Preliminary Report on Curved Fractures Near Faults as Related to Fluid Extraction

Richard J. Erdlac, Jr., Richard J. Erdlac

West Texas Geological Society

... from subsurface reservoirs. Recognizing variations in local fracture density, knowing when fractures alter their orientation, and ‘imaging’ the length...

Geomechanical, Geological, and Engineering Controls of Hydraulic Fracturing

Gang Han, Kirk Bartko, Uno Mutlu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to the introduction of the wellbore and perforations. The minimum principal stress at the top of borehole wall is reduced as much as 90%, while the maximum...

Measuring permanence of CO2 storage in saline formations: the Frio experiment

Susan D. Hovorka, Sally M. Benson, Christine Doughty, Barry M. Freifeld, Shinichi Sakurai, Thomas M. Daley, Yousif K. Kharaka, Mark H. Holtz, Robert C. Trautz, H. Seay Nance, Larry R. Myer, Kevin G. Knauss

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... as relative permeability decreases. Freifeld, B. M., and R. C. Trautz, 2006, Real-time quadrupole mass spectrometer analysis of deep borehole fluid samples...

The kinematics of normal faults in the Ceduna Subbasin, offshore southern Australia: Implications for hydrocarbon trapping in a frontier basin

Lewis Ryan, Craig Magee, and Christopher A.-L. Jackson

AAPG Bulletin

... Australian Bight sectors, in Karner, G. D., G. Manatschal, and L. M. Pinheiro, eds., Imaging, mapping and modelling continental lithosphere extension...

AAPG International Conference & Exhibition

Search and Discovery.com

Integration of Wireline Borehole Image and Seismic Data: Structural and Stratigraphic Study of the N-Sand in the Helis East Black Bay Field Extension

Anish Kumar, Brian Briscoe, George R. Kear, Terry D. Keegan, Paul N. Lawless, Jonathan W. Malone, James P. Stoyanoff, Elizabeth Zobell

GCAGS Transactions

...Integration of Wireline Borehole Image and Seismic Data: Structural and Stratigraphic Study of the N-Sand in the Helis East Black Bay Field...

Borehole tube wave generation by an incident P-wave at a fluid-filled fracture

Abdullah Alsawidan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Borehole tube wave generation by an incident P-wave at a fluid-filled fracture Abdullah Alsawidan Borehole tube wave generation by an Incident P-wave...

Drillhole rugosity correction for gamma-gamma density tools … A space modelling approach

Dragos Gavriliu, James Batchelor

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., difficult to predict during the geophysical logging phase. This paper describes a novel approach to solving borehole rugosity for single detector...

Minimum Horizontal Stress Sharpening; A Novel Workflow Honoring the High-Resolution Heterogeneity Seen in Unconventional Reservoirs

Edgar Velez, Elia Haddad, Andy Wray

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... scanning tool, the methodology resolves for the anisotropic effect of the properties contrast at the resolution of the sonic tool (2ft). Borehole...

Perspectives on Stratigraphic Simulation Models: Current Approaches and Future Opportunities

W.Lynn Watney, Eugene C. Rankey, John Harbaugh

Special Publications of SEPM

... simplest form models pose would be What is a model are intellectual devices for making natural processes easier to to understand 1990 Models do...

Dirty vs. Clean Salt: Their Impact on the Subsalt Wilcox Deepwater Exploration Plays

Selim Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... sediment blocks and the subsalt gouge made this prospect very expensive to test. The borehole experienced multiple losses of circulation and had...

The Study on 3D Geomechanical Modeling Improves Horizontal Well Drilling Performance in Tight Oil Reservoir

Yong Wang, Haijun Luan, Chuanyi Tang, Dong Zhao, Wei Zhou, Dan Zhou, Liming Lian, Lei Zeng, Bo Yu, Bo Dong, Xiao Yang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of borehole instability caused by abnormal formation pressure, shaft wall collapse, and other complicated drilling problems. When a 3D geomechanical...

Application of Real-Time Well-Site Tools for Enhanced Geosteering, Reservoir and Completions Characterization

Tom Ashton, Chi Vinh Ly, Graham Spence, Guy Oliver

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of automated mineralogical instruments, companies can pro-actively steer wells by identifying mineral changes within lateral borehole, indicating...

Microseismic Event Location Using Multiple Arrivals: Demonstration of Uncertainty Reduction

Zhishuai Zhang, James W. Rector, Michael J. Nava

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... location. This will eliminate the necessity for polarization which has large uncertainty due to poor geophone-borehole coupling, multiple arrivals...

Mapping of Fractures and Its Implication on Exploration Potential of Oligo-Miocene Carbonate Interval, North Madura Platform

Aditya Kusuma Wijaya, Muhammad Nauvall Juliansyah, Rizki Krishna Pratama, Renny Sipayung, Ghufron Fauzi, Brett Freeman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... drilled in the North Madura Platform by the end of 2017. Three of these (from the relatively stable platform) have borehole imaging/FMI analysis...

Geosteering in a Thin Facies Layer Through Proactive Collaboration Process of Reservoir Interpretation

Adrean Pudyaksa, Hendri Harsian, Takefumi Shibuya, Ni Made Wilasari, Olivia Azwar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... logs closer to bit and borehole image would also provide details of reservoir geometry. Reservoir Mapping While Drilling The application of reservoir...

Seismic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing Activity in the Wolfcamp Shale of Midland Basin, Texas

Abhash Kumar, Hongru Hu, Alex Bear, Richard Hammack, William Harbert

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... two 24-tool borehole arrays that were deployed in vertical section of the two nearby treatment wells. This comparison between surface and borehole...

Production Characteristics of Sheet and Channelized Turbidite Reservoirs, Garden Banks 191, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A

David S. Fugitt , Charles E. Stelting , William. J. Schweller , James E. Florstedt , Gary J. Herricks , and Michael. R. Wise

GCAGS Transactions

.... The sands are excellent reservoirs, capable of high flow rates and high recovery efficiencies. 2. Having conventional core and/or borehole imaging...

Distributed acoustic sensing of long subsea tie-backs

Glenn A. Wilson, Brian C. Seabrook, Sigurd Moe, Kwang Suh, Mikko Jaaskelainen, Andreas Ellmauthaler, Jeff Bush, James Dupree

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...: https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2019.2895249. Daley, T. M., D. E. Miller, K. Dodds, P. Cook, and B. M. Freifeld, 2016, Field testing of modular borehole...

Integrated Well Placement Solution for the Bone Springs Play, Permian Basin, Texas

James Hawkins, Judd Tudor

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... sections. Both wells experienced multiple delays resulting from borehole problems that were related to both drilling out of zone and excessive dog-leg...

Direct Current Resistivity Method for Shallow Hydrocarbon Exploration

Aditya A. Juanda, Andika P., David P. Sahara, Dhea Wachju D., Reza P. A. B., Eko Mario C. L., Warsa

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in line 08 profile and the distance between stations is 100m. The white line is the top Kais and the dot color line indicates the borehole. KLO-68 was dry...

Multicomponent seismic data vector reconstruction via quaternionic matrix factorization

Yonghai Fu, Jianjun Gao, Wenbo Sun, Yandong Wang, Fan Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... enriches the information of wavefield, improves the accuracy of seismic exploration, benefits fault recognition, structural imaging, and reduces the non...

Exploiting non-uniqueness: Improving inversion results by post-processing

James Brewster

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of borehole gravity measurements taken below the anomalous mass to reduce the ambiguity of inversion. The continuation method provides flexibility as to how...

Elemental Analysis as a Tool in Determining Wellbore Stability Issues

Charles C. Moyer, Milly Wright, Nahysa Martinez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and is required to properly anticipate the problem on future wells. Borehole imaging-while-drilling tools help but can be costly since an operator would need...

An open-source toolbox to automate basin and petroleum system modeling for statistical analysis and uncertainty quantification

Mustafa A. Al Ibrahim

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... maturity, porosity(Al Kawai and Mukerji, 2016), pore pressure (Al Kawai and Mukerji, 2016), borehole temperature (Peters and Nelson, 2012), and hydrocarbon...