Attributes of a Large Underpressured Gas System, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Philip H. Nelson, Steven M. Condon

AAPG Special Volumes

... of buoyancy is difficult to keep in mind because buoyancy is ever present in conventional gas-over-water accumulations.However, buoyant forces could...

Tilted Fluid Contacts in Mid-Continent Region

William L. Russell

AAPG Bulletin

... in the reservoir is produced, where this oil zone is in contact with an overlying zone from which gas alone is produced. The surfaces separating different fluids...

Comparative analysis of carbon dioxide storage resource assessment methodologies

Olga H. Popova, Mitchell J. Small, Sean T. McCoy, A. C. Thomas, Bobak Karimi, Angela Goodman, Kristin M. Carter

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... and reservoir characteristics: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 3, p. 263276, doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.10.002.Kopp, A., H. Class, and R...

Static contact angle, interfacial tension, and column height measurements for underground hydrogen storage

Nasiru Salahu Muhammed, Bashirul Haq, Dhafer Al Shehri, Sayed Qudrat

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... as the primary mechanism for containing injected H2 gas. Upon injection, driven by buoyancy forces, H2 gas begins to migrate upward until it encounters...

Absence of Connate Water in Michigan Reef Gas Reservoirs--an Analysis: GEOLOGIC NOTE

Donald L. Katz , Curtis L. Lundy

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir. Because of gas buoyancy and movement with aquifer flow, gas enters the dome structure as shown in Figure 1. The formation of a gas phase...

Mechanics of Diapir Growth: Unit 16: Principles

Martin P. A. Jackson, William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... density of the cover is exactly equal to the density of the salt. Downdip of P2 the average density of the cover is greater than that at P2. Because fluids...

Salt Induced Stress-Arching Controlling Rock Properties

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Hydrodynamic stagnation zones: A new play concept for the Llanos Basin, Colombia

Mark Person, David Butler, Carl W. Gable, Tomas Villamil, David Wavrek, Daniel Schelling

AAPG Bulletin

... ground-water flow for the Llanos Basin. This approach neglects capillary forces and multiphase flow dynamics considered in reservoir simulators (England...

Reliability of Saturation-Pressure Method for Dating Time of Oil Accumulation

M. E. Hoshkiw

AAPG Bulletin

... in Habitat of oil: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, 1384 p. Burcik, E. J., 1957, Properties of petroleum reservoir fluids: New York, John Wiley and Sons...

Laboratory Study: Surfactant Composition and Concentration Optimization for Improving Heavy Oil Recovery Factor on Sandstone Reservoir

Ahmad Murofiyanto, Rizki Wahyu Pangestu, Defry Erwinsyah Umra Lubis, Leksono Mucharam

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of forces in the oil/water/solid system will result in a contact angle, θ, between the fluids at the solid surface. Micelles are spherical clusters...

Flow of Formation Waters in the Cretaceous--Miocene Succession of the Llanos Basin, Colombia

M. E. Villegas , Stefan Bachu , J. C. Ramon , J. R. Underschultz

AAPG Bulletin

... between buoyancy and potentiometric forces (DFR) according to equation 2. This calculation was used to assess where the potentiometric surfaces may...

Minimum Conditions for Migration of Oil in Water-Wet Carbonate Rocks

Bert C. Aschenbrenner , Charles W. Achauer

AAPG Bulletin

... of a continuous oil phase of some lateral extent through stationary water, i.e., under hydrostatc conditions, is caused by buoyancy. Before bouyant forces...

Natural Gas as a Factor in Oil Migration and Accumulation in the Vicinity of Faults

R. Van A. Mills

AAPG Bulletin

... of buoyancy operating in conjunction with the other forces was apparent. These experiments are indicative of what would occur if strata containing oil...

Influence of Wettability on Residual Gas Trapping and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Three-Phase Flow: a Pore-Scale Analysis using Micro-Computed Tomography; #41353 (2014)

S. Iglauer, M. Sarmadivaleh, M. Lebedev, and M. Ferno

Search and Discovery.com

... therefore do not expect the residual clusters/residual saturations to be influenced by buoyancy forces (Morrow et al. 1988). We note that the oil used...

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)

... to observe the postinjection movement of CO2 under buoyancy forces. The experimental site selected was therefore in the approximate center of a steeply...

Some Observations on the Geochemical Character of STACK and SCOOP Oils

Carl Symcox, R. Paul Philp

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... by the traditional forces of buoyancy, but instead from the expulsion forces and overpressuring created by hydrocarbon generation (Meckel...

Determining the Accumulation Limits of the Physical Properties of Tight Sandstone Reservoirs in Eastern Ordos Basin, #51030 (2014).

Qing Cao, Jingzhou Zhao, Xinshe Liu, Aiping Hu, Liyong Fan, Huaichang Wang

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... to abnormal pressure. At the end of the Early Cretaceous, if abnormal pressure was larger than 5 MPa, gas driven by abnormal pressure and buoyancy can...

The Influence of Oil Expulsion Efficiency on the Type of Hydrocarbons Accumulating in Traps

Akihiko Okui, Douglas W. Waples

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... features observed in reservoir sandstones (Okui and Waples, in press). Our model also considers adsorption of oil on kerogen. Results of simulations...

Measurement and Analysis of CO2 Adsorption and Permeability in Shales In Application to Geological Carbon Storage

Shengyu Yao, Deniz M. Paker, Aruvin Prakasan, Ram R. Ratnakar, Birol Dindoruk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reservoir conditions with temperatures ranging from 160°F (71°C) to 194°F (90°C) and pressures from 3,500 psi to 5,075 psi. The modeling approach employs...

Abstract: Reservoir Overpressure Modelling in North Malay Basin; #90255 (2017)

Ku Mohd Faizul Fazlee

Search and Discovery.com

...Abstract: Reservoir Overpressure Modelling in North Malay Basin; #90255 (2017) Ku Mohd Faizul Fazlee AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article...

Single Point Mooring System for Offshore LNG Plants

G. M. Pomonic, M. S. Mastroda

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of this buoyancy provides a restoring force in response to storage barge displacements caused by environmental forces. The structure is designed...

Seepage pathway assessment for natural gas to shallow groundwater during well stimulation, in production, and after abandonment

Maurice Dusseault and Richard Jackson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... and horizontal stress after reservoir depletion.Following depletion, it is almost inconceivable to accept that any fluids from the shale-gas reservoir...

Deformation bands and their influence on fluid flow

Haakon Fossen, Arthur Bale

AAPG Bulletin

... to that of oil migration than the short time involved in the production of hydrocarbon reservoir. Hence, although fluids manage to pass through deformation...

Potential salinity-driven free convection in a shale-rich sedimentary basin: Example from the Gulf of Mexico basin in south Texas

John M. Sharp Jr., Thomas R. Fenstemaker, Craig T. Simmons, Thomas E. McKenna, Jennifer K. Dickinson

AAPG Bulletin

... or within the transition zone from hydropressures to overpressures. The positioning of brines over less saline fluids provides a significant buoyancy force...

An Overview of Basin and Petroleum System Modeling: Definitions and Concepts

Kenneth E. Peters, David J. Curry, Marek Kacewicz

AAPG Special Volumes

... will be calibrated using measured reservoir pressures and the compositions of reservoir fluids. This will require further development of algorithms...