Azimuthal Gamma Imaging and Continuous Inclination Applications to Spatial and Stratigraphic Wellbore Placement in the Southern Midland Basin

Christopher Viens

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and continuous inclination MWD tool designs are discussed in the context of the critical elements needed for accurate and high resolution measurements...

World Crude Oil Resources: U.S. Geological Survey Estimate and Procedures

Charles D. Masters

AAPG Special Volumes

... a rigorous resource classification, the necessary elements of which are included in the USGS resource classification diagram shown in Figure 1...

The Growth History of Toe Thrusts of the Niger Delta and the Role of Pore Pressure

Scot W. Krueger, Neil T. Grant

AAPG Special Volumes

... is still visible as a prominent headwall scarp on the sea floor.Common Elements of Thrust Growth HistoryThe three example thrust faults display...

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene Fluvial Systems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Lesli J. Wood

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of reservoir elements. Three specific fluvial-incision classes—aggradational fluvial systems (Class 1), bypass fluvial systems (Class 2), and creeks...

Resistivity Image Data, Vøring Basin, Offshore Norway, by Ian Goodall, Ian Westlake, Grete Block Vagle, Ivar Mundal, and Matthew Mulcahy, #10049, (2003).

Search and Discovery.com

Economic Analysis: Criteria for Project Assessment

Richard W. Stearns

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of different evaluation techniques to be performed. If given two of these three variables, the third variable can always be solved. For example, in a bid...

3D Seismic Proves its Value in Bakken Geosteering

Angie Southcott, Harold Harper

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) accurately converting seismic surfaces to depth, an easy task filled with hidden problems. Resolving the Bakken interval is the most critical and arguably...

Estimating soil strength using ultra high-resolution seismic and geological unit

Donglin Zhu, Ge Jin, Yi Shen, Xuefeng Shang, Shuang Hu, Jinbo Chen, Vanessa Goh

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) are increasingly recognized as one of the key elements in global strategies to combat climate change. The declining costs and growing societal...

Hyperspectral imaging of sedimentary iron ores … beyond borders

Lionel C. Fonteneau, Brigette Martini, Don Elsenheimer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., GIFs, mineralogy INTRODUCTION Iron (Fe) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and one of the earliest mineral resources to have been mined...

Geologic hydrogen: An emerging role of mining geophysics in new energy exploration

Yaoguo Li, Mengli Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... enough metals and critical minerals to meet the demands of clean energy by year 2025. The technical challenge to finding geologic hydrogen requires...

A High-Definition Mineralogical Examination of Potential Gas Shales; #50290 (2010)

Jon Sliwinski, Jay Harrington, Matt Power, Peta Hughes, Bernie Yeung

Search and Discovery.com

... these reservoirs. It has been recognized that mineralogy and texture can be a critical component in the resource potential of shales. Rocks with high silica...

Deeper Waters: How Science and Technology Pushed Exploration to Greater Depths, #70315 (2018).

Paul Weimer

Search and Discovery.com

.... For example, with the development of common-depth-point seismic and digital recording in the mid-1960s, vast amounts of 2-D marine seismic information...

Chapter 1: Shale Gas Evaluation of the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale Formation and the Carboniferous Epen Formation in the Netherlands

Frank van Bergen, Mart Zijp, Susanne Nelskamp, Henk Kombrink

AAPG Special Volumes

... Bergen, Mart Zijp, Susanne Nelskamp, Henk Kombrink 2013 1 24 Memoir 103: Critical Assessment of Shale Resource Plays, 2013 Since the discovery...

Mountain-Building Chronology and Nature of Geologic Time Scale

Edmund M. Spieker

AAPG Bulletin

... principle in the determination and interpretation of orogenic dates; second, review some of the critical evidence on the matter that has been found...

The State of the Art Finding New Oil and Gas Reserves in an Old and Mature Area, Offshore Northwest Java Sea

Sudarmono, Sugeng Herbudiyanto, Toriq Abdat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and gas from the subsurface. The selection and prioritization of drilling candidates is also affected by market demands. For example, around 15 years...

Evolution and Response of the Fluvial System, Sedimentologic Implications

Stanley A. Schumm

Special Publications of SEPM

... Therefore vegetation both the most geologists have considered the at some state advantages a in their of a time critical site paleolandscape...

Geochemical Differentiation of Crude Oils from Six Pliocene Sandstone Units, Elk Hills U.S. Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, California

J. J. Connor , P. M. Gerrild

AAPG Bulletin

... pools, or differentiated between closely associated producing zones (for example, Bonham, 1956, p. 907). A notable exception is the work by Silverman...

An Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Clastic Facies of the Lower Cretaceous Sligo Formation, Eastern U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain

Colin A. Doolan, Alexander W. Karlsen

GCAGS Transactions

... box is placed around elements of the petroleum system that were concurrent with the critical moment (modified after Mancini et al., 2006). Figure 5...

Evaporite Paleokarst on a Tectonically Enhanced Unconformity, Mississippian Madison Formation, Wyoming, USA, #51189 (2015).

Chris Zahm, Charles Kerans, Joseph El-Azzi, Nabiel Eldam, Travis Kloss

Search and Discovery.com

... are critical elements of major hydrocarbon accumulations, such as the Madison Formation of the Bighorn Basin. The extensive suprastratal deformation can create...

Best Practices of a Joint Integrity Program

Natalie Patterson, Neil Ferguson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for new processes and procedures, which apply similar management practices to bolted joints as welded joints. In a recent example in the North Sea...

ABSTRACT: Electron Microprobe Analysis of Coal Macerals

C.H. Harrison

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

.... The thickness o f the carbon layer was very critical, because it had t o be thin enough for recognition of the macerals and thick enough t o prevent...

Avoiding Extraterrestrial Claim Jumping: Economic Development Policy for Space Exploration and Exploitation

James F. Reilly

AAPG Special Volumes

... will be potentially entering the exploitation phase within the next two decades. A regulatory structure in the form of an international agreement using elements...

Uppermost Permian to Lower Triassic Conodont Zonation from Three Gorges Area, South China

Laishi Zhao, Yonglin Chen, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Ling Cao

PALAIOS

..., thus improving age resolution for this critical period that witnessed the most devastating mass extinction of life during the Phanerozoic (Chen...

Reconstruction of the sedimentary heterogeneity in outcropping deep-water channel–levee deposits (Taza–Guercif Basin, late Tortonian, NE Morocco)

Daniele Invernizzi, Moreno Pizzutto, Fabrizio Felletti, George Pantopoulos, Mattia Marini, Adam McArthur

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... elements in ancient strata. This becomes particularly critical when working with data of limited resolution, such as wireline well or seismic data...

A lifecycle assessment of low-emissions hydrogen production using autothermal reforming and carbon capture and storage

Claudia Buenhombre, Colin Crowley, Jamie Reilly

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... to be evaluated, focusing on the benefits of substituting low-emissions H2 for natural gas (NG) as fuel gas at an example operational gas plant. The GHG LCA...