Reservoir Uncertainty

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

..., migration accuracy, and depth conversion can introduce uncertainty in the location, geometry, and even the very existence of some of the features...

Challenges in Structure Prediction When Developing Remaining Field Reserves Using 3D Seismic, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, Offshore Louisiana

Ingo Steinhoff, William A. Hill

GCAGS Transactions

... between mapped horizons. Errors in seismic depth conversion of only fractions of a percent at depths around 10,000 feet or more can make or break...

Use of Seismic Inversion to Constrain the Heterogeneity of Reservoir Models in a Carbonate Environment … a Case Study from Al Shaheen Field Qatar; #20248 (2014)

J. R. Henderson, C. Huegen, A. J. Cherrett, and M. Emang

Search and Discovery.com

..., with a total thickness varying between 20 and 30m. Well log correlations and core samples suggest a laterally continuous stratigraphic model...

Codell continuous oil accumulation in the northern Denver Basin as defined by resistivity, density, and SP logs

Stephen P. Cumella

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in this issue by Longman et al. (2021). Codell thickness is shown on the generalized isopach map in Figure 3. Thickness trends are generally southwest/northeast...

A Compaction-Based Pore Pressure Model for Shales

James T. Krushin

GCAGS Transactions

... of temperature and depth in sedimentary basins: American Journal of Science, v. 295, p. 245-281.  Skempton, A. W., 1944, Notes...

Subsurface Fluid Compartments, by D. E. Powley, #60006 (2006).

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Integrated Approach to Assess Storage and Productivity Potential of a Frontier Unconventional Shale Oil Play in a Rift Basin, Lower Barmer Hill Formation, Barmer Basin, India

Sandipan Dutta, Utpalendu Kuila, B.N.S. Naidu, Raj Kumar Yadav, John Dolson, Arpita Mandal, Soumen Dasgupta, Premanand Mishra, Pinakadhar Mohapatra

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the overall depositional concept of Lower Barmer Hill unit in the basin. Figure 5: Depth thickness map of Lower Barmer Hill Formation, north...

Velocity Modeling with Complex Tectonics; Example from the San Joaquin Forearc Basin, California; #41950 (2016)

Lisa Alpert, Josué Rosas

Search and Discovery.com

... for the most accurate depth conversion. In the past, geologic models had to be manually manipulated to account for discrete fault blocks. This process...

Abstract: Effects of Depth on Reservoir Characteristics and Production in Morrow and Springer Well Completions in the Anadarko Basin, by P. W. Smith, W. J. Hendrickson, C. M. Williams, and R. J. Woods; #90944 (1997).

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Eometamorphism, and Oil and Gas in Time and Space

Kenneth K. Landes

AAPG Bulletin

... in the sediments. Eometamorphism limits the occurrence of hydrocarbons in space both laterally, in basins bordered by mobile rims, and at depth, in deeper...

Deep Structure and Evolution of the Carolina Trough: Rifted Margins: Field Investigations of Margin Structure and Stratigraphy

D. R. Hutchinson, J. A. Grow, K. D. Klitgord, B. A. Swift

AAPG Special Volumes

... to depth conversion. Navigation for the IPOD line was controlled by LORAN C, Doppler sonar, an satellite systems. For line 32, navigation Fig. 1...

Coalbed Methane Resources in the Southeast - Workshop Summary

F. Clayton Breland Jr., Peter Warwick, Steven A. Tedesco, Doug Wight, Derek Crowson, Terry Burns, Kirk Ross, Deane Foss, Diana Chance

PTTC

... (Paleocene-Eocene). Greatest potential is seen in the Wilcox groups. Maximum thickness of the Wilcox in Louisiana is 20 ft and the gas is primarily...

Distribution of Large Oil and Gas Fields

N. I. Markovskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...-Donets depressions), where the sea, retreating from the platform, was preserved. The thickness of the clastic unit varies unevenly and is dependent...

Differential Compactions Around a Leduc Reef -- Wizard Lake Area, Alberta

G. J. Labute,, P. E. Gretener

CSPG Bulletin

.... A quantitative study of the change of structure with depth allows us to estimate the maximum thickness of sediment eroded. For the Wizard Lake area we find...

Results of Deep Drilling, Elk Hills Field Kern County, California

Maurice D. Fishburn

Pacific Section of AAPG

... suggests an increase in the conversion of smectite to illite with depth. Iron chlorite increases in abundance with depth which may be the result...

Results of Deep Drilling, Elk Hills Field, Kern County, California

Maurice D. Fishburn

Pacific Section SEPM

... common type found in well 934-29R. suggests an increase in the conversion of smectite to illite with depth. Iron chlorite increases in abundance...

Assessment of Regional Geological Carbon Sequestration Potential in Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian Strata of the Michigan Basin

David A. Barnes, William B. Harrison III, Amanda Wahr

AAPG Special Volumes

... the regional estimates of average thickness and porosity in the target interval used here.Significant drilling fluid loss into the target injection...

Mineralogical and Geochemical Transformation of Clays During Catagenesis and Their Relation to Oil Generation

A. E. Foscolos, T. G. Powell

CSPG Special Publications

... system comprising smectite-vermiculite-chlorite-illite. The conversion of chloritic integrades to discrete chlorites with depth was also noted in the Drake...

Field Evidence of Subsidence and Faulting Induced by Hydrocarbon Production in Coastal Southeast Texas

Robert A. Morton, Noreen A. Purcell, Russell Peterson

GCAGS Transactions

... roots at the top of the core (32 cm) and the adjusted water depth (63 cm) at the site. The thickness of organic-rich sediments at the top of core...

Developments in Coal in 1981

Samuel A. Friedman

AAPG Bulletin

..., A., 1981, Coal-to-chemical conversion seen accelerating in the 80s: Jour. Commerce, November 16, p. 25C, 33C. Fig. 1. See caption on page 2485...

Rank and Petrographic Composition of Selected Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous Coals of British Columbia, Canada

W. D. Kalkreuth

CSPG Bulletin

... of a reed swamp to open-water swamp depositional environment. In certain parts of the Peace River Coalfield, increase of rank with depth (Hilt's Law...

Formation of the Oil Deposit in the Stalinogorsk Horizon of the Klenov Field

V. N. Samartsev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the limestones in comparison with the thickness in the Bakhmetev structure is reduced on the average by 20 m. As a consequence of the depth of erosion...

Geology and Oil-Gas Prospects of the Chitino-Ingodin Depression of Central Trans-Baikalia

B. V. Kornev, L. I. Ferdman

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

..., occupying an enormous territory of total area up to 50 thousand sq km. The thickness of the Lower Cretaceous in them reaches 1800 m. During geologic...

Oil and Gas of the Sarmatian Sediments of the Cis-Dobruja Downwarp and the Northwest Plunge of Dobruja

T. A. Botneva

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... The small thickness of the rocks (depth of occurrence of the Sarmatian is 500–600 m) and the corresponding low temperature did not create...

Understanding the causes of low frequency shadow below gas hydrates

Ayman Noor M. Qadrouh, Saad Alajmi

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... seismograms are computed by assuming a high-loss BSR layer and varying the quality factor and thickness of the layer. First, the shift...