About the Editor, Acknowledgments, and
Foreword
Section I Seal
Characteristics: Processes Controlling Sealing
Capacity
Comparison of Seal Capacity Determinations:
Core vs. Cuttings
R.M. Sneider, J. S. Sneider, G.W.
Bolger, and J.W. Neasham
Oil Saturation in Shales: Applications in Seal
Evaluation
R.A. Noble, J.G. Kaldi, and C.D.
Atkinson
Seal Capacity of Nonsmectite Shale
J.T.
Krushin
Delineation of a Pressure Fault Seal from
Shale Resistivities
J.C. Niemann and M.R.
Krolow
Section II
Traps: Hydrocarbon Seals in a Regional
Context
Seal Strength vs. Trap Closure -- A
Fundamental Control on the Distribution of Oil and
Gas
J.K. Sales
Evaluating Seal Potential: Example from the
Talang Akar Formation, Offshore Northwest Java,
Indonesia
J.G. Kaldi and C.D. Atkinson
Microstructures and Diagenesis in North Sea
Fault Zones: Implications for Fault-Seal Potential and Fault
Migration Rates
S.J. Hippler
Organic Geochemistry of Cap-Rock Hydrocarbons,
Snorre Field, Norwegian North Sea
T.L. Leith and A.
E. Fallick
Fault Leak Controlled Trap Fill: Rift Basin
Examples
D. M. Allard
Capillary Seals Within the Eromanga Basin,
Australia: Implications for Exploration and
Production
P.J. Boult, P.N. Theologou, and J.
Foden
Reservoir Characterization of Cretaceous
Mardin Group Carbonates in Bölükya-Cukurtas and Karakus Oil
Fields, SE Turkey: A Petrographic and Petrophysical
Comparison of Overthrust and Foreland Zones
K. Uygur,
H. Is, and M.A. Yükler
Section III
Pressure Seals and Fluid Compartments
Anomalously Pressured Gas Compartments in
Cretaceous Rocks of the Laramide Basins of Wyoming: A New
Class of Hydrocarbon Accumulation
R.C. Surdam, Z.S.
Jiao, and H.P. Heasler
Stratigraphic Controls on the Development and
Distribution of Fluid-Pressure Compartments
R.S.
Martinsen
Characteristics of the Anomalously Pressured
Cretaceous Shales in the Laramide Basins of
Wyoming
Z.S. Jiao and R.C. Surdam
A Pore-Pressure Limit in Overpressured South
Texas Oil and Gas Fields
T. Engelder and J.T.
Leftwich
Seismic Response Characteristics of a
Regional-Scale Pressure Compartment Boundary, Alberta Basin,
Canada
D.T. Maucione and R.C. Surdam
A New Paradigm for Gas Exploration in
Anomalously Pressured "Tight Gas Sands" in Rocky Mountain
Laramide Basins
R.C. Surdam
Appendix
Evaluating Seal Facies Permeability and Fluid
Content from Drill-Stem Test Data
H.W.
Reid
