Preface
Chapter 1: Pressure Compartments in Sedimentary Basins: A Review
John S. Bradley and David E. Powley
Chapter 2: Summary of Published Literature on Anomalous Pressures: Implications for the Study of Pressure Compartments
Randi S. Martinsen
Chapter 3: Basin Compartmentation: Definitions and Mechanisms
Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter 4: Megacompartment Complex in the Anadarko Basin: A Completely Sealed Overpressured Phenomenon
Zuhair Al-Shaieb, James O. Puckette, Azhari A. Abdalla, and Patrick B. Ely
Chapter 5: Three Levels of Compartmentation within the Overpressured Interval of the Anadarko Basin
Zuhair Al-Shaieb, James O. Puckette, Azhari A. Abdalla, and Patrick B. Ely
Chapter 6: Deep Pressure Seal in the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation, Louisiana Gulf Coast
Suzanne D. Weedman, Albert L. Guber, and Terry Engelder
Chapter 7: Pressure Seals--Interactions with Organic Matter, Experimental Observations, and Relation to a "Hydrocarbon Plugging" Hypothesis for Pressure Seal Formation
Jean K. Whelan, Lorraine Buxton, and Lawrence M. Cathles III
Chapter 8: The Characteristics of Geopressure Profiles in the Gulf of Mexico Basin
John T. Leftwich, Jr. and Terry Engelder
Chapter 9: Seismic Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO) Character of Geopressured Transition Zones
John N. Louie and Abu M. Asad
Chapter 10: Pore Fluid Chemistry of a Pressure Seal Zone, Moore-Sams-Morganza Gas Field, Tuscaloosa Trend, Louisiana
Thomas P. Ross, Arthur W. Rose, and Simon R. Poulson
Chapter 11: Anomalous Pressures in the Deep Michigan Basin
Jean M. Bahr, Gerilynn R. Moline, and Gregory C. Nadon
Chapter 12: Thermal History of the Michigan Basin from Apatite Fission-Track Analysis and Vitrinite Reflectance
Herbert F. Wang, Kevin D. Crowley, and Gregory C. Nadon
Chapter 13: Diagenesis, Diagenetic Banding, and Porosity Evolution of the Middle Ordovician St. Peter Sandstone and Glenwood Formation in the Michigan Basin
Peter A. Drzewiecki, J. Antonio Simo, P. E. Brown, E. Castrogiovanni, Gragory C. Nadon, Lisa D. Shepherd, J. W. Valley, M. R. Vandrey, B. L. Winter, and D. A. Barnes
Chapter 14: Permeability and Porosity Estimation by Electrofacies Determination
Gerilynn R. Moline, Jean M. Bahr, and Peter A. Drzewiecki
Chapter 15: The Regional Pressure Regime in Cretaceous Sandstones and Shales in the Powder River Basin
Ronald C. Surdam, Zun Sheng Jiao, and Randi S. Martinsen
Chapter 16: Pressure Compartments in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana, as Determined from Drill-Stem Test Data
H. P. Heasler, Ronald C. Surdam, and J. H. George
Chapter 17: Geostatistical Methods for the Study of Pressure Compartments: A Case Study in the Hilight Oil Field, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
X. Chen, H. P. Heasler, and L. Borgman
Chapter 18: Stratigraphic Compartmentation of Reservoir Sandstones: Examples from the Muddy Sandstone, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Randi S. Martinsen
Chapter 19: Stratigraphic/Diagenetic Pressure Seals in the Muddy Sandstone, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Zung Sheng Jiao and Ronald C. Surdam
Chapter
20: Pressure Seal Permeability and Two-Phase Flow
W. P. Iverson, Randi S. Martinsen, and Ronald C. Surdam
Chapter
21: Formation Water Chemistry of the Muddy Sandstone and Organic Geochemistry of the Mowry Shale, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Evidence for Mechanism of Pressure Compartment Formation
D. B. MacGowan, Zun Sheng Jiao, Ronald C. Surdam, and F. P. Miknis
Chapter
22: A Sonic Log Study of Abnormally Pressured Zones in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming
Debra Maucione, Vladimir Serebryakov, Paul Valasek, Yue Wang, and Scott Smithson
Chapter
23: The Banded Character of Pressure Seals
Zuhair Al-Shaieb, James O. Puckette, Azhari A. Abdalla, Vanessa Tigert, and Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter
24: Silica Budget for a Diagenetic Seal
Lisa D. Shepherd, Peter A. Drzewiecki, Jean M. Bahr, and J. Antonio Simo
Chapter
25: Banded Diagenetic Pressure Seals: Types, Mechanisms, and Homogenized Basin Dynamics
C. Qin and Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter
26: Numerical Simulations of Overpressured Compartments in Sedimentary Basins
E. Sonnenthal and Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter
27: Role of Pressure-Sensitive Reactions in Seal Formation and Healing: Application of the CIRF.A Reaction-Transport Code
Y. Chen, W. Chen, A. Park, and Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter
28: Simulating the Development of a Three-Dimensional Basinwide Overpressured Compartment
M. Maxwell and Peter J. Ortoleva
Chapter
29: Comparative Hydrodynamic and Thermal Characteristics of Sedimentary Basins and Geothermal Systems in Sediment-Filled Rift Valleys
Wolfgang Polster and H. L. Barnes
Chapter
30: The Mechanical Properties of Rock through an Ancient Transition Zone in the Appalachian Basin
Irene Meglis and Terry Engelder
