between the top of the fissile argillaceous mudstones and the top of the primary levees...

Image - Rays and the Treatment of Inhomogeneity in Migration

L. Hatton

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

..., and Doherty, S.M., 1972, Downward continuation of moveout corrected seismograms: Geophysics, v. 37, p. 741–768. Hatton, L., Larner, K., and Gibson...

On Poroelastic Mechanisms in Hydraulic Fracturing from FDI to Fracture Swarms

Ahmad Ghassemi, Dharmendra Kumar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... by leakoff from the main hydraulic fracture). Assuming a low tensile strength for the rock formation rock and a small differential between...

Disharmonic Folding in Iran: ABSTRACT

Robert C. Shumaker

AAPG Bulletin

... between the two fold sets. An alternate interpretation more compatible with the structural details proposes differential movement of two uniquely...

Application of finite difference eikonal solver for traveltime computation in forward modeling and migration

Amir Mustaqim Majdi, Seyed Yaser Moussavi Alashloo, Nik Nur Anis Amalina Nik Mohd Hassan, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... or depth of targeted subsurface, suitable seismic acquisition parameters such as number of shots, number of receivers, distance between shots...