Seismic Considerations for Classifying Proven Resources/Reserves:West Africa Example

Jeffrey S. Ogilvie and Bill L. Keyser

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...) forward modeled amplitude and AVA/AVO expectations (with and without anisotropy). The “basement” versus the “attic”: An irony of this topic...

Determining Maximum Horizontal Stress with Microseismic Focal Mechanisms - Case Studies in the Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Wolfcamp

Alireza Agharazi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to this direction for efficient well-reservoir hydraulic connection during treatment and production. The horizontal stress anisotropy also affects the optimum well...

Estimation of the Capacity and Recovery Factor of Fractured Reservoirs of Upper Cretaceous age of the South Part of the Eastern Cis-Caucasus

V. M. Vasil’yev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... to overestimation of secondary porosity. Incorrect interpretation of geophysical logging data is possible with great anisotropy of the rocks...

What are Interpreters for? The Impact of Faster and More Objective Interpretation Systems

Martyn Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Deighan, Jamie Haynes

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the results which can enable advances in understanding other spatial properties such as anisotropy and stress. Looking ahead, it is suggested...

Hydraulic Fracturing Gain Evaluation Using Mini-DST and Post-Fracturing Pressure Build-Up: A Case Study in Low Permeability Gas Condensate Reservoir

Moch Rushatmanto, Julfree Sianturi, Saras Nawangsari

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a satisfactory permeability assessment and confirmed the phi-k law as well as permeability anisotropy. Nodal Analysis before hydraulic fracturing was used...

Coupling Complex Resistivity, Geomechanical and Acoustic Properties and Permeability in Sandstone and Shale Reservoirs

Daisuke Katsuki, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and numerical modeling in tight oil and shale gas reservoirs where the heterogeneity and anisotropy in the formation often results large experimental...

ABSTRACT: Syn-Deformational Coalification in the Cadomin-Luscar Coalfield, Alberta

C.W. Langenberg and W. Kalkreuth

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... Jewel Seam. i n d i c a t e d by t h e p r e s e n c e of b i a x i a l v i t r i n i t e r e f l e c t a n c e anisotropy i n the s t u d y area. ' V i...

Geomechanics Journey in the Western Part of East Java Basin

Yudha HM, Ricki Marbun, Anton Setyo Kristanto, Apollinaris Stefanus Leo Anis

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... or from sonic shear anisotropy analysis (after Islam et al., 2013). Because neither borehole resistivity images nor sonic shear anisotropy analysis...

A Geomechanics-Driven Facies Model to Reconcile Production, Inform Completion Strategies, and Determine Landing Zones in the Green River Basin

Joel Mazza, Jesse Havens, Torrey Mullen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and indicated poor clay properties or anisotropy. The observed anisotropy in the LLP has been minimal even in moderately clay-rich facies. We believe...

Fracture Axial-Plane Cleavage by Soft-Sediment Deformation

K. K. Liew, H. D. Tjia

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... (other than coarse schistosity) which impart mechanical anisotropy to the rock without apparent loss of cohesion". Turner and Weiss (1963, p. 98) find...

Spontaneous Imbibition in Shales under One-End-Open Boundary Condition: Effect of Wettability, Porosity, and Bedding Orientation

Asiman Saidzade, Ning Liu, Mehdi Mokhtari, Prathmesh Naik Parrikar, Philip Bertrand Wortman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to permeability anisotropy in shales (Chalmers et al., 2012). However, as it was shown by Handy (1960) spontaneous imbibition is controlled not only...

Replacing Decline Curve Analysis

Randy Hazlett, Umer Farooq, D. Krishna Babu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... parameters, L/a and (b/a)(kx/ky)0.5. For simplicity, we will drop permeability anisotropy and simply refer to a and b as scaled distances. Since...

Extended Abstract: Challenges in an Unconventional Reservoir

ION Reservoir Solutions

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... . Anisotropy in hard rocks leaves very d istinct Fig. I. Diagram of P- wave WAZ fracture detection of reservoir TX24 46 I PESA News Resources I December...

Chapter 11: Variation of Lithology in the Haynesville Shale Observed with LWD Tools

Barrett R. Summers

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 1041–1053. Bedford, J., S. Cuddy, and J. White, 1997, The empirical investigation of density anisotropy in horizontal gas wells: SPWLA 38th Annual...

Frontmatter: Geology of the Haynesville Gas Shale in East Texas and West Louisiana

Ursula Hammes, Julia Gale

AAPG Special Volumes

... Hammes, Qinghui Li   Chapter 9 179   Microstructure and Anisotropy in Gas Shales       Carl H. Sondergeld, Chandra S. Rai, and Mark E. Curtis...

Rock Fabric Not Principal Stress Dictates SRV: The Story of How a ~70 Year Old Discounted Data Point Still Plagues Our Industry and How True Triaxial Testing Finally Confirms It

Giovanni Grasselli, Matthew G. Adams, Aly Abdelaziz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fractures appears to be more strongly influenced by the rock fabric itself and the frequency of layered anisotropy URTeC 3871683 2 within the completion...

Casing Deformation Risk Prediction with Numerical Simulation During Hydraulic Fracturing in Deep Shale Gas Reservoirs

Jianfa Wu, Xuewen Shi, Qiyong Gou, Ersi Xu, Dongjun Zhang, Xiaoxu Ren, Ting Yu, Kehan Wu, Yanming Tong, Lipeng Wang, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... mechanical property anisotropy and high pore pressures. All these conditions make it difficult to accurately characterize the three-dimensional in-situ...

Horizontal Well Flow Profile Assessment: Advanced Thermal-Hydrodynamic Modeling with Fracture Flow Analysis

Maxim Volkov, Yulia Fesina, Natalya Kudryavaya, Andrey Yurchenko, Roman Kuziutin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., ԑz2 – anisotropy coefficient, Ϭf – term represents the distributed fluid sink/source densities qw and qa associated with the well line and fracture...

Directional Features in Braided-meandering-stream Deposits, Cimarron River, North-central Oklahoma

John W. Shelton, H. Richard Burman, Raymond L. Noble

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...----------------------- Grain Orientation Grain orientation was measured primarily by use of Shell Development Company's COBRA, a conductivity anisotropy...

The Discovery, Reservoir Attributes, and Significance of the Hawkville Field and the Eagle Ford Trend: Implications for Future Development

Richard K. Stoneburner

GCAGS Transactions

...) of expansion for small values of these changes. Both of the measurements provide indications as to the level of anisotropy of a material, or in this instance...

Extended Abstract: Dynamic Datasets Using Forward Modeling to Reduce Uncertainty and Improve Recovery

Chip Corbett, Nejma Djabelkhir, Theresa Hartman, Geoff Mills, Jennie Graham, Margaret Leathard, Stephen McHugo, Horacio Trajtenberg

GCAGS Transactions

... for the production history is significantly more complicated, with highly variable fine-scale facies distributions and substantial permeability anisotropy...

Extended Abstract: Full Waveform Inversion for Detailed Velocity Analysis

Jerry Kapoor, Denes Vigh

GCAGS Transactions

...), especially in areas of complex geology. The velocity model, including velocity anisotropy, is key to any depth migration effort. The natural next step...

Compaction Estimate Limits from Sand Dike Orientations

Graham John Borradaile

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... This will especially be the case in well-bedded sediments in which the strong planar anisotropy imposes least resistance to fracture and intrusion...

CSEM Application in Carbonate Environment: A Case Study (Paper P46)

A. S. Saleh, S. K. Chandola, P. K. Lee, T. Velayatham, P. Kumar, M. S. Wahid, J. Beenfeldt

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the anisotropy (Fig.1). Horizontal Electric Dipole (HED) source was deployed for generating EM waves using standard square waveform with maximum...

References Cited: Part 10. Reservoir Engineering Methods

AAPG Special Volumes

... of petroleum, 2nd ed.: San Francisco, W. H. Freeman Publishing, p. 128-129. Lishman, J. R., 1970, Core permeability anisotropy: Journal of Canadian...