Logging While Drilling Aids Accurate Core Point Selection Providing Time Savings with Lower Risk, #40747 (2011)

Farzad Irani, S.P. Das, N.B. Ishwar, R. Sharma,

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... of trips and sidetracks required to obtain the cores. Borehole instability, deep invasion and formation alteration may cause problems for both core...

Relating P-Wave Velocity to Rock Strength in High-Porosity, Shallowly Buried Sediments: Implications for in Situ Stress Estimates; #41158 (2013)

Katie A. H. Olcott and D.M. Saffer

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..., as well as for hydrocarbon exploration. Wellbore failures, including compressional borehole breakouts (BO) can provide information about stress...

Impact of Pre-Stack Depth Migration on the Anama Prospect, Papuan Foreland Basin

K. Bradey

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... partners have recently undertaken intensive exploration programmes in PPL188 and PPL179. Many of the Foreland Basin wells are affected by borehole...

Front Matter, Abstracts: The Permian Basin: Microns to Satellites, Looking for Oil and Gas at all Scales: The West Texas Geological Society

John J. Viveiros, Scott M. Ingram

West Texas Geological Society

... in the borehole but require good quality dip data. Most of this data is collected from oriented cores, borehole imaging, or dipmeter data. Each depends...

The Characteristics of the Sepinggan Strike Slip Fault Zone and Its Role in Forming Structural Traps the Southeast Kutei Basin

Agus Susianto, Engelbertus Rexi Esomar, Roy Rahadi, Mirzal Nur Ardhie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... between the Sepinggan and Mahoni Fields. The quality of seismic is fair to good for imaging major-to some minor structural features and some stratigraphic...

Compaction and Micromechanics of a Mudstone Reservoir

Evan M. C. Kias, Jose Hasbani, John Degenhardt, Roberto Suarez-Rivera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging to identify the possible mechanisms which could explain different sources of volumetric plastic...

Fractures in sandstone reservoirs with ultra-low permeability: A case study of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin, China

Zeng Lianbo, Li Xiang-Yang

AAPG Bulletin

... StressThe direction of the maximum horizontal compressive stress can be determined by borehole breakouts, hydrofracturing, and induced fractures...

Analysis of fault damage zones using three-dimensional seismic coherence in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Zonghu Liao, Hui Liu, Brett M. Carpenter, Kurt J. Marfurt, and Ze’ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

.... Iacopini, D., and R. W. H. Butler, 2011, Imaging deformation in submarine thrust belts using seismic attributes: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v...

AAPG Annual Meeting, May 11-14, 2003 - Salt Lake City, Utah, - AAPG, #90013 (2003)

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Impact of in-Seam Drilling Performance on Coal Seam Gas Production and Remaining Gas Distribution

Fengde Zhou, Glen Fernandes, Joao Luft, Kai Ma, Mahmoud Oraby, Mariano Ospina Guevara, Dan Kuznetsov, Brad Pinder, Sean Keogh

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... A The Density tool has to be combined with independent acoustic standoff sensor for direct measurements of standoff and borehole geometry B Up to 5.5 m...

Seamless in Seam - New Geosteering Technology Delivered Challenging Coal Seam Gas Project with Success

Arman Nick Kholgh, Martin Mackinlay, Sophie Garrard, Mohammad Zaman, Haifeng Wang, Chris Hibberson, Nicholas Challands, Hoan Van Luu, Rohit Tekale, Francis Advent Kalukal, Yang Liu, Nadia Ardikani

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... above or below, due to the lack of contrast between the two. In the mid-1990s, with the introduction of LWD borehole images for geosteering...

Almond Formation Reservoir Characterization and Sweet Spot Analysis in Siberia Ridge Field, Wyoming

Stephen D. Sturm, Lesley W. Evans, Barbara F. Keusch, William J. Clark

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... program was a standard evaluation suite, supplemented by magnetic resonance (CMR*), borehole imaging (FMI*), acoustic (DSI*), and vertical seismic profile...

Kodecos Decade of Success: the Reward for Being a Purposeful System

Robert R. Park

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...). Since the porosity values were derived from the neutron-density, a single pad tool may not provide representative coverage of the entire borehole...

Utilizing a Multidisciplinary Approach to Reservoir and Completion Optimization Within the Woodford Shale Play of the Arkoma Basin

Stephen C. Zagurski, Steve Asbill, Christopher M. Smith, Dick Leonard, Juan De la Garza, Tanner Wood, Paul McColgan, Michael Smith, Brad Leonard, Steven Bourgoyne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy (RVStrat), passive acoustic imaging sensors (known as Measuring while Fracing or MWF), and precision injection...

Shortening Histories in Active Detachment Folds Based on Area-of-relief Methods

Ramon Gonzalez-Mieres, John Suppe

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the following examples consist of two-dimensional (2-D) seismic images in depth, with borehole constraints in two cases. We assume that the images...

Three-dimensional facies architecture and three-dimensional calcite concretion distributions in a tide-influenced delta front, Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming

Keumsuk Lee, M. Royhan Gani, George A. McMechan, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Stephanie L. Nyman, Xiaoxian Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

.... Corbeanu, 2004, 3-D imaging of a reservoir analogue in point bar deposits in the Ferron Sandstone, Utah, using ground-penetrating radar: Geophysical...

AAPG 2012 International Conference & Exhibition, - Abstracts, #90155 (2012).

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Wellbore Stability Analysis of Horizontal Drilling in Bowen and Surat Coal Seam Gas Wells

Ruizhi Zhong, Christopher R. Leonardi, Travis R. Mitchell, Ray L. Johnson Jr.

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of horizontal wells usually faces challenges as inappropriate equivalent circulating density (ECD) can induce borehole collapse. Hence, the optimisation...

Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores

Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, Ursula Hammes

AAPG Bulletin

....jsg.2010.03.008.Milner, M., R. McLin, and J. Petriello, 2010, Imaging texture and porosity in mudstones and shales: Comparison of secondary and ion milled...

Evolution of fracture and fault-controlled fluid pathways in carbonates of the Albanides fold-thrust belt

Brita R. Graham Wall, Radu Girbacea, Agim Mesonjesi, Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... borehole imaging log) tool was run in the well using an acoustic transducer firing 250 times per revolution in an oil-filled chamber isolated from drilling...

Seismic geomorphology and high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of inner-shelf fluvial, estuarine, deltaic, and marine sequences, Gulf of Thailand

Hernan M. Reijenstein, Henry W. Posamentier, Janok P. Bhattacharya

AAPG Bulletin

...) seismic reflection sparker and boomer profiles, and shallow geotechnical borehole measurements enabled the identification of seven depositional...

Systematic Variations in Stress State in the Southern San Joaquin Valley: Inferences Based on Well-Bore Data and Contemporary Seismicity

David A. Castillo , Mark D. Zoback

AAPG Bulletin

... local perturbations in the stress field, resulting from slip along small faults penetrated by the borehole. Knowledge of the nonun formity in the SSJV...

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GAidagulov

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.... There is a tensile axial stress concentration developed at the notch tip as borehole pressure increases during the fracturing treatment which promotes...

Challenges Associated with Drilling Hydrostatic/Subhydrostatic Reservoir: Fluid Engineering Aspect, #40744 (2011)

Ajay Kumar, Ratan Singh, V. N. Rai, Dr. Vinod Sharma

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... Collapse Gradient: It is the collapse resistance of the borehole per foot of depth and is expressed as equivalent mud weight, ppg or psi/ ft. Mud weight...