Memorial: John Wesley Merritt (1885-1958)

Ruth Sheldon Knowles

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... and developing a new oil-finding technique. " H e who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them."—Aristotle Continued on next page...

Seismic data on the workbench

Brit Sauar, Anders Kihlberg, Henk Kombrink

GEO ExPro Magazine

... and gas industry is slowly shifting from acquiring lots of seismic surveys to making the most of what currently exists, so are companies moving...

Mapping of Salt Structures in the Gulf of Mexico Using Marine CSEM

J.J. Zach, M.A. Frenkel, P. Lindhom, A.M. Ostvedt-Ghazi, A. Kumar, T. Pham

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... of the most challenging successful marine CSEM surveys conducted to date, for the following reasons: • From well control, we know that the proven reservoir...

Geologic Variability and Well Productivity in U.S. Oil Plays: The Efficiency of Completion Intensity and New Designs in Various Geologic Contexts

Katie M. Smye, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Qian Yang, Guin McDaid, Emery Goodman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 12-month cumulative oil production were calculated from IHS monthly production data and normalized to lateral well length. Individual well locations were...

New Geomechanical and Petrophysical Data from NDI Carrara 1; Implications for Carrara Sub-Basin unconventional Prospectivity

AHE. Bailey, L. Wang, E. Grosjean, CJ. Carson, GA. Butcher, AJM. Jarrett, PA. Henson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... intervals identified within the Carrara Sub-basin drillhole NDI Carrara 1. Total organic carbon (TOC) content from Rock-Eval pyrolysis as well...

North American Stratigraphic Code1: North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature

AAPG Bulletin

... of fossiliferous stratified rocks extending from a well-defined lower boundary to the base of the next higher unit. Unfortunately, few available sequences...

Subtle, Bypass Carbonate Pay

Dan Hartman

West Texas Geological Society

... (by lithology) to compute Sw from Archie. Identify and label porous zones (flow units) of uniform attributes using log data, core measurements...

Comparison of Bed Form Variance Spectra Within a Meander Bend During Flood and Average Discharge

Raymond A. Levey, Bjorn Kjerfve, Rufus T. Getzen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that: a) the bed form variance for the flood record is significantly greater for all wavelengths from 5 to 30 m; b) no well-demarcated bed form classes were...

A Regional Gravity Survey of the Sanpete-Sevier Valleys and Adjacent Areas in Utah

Robert P. Brown, Kenneth L. Cook

Utah Geological Association

... groups are: pre-Arapien rocks, the Arapien Formation, and post-Arapien rocks. The mean density of each group was determined from geophysical well logs...

The Lubok Antu Melange, Lupar Valley, West Sarawak: A Lower Tertiary Subduction Complex

Denis N. K. Tan

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... Member is probably synchronous with the Lebang Mudstone. The Silantek Formation, from study of its lithology, texture, biotic assemblage and sedimentary...

Marine Vibrator Concepts for Modern Seismic Challenges

Andrew Long, Rune Tenghamn

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... from deeper towing enhanced by the well-known free-surface ghost effect, but in practice, deeper towing is confronted by an air spring effect...

Influence of Lithologic Variability on the Distribution of Oil in Natural Reservoirs, and the Construction of Reservoir Maps

V. G. Umnov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... Extrapolating this thickness through well 9 to the apparent margin, we obtain Ho = 17 m. The distance from the apparent contour to well 9 L=925 m. From...

Lithology and Reservoir Properties of Productive Stratum B-VIII of the Sosna-Sovet Oil Field in West Siberia

Ye. G. Sorokina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the Sovet and Medvedev uplifts. Zone of medium- and fine-grained, low-silt, well sorted sandstones with Md from 0.35 to 0.25 mm and So from 1.5 to 2.5...

Unlocking deep layer of Palembang Formation with low resistivity reservoir using modular dynamic tester (Mdt), petrophysical approach and stimulation fractpack in Mangunjaya Field, south Sumatra Basin: Success story development wells drilled in 2022

Ardi Julian Samudra, Zuhry Ramadhoni, Dimas Pramudito, Ricky Wicaksono, Chandra Mustofa Eka Putra, Reza Nur Ardianto

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... good results with indicated oil potential. For example, well MJ 137 has a good indication from mudlog data with total gas about 200-500 units, C1-nC5...

Subsurface Positive Elements within Ouachita Foldbelt in Texas and Their Relation to Paleozoic Cratonic Margin

Richard L. Nicholas , Roger A. Rozendal

AAPG Bulletin

... into separate culminations which have as much as 7,000 ft of simple and Fig. 9. Generalized lithology and isotopic dates determined in cores from Shell...

A new calculating formation porosity method using PNC logging technology in cased wells

Hui Zhang, Feng Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., the figure contains a total of 9 logging tracks, from left to right, depth track, lithology profile track, physical profile track, array sensibility...

Field Development with Three-Dimensional Seismic Methods in the Gulf of Thailand — A Case History

C. G. Dahm, R. J. Graebner

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... (Figure 5), reconstructed from the 3D data base across the same well, illustrate several features characteristic of the area – a closely spaced complex...

Subsidence History of Australia's Southern Margin: Constraints on Basin Models

Kerry A. Hegarty , , Jeffrey K. Weissel , John C. Mutter

AAPG Bulletin

... of what we know about the offshore stratigraphic and structure is inferred from seismic surveys and exploratory drilling within the Otway basin (Figure 1...

Characterizing the Fracture Network at Yucca Mountain, Nevada Part 2. Numerical Simulation of Flow in a Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Network

Lawrence O. Anna, Peter Wallman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... with field measurements. Field data collection came from outcrop line and area surveys, boreholes, and from packer tests which is described in more detail...

Advances on land vibroseis source technology towards low frequencies

Zhouhong Wei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... design. However, the vibrator still experiences its mechanical and hydraulic limitations at low frequencies, and less ground force is output from...

An Integrated Sequence Stratigraphic Approach and Depositional Facies Analysis of the Talang Akar Formation in the Jambi Merang Area, Jambi Sub-Basin

Rizqi Amalia Melati, Dody Apriadi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... To do the analysis, puzzle, all data was integrated to make a better interpretation. Fieldwork on TAF has been carried out as well to get lithology...

Bowdoin Field--U.S.A. Bowdoin Dome, Williston Basin

Dudley D. Rice, Gary L. Nydegger, Charles A. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... when velocity of flows varies with space as well as time. (From Swift and Rice, 1983.) The lower schematic shows the mode of transport according...

Facts and Principles of Latin American Oil Occurrence

J. M. Browning

CSPG Special Publications

...). Shackelton (1976), using data from geophysical surveys by Birmingham University, concluded that the area west of the Malvinas Islands, which he refers...

ABSTRACT: HYDRACARBON POTENTIAL OF THE SOUTH REGINA AREA, SASKATCHEWAN

W. WILSON, D. L. SURJIK, H. B. SAWATZKY

Williston Basin Symposium

... on determining how similar, potentially productive, structures may be found. Copies of this paper may be obtained from...

Uncovering Hidden Value - The Horizontal Montoya Play

David Thomas

West Texas Geological Society

... and an estimated 350 to 400 BCFE was developed with close to 200 BCFE produced to date from 45 horizontal wells. The key to unlocking the potential...