PALEOMAGNETIC ORIENTATION OF FRACTURES IN CORES FROM SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA FOR HORIZONTAL WELL PLANNING

K. P. GILLEN

Williston Basin Symposium

... angles: an angle from vertical referred to as inclination and a horizontal angle called declination. The declination component can be used...

Types of Wells

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... was perfected. Here, the drill bit is deflected at an angle from the vertical toward a specific target. Deviated wells are commonly drilled from fixed...

Abstract: Azimuthal Fourier Coefficients: A Simple Method to Estimate Fracture Parameters; #90174 (2014)

Jon Downton and Benjamin Roure

Search and Discovery.com

... reflectivity data at a particular angle of incidence, we obtain Fourier Coefficients (FCs) that parsimoniously describe the AVAz and anisotropy...

Quantitative Estimations of Clay Minerals by Diffraction Methods

W. D. Johns, R. E. Grim, W. F. Bradley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in that it exhibits properties common to both montmorillonite and chlorite. In its natural state, scattering distribution along the 00l row line is incompatible...

The Influence of Formation Dip Angle on Buoyancy-Induced Gas Migration During Coal Seam Gas Production

Mohammad Sedaghat, Des Owen, Philip Hayes, James Underschultz, Suzanne Hurter, Andrew Garnett

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...The Influence of Formation Dip Angle on Buoyancy-Induced Gas Migration During Coal Seam Gas Production Mohammad Sedaghat, Des Owen, Philip Hayes...

Viking and Cardium not Turbidity Current Deposits

J. E. F. DeWiel

CSPG Bulletin

.... The Viking sandstone can be explaned by more common processes of sedimentation, as can the Cardium. The recent general acceptance of turbidity currents...

Abstract: The Carbonate Mud Mounds of the Lower Cretaceous Cupido Formation: An Unusual Occurrence of Microbial-Dominated Carbonate Buildups Cropping Out Remarkably in NE Mexico; #90153 (2012)

Gustavo Murillo-Muñetón and Steven L. Dorobek

Search and Discovery.com

.... The mapping of low-angle stratal geometries and vertical and lateral facies variations in the lower part of the Cupido Formation in that canyon indicate...

Geologic and seismic modeling of a coarse-grained deep-water channel reservoir analog (Blacks Beach, La Jolla, California)

Lisa Stright, Jonathan Stewart, Kirt Campion, Stephan Graham

AAPG Bulletin

...- and far-angle stack one-dimensional and two-dimensional synthetic seismic reflection models. Because deep-water lithofacies have distinct amplitude...

AVAZ inversion for brittleness indicator and fracture parameters of gas-bearing reservoirs with tilted transverse isotropy

Yuanyuan Tan, Guangzhi Zhang, Zhengqian Ma, Ying Lin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... aligned fractures are common in the earth crust, which can be equivalent to the tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) medium. Young's modulus...

Flume Experiments on the Production of Stratification and Cross-stratification

Edwin D. McKee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... America Bull., v. 38, p. 451-458. VAN BURKALOW, A., 1945, Angle of repose and angle of sliding friction, an experimental study: Geol. Soc. America Bull...

Trace-Slip Faults

R. H. Beckwith

AAPG Bulletin

..., such as the trace of a dislocated bed or vein, is defined by Reid and associates (FOOTNOTE 4) as the angle between the line and the horizontal measured...

Integration of geology, rock physics, logs, and prestack seismic data for reservoir porosity estimation

Abdulaziz M. AlMuhaidib, Mrinal K. Sen, M. Nafi Toksoz

AAPG Bulletin

... the error is random and incoherent. The target zone is highlighted in light green.Figure 11. Four adjacent common midpoints in the incidence angle domain...

Medano Creek, Colorado, a Model for Upper-Flow-Regime Fluvial Deposition

Richard Langford, Bryan Bracken

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... other and are truncated by low-angle erosion surfaces. The second common sedimentary structure is low-angle, cross-stratified lenticular bedding (Fig. 5...

Investigating Effects of Water Blockage on Oil Recovery Factor by Using Surfactant into Completion Fluid … Wolfcamp Formation

Ahmed GH Mansour, Talal Gamadi, Otman Algadi, Hossein Emadi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the effect of friction reducers on the water blockage problem; two of the most common friction reducers (anionic friction reducer and cationic...

Hotchkiss Superdip: A New Magnetometer

Noel H. Stearn

AAPG Bulletin

... serves to balance it at an angle to the inclination of the earth's field when the instrument is oriented in the plane of the magnetic meridian...

Abstract: Petroleum Potential of East Central Nevada

Douglas P. Hazlett and James B. Hersch

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... as hanging-wall structures above high- or low-angle Miocene or younger listric normal faults associated with Basin and Range taphrogeny. Five fields...

Abstract: Geothermal Systems of Corwin Springs-Gardiner Area, Montana--Structural and Lithologic Controls, by Eric Mitchell Struhsacker; #90968 (1977).

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Abstract: Geology of a mineralized belt along the southeastern contact aureole of the Poklok Batholith

A. Caron

Atlantic Geology

... common within the andalusite and/or cordierite isograd. On the southwestern side of the Saint John River, the turbidites are deformed by open folds...

Abstract: Evaluation of Austin and Buda Formations from Core and Fracture Analysis, by Richard H. Snyder, J. Milton Craft; #90967 (1977).

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Abstract: Relation of Smectite-Illite Transformation and Development of Abnormal Fluid Pressure and Structure in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin

Clemont H. Bruce

GCAGS Transactions

... development. In basins of these types, contemporaneous faults and related anticlines are the most common types of productive structures found. The depth...

Brief Discussion of the Stratigraphy of the Bingham Mine Formation and Structural Setting in Middle Canyon

T. L. Britt

Utah Geological Association

... limestone and calcareous siltstone. Limestone and calcareous siltstone are more common in the lower part of the formation than the upper part...

Study of Fractured-Porous Reservoirs of the Devonian of the Dnieper-Donets Depression

V. M. Bortnitskaya, E. S. Aleshkina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... systems. Fractures parallel to bedding are less common. Stylolites are also observed. The fractures are filled by calcite, dolomite, pyrite, and tarry...

Abstract: Gabbros, metagabbros and waves in the continental crust

Chuck Hurich, Aphrodite Indares, Sharon Deemer

Atlantic Geology

... crust. The observation that seismic velocities increase with depth supports the common model of a continental crust that is increasingly mafic...

ABSTRACT: Barrier Island Depositional Systems in Black Warrior Basin, Lower Pennsylvanian (Pottsville) in Northwestern Alabama, by Christopher A. Haas and Robert A. Gastaldo; #91043 (2011)

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Abstract: Structural Trap Styles of the Malay Basin (Paper 21)

Mohd. Tahir Ismail, Kurt W. Rudolph

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to compressional inversion and associated faulting. The most common traps are asymmetrical compressional anticlines. These traps are strongly elongated east...