Fault control on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in the Tertiary Dongying depression, Bohai Basin, China

Carolyn Lampe, Guoqi Song, Liangzi Cong, Xing Mu

AAPG Bulletin

... to their principal surrounding lithologies. FCP = fault capillary pressure; SGR = shale gouge ratio.Faults have extremely complex 3-D structures and can occur...

Abnormal Pressures in Midland Field, Louisiana

William A. Fowler Jr, Walter A. Boyd Jr, Sabin W. Marshall, Robert L. Myers

Houston Geological Society

... in the larger pore spaces of the reservoir where capillary forces are smaller. Another such force is the pressure difference associated with hydrodynamic...

Measurement of Gas-Oil Relative Permeability in Unconventional Rocks

Shreerang S. Chhatre, Amy L. Chen, Muhammed Al-Rukabi, Daniel W. Berry, Robert Longoria, Kyle B. Guice, Daniel R. Maloney

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pressures of tens to hundreds of psi over the range of saturations displaced in the test. Mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) data were used...

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

... for a worldwide data set to define depth-dependent seal failure envelopes. These seal failure envelopes define the fault zone capillary entry pressure (FZP...

Rock-Water Reaction: Formation Damage: Part 5. Laboratory Methods

Dare Keelan, J. O. Amaefule

AAPG Special Volumes

... diffraction -- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) 2. Salinity-related tests -- Liquid permeability -- Depth of damage studies -- Capillary pressure...

Flow of a Disperse Emulsion of Crude Oil in Water Through Porous Media: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

John C. Cartmill , Parke A. Dickey

AAPG Bulletin

... not occur as a result of capillary effects, because the pores were many times the diameter of the droplets. The oil collected as a result...

A model describing flowback chemistry changes with time after Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing

Victor N. Balashov, Terry Engelder, Xin Gu, Matthew S. Fantle, and Susan L. Brantley

AAPG Bulletin

... as capillary-bound or free Appalachian brine. In that case, only 0.1%–0.2% of the brine salt in the shale accessed by one well need be mobilized...

Codell Sandstone, a Review of the Northern DJ Basin Oil Resource Play, Laramie County, Wyoming and Weld County, Colorado

Robert H. Sterling, Richard Bottjer, Kevin H. Smith

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... into the Codell. Use of mercury capillary injection pressure analysis was essential in resolving the oil migration route throughout the play area. Drilling...

A Petrophysical Evaluation of the Slave Point Formation, Cranberry Field, Alberta

Kenneth E. White

CSPG Special Publications

... to Various Parameters Derived from Mercury Injection-Capillary Pressure Curves for Sandstones”, AAPG Bull. v. 76, no. 2, pp. 191–198. Thomeer, J. H., (1983...

Reservoir Quality Controls on Tight-Gas Sand Productivity Insights from the Canyon Creek Field, Sweetwater County, Wyoming; #20469 (2019)

Brent W. Greenhalgh

Search and Discovery.com

... well had a high and low porosity sample selected for porous plate capillary pressure tests. Each sample was drained to 400 PSI and the relative...

External Casing Packer (ECP) Installation on Cased Hole at Heavy Loss Zone

Ali Fahmi, Ridwan Alfarizi, Rofiq Hermawan, Ariyanto Darmawan, Wingki Harwanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... cannot be killed, and while several attempts to pump LCM resulted in slight curing losses, further monitoring of tubing head pressure with a different...

Integration of Rock Physics Modelling to Improve Pore Pressure Prediction in Unconventional Shales

Jakob Heller, Venkatesh Anantharamu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Integration of Rock Physics Modelling to Improve Pore Pressure Prediction in Unconventional Shales Jakob Heller, Venkatesh Anantharamu URTeC: 3222...

Microporosity in Arab Formation Carbonates, Saudi Arabia, D.L. Cantrell and R.M. Hagerty, #30008

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Induced Fracture Dimension Prediction Method Based on Production and Pressure Data During Waterflooding

Hendry Setiawan Lie, Dedy Irawan, Doddy Abdassah

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Assumptions in the model include a homogeneous (isotropic) reservoir, no capillary pressure, constant rate and a voidage ratio of one. METHODOLOGY Two...

Biogenic Textural Heterogeneity, Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Production: Bioturbated Facies Ben Nevis Formation, Hibernia Field, Offshore Newfoundland

Michelle V. Spila, S. George Pemberton, Benjamin Rostron, Murray K. Gingras

Special Publications of SEPM

.... The characteristics of burrow-demarcated surfaces are also discussed. The data utilized in this paper (thin sections, permeability, porosity, capillary pressure data...

An Evolving Description of a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir: the Lisburne Field, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: Fractured Reservoirs: Origin, Description, Evaluation

R. A. Missman, J. Jameson

AAPG Special Volumes

...% is supported by material balance, capillary pressure and Formation Micro Scanner (FMS) (FOOTNOTE *) log interpretation12 work. However, these are only...

Novel Oil Flow Enhancement Chemistry for Unconventional Formations Evaluated and Optimized by Cutting-Edge Methodology

Elizabeth Cambre, Ali Abedini, Xinyue Zhang, Kirstie Boyle, Edward Hughes

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... there is a fine line between a water wet surface and the potential for increased capillary pressure, which can impact production potential...

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

...) or the capillary entry pressure of the seal facies. This pressure limit may be estimated by sampling the seal facies and performing capil­ lary entry...

Microporosity quantification using confocal microscopy

Neil F. Hurley, Kazumi Nakamura, Hannah Rosenberg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Results can be compared to laboratory-measured petrophysical properties, such as pore-throat diameters from mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP...

Abstracts: DC Electro-Kinetic Coupling Coefficient of Porous Samples in the Laboratory: Experimentation and Modelling; #90173 (2015)

E. Walker, P. W. J. Glover, E. Tardif, and J. Ruel

Search and Discovery.com

... of rock properties, from porosity and permeability, to grain and pore sizes, and capillary pressure. Hence, the fuller understanding of the electro-kinetic...

High-Performance Water-Based Mud Using Nanoparticles for Shale Reservoirs

Chang Min Jung, Rui Zhang, Martin Chenevert, Mukul Sharma

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... into shales. In this paper, we report results for shale permeability and pressure penetration though shales using different fluids: brine, base mud...

Wettability Quantification in Organic-Rich Mudrocks by Water Adsorption Isotherms

Isa Silveira de Araujo, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., total organic content (TOC), thermal maturity of kerogen, temperature, pressure, and the composition of reservoir fluids. Several previously published...

Sequential vertical gas charge into multilayered sequences controlled by central conduits

M. Foschi, J. A. Cartwright, and C. W. MacMinn

AAPG Bulletin

... to the typical capillary pressure. The buoyancy–pressure field was calculated in the standard way as P = Δρgh (e.g., Bear, 1972), where Δρ...

Pore-Scale Characterization of Oil-Rich Monterey Shale: A Preliminary Study

Shahram Farhadi Nia, Devang Dasani, Theodore Tsotsis, Kristian Jessen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) experiments require pressures of up to 60,000 psi (or higher); material integrity under these high...

An Experimental Study on the Flood Characteristic and Fluid Rock Interactions of a Supercritical CO2, Brine, Rock System, #80500 (2015).

Ali Saeedi, Claudio Delle Piane, Lionel Esteban, Linda Stalker

Search and Discovery.com

... and vapour-saturated scCO2. Experimental pressure, temperature and brine salinity values were chosen to match the in-situ ones at the sample depths...