Regional Evaluation of Source Rock Quality in Azerbaijan from the Geochemistry of Organic-rich Rocks in Mud-volcano Ejecta

Gary H. Isaksen, Adil Aliyev, Scott A. Barboza, David Puls, Ibrahim Guliyev

AAPG Special Volumes

... the sedimentary column. Such buoyancy may be primary (e.g., sediment densities) or secondary (e.g., fluid influx). The supply of fluids, especially...

Hydrogeologic Analysis of the Oriskany Sandstone of the Appalachian Basin: Implication for Large-Scale Geologic Storage of CO2, by Jamie C. Skeen and Timothy R. Carr, #80056 (2009)

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Rock physics-based characterization of tertiary hydrocarbon migration: Seismic de-risking of false positive DHIs related to residual gas

Mario A. Gutierrez

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... failures or false positives. Low gas saturation in reservoir sands is considered by the industry as a recurrent false positive and is usually associated...

Halokinetic rotating faults, salt intrusions, and seismic pitfalls in the petroleum exploration of divergent margins

Carlos L. Varela, Webster U. Mohriak

AAPG Bulletin

..., and/or by buoyancy effects compensating the density difference between salt and surrounding sediments. The relatively low overburden pressure at the crest...

Van Der Gracht's Introduction of European Geological Ideas to the USA in the Early Part of the 20th Century

Frederik R. van Veen

Petroleum History Institute

... to refer to publications of Harris recrystallization forces of salt and metasomatosis of salt into During the second half of the and Veatch, who...

Application and Theory of Soilgas Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 15: GEOCHEMICAL METHODS AND EXPLORATION

David M. Richers, L. E. Maxwell

AAPG Special Volumes

... of microseep gases occurs as very small discrete bubbles (microbubbles) and not as a continuous hydrocarbon filament. The forces of buoyancy and capillary...

Characterization and Origin of Anhydrite-Rich Lateral Caprock Adjacent to Halite-Cored Salt Diapirs; Implications for Prospectivity in Salt Basins, #41254 (2013)

Christopher A-L. Jackson, Matthew M. Lewis, Aruna S. Mannie

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... to the migration of relatively warm fluids up, and dissolution of halite from, the margins of these structures. To date, the products of this process have...

Experimental Studies of Gas-Escape and Water-Escape Structures: Mechanisms and Morphologies

Shannon E. Frey, Murray K. Gingras, Shahin E. Dashtgard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of interparticle friction, but is associated with a mobile fluid. Increased hydrodynamic pressure resulting from rapid water flow forces pore spaces to expand...

Diapirs and Their Relation to Hydrocarbon Accumulation

H. O. Woodbury, I. B. Murray Jr., R. E. Osborne

CSPG Special Publications

..., Russia and elsewhere. Most diapirs grow as a result of forces which are essentially due to sediment loading, assisted by the relative buoyancy...

Codell carrier-bed play, Denver Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, John E. Zumberge, John B. Curtis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... reservoir involves buoyancy pressure and capillary pressure. Petroleum generally moves updip but follows coarsest beds resulting in a dendritic...

Differential Entrapment of Oil and Gas in Arbuckle Dolomite of Central Kansas

R. F. Walters

Tulsa Geological Society

... produce gas with the oil, or produce only gas. Reservoir porosity was formed, or improved, by solution in Early Pennsylvanian time when the dolomite beds...

Shapes and Sizes of Reservoir Sand Bodies -- A Bird's Eye View of Modern Mississippi Delta

James M. Coleman , H. H. Roberts

GCAGS Transactions

...Shapes and Sizes of Reservoir Sand Bodies -- A Bird's Eye View of Modern Mississippi Delta James M. Coleman , H. H. Roberts 1990 Vol. 40 (1990...

ABSTRACT: Regional-Scale Flow of Formation Waters and Terrestrial Heat in the Alberta Basin, Canada, by Stefan Bachu; #91019 (1996)

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Abstract: A Review of Fault Seal Calibration Methods, by Graham Yielding, Alan Roberts, Pete Bretan, Brett Freeman, Dave Quinn, and Michiel van Noorden; #90082 (2008)

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ABSTRACT: Role of Fault Damage Zones in the Thermal State of Basins; #90013 (2003)

Gary D. Couples, Campbell G. Fleming, Helen Lewis, R. Stuart Haszeldine

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... buoyancy-driven flows can transport significant amounts of heat. Two case studies are used. One is from the modern North Sea basin. Here, subsurface...

Methane Generation and Petroleum Migration

Hollis D. Hedberg

AAPG Special Volumes

... of pressure and permitting fluids to migrate to reservoir strata. The movement of hydrocarbons may be in part as a water solution and even as a continuous oil...

Introduction to unconventional petroleum systems

B. E. Law, J. B. Curtis

AAPG Bulletin

... distinction: conventional gas resources are buoyancy-driven deposits, occurring as discrete accumulations in structural and/or stratigraphic traps, whereas...

ABSTRACT: Geologic Characteristics and Hydrocarbon Accumulation Mechanism for Continuous Oil Reservoirs in Songliao Rift-Depression Basin in NE China; #90108 (2010)

Shi-zhen Tao, Cai-neng Zou, Zhi Yang, Xiao-hui Gao, Xuan-jun Yuan, and Li-zhong Song

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... sequently deposited in Songliao basin which covers an area of 260 thousand km2 in NE China, and a close reservoir-source contact construction formed...

Comments on the Wegener Hypothesis

William Bowie

AAPG Special Volumes

... areas, it must be weak enough to be broken by the gravitational forces which always tend to maintain the isostatic equilibrium. End_Page 179...

Thrust Faults and Ruptured Folds in Romanian Oil Fields

Walter M. Small

AAPG Bulletin

... of the sedimentary load which provided weight for compaction and consequent movement of fluids and gases into reservoir rocks (Meotian and Dacian sands...

The Obscure and Subtle Trap

A. I. Levorsen

AAPG Bulletin

... are in stratigraphic-type traps--sandstone patches, lenses, bars, channel sandstone, reefs, facies changes, and truncated reservoir rocks. Closer to those of you...

Population Breaks in Grain-Size Distributions of Sand--A Theoretical Model

Kweku-Mensah O. Sagoe, Glenn S. Visher

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of gravitational and viscous forces. E5 is an Archimedes number, an index of buoyancy. Evaluation of the Archimedes number shows horizontal movements...

A Novel Enhanced Oil Recovery Approach to Water Flooding in Saskatchewans Tight Oil Plays

Mojtaba Kiani, Tzu-Ping Hsu, Alireza Roostapour, Mahdi Kazempour, Eric Tudor

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... have made tight/unconventional reservoir developments a successful economical experience within North America. Despite these advancements...

Quasi-continuous Lithologic Accumulation System: A New Model for Tight Gas Occurrence in the Ordos Basin, China, #80210 (2012)

Jingzhou Zhao, Jinhua Fu, Xinshan Wei, Xinshe Liu, Xiaomei Wang, Qing Cao, Yanping Ma, Yuanfang Fan

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... forces Overpressure produced by hydrocarbon generation and diffusion caused by difference of hydrocarbon concentration. Buoyancy is not important. 6...

The Implementation of Underground CO2 Sequestration: Analysis of Caprock Leakage on the Todilto Shale of San Juan Basin

Irma Primasari, William Ampomah, Her Yuan Chen, Jiawei Tu, Dung Bui, Dana Ulmer-Scholle, Shaoping Chu

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... on Todilto. The effect of increasing pressure was evaluated through various critical storage trapping mechanisms, increasing plume size, and buoyancy effects...