Chapter 4: Adding New Reserves and Production in Giant Fields

John S. Sneider, Michael A. Rosen, Dorothy E. Ballentine

AAPG Special Volumes

... pay has arisen from the increasing technology of fracture and horizontal well designs. These advances have unlocked large volumes of hydrocarbons...

Quantifying CretaceousCenozoic exhumation in the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia, using sonic transit time data: Implications for conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon prospectivity

David R. Tassone, Simon P. Holford, Ian R. Duddy, Paul F. Green, Richard R. Hillis

AAPG Bulletin

..., Quantification of Tertiary erosion in the inner Moray Firth using sonic velocity data from the Chalk and Kimmeridge Clay: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 11, p...

Managing Environmental Hazards on a Remote Oil Flowline

P. J. Hancock, G. J. Kelly, R. Muka, M. E. Hagabula

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... assessments. One area, about half way betw een the well site and the APF (~ six km from APF and highlighted in the Figure 1 drawings), was known for its...

Oriented Core: Its Use, Error, and Uncertainty

R. A. Nelson , L. C. Lenox , B. J. Ward, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... orientation log in the hard copy well files. The tabular data displayed as in Figure 4 are difficult to use in determining the quality of the orientation...

Emplacement of the Zambales Ophiolite into the West Luzon Margin: Convergent Margins: Field Investigations of Margin Structure and Stratigraphy

W. J. Schweller , D. E. Karig

AAPG Special Volumes

... on subduction from both marine geophysical surveys and subduction-related rocks exposed on the islands. Most of the major geologic features of Luzon can...

Stratigraphic Analysis of Seismic Data from the Garden Banks Block 235 Area, Offshore Gulf of Mexico

Edwin I. Linares, Abu K. M. Sarwar

GCAGS Transactions

... of the reservoir. Higher amplitude reflections in blue color are interpreted as hydrocarbon accumulation. The well log data from three exploratory well were...

Sedimentation and Stratigraphy of the Dakota Formation in the San Juan Basin

Guy C. Burton Jr.

Four Corners Geological Society

... of wells from which these samples were taken was governed by (1) available samples (preferably cores), and (2) location of the well. A good coverage...

Coal Identification Using Neural Networks with Real-Time Coalbed Methane Drilling Data

Ruizhi Zhong, Raymond Johnson Jr, Zhongwei Chen, Nathaniel Chand

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... machines to classify lithology from well logs. Natural Resources Research 19(2), 125–139. doi:10.1007/s11053-010-9118-9 Amani, A., and Shahbazi, K. (2013...

Neotectonic Criteria for Oil-Gas Productivity of Barents-Kara Shelf

Ye. Ye. Musatov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... crustal movements and modern geodynamics in the subsurface, development of neotectonic criteria for oil-gas potential, determining the magnitude of Cenozoic...

Abnormal-Subnormal Pressure Relationships in the Morrow Sands of Northwestern Oklahoma

Arthur F. Breeze

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... Pressures from Electrical Surveys -- Offshore Louisiana," Jour. Petroleum Technology, February, 1966. (16) Fowler, William A., Jr., "Pressures, Hydrocarbon...

Oil and Gas Developments in the Orenburg Region in 1960-61 and Plans for the Coming Year

I. A. Shpil’man

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... The gravity and electrical surveys were successful in determining more exactly the boundary of the downwarp and in distinguishing zones of reefs, the location...

From Bars to Valleys: The Sedimentology and Seismic Geomorphology of Fluvial to Estuarine Incised-Valley Fills of the Grand Rapids Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Iron River Field, Alberta, Canada

James R. Maynard, Howard R. Feldman, Robert Alway

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., a heavy-oil field located in Alberta, Canada, along with a regional data set of well logs from northern Alberta (Figs. 1, 2). The interval of interest...

A Mineralogical Study of Some Lower Devonian (Helderberg) Rocks of the Central Hudson Valley, New York

Roger L. Borst

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... contents of the same samples can be differentiated in figure 5. Many more samples of the carbonate lithology from the Manlius Formation were analyzed...

Abstract: Stratigraphic Details Illuminated Using Modern 3D Seismic Techniques in Upper Cretaceous Lenticular Reservoirs, Optimizing EOR Production in the Gulf Coast with CO2

Jim Mulligan and Bob Schellhorn

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... of southwest Mississippi were discovered in the 1940s and 1950s and were developed on 40-acre spacing to provide “apparently” abundant well control...

Geologic Basis for Development of Oil-Gas Exploration in the Zyryanka Downwarp

N. G. Chochia, V. N. Kislyakov, D. S. Yashin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... See Fig. 1. The first stage in exploration here was directed toward determining the basic outlines of the structure. The second stage will concentrate...

Oil Prospects of the Sub-Salt Sediments of the Astrakhan Arch

N. V. Mizinov, A. S. Zinger, V. G. Brushevoy, N. I. Voronin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... sediments it would be well to make geophysical surveys along the periphery of the Astrakhan arch to search for zones of stratigraphic truncation...

British Gas Electronic PIG Inspection on the Existing 36" and 42" Gas Pipelines Badak-Bontang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

M. Amin, S. Piliang

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... years. The two existing lines of 36" and 42" diameter from Badak field to Bontang were constructed during 1976 and 1983 respectively and a new line of 36...

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Relations of Geophysics to Geology

Paul Weaver

AAPG Bulletin

... from geophysical survey or from well data to give a picture of the real roughness of the surface being mapped. End_Page 10...

Expanding Role of Computer in Geology

E. L. Dillon

AAPG Bulletin

..., with the increasing awareness of company management and state surveys of the importance of well statistics, and the efforts of the American Petroleum...

Brennan Bottom Oil Field Uintah County, Utah

John C. Osmond

Utah Geological Association

... Brennan-Federal is 1 mile to the east and 80 feet structurally higher than the No. 1 well. Additional subsurface control is required for determining...

Experience in the Use of Electrochemical Logging of Oil Wells in Poland

Zdislava Baleva

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...% sulfur, It is stated in the foreign literature that positive results can be expected with a content of sulfur in the oil beginning from 0.1% (4...

Syngenetic Chert in the Middle Ordovician Hardy Creek Limestone of Southwest Virginia

Leonard D. Harris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is obscured by crack-filling material that is nearly identical in lithology to the undisturbed limestone, but the cracks seem to merge into the main body...

Experimental Error in Pebble Roundness Determination by the Modified Wentworth Method

Robert L. Folk

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... ranging in natural environments from about .25 to .95, an error of approximately 3 percent. Unfortunately, roundness measurement is considerably more...

Inexact Geology: DISCUSSION

Luis M. Banks

AAPG Bulletin

... of the microfossil papers in the Journal of Paleontology from 1940 through 1950, which showed that 23 per cent of them did not mention lithology...