Geothermal Drilling Problems and Their Impact on Cost

Charles C. Carson

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... and embrittlement), temperature-caused mechanical and logging problems, and cave-ins. The general condition of slow advance is summarized by the observation...

Subsurface Characterizaton Using Microseismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Ansiotrophy Tomography in a Geothermal Field

Ahmad Syahputra, Andri Dian Nugraha, Rachmat Sule, Sri Widiyantoro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of micro-earthquake events. By using seismic tomography, delay travel times of P-waves and S-waves were studied in conjunction with geothermal...

Challenges Associated with an Unconventional Tight Sand Exploration Program in Central Saudi Arabia

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: Shear Wave Splitting Analysis of Borehole Microseismic Reveals Weak Azimuthal Anisotropy Hidden Behind Strong VTI Fabric of the Lower Paleozoic Shales in Northern Poland; #90310 (2017)

Wojciech Gajek, James V. Verdon, Michal Malinowski, Jacek Trojanowski

Search and Discovery.com

... velocities. Splitting parameters which can be assessed using a microseismic array are polarization of the fast shear wave and time delay between...

Santa Fe Springs Oil Field

W. Z. Elmore

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., failed to find commercial production below the Clark-Hathaway zone. Recent Development Discovery of the Santa Fe zone by General Petroleum Corp. well...

Peciko Gas Field Case Study: Managing Safety Versus Deliverability While Conducting Simultaneous Drilling - Production - Construction Operations

Stéphane Saintpere, Ramadhan Hidayat, Jean-Baptiste Faget, Eric Aillaud

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to reduce the delay between drilling and producing a well and to speed up the overall project by starting drilling on wellheads platforms not fully...

Impacts That Non-Technical Risk Assessments and Mitigation Plans Can Have in Mitigating Risks and Avoiding Delays to Unconventional Oil and Gas Projects

Jack Belcher

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shale plays in North America and around the world, NTRs are also threatening to delay or derail energy projects. Opposition to the practice of hydraulic...

Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring of Individual Hydraulic Frac Stages Using a Downhole Distributed Acoustic Sensing Array

Gary Binder, Aleksei Titov, Diana Tamayo, James Simmons, Ali Tura, Grant Byerley, David Monk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... The dominant time-lapse effect observed in the survey was a ~ 1 ms time delay of the direct P-wave arrivals along the horizontal well from both...

Current Factors Affecting Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in Wyoming

Andrew Finley, Tyler Vanderhoef

Wyoming Geological Association

... companies in Wyoming often cannot or will not take the risk to contract on the open season, resulting in the delay or death of the project. During...

NMR Signature and Quantification of Bitumen in Unconventional Source Rocks

Stacey Althaus, JinHong Chen, David Jacobi, Joshua Brothers

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., Meiboom and Gill 1958). In general, the parameters for CPMG were 0.056 ms tau, 44643 echoes, 128 scans, and a recycle delay of 5 s. The 2D spectra were...

Unitization Practices in Indonesia

July Usman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to the individual area's hydrocarbon reserves. In Indonesia, unitization is compulsory and is governed by Law No. 44 Prp/1960 and The Director General of Oil...

NEW TECHNIQUES IN ELECTRONIC POSITIONING FOR AEROMAGNETIC SURVEYS

T. C. Oftelie

Asociación Venezolana de Geología, Minería y Petróleo (AVGMP)

.... The Radan device has been used by the Aero Service Corporation for the past year. It has been manufactured by the General Precision Laboratories Inc...

Current Trends in Industry Safety Performance: Applying Scrutiny to Safety Issues Associated with Ageing Facilities

Derrick O’Keeffe

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... are being sold to organisations that may not have the financial capacity to effectively manage safety concerns There may be a desire to delay...

Use of Seismic Refraction Techniques for Investigating Recent Landslides in a Tropical Rain Forest in Puerto Rico

Matthew C. Larsen

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... plate, and a seismic shotgun using 8 and 12 gauge shells. Seismic data were analyzed using the delay-time method and a ray-tracing procedure described...

ABSTRACT: The Unconventional Revolution in Exploration Geophysics

Nancy House

Petroleum History Institute

.... The complexities of the petroleum market and North Dakota’s infrastructure would also contribute to the delay in development until such a time as production...

Viking Deposition: DISCUSSION

Floyd K. Beach

CSPG Bulletin

... the Viking sand and sometimes in shale above the sand. Also within the general Viking horizon over a wide region, bentonite is likely to be present...

Beneath Belize

Gareth Williams

GEO ExPro Magazine

...: the Corozal Basin in the north, and the Belize Basin in Yalbac Formation at the Never Delay area just outside of the south, separated by the Maya Mountains...

Independent/Major Roles in Exploration for Oil and Gas

J. R. Jackson, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... in exploring deeper objectives (Fig. 4). INDEPENDENT/MAJOR RELATIONSHIPS IN GENERAL Because of their size and organizational structure, independents and majors...

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology: Frontier Areas in Earth System Science

Ramanathan Baskar

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., geohydrologists and geochemists have recognized the significance of these microbial activities. At present, there is general agreement about...

Introduction

Wallace E. Pratt

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the oil industry coincided roughly in time with, and indeed, constituted one aspect of, this more general technical revolution. The technical...

National Energy Policy

Dewey F. Bartlett

AAPG Bulletin

...--energy to heat our homes, run our factories, power our transportation systems, and in general to keep this highly industrialized country running. OIL...

Abstract: Converted Wave Receiver Statics from First Break Mode Conversions; #90171 (2013)

Kristof De Meersman and Marcelo Roizman

Search and Discovery.com

... event occur at time lags of approximately 0.25 s and 0.5 s. These times define the time delay between a P-wave arrival and its associated converted...

Abstract: Converted Wave Receiver Statics from First Break Mode Conversions; #90171 (2013)

Kristof De Meersman and Marcelo Roizman

Search and Discovery.com

... event occur at time lags of approximately 0.25 s and 0.5 s. These times define the time delay between a P-wave arrival and its associated converted...

Abstracts: Variability of Incised Valleys and Estuaries Along French Coasts: An Analog to Oil Reservoirs Where Topography Influence Preservation Potential?; #90173 (2015)

E. Chaumillon, B. Tessier, J.-Y. Reynaud

Search and Discovery.com

... be qualified in general as sediment-starved systems. This characteristic constitutes the common feature of all the study sites and implies that in most...

Application of Visco-Acoustic Full Waveform Inversion to Shallow-Water, Shallow-Gas Data, #41802 (2016).

Xin Cheng, Ronan Petton, Ian Anstey, Wai-Leong Lai, Denes Vigh, Gavin Menzel-Jones

Search and Discovery.com

... the phase delay (i.e., dispersion effects). Figure 1 shows how the seismic amplitude and phase are distorted for different Q values for different...