Numerical Investigation of Post-Production Gas Flow Mechanisms in Coal Seams

Mohammad Sedaghat, Philip Hayes, Andrew Garnett

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be produced through the well as buoyancy forces may act on the gas phase in the opposite direction of the viscous forces exerted by the well (Sedaghat...

ABSTRACT: Fluid Flow Across Basement-Cover Interfaces During Mineralization of Unconformity-Related Uranium Deposits; #90132 (2011)

Tao Cui, Jianwen Yang, and Iain M. Samson

Search and Discovery.com

... Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic and fluid inclusion studies have shown that basinal brines have interacted with basement rocks and basementderived fluids...

Abstract: The Association of Gold and Hydrocarbons in Sediment-Hosted Disseminated Gold Deposits, by R. Presnell; #90993 (1993).

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Relationship between River-mouth Depositional Processes and Delta Architectures, Huangqihai Lake, Inner Mongolia, North China; #50832 (2013)

Shunli Li, Xinghe Yu, Shengli Li, Cornel Olariu, and Ronald Steel

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...-dominated has one elongated lobe, and exhibits limited lateral spreading resulting in narrow (100 m) river-mouth bars. Bawanghe delta front, is buoyancy...

The Influence of Fault Permeability on Single-Phase Fluid Flow Near Fault-Sand Intersections: Results from Steady-State High-Resolution Models of Pressure-Driven Fluid Flow

Stephan K. Matthai , Stephen G. Roberts

AAPG Bulletin

... into account buoyancy-driven hydrocarbon migration controlled by capillary forces (e.g., Watts, 1987) or relative permeability and the resultant saturation...

Attributes of Fluids in the Subsurface and Pressure Depth Gradient Plots: A Do-It-Yourself Exercise: GEOLOGICAL NOTE

Eric Dahlberg

CSPG Bulletin

...Attributes of Fluids in the Subsurface and Pressure Depth Gradient Plots: A Do-It-Yourself Exercise: GEOLOGICAL NOTE Eric Dahlberg 1979 395 399 Vol...

Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Hydrocarbons: Chapter 12: Part III. Processes

William A. England

AAPG Special Volumes

... migrates as a separate, immiscible phase through water-saturated rock. The driving force for migration is the vertical buoyancy force due to the lower...

Understanding the Role of the First Carrier Bed: Simple Rules of Thumb and Best Practice That Can Help Reduce Dry Hole Rate, #42422 (2019).

Zhiyong He,

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... are much more laterally continuous. Vertical capillary contrast is much stronger than buoyancy of small columns therefore usually forces lateral...

Application of SPE SRMS and Certification of CO2 Storage Capacity

Bill Billingsley, Peter Stephenson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... saturation, mobile, plume of CO2. The plume will rise under buoyancy forces until it reaches a seal. If it remains above the residual gas saturation...

Introduction: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

Frank R. Clark

AAPG Special Volumes

... fluids. Both range widely in values, and great variations can exist in a single reservoir. On the basis of porosity and permeability, reservoir rocks...

Abstract: The Expression of Convergence Rate and Slab Pull in Foreland Basins

L. H. Royden and B. C. Burchfiel

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... where deformation is driven by forces acting on the sub4ucted slab (probably largely related to the negative buoyancy of the subducted slab...

Capillary-Sealed Oil and Gas Pools

Yu. Ya. Bol’shakov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... hinder movement of hydrocarbons toward the crests of highs. In spite of strong forces of buoyancy of the large volume of migrating gas, the oil and gas...

Migration of Hydrocarbons in Compacting Basins

L. C. Bonham

AAPG Special Volumes

... view is that progressive burial of the sediments results in their compaction with consequent expulsion of pore fluids. These fluids are pictured...

Estimating Hydrocarbon Column Heights Based on Seal Capacity

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Stress-Induced Fluid Flow in Rifted Basins: Chapter 7: DIAGENESIS AND BASIN HYDRODYNAMICS

R. T. van Balen, S. A. P. L. Cloetingh

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The numerical model couples the stretching mechanism for rifted basin formation with fluid conservation and flow equations for compacting sediments. Forces...

Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation

Xiaorong Luo, Liqiang Zhang, Likuan Zhang, Yuhong Lei, Jun Li, Wan Yang, Ming Cheng, Hui Shi, and Binfeng Cao

AAPG Bulletin

... migrate and accumulate by buoyancy alone (Luo et al., 2016; Cao et al., 2017). Afterward, the presence of oil and gas in the reservoir may retard...

Insight into petrophysical properties of deformed sandstone reservoirs

Anita Torabi, Haakon Fossen, Alvar Braathen

AAPG Bulletin

... in a sandstone reservoir with two-phase fluids (e.g., brine [wetting phase] and oil-CO2 [nonwetting phase]), which are used to calculate the maximum...

Optimization of the Proppant Placement Through the Perforations in Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing: A Laboratory-scale Experimental Investigation

Nadia Mouedden, Aimen Laalam, Harry Feilen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-uniform proppant distribution is the result of the combination of three forces applied on the proppant including gravitational, viscous...

Petroleum migration and accumulation: Modeling and applications

Xiaorong Luo, Likuan Zhang, Yuhong Lei, and Wan Yang

AAPG Bulletin

... the two forces. After Wilkinson (1986), a dimensionless bond number (Bo) describes the relationship between buoyancy and capillary forces at the scale...

Diagenetic Coloration Facies and Alteration History of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Zion National Park and Vicinity, Southwestern Utah

Gregory B. Nielsen, Marjorie A. Chan, Erich U. Petersen

Utah Geological Association

... formation. Other factors that may play a role include upward migration of fluids along inclined interdune bounding surfaces, fluid buoyancy, and relatively...

Characterization of Petrophysical Flow Units in Carbonate Reservoirs: Discussion

F. Jerry Lucia , A. J. Martin, S. T. Solomon, and D. J. Hartmann

AAPG Bulletin

... 1999 1161 1163 83 7 The subject of Martin et al.'s (1997) paper is important to constructing carbonate reservoir models for flow simulation and reservoir...

Overpressured Reservoirs: A New Generation of Exploration Opportunities

Richard E. Swarbrick

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... at the contacts between reservoir and shales (Figure 2a). Hydrocarbons add additional overpressure due to their buoyancy, increasing the difference...

Stratigraphy of Intermontane, Lacustrine Delta, Catatumbo River, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

Norman J. Hyne, William A. Cooper, Parke A. Dickey

AAPG Bulletin

..., and inertial forces at the river orifice (Coleman and Wright, 1971, 1975; Wright, 1977). The lunate bar forms when buoyancy dominates whereas...

Hydrocarbon Production During Underbalanced Drilling … A Mathematical Model to Predict Well Productivity

Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga, Bonar Tua Halomoan Marbun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the reservoir. 3. The wellis producing under a semisteady state condition. 4. Capillary pressure forces of reservoir fluids are neglected. Cheng equation...

Submerged System for Offshore Oil and Gas Production

T. W. Childers, J. A. Kopecky, W. D. Loth

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is complemented by a pump/separator station which provides a low header pressure on the reservoir. The template based facility is connected to a surface...