ABSTRACT: Similarities and Differences between Salt and Shale Tectonics; #90013 (2003)

Bruno C. Vendeville

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... rate is controlled mostly by external parameters (rates of aggradation, progradation, or tectonics). Finally, buoyancy forces differ between shale...

Increasing Occurrence of Abnormally High Reservoir Pressures in Boreholes, and Drilling Problems Resulting Therefrom

J. H. M. A. Thomeer , J. A. Bottema

AAPG Bulletin

... will only just touch each other. Contact pressure between them is governed by their weight minus buoyancy and, in a thin shallow sediment a considered...

Secondary Migration Routes in the Brent Sandstones of the Viking Graben and East Shetland Basin: Evidence from Oil Residues and Subsurface Pressure Data (1)

JENNIFER A. MILES

AAPG Bulletin

..., based on the movement of oil by buoyancy in well-defined, isolated pressure compartments, integrated with timing of oil generation, indicates...

Hydrogeology and Aquifer Storage and Recovery System Performance

Robert G. Maliva, Weixing Guo, Thomas M. Missimer

GCAGS Transactions

... waters before a target water quality standard is exceeded and buoyancy-driven fluid migration is minimized. Heterogeneity within storage zones decreases...

High resistivity reservoirs (causes and effects): Sahara field, Murzuq Basin, Libya

Abubaker Alansari, Ahmed Salim, Abdul Hadi Bin Abd Rahman, Nuri Fello, Hammad Janjujah

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... pressure, and buoyancy forces support, which resulted in occupying all the larger pores and pushed the water into minor scattered pores leading...

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

..., A model for hysteretic constitutive relations governing multiphase flow: 1. Saturation-pressure relations: Water Resources Research, v. 23, p...

Geological Applications of Capillary Pressure: A Review (1)

CHARLES L. VAVRA , JOHN G. KALDI , and ROBERT M. SNEIDER

AAPG Bulletin

... a seal in the subsurface provided that the minimum displacement pressure of the potential seal rock is greater than the established buoyancy pressure...

Generation and Migration of Petroleum from Abnormally Pressured Fluid Compartments (1)

JOHN M. HUNT

AAPG Bulletin

... in an oil and gas phase is a pressure-driven process in which the flow direction is controlled by the configuration and internal pressures of the fluid...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Trapping vs. Breaching Seals in Salt Basins: A Case History of Macaroni and Mt. Massive, Auger Basin, Gulf of Mexico

Shaker, Selim S.

GCAGS Transactions

... pore pressure in the shale beds, relative to the measurable pressure in the reservoir type sand facies, is the back-bone of assessing...

Application of petroleum systems analysis to resource assessments

Lukasz Krawczynski, Martin Neumaier

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., such that the combined buoyancy force is equal to the capillary pressure (class 2). Excess charge would both leak (gas) and spill (oil). This situation is relatively...

Mass-Transport Mechanisms and Resulting Deposits in a Deepwater Carbonate Debris Apron: Lower Cretaceous Tamabra Formation, Poza Rica Field Area, Mexico; #50674 (2012)

Robert Loucks, Charlie Kerans, and Xavier Janson

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... was the dominant grain-support mechanism, but pore pressure and buoyancy also contributed. Deposits of this type include clast-bearing lime mudstone...

The Sand-Silt-Clay (SSC) Model: An Advanced Petrophysical Analysis and the Essential Applications to Lithology Computation, Permeability Estimation and Saturation Modeling, #42489 (2020).

Yudiyoko Ega Sugiharto, Gamal Ragab Gaafar

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... inter-relationship among reservoir rocks, water saturation, wettability and capillary or buoyancy pressure can be unravelled. Water saturation...

A Proposed Solution to the Challenge of Producing Oil Reserves from Offshore Marginal Fields in the Natuna Sea of Indonesia

F. H. Rodriguez, B. Peribere

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... bottom hole pressure surveys, etc. Field Location/Description (Figure 1) To illustrate the principle of the proposed solution to the challenge...

Structural and Depositional History, McAllen Ranch Field, Hidalgo County, Texas

Robert R. Berg, William D. Marshall , Philip W. Shoemaker

GCAGS Transactions

... the fault, the Jackson Shale is abnormally pressured and probably folded. Early shale uplift by buoyancy controlled sand distribution by diverting...

Geopressures and Secondary Porosity in the Deep Jurassic of Mississippi

Calvin A. Parker

GCAGS Transactions

... basin of Mississippi has revealed geopressured oil, gas and water with high pressure gradients. These geopressures occur mainly in the Jurassic...

Hydrodynamic Pools at Faults

N. A. Eremenko, I. M. Michailov

CSPG Bulletin

... as a result of the force of buoyancy does not exceed the threshold displacement pressure of the boundary (PdB). The well-known equations for these pressures...

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

... of Pressure-Driven Fluid Flow Stephan K. Matthai , Stephen G. Roberts 1996 1763 1779 80 11. (November) By integrating numerical analysis with field...

AAPG Hedberg Research Conference "Evaluating the Hydrocarbon Sealing Potential of Faults and Caprocks", December 1-5, 2002, Barossa Valley, South Australia; #90009 (2002).

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Mudstone and Claystone Units: Seals for Ancient Microbial Gas Accumulations in the Upper Cretaceous Milk River Formation, Alberta and Saskatchewan

Neil Fishman, John Neasham, Donald Hall, and Debra Higley

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... mD). The characteristics of mudstones and claystones point to the likelihood that buoyancy pressure never exceeded their capillary entry pressures, so...

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Sealing by Shale Gouge and Subsequent Seal Breach by Reactivation: A Case Study of the Zema Prospect, Otway Basin

Paul J. Lyon, Peter J. Boult, Richard R. Hillis, Scott D. Mildren

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Yielding, 2005, Using buoyancy pressure profiles to assess uncertainty in fault seal calibration, in P. Boult and J. Kaldi, eds., Evaluating fault and cap...

Fine-Grained Debris Flows In Coarse-Grained Alluvial Systems: Paleoenvironmental Implications For the Late Paleozoic Fountain and Cutler Formations, Colorado, U.S.A.

Dustin E. Sweet

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... on the fluid, which increases the vertical pressure gradient of the fluid above the effects of fluid density alone (Hampton 1979). The buoyancy from...

An engineering toolkit to estimate the CO2 storage potential of the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

Tim Stephens, Mavise Beattie, Jeremy Iwanec, Peter Stephenson, Barry Bradshaw, Tom Bernecker

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... and vertical storage efficiency, estimation of CO2 fluid properties at reservoir temperature and pressure, and project development parameters such as well...

Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment Evaluation in Lematang Area, South Sumatra

Pipin Ariyanto, Fendy Kusdiantoro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... pressure adds the existing capillary pressure to increase hydrocarbon column. In the other hand, along with buoyancy pressure, an up-dip flow...

Numerical modeling of microfracturing and primary hydrocarbon expulsion in the Jurassic Lower Tuwaiq Mountain Shale: A conceptual framework

Syed Haider, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Thomas Finkbeiner, and Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... velocities through the bitumen are comparable to the hydrocarbon escape velocity driven by buoyancy. (B) The pore pressure is preserved in a source rock...