Modeling secondary oil migration with core-scale data: Viking Formation, Alberta basin

Elise B. Bekele, Mark A. Person, Benjamin J. Rostron, Randal Barnes

AAPG Bulletin

... migration were conducted using the highest core-plug measurement of permeability from each borehole to obtain an upper bound on oil migration velocities...

Critical Grain-Size Parameters for Predicting Framework and “Floating” Grains in Sediments

Steven L. Bryant, Chris Lerch, Michael E. Glinsky

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... observations of anomalously slow P-wave velocities in several poorly consolidated to semiconsolidated reservoirs. The grain-size distributions...

A new method for estimating total organic carbon content from well logs

Peiqiang Zhao, Zhiqiang Mao, Zhenhua Huang, and Chong Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoirs. The Jacobi et al. (2008) method can differentiate source rocks and nonsource rocks reasonably well. That is because the grain densities from...

Microfabric and Organic Matter Impact on Burial Diagenesis from Mud to Shale

Richard H. Bennett, Michael W. Lambert, Matthew H. Hulbert, Conrad W. Curry, Harold W. Olsen, Allen Lowrie

Special Publications of SEPM

... very high porosities (≥90%), low wet bulk densities, and very low effective stresses that are consistent with minimal dewatering and consolidation...

Porosity Reduction in Sandstone by Quartz Overgrowth: ERRATUM

Frederic Leder, Won C. Park

AAPG Bulletin

... in Sandstone by Quartz Overgrowth," by Frederic Leder and Won C. Park (AAPG Bulletin, v. 70, no. 11, November 1986, p. 1713-1728), the fluid velocities...

Fractured basementŽ play in the Sabah Basin? „ the Crocker and Kudat formations as hydrocarbon reservoirs and their risk factors

Mazlan Madon, Franz L. Kessler, John Jong, Mohd Khairil Azrafy Amin

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... sandstones recorded low porosities and permeabilities (Ф: < 10 %; k: <1 mD). The low poro-perm values, high densities and high velocities of the Crocker...

Depositional Facies and Organic Content of Upper Wolfcamp Formation (Permian) Delaware Basin and Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Source

Erik P. Kvale, Mohammad Wahid Rahman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... densities and therefore velocities of the flows because there is increased particle transport efficiency within turbidites that have a greater...

The development of seismic reflection sandbox modeling

Donald H. Sherlock, Brian J. Evans

AAPG Bulletin

... variation in the measured porosities and densities except when a very narrow range of grain sizes was used, in which cases the porosity was as high as 38...

Seismic Expression of Carbonate to Terrigenous Clastic Sediment Facies Transitions of Western Florida Shelf: ABSTRACT

Mahlon M. Ball, Ray G. Martin, David Taylor, Jim Leinbach

AAPG Bulletin

... with carbonates and evaporites, with the result that seismic transmission velocities are relatively low. Toward the south on the Middle Ground arch...

HYDRODYNAMIC TRAPPING IN MISSION CANYON RESERVOIRS: ELKHORN RANCH FIELD, NORTH DAKOTA

WILLIAM D. DeMIS

Williston Basin Symposium

... and amount. Plots (3 cycle, semi-log) of porosity versus core-derived permeability data for the upper and lower Mohall porosities show a linear...

Petroleum Geology of Kodiak Shelf, Alaska

Michael A. Fisher

AAPG Bulletin

...% of the rocks. Porosity and permeability: Fair reservoirs for hydrocarbons have porosities between 10 and 15% and permeabilities between 1 and 10 md...

Geologic and Geophysical Study of Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field, Mexico: ABSTRACT

D. J. Lyons, P. C. Van de Kamp, S. P. Vonder Haar

AAPG Bulletin

... hydrothermal alteration zone has a dome-like configuration which cuts across the sedimentary strata. Shales in the altered zone exhibit high densities...

ABSTRACT: Porosity Estimation of a Porous Rock Using 4-D Gravity Survey, by W. G. Kadir and D. Santoso; #90913(2000).

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Abstract: Sediment Compaction and Rock Properties, by Knut Bjorlykke and Jens Jahren; #90082 (2008)

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Slake durability indices of fresh shales and sandstone from the Gemas Formation, Ayer Hitam, Johor Darul Takzim

John Kuna Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... before the densities, unit weights and apparent porosities of representative specimens were determined according to the saturation and bouyancy...

Ultrasonic Investigation of the Kuala Lumpur Granite, Peninsular Malaysia

Ng Tham Fatt

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... are comparable with the P-wave velocities of fresh granitic rocks reported by other workers (e.g. Vijaya et al., 1977; Telford et al., 1976; Toombs, 1978...

Pore Pressure and Elastic Moduli Estimation Considerations for a Simplified Geomechanical Model for Unconventional Plays. A case study in the Vaca Muerta Formation

Sergio Cuervo, Ezequiel Lombardo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a known lithology column of elastic isotropic rocks, hydrostatic pore pressures, a structural history free of uplift and erosion and the absence...

Abstract: Mélange and Subduction in the Outer Zone of Southwest Japan

Shigeki Hada

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to shallOiWer and deeper parts of the aaaretionary wedge. The melange sandstones have higher densities~ higher P-wave velooities and ZOiWer porosities than...

Handbook on Static Pressures, by D. E. Powley, #60007 (2006).

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Comparison of Petrographic Characteristics of Selected Carbonate Rocks to their Petrophysical Log Response--Smackover Formation (Upper Jurassic)

Alfred A. Biehle , Carey M. Crocker

GCAGS Transactions

... porosity is secondary porosity between crystals. This type of porosity may define almost all porosities in carbonate rocks, but here is restricted...

Difference in overpressure environments for the western and central deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Sharon Cornelius and Peter A. Emmet

AAPG Bulletin

... at the same depth: (1) higher porosities, (2) lower bulk densities, (3) higher temperatures, (4) lower effective stresses, (5) lower interval velocities...

Gas Hydrates: Part III: Rock Physics Hydrate Experiments

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

... by pure water, then loaded into a high- Institute of Marine Geology in China. They measured P- and S-wave velocities as the hydrate concentration in two...

A New Approach to Shale Compaction and Stratigraphic Restoration, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin and Mackenzie Corridor, Northern Canada (1)

D. R. ISSLER

AAPG Bulletin

.... Tosaya, C., and A. Nur, 1982, Effects of diagenesis and clays on compressional velocities in rocks: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 9, p. 5-8...

Estimating Thermal Conductivity in Sedimentary Basins Using Lithologic Data and Geophysical Well Logs (1)

FREDERIC BRIGAUD , DAVID S. CHAPMAN , and SYLVIE LE DOUARAN

AAPG Bulletin

... Sciences, v. 8, p. 1-19. Blackwell, D. D., and J. L. Steele, 1989, Thermal conductivity of sedimentary rocks: measurement and significance, in N. D. Naeser...

Developments Relating Total Organic Carbon Conversion in Unconventional Reservoirs to 3D Seismic Attributes

Nancy House, Janell Edman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... yielding rock mechanical properties from shear (Vs) and compressional (Vp) velocities and density, when calibrated with well log and/or core measurements...