Using copulas for implementation of variable dependencies in petroleum resource assessment: Example from Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada

Zhuoheng Chen, Kirk G. Osadetz, James Dixon, James Dietrich

AAPG Bulletin

... dependence with copula and applications to risk management: Department of Mathematics, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich...

Lack of synsedimentary chemical alteration in polar carbonates (Ross Sea, Antarctica): Resolution of a conundrum

Tracy D. Frank, Noel P. James, Aaron I. Shultis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., which strongly limit microbial activity. These factors allow interstitial waters to remain weakly supersaturated with respect to aragonite...

Reactive transport modeling of early burial dolomitization of carbonate platforms by geothermal convection

Fiona F. Whitaker, Yitian Xiao

AAPG Bulletin

... of dolomitization, and presence of anhydrite cement (Cantrell et al., 2004; Ehrenberg, 2004). The frequency and nature of limestone-dolomite transitions...

Epifauna-dominated benthic shelf assemblages: Lessons from the modern Adriatic Sea

Martin Zuschin, Michael Stachowitsch

PALAIOS

... the dependence of the epifaunal multispecies clumps on shell grounds on an otherwise muddy soft bottom (Zuschin et al., 1999). Because of this patchy...

Seepage-Induced Anomalies, "False" Anomalies, and Implications for Electrical Prospecting

Dorothy Z. Oehler , Ben K. Sternberg

AAPG Bulletin

.... Brown, and D. W. Fair, 1981, The Vibroseis system: a high-frequency tool: Geophysics v. 46, p. 1657-1666. Davis, J. B., and H. F. Yarbrough, 1966...

Ground truthing chemostratigraphic correlations in fluvial systems

K. T. Ratcliffe, A. Wilson, T. Payenberg, A. Rittersbacher, G. V. Hildred, and S. S. Flint

AAPG Bulletin

... are rarely collected at a sampling frequency greater than 3 m (9.8 ft), and these are composite samples containing representative components from the entire 3...

A global study of dolomite stoichiometry and cation ordering through the Phanerozoic

Cameron J. Manche, Stephen E. Kaczmarek

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Dolomite: Geologische Rundschau, v. 55, p. 29– 40, doi:10.1007/BF01982953. Gaffin, S., 1987, Ridge volume dependence on seafloor generation rate...

The Impact of Conservation on Future Oil Demand

Tor Meloe

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to higher prices by adopting aggressive policies to reduce dependence on imported oil, which supplied over three-fourths of Japan's total energy...

Pressure Transient Analysis in Unconventional Resources

I. D. Paton, G. Stewart, C. Y. Tan, M. Wasik

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that the effect of stress dependence on permeability could be handled by the use of a pseudopressure function of the form: p 1 - fi  k(p') y(p) = k dp' i 1 - f...

Geothermal Conditions and Their Implications for Basement Tectonics in the Gulf Coast Margin

Douglas L. Smith , William T. Dees , Danny W. Harrelson

GCAGS Transactions

.... The Wiggins uplift provides a southern boundary for the southeastern area of the basin, and the Pickens-Gilbertown fault system forms a northern limit...

Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Fan-delta Complex: La Casita Formation of the Saltillo Area, Coahuila, Mexico

K. S. Fortunato , W. C. Ward

GCAGS Transactions

... sequences exposed in widely-spaced canyons. A first-order, single-dependence Markov analysis aids in identifying preferred vertical transitions...

Inverse Approach to Development Optimizations to Calibrate Assumptions About Trade-offs Between Well Spacing and Frac Intensity

W. Kurt Rucker

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... an upper limit on how large a reservoir a single well can create. These realities offer end member cases for exceptionally small completions where...

Geotechnical and Chemical Property Relationships for Wilkinson Basin, Gulf of Maine, Sediments

Matthew H. Hulbert, David N. Given

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in relation to liquid limit and plasticity index, with special reference to Swedish clays: Proceedings Geotechnical Conference, Olso, v. 1, p. 43-47...

Eolian Suspension Above the Saltation Layer, the Concentration Profile

J.A. Gillies, L. Berkofsky

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the concentration is cr, obtaining      (5) According to Kind (1992), by taking logarithms of Equation 5 and going to the limit, s 0, for very fine...

Joint Downhole and Surface Microseismic Processing Using 3C Template Relative Migration

T. Bardainne, L. Delmas, N. Belayouni, D. Katz, P.-F. Roux

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... dependence, as ray paths are almost similar; (2) the sensitivity of the resulting detection is strongly increased and (3) constraints on the stack...

Evaluation of General Resistivity Density-Based Saturation in Thin, Laminated Sand-Shale Sequences, #41042 (2012)

John Quirein, Burkay Donderici, David Torres, Eric Murphy, Jim Witkowsky

Search and Discovery.com

... to take into account the possible dependence of the fluid density on the saturation, as well as the dependence of the saturation and cementation...

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

K. P. GILLEN

Williston Basin Symposium

... with open fractures in order to enhance production, or limit intersection in cases where water production was a problem. CITED...

Quantitative evaluation of hydrocarbon containment using seal strength index (SSI) and benchmarking against global analogues

Shengyu Wu, Shaoqing Sun, David A. Pollitt

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... container. The dependence of hydrocarbon column heights on few selected parameters are shown below: Pbeff = f(Pb, φ, k/μ, T) (2) Where: f...

Formation of Oil Fields in Sediments of the Clastic Devonian in the Middle and Lower Volga Areas

I. K. Zerchaninov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... in the rocks. Recognizing the provisional nature of these figures, we will attempt to estimate the lower limit of volumes of gas present in the free...

Normal Moveout and Dip Moveout, C. L. Liner, #40037

Search and Discovery.com

Robust Event Recognition in Real-Time Hydraulic Fracturing Data for Live Reporting and Analysis

Samid Hoda, Jessica Iriarte

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and transmitting) high-frequency data from the field to remote locations for monitoring, storage, and analysis. Analyzing this data in real-time can...

Fault and fracture systems in a fold and thrust belt: An example from Bolivia

Juan-Mauricio Florez-Nio, Atilla Aydin, Gary Mavko, Marco Antonellini, Asterio Ayaviri

AAPG Bulletin

... variability of fracture frequency (density) away from large fault zones (scan line 1 in Figure 3); picks correspond to areas near small...

Seismic inversion with dictionary learning using unsupervised machine learning

Debajeet Barman, Mrinal K. Sen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the optimized basis function to decompose the reflectivity in an efficient way so that high frequency information (thin bed) can be retrieved from the inversion...

Stacking common-image gathers via the flatten-illumination-similarity method

Chengliang Wu, Huazhong Wang, Bo Feng, Chao Ning, Xianggong Tang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) , I a ( x, θ ) = (6) where the weighted coefficient wi ( x, θ ) is determined by the illumination dependence, wi ( x, θ ) = EI fil ( x, θ ) EI...

Ultrasonic measurements of elastic anisotropy of granitic rocks for enhanced geothermal reservoirs

Mayra D. L. Carrasquilla, Jake Parsons, Teng Long, Min Sun, Yingcai Zheng, De-Hua Han

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... MPa in ultrasonic frequency bands. As the confining pressure increases, the results demonstrate significant increases in P-wave velocity and S-wave...