The Impact of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Fluid Flow in the Tensleep Sandstone of the Bighorn Basin

Mamdouh A. Shebl

Wyoming Geological Association

... capacity of a layered reservoir with different grain sizes. Berg used the term "critical height" to indicate the amount of buoyancy required for fluid...

A New Interpretation of Trusheim's Classic Model of Salt-Diapir Growth

Vendeville, Bruno C.

GCAGS Transactions

... that this evolutionary model assumes that (1) salt rise is a spontaneous process resulting solely from buoyancy forces and (2) there is no change in the cross...

Tertiary Gulf Coast Diapirism: Unit 29: Application to Gulf Coast Tertiary

Martin P. A. Jackson, William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... are deep enough to contain sufficiently compacted clastics (perhaps 1 km deep), further diapirism is driven by buoyancy as well as other forces...

Grain Size Controls on the Facies Sequences and Clinoforms of River-Dominated Deltas; #50685 (2012)

Rudy L. Slingerland, Alexander P. Burpee, and Douglas A. Edmonds

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... entering a standing body of water devoid of waves, tides, and buoyancy forces. At the inlet boundary a steady, uniform discharge of 1000 m3 s-1...

Fluid and Sediment Dynamics on Continental Shelves

Donald J. P. Swift and Alan W. Niedoroda

Special Publications of SEPM

... 7. particle in response to pressure and coriolis forces. Initial, states of offshore motion exist at time space scales of minutes and meters...

1997 AAPG Annual Convention, April 6-9, 1997, Dallas, Texas, - Abstracts; #91021 (2010)

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Basin-centered Gas or Subtle Conventional Traps?

Wayne K. Camp

AAPG Special Volumes

... pressured conventional traps from unconventional traps, which are characterized by anomalous reservoir pressure and lack of associated water production...

Impurities in CO2 streams for a multi-user CCS hub

Vilaiwan Suvanmani

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... without a reservoir to minimise emissions. This paper addresses the concerns around impurities impacting the value chain of a CCS project, discussing...

Petrophysics of the Lance and Upper Mesaverde Reservoirs at Pinedale Field, Sublette County, Wyoming, USA

Suzanne G. Cluff, Robert M. Cluff, Daniel G. Hallau, Ryan J. Sharma

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Figure 31). In a conventional, buoyancy dominated gas accumulation the deviation of reservoir pressure away from a hydrostatic gradient increases upwards...

Groundwater Upwelling, Near Bay St. Elaine Salt Dome in Southeastern Louisiana, as Inferred from Fluid Property Variations (1)

DANIEL P. CASSIDY and VISHNU RANGANATHAN

AAPG Bulletin

... defined as the ratio of fluid pressure to the lithostatic pressure (i.e., the pressure exerted by overlying solid grains and fluids...

Can Dispersive Pressure Cause Inverse Grading in Grain Flows?

Francois Legros

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Archimedes buoyancy force are proportional to Di3. The resultant of these two forces is therefore also proportional to Di3, and size segregation can occur...

Hydrocarbon Migration: What We Know, What We Don’t Know and Why It Is Important

Barry Jay Katz Chevron Energy Technology Company

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...: primary migration or expulsion, secondary migration from source to reservoir, and tertiary migration between reservoirs or remigration...

Abstract: Seal Capacity in Dynamic Petroleum Systems: Example from Pagerungan Gas Field, East Java Sea, Indonesia, by J. G. Kaldi, D. Macgregor, and G. P. O'Donnell; #90937 (1998).

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Abstract: Seal Capacity in Dynamic Petroleum Systems: Example from Pagerungan Gas Field, East Java Sea, Indonesia, by J. G. Kaldi, D. Macgregor, and G. P. O'Donnell; #90928 (1999).

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Mapping natural oil seeps in the Middle Magdalena Basin (Colombia) using WorldView-3 satellite data

Saeid Asadzadeh, Ivan Rodrigo Plata Arango, and Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho

AAPG Bulletin

..., 2005). The driving force of either type is the vertical buoyancy of hydrocarbons and pressure differences between the source and the surface (Clarke...

The Place of Faults in Petroleum Traps

Rasoul Sorkhabi, Yoshihiro Tsuji

AAPG Special Volumes

... of seal rock is equal to or exceeds the buoyancy pressure of petroleum in the reservoir (Schowalter, 1979; Watts, 1987).Petroleum basins are structurally...

Petroleum Geology of the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, Western DeSoto Canyon, and Western Lloyd Protraction Areas, Northern Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Seals, Source Rocks, Generation, and Accumulation: Preliminary Results

Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, Veit Matt, James Adson, Aaron van den Berg, Todd Lapinski, John Roesink

GCAGS Transactions

... and their relationship to the current generation windows versus reservoir fluids shows variable conditions (Fig. 9). For the 22 oil fields in the area, eleven fields...

Sediment Gravity Flows: II Depositional Models with Special Reference to the Deposits of High-Density Turbidity Currents

Donald R. Lowe

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by frictional freezing and cohesive freezing interact through either frictional contact or cohesive forces, respectively, and are deposited...

CO2 Sequestration Potential in the Rose Run Formation at the Mountaineer Power Plant, New Haven, West Virginia

Diana H. Bacon, Mark D. White, Neeraj Gupta, Joel R. Sminchak, Mark E. Kelley

AAPG Special Volumes

... the potential for geologic sequestration in a deep brine reservoir at the American Electric Power's Mountaineer Power Plant in New Haven, West Virginia...

Depositional Effects of Flow Nonuniformity and Stratification Within Turbidity Currents Approaching a Bounding Slope: Deflection, Reflection, and Facies Variation

Ben Kneller, William McCaffrey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction, in Hartley, A.J., and Prosser, D.J., eds., Characterisation of Deep Marine Clastic...

Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 1Uncoupled models

Gang Luo, Maria A. Nikolinakou, Peter B. Flemings, Michael R. Hudec

AAPG Bulletin

... of sediment loading, buoyancy, margin tilt, and isostasy: 24th Annual Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p...

Effects of natural gas acidic components on local porosity generation in a carbonate reservoir: Insights from reactive transport modeling

Guanru Zhang, Peng Lu, Pan Luo, Eric Sonnenthal, Yi Huang, and Chen Zhu

AAPG Bulletin

...Effects of natural gas acidic components on local porosity generation in a carbonate reservoir: Insights from reactive transport modeling Guanru...

Intraformational Migration of Oil, Gas-Condensate and Methane-Rich Gas in a Major Unconventional Petroleum Accumulation: Montney Formation, Western Canada

James M. Wood

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... window where the methane content of produced gas is not a reliable indicator of in-situ reservoir fluids. Red arrows indicate methane-rich gas...

Review of Geological Storage Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Victoria

C. M. Gibson-Poole, S. Edwards, R. P. Langford, B. Vakarelov

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the same conditions (Ennis-King & Paterson 2001, 2002). This means that the lighter CO2 will naturally rise upwards by buoyancy through the reservoir rock...

High-Density Mud Suspensions and Cross-Shelf Transport: On the Mechanism of Gelling Ignition

Jochen Kämpf, Paul Myrow

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by turbulence associated with storm waves. Highly concentrated dispersions can be produced and then subjected to gravitational forces to form flows...