ABSTRACT: A Vertical Hydrophone Array for Imaging the Hydrate Stability Zone; #90013 (2003)

THOMAS M. McGEE, PAUL HIGLEY, J. ROBERT WOOLSEY

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... acoustic channels evenly spaced at 12.5m intervals. The lower portion accommodates electronic devices in pressure housings. These include a data...

State of Stress at Passive Margins and Initiation of Subduction Zones: Tectonic Processes: Model Investigations of Margin Environmental and Tectonic Processes

S. A. P. L. Cloetingh, M. J. R. Wortel, N. J. Vlaar

AAPG Special Volumes

... stability. The total stability of the oceanic lithosphere is the sum of the positive buoyancy of its stable petrological stratification and the negative...

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

Abubaker AlAnsari, Ahmed Salem, Abdul Hadi Abd Rahman, Nuri Fello

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... geological time by benefitting of high connate pressure and buoyancy forces support, occupying all the minor pores and pushed the water into larger...

Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States

Philip H. Nelson, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, and Ronald M. Drake II

AAPG Bulletin

... in which strata are charged with gas and buoyancy has been lost. This study maps the potentiometric surfaces and pressure:depth ratios for the seven...

Formation Mechanisms of Stratigraphic Reservoirs Below Hydrocarbon Source Rock in Depression-type Lacustrine of Continental Rift Basins … Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphic Reservoirs in South Songliao Basin, China, #10302 (2011)

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

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..., excess pressure mainly from hydrocarbon generation and limited role of buoyancy, commonly lower production, but local enrichment. 2. Hydrocarbon...

An Integrated Approach of CO2 Injection and Storage Assessment in Tight Gas Condensate Carbonate Reservoir, Case Study: Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Andi Magfirah, Ricko Rizkiaputra, Ahmad Reizky Azhar, Jeres Rorym Cherdasa

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... As such, it is utilized to assess the field's effective storage capacity, reservoir injectivity, CO2 plume migration, pressure connection potential, CO2...

Geology of Glenn Pool of Oklahoma

W. B. Wilson

AAPG Bulletin

... explanation yet advanced for this movement of the oil up the dip is buoyancy arising from the difference in specific gravity between the oil...

Seismic Recognition of Salt Diapirs: GEOLOGIC NOTES

Hans H. Lohmann

AAPG Bulletin

... in the direction of pressure decrease, that is, upward or sideways with an upward component, but never downward (buoyancy principle). Typical for salt...

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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... underpressured and possess multiple pressure systems showing poor connectivity among the numerous smaller-sized traps. But it has been widely proved...

A model for an unconventional trap in low permeability upper Tonkawa shallow marine sandstones in Dewey, Roger Mills, and Ellis Counties, Oklahoma.

Andrew Cullen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... in heavy red dashed line, b) Pressure vs depth plot showing the notional buoyancy pressure of a 2,900ft oil column. Post-Paleozoic Denudation...

A Model for the Evolution of Salt Diapirs and the Salt Dome Canopy, East Texas Basin

James R. Turner

GCAGS Transactions

... and buoyancy created pressure in the salt which, in turn, transferred pressure to the beds surrounding and overlying the salt diapir. The terms "constrained...

Hydrodynamics of the Permian Basin

Robert P. McNeal

AAPG Special Volumes

... by down-dip flow because the buoyancy force of the hydrocarbon, or capillary pressure, must exceed the pressure (displacement pressure) necessary...

Capillary Sealing as an Overpressure Mechanism in the Anadarko Basin, by Constantin Cranganu and Maria A. Villa, #40187 (2006).

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Dynamic Phenomena of Sediment Compaction in Matagorda County, Texas

Robert L. Myers , Dewitt C. Van Siclen

GCAGS Transactions

.... In the sands associated with the low-density shale the pressure of the interstitial fluid is considerably above hydrostatic wherever data are available...

Application of SPE SRMS and Certification of CO2 Storage Capacity

Bill Billingsley, Peter Stephenson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the storage capacity to a fraction of the petroleum withdrawn. a) Formation breakdown pressure: Pressures exerted during storage must not exceed the formation...

Novel Wettability Modifiers for Improved Oil Recovery in Tight Oil Reservoirs

Mingyuan Wang, Gayan A. Abeykoon, Francisco J. Argüelles Vivas, Ryosuke Okuno

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pressure). 2.2. 3-Pentanone Properties. A sample of 3p was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich with a purity greater than 99%. Figure 2 provides the vapor pressure...

Computer Simulation Models of Salt Domes

James C. Howard

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure, pt. 2, tests at high temperature: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 42, p. 2892-2934. Howard, J. C., 1968, Monte Carlo simulation model...

Laboratory Study of Gas and Water Flow in the Nordland Shale, Sleipner, North Sea

J. F. Harrington, D. J. Noy, S. T. Horseman, D. J. Birchall, R. A. Chadwick

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Sleipner CO2 injection site in the North Sea. By simultaneously applying a confining back pressure, specimens were isotropically consolidated and fully...

Migration of Hydrocarbons in Compacting Basins

L. C. Bonham

AAPG Special Volumes

... the fault. The flow mechanism would involve both the hydraulic pressure gradient and buoyancy of the petroleum. As petroleum migrates up the fault...

Introduction to Petroleum Geochemistry

Douglas W. Waples

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... CAPILLARY PRESSURE BUOYANCY REQUIRES HC AS SEPARATE PHASE REQUIRES HC TO BE LESS DENSE THAN PORE WATER DEPENDENT ON HEIGHT (SIZE) OF OIL...

The Perpetual Mystery of Petroleum Migration

William H. Roberts III

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... about some popular assumptions (e.g., temperature windows, episodic fluid movement, buoyancy, differential entrapment) which characterize our...

The Perpetual Mystery of Petroleum Migration

W. H. Roberts, III

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... movements, buoyancy, differential entrapment) which characterize our literature. For some of these, alternative explanations based on field observations...

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)

.... Hydrocarbon Migration Hydrocarbons migrate as a distinct phase, mainly due to their buoyancy pressure. This force causes them to move vertically...

Numerical modeling study of the CO2 trapping characteristics of thin-skinned fold and thrust belts: A case study of the Catawba Syncline, Virginia, U.S.A.

Lars W. Koehn, Phillip Prince, Ryan M. Pollyea

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the buoyancy-driven CO2 flow no longer had sufficient pressure to overcome the capillary force of the in-situ pore fluid. The CO2 plume reached an up...

Concepts, Geological Characteristics and Evaluation Techniques for Continuous Petroleum Accumulations in China, #10246 (2010)

Cai-neng Zou, Shi-zhen Tao, Xiao-hui Gao, Ying Li, Zhi Yang, Yan-jie Gong, Jin-hua Jia, Da-zhong Dong, Xin-jing Li

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... of buoyancy, (7) nonDarcy infiltration flow, (8) weak fluid differentiation, diverse oil or gas saturation, and complex distribution of oil, gas...