Flowback in Shale Wells: Proppant Transport and Distribution in the Wellbore

Kamilia Putri, Haidan Lu, Chun Ka Kwok, Katharine Moncada

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... or moving bed) is calculated through balance of the forces including the lift, drag, buoyancy, gravity, friction, and normal force acting on the sand...

Some Mass Balance and Geological Constraints on Migration Mechanisms

R. W. Jones

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in a reservoir rock. A wide variety of possible escape mechanisms exists. These include diffusion, continuous single phase flow, solution of oil in gas or gas...

Mature Basin Exploration: Detailed Geochemical Surveys Lead to New Pays; #42253 (2018)

Dietmar (Deet) Schumacher

Search and Discovery.com

... surface geochemical surveys nicely complement geochemical analyses of reservoir fluids and their implications for establishing reservoir continuity...

Common Conditions for Heavy Oils: Section IV. Exploration Methods

W. H. Roberts III

AAPG Special Volumes

..., p. 23-43. Hitchon, B., 1963, Composition and movement of formation fluids in strata above and below the pre-Cretaceous unconformity in relation...

Abstract: The Origin of Lofting Rhythmites - Lessons from Thin Sections, by Carlos Zavala, Livan Blanco Valiente, and Yrma Vallez; #90079 (2008)

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The Origin of Lofting Rhythmites - Lessons from Thin Sections, by Carlos Zavala, Livan Blanco Valiente, and Yrma Vallez; #50077 (2008).

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Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Deformation Zones: Weak Formation Integrity Rather than Anomalous High Pressure Zones

James C. Niemann

GCAGS Transactions

... that evoke hydrocarbon bearing fluids migrating upward to subsalt reservoirs through an undercompacted, high pressure shale deformation zone. Instead...

Observed Parameters for Turbidity-Current Flow in Channels, Reserve Fan, Lake Superior

William R. Normark

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Pattern: Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, p. 61-82. TURNER, J. S., 1973, Buoyancy Effects in Fluids: Cambridge, Cambridge...

Porosity trends in the Skagerrak Formation, Central Graben, United Kingdom Continental Shelf: The role of compaction and pore pressure history

Neil T. Grant, Alexander J. Middleton, and Stuart Archer

AAPG Bulletin

... is the result of buoyancy forces. The analysis supports the contention that, after accounting for facies-related grain-size variations, compaction controls...

Exploration Hydrodynamic - Northwestern Colorado

Patrick A. Treckman, Gilman A. Hill, William A. Colburn, Floyd H. Millera

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... intercommunication of reservoir fluids. Hydrodynamic analyses of the Rangely field area reveal a marked difference in the potentiometricsurfaces of the reservoirs...

Textural, Elemental, and Isotopic Characteristics of Pleistocene Phreatic Cave Deposits (Jabal Madar, Oman)

Adrian Immenhauser, Yuri V. Dublyansky, Klaas Verwer, Dominik Fleitman, Serguei E. Pashenko

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... fluids: evidence from stable isotopic compositions of cave minerals: Geofluids, v. 1, pp. 103–121. Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Frank, N., and MANGINI...

Concentration-Dependent Flow Stratification In Experimental High-Density Turbidity Currents and Their Relevance To Turbidite Facies Models

Matthieu J.B. Cartigny,, Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Ernst W.M. Hansen, George Postma

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of inertia forces to buoyancy forces. It is proposed here that increasing importance of buoyancy forces in a flow increases the tendency of the flow...

Production Analysis and Production Forecasting in Unconventional Reservoirs Using Initial Production Data

Oladapo Adejare, Darryl Tompkins, Marci Kerls

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... analysis (“RTA”) is used to determine fracture and reservoir parameters and well geometries in unconventional reservoirs. It is applied to production...

Dolomitization by Groundwater-Flow System in Carbonate Platforms

Michael Simms

GCAGS Transactions

..., Dolomite reservoir rocks: processes, controls, porosity development: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Short Course, Geology of Carbonate Porosity, p...

Characteristics of Sandstone Reservoirs in United States

Bruce F. Curtis , Sandstone Reservoir Committee

AAPG Special Volumes

..., than in stratigraphic fields which commonly involve only a single-reservoir sandstone. The figures for geologic ages and kinds of fluids produced...

Observations and Inferences for Overpressure Development under Salt Sheets in the Gulf of Mexico

J. J. O'Brien , I. Lerche , Z. Yu

GCAGS Transactions

... impacting the economic risk associated with a subsalt prospect. In particular, salt sheets provide a permeability barrier to the flow of fluids...

The Generation of Scour Marks Near Obstacles

Peter D. Richardson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... equation. The latter expresses the balance between pressure, buoyancy, inertia, and viscous forces in the fluid. For any flow it is usually possible...

Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: EPA Rulemaking, #80108 (2010)

Bruce J. Kobelski, Molly Bayer, Sean Porse

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... Control (UIC) regulatory framework established under the SDWA. The relative buoyancy of CO 2 , its corrosivity in the presence of water, the potential...

Big Geology for Big Needs

A. I. Levorsen

AAPG Bulletin

...--with any potential reservoir rock, either above or below the surface. The fact that the fluids may pass along and across the surface, as do the pressure...

Gold (Hydrogen) Rush: Risks and Uncertainties in Exploring for Naturally Occurring Hydrogen

Linda Stalker, Asrar Talukder, Julian Strand, Matthew Josh, Mohinudeen Faiz

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... pathways from the source, (3) the hydrogen reservoir or (4) hydrogen-accumulation locations and how the hydrogen is trapped (Fig. 2). This workflow approach...

Basin Analysis by Model Simulation: Effects of Geologic Parameters on 1-D and 2-D Fluid Flow Systems with Application to an Oil Field

K. Nakayama , I. Lerche

GCAGS Transactions

... model. Dominant parameters most influenced pertain to reservoir character, such as porosity, permeability, shaliness, and geometry. Sensitivity testing...

A Model Ranking Approach for Liquid Loading Onset Predictions

Hao Jia, Jianjun Zhu, Guangqiang Cao, Yingda Lu, Bo Lu, Haiwen Zhu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are assumed to be spherical, which are subjected to gravity, drag, and buoyancy forces in the gas flow fields. If the resultant force direction...

Structural Styles, Their Plate Tectonic Habitats and Hydrocarbon Traps in Petroleum Provinces

T. P. Harding and J. D. Lowell

AAPG Special Volumes

... pillows, domes, ridges, etc, and as highly complex injected features caused by tectonic forces. Stratigraphic factors, such as truncation, wedging, onlap...

Structural Styles, Their Plate-Tectonic Habitats, and Hydrocarbon Traps in Petroleum Provinces

T. P. Harding , James D. Lowell

AAPG Bulletin

... by tectonic forces. Stratigraphic factors, such as truncation, wedging, onlap, and unconformity, add to the variety of traps n all styles. In many places...

Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation Models Revisited from a Reservoir Engineering Perspective; #41096 (2012)

Keyu Liu, Xuan Tang, Abdul Rashid, and Xiaofang Wei

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... chlorite illite fluids Albite quartz reservoir te kerogen Albite different illi lo do te mi Albite ill it e minerals have affinities...