Agents for Primary Hydrocarbon Migration: A Review

Kinji Magara

AAPG Special Volumes

... other possible causes of primary migration, such as capillary pressure, buoyancy, diffusion, and generation of hydrocarbons (especially gas). Most...

Use of advanced NMR measurements to estimate key subsurface properties of organic rich shales: the case of the Vaca Muerta formation

Anton Nikitin, Alexei A. Savitski, Patricio Fita, Ruben Dominguez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of capillarity and buoyancy but also by volumes of hydrocarbons generated in situ during organic matter maturation, and high formation ductility, causing very...

Pore-throat sizes in sandstones, tight sandstones, and shales

Philip H. Nelson

AAPG Bulletin

... structure on the sensitivity of wire-line logs to overpressure, in A. Huffman and G. Bowers, eds., Pressure regimes in sedimentary basins...

The Influence of Fault Zone Processes and Diagenesis on Fluid Flow: Chapter 10: DIAGENESIS AND FAULTS

R. J. Knipe

AAPG Special Volumes

...). The complexities of fault array development and the fluid pressure evolution of different lithologies during burial lead to fluid flow in basins...

Hydrodynamic stagnation zones: A new play concept for the Llanos Basin, Colombia

Mark Person, David Butler, Carl W. Gable, Tomas Villamil, David Wavrek, Daniel Schelling

AAPG Bulletin

... of 20150C and the pressure range of 0.135 MPa: Journal of Physical Chemistry Reference Data, v. 10, p. 7187.Konikow, L. F., and D. B. Grove, 1977...

The Niobrara Petroleum System, Rocky Mountain Region; #80206 (2012)

Stephen A. Sonnenberg

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.... 1-34. Meissner, F.F., 1980, Examples of abnormal fluid pressure produced by hydrocarbon generation: AAPG Bulletin, v. 64/5, p. 749. Perry, S.L., 1985...

Effects of a Mixed Wetting Porous Medium on Gas Flowing and Its Implications for Gas Exploration in Tight Sandstones; #42195 (2018)

Hui Shi, Xiaorong Luo, Likuan Zhang, Yuhong Lei, Ming Cheng

Search and Discovery.com

... migration driven by buoyancy increases with the fraction of oil-wetting grains in the mixed wetting models as a logarithmic function. Gas migrates...

Productive Series Play of the Paleo-Volga Delta, South Caspian Basin: Exploration History, Sedimentation, and Petroleum System

Olive W. Terry Baganz, Elchin Bagirov, Gerald Eric Michael, Al Shultz

AAPG Special Volumes

... occurring in the last 2 m.y., the same time structures began to form in the basin. High fluid pressure gradients appear to inhibit the development...

A Novel Enhanced Oil Recovery Approach to Water Flooding in Saskatchewans Tight Oil Plays

Mojtaba Kiani, Tzu-Ping Hsu, Alireza Roostapour, Mahdi Kazempour, Eric Tudor

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...). This waterflood demonstrated that the waterflood could maintain the pressure without breakthrough; however, the oil recovery was still low (Hoffman and Evans...

Joint physics-based and data-driven time-lapse seismic inversion: Mitigating data scarcity

Yanhua Liu, Shihang Feng, Ilya Tsvankin, David Alumbaugh, Youzuo Lin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... includes the gridded P-wave velocity and density models, and pobs and psim are the observed and simulated pressure fields, respectively. FWI...

THE LOWER CRETACEOUS MANNVILLE GROUP OF SASKATCHEWAN - A TECTONIC OVERVIEW

J. E. Christopher

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... on the overlying Dina, high pressure formation waters are funnelled into the higher beds of the Mannville. This flow in conjunction with the regional buoyancy...

Effect of Brine Salinity on CO2 Plume Migration and Trapping Capacity in Deep Saline Aquifers

Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Stefan Iglauer

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... CO2 will be trapped using the second mechanism (i.e. residual trapping, which depends on the relative permeability and capillary pressure curves; Al...

Quantitative analysis of slip-induced dilation with application to fault seal

Scott J. Wilkins, Stephen J. Naruk

AAPG Bulletin

... zone, the capillary entry pressure of the fault rock must be exceeded (see reviews by Watts, 1987; Brown, 2003), and the buoyancy pressure...

Diagenesis and sealing capacity of the middle Tuscaloosa mudstone at the Cranfield carbon dioxide injection site, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Jiemin Lu, Kitty Milliken, Robert M. Reed, Susan Hovorka

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... mudstone. Mercury intrusion capillary pressure tests show desirable sealing capacity for all samples capable of retaining a CO2 column of 49 to 237 m...

Fluid Flow, Pore Pressure, Wettability, and Leakage in Mudstone Cap Rocks

Andrew C. Aplin, Steve R. Larter

AAPG Special Volumes

...Fluid Flow, Pore Pressure, Wettability, and Leakage in Mudstone Cap Rocks Andrew C. Aplin, Steve R. Larter 2005 1 12 AAPG Hedberg Series, no. 2...

Abstract: Hydrogeochemical Prospecting for Natural Gas: The Geochemical Chimney, Shallow Groundwater Hydrogeology, and Interpretation of Near-Surface Data; #90172 (2014)

Matthew V. Kohlbecker, Dimitri Vlassopoulos

Search and Discovery.com

... and migrates vertically upward by buoyancy to the surface, so that the surface expression is located essentially vertically above the hydrocarbon accumulation...

Pumpers & Well Operations Training - Workshop Summary

David G. Morse, Steven R. Gustison, Steve PErsinger, Chris Black, Bill Maxey

PTTC

..., generation-migration-accumulation and preservation time. The migration process involves expulsion from the source rock, buoyancy (floating on water...

A Type Model for Future Oil and Gas Fields in the Cenozoic Basins of the Eastern Great Basin

Floyd C. Moulton

Utah Geological Association

... an area below the reservoir. The buoyancy drive of the lower density oil allowed it to migrate to the top part of the porous reservoir carbonates...

Tensleep Sandstone Stratigraphic-Hydrodynamic Traps, Northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

John J. Pedry

Wyoming Geological Association

... — such as the density and the relative amounts of water, oil and gas; amount of the constriction; and pressure gradient, which controls the rate of flow...

Smackover Reservoir: Interpretation Case Study of Water Saturation Versus Production

J.G. Guillotte , J. Schrank, E. Hunt

GCAGS Transactions

... by the buoyancy method in conjunction with bulk and grain densities range from 12 to 18%. Permeability of the cores measured by flowing fluid through...

Intra-Delta Versus Sub-Delta Sourcing of Petroleum - a Global Review, by Olukayode J. Samuel, and D. Martin Jones, and Chris Cornford, #40243 (2007).

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Basin-Scale Fluid Flow, Sealing, Leakage and Seepage Processes in the Gippsland Basin, Australia; #50288 (2010)

Geoffrey O'Brien, Louise Goldie-Divko, Michael Harrison, Peter Tingate, Joseph Hamilton, Keyu Liu

Search and Discovery.com

... are smectite-rich Shallower samples are richer in carbonate and quartz Top Seal Characteristics Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Data deeper...

Stratigraphic Models and Exploration Plays of Slope and Basin-Floor Carbonates; #50637 (2012)

Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans, Ted Playton, Jason Clayton, Peter Winefield, Peter Burgess

Search and Discovery.com

... bedded; high L: H Transport & Flow Support* rockfall, hyperconcentrated & debris flow; buoyancy & matrix strength (hyper)concentrated flow...

Exploration Focus: Hungary; #10534 (2013)

Gábor Bada and Gábor Tari

Search and Discovery.com

.... Thermogenic oil and gas generation has been taking place below the depth of 2500 m for the last 5-10 Ma. Associated overpressure or buoyancy forces have...

Controls on Petroleum Phase and Water Production in the Wall Creek Resource Play, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, #11254 (2019).

Rich Gibson,

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... Oil saturation on west flank approaches residual Rate of buoyancy-driven leakage up west flank is slow because of Wall Creek was deeply buried and low...