Development and Relation of Oil Accumulation to Structure in the Shiprock District of the Navajo Indian Reservation, New Mexico

K. B. Nowels

AAPG Bulletin

..., and higher hydrocarbons. Reservoir pressure and temperature: In the Rattlesnake field the "rock" pressure, or reservoir pressure, as determined...

Reservoir Modeling by Constraining Stochastic Simulation to Deterministically Interpreted Three-dimensional Geobodies: Case Study from Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Long Lake Steam-assisted Gravity Drainage Project, Northeast Alberta, Canada

Milovan Fustic, David Thurston, Adal Al-Dliwe, Dale A. Leckie, Dany Cadiou

AAPG Special Volumes

... was generated at the oil-water contact in lower parts of the reservoir. The gas migrated upward by buoyancy to be trapped by lower permeability layers...

Abstract: Local Unconformities Associated with Salt Structures

V. N. Sovinsky

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Oligocene. Upsurge of salt due to its buoyancy. Tectonic quiescence of the area. Deep drilling has revealed factors which partially contradict all three...

Conceptual Study of Anthasena: Donut Shaped Semi-Submersible Offshore Drilling and Production Platform to Exploit Marginal Field in East Indonesia

Abhista Danis Wara, Pandhu Dirga Pratama, Adjie Bimo Ananto, Raditya Danu Riyanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... additional buoyancy with a unique donut shaped pontoon construction, giving her higher payloads so that the drilling and production modules can be accommodated...

A Boat Specially Designed For Sediment Sampling In Estuaries And Bays: METHOD PAPER

Abilio Carlos Da Silva Pinto Bittencourt, Arno Brichta, Paulo Eduardo Avanzo, Geraldo Da Silva Vilas Boas

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Bay (Bahia-Brazil) required the construction of a boat without these disadvantages and having the following characteristics: 1) good buoyancy...

Role of Naturally Occurring Gas Hydrates in Sediment Transport: REPLY

Richard D. McIver

AAPG Bulletin

... magnitude do not cut the water with enough gas to cause vessels to lose buoyancy, the literature suggests that his conclusions do not apply to blowouts...

Abstract: Migration of Dynamic Subsidence Across the Late Cretaceous U.S. Western Interior Basin in Response to Farallon Plate Subduction, by Dag Nummedal, Shaofeng Liu, and Lijun Liu; #90124 (2011)

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Structural and Geodynamic Modeling of the Influence of Granite Bodies During Lithospheric Extension: Application to the Carboniferous Basins of Northern England

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Reconstruction of Allochthonous Salt Emplacement from 3-D Seismic Reflection Data, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Robert D. Walters

AAPG Bulletin

...) rapid sedimentation overcame upward salt movement, or (2) the deep source layer was depleted and only buoyancy forces could operate. The second...

Hydrocarbon flow modeling in complex structures (Mackenzie Basin, Canada)

Karsten F. Kroeger, Rolando di Primio, Brian Horsfield

AAPG Bulletin

... of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 8, p. 5581.Nentwich, F. W., and R. W. Yole, 1994, Wireline log response, petrography and reservoir properties of core intervals...

Salt Basins of Western Europe and Gabon, West Africa: Which is a Gulf of Mexico Analog?

D. A. Thompson , I. Lerche , J. J. O'Brien

GCAGS Transactions

... and the relationship of critical depth of sediment necessary to cause buoyancy of the salt, suggest that the Zechstein salt has been essentially...

On the Origin of the Gulf Coast Neogene Oils

Leigh C. Price

GCAGS Transactions

... is compaction of all sediment fluids, including oil, upward and outward, and because of buoyancy, all deep-basin fluids tend to be replaced by high-rank...

Predicting Sweet Spots in Shale Plays by DNA Fingerprinting and Machine Learning

Chris Te Stroet, Jonathan Zwaan, Gerard de Jager, Roy Montijn, Frank Schuren

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of buoyancy where the signal in the DNA fingerprint disappears within a few years after production because of a decrease in reservoir pressure. Figure 16...

West Texas Geological Society 1993 Fall Symposium

Julie Gibbs, David Cromwell

West Texas Geological Society

... of fluids involved in reservoir diagenesis, source and activity of subsurface bacteria, and preservation of hydrocarbon quality. In basins...

Influence of Gas Production and Filament Orientation on Stromatolite Microfabric

Scott A. Mata, Cara L. Harwood, Frank A. Corsetti, Natalie J. Stork, Kathryn Eilers, William M. Berelson, John R. Spear

PALAIOS

... in this stromatolite result from buoyancy forces rather than phototaxis. Examples from the Neoproterozoic Beck Spring Dolomite reveal that similar subvertical...

Characteristics and Depositional Processes of Large-scale Gravelly Gilbert-Type Foresets in the Miocene Doumsan Fan Delta, Pohang Basin, Se Korea

Y. K. Sohn , S. B. Kim , I. G. Hwang , J. J. Bahk , M. Y. Choe , S. K. Chough

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...; Postma 1986). The term "modified" is used because the sandy interstitial material must have provided supplementary grain-support forces via...

Mechanism of Salt Migration in Northern Germany

F. Trusheim

AAPG Bulletin

... are known to exist (e.g., Fig. 9) which have remained virtually quiescent since the Upper Cretaceous or the Tertiary. The forces of buoyancy...

Modern Approaches in Source-Rock Evaluation

Douglas W. Waples

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... enhance or retard movement caused by buoyancy. 4. The details of primary and secondary migration need to be fully understood in order for explorationists...

Thermal maximum and overpressure of the Wolfcamp formation in the Delaware Basin of Texas and New Mexico through age and temperature of beef calcite veins

Alex M. Washburn, Paul J. Sylvester, Zsófia Poros, and Kathryn E. Snell

AAPG Bulletin

... intervals from the Wolfcamp formation down to the Woodford Shale (Figure 2). In general, it is acknowledged that reservoir overpressure development is complex...

Oil Production from a Sill Complex Within the Vaca Muerta Formation

Juan B. Spacapan, Remigio Ruiz, Rene Manceda, Alejandro D’Odorico, Emilio Rocha, Emilio Rojas Vera, Adrian Medialdea, Diego Cattaneo, Octavio Palma, Héctor A. Leanza, Olivier Galland

AAPG Special Volumes

... 90% and 100%; (2) the reservoir quality of igneous intrusions is dominated by the combination of matrix and fracture framework properties; (3...

Petroleum generation and accumulation in the Berkine basin, eastern Algeria

Noureddine Yahi, Rainer G. Schaefer, Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... unconformably beneath a thick Mesozoic wedge of clastic rocks, carbonates, and evaporites (anhydrite and salt) that provide reservoir and seal for several...

Sedimentology of Organic Matter in Upper Tithonian-Berriasian Deep-Sea Carbonates of Southeast France: Evidence of Eustatic Control: Chapter 5

D. Steffen, G. E. Gorin

AAPG Special Volumes

..., in The sedimentation of the North Sea reservoir rocks: Norwegian Petroleum Society, v. 12, p. 1-22. De Reneville, P., and J.-F. Raynaud, 1981, Palynologie du...

The Crude Oils of Wyoming—Product of Depositional Environment and Alteration

Richard D. McIver

Wyoming Geological Association

... oil for a given depth. On the other hand an oil could be made lighter irreversibly at depth and then move updip by buoyancy through fractures or along...

The Search for New Exploration Plays: When Only the Best Will Do, #10810 (2015).

Julie Garvin

Search and Discovery.com

... Basin- Example of a “coupled system” of source rock, reservoir and seal Las Animas Arch- Tight carbonate play with local petroleum system. Use...

Source Control Improvement through Subsea Well Intervention Innovation

Prianda Ardhana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., November 2012, BOP is equipment installed on the wellhead or wellhead assemblies to contain wellbore fluids either in the annular space between...