Integrating Seismic Imaging and Inversion

Francisco Bolivar, Richard Cooper, Lucy MacGregor, Jacqueline O’Connor, Jeff Codd, David Kessler

GEO ExPro Magazine

... and fluid properties. Depth migration algorithms exist to assist in determining reservoir architecture; however, these are often applied in isolation from...

Earthquake Detection and Focal Mechanism Calculation Using Artificial Intelligence

Shane Quimby, Yanwei Zhao, Jie Zhang, GeoTomo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... effective in determining origin time, location, and magnitude, but they have struggled to accurately calculate the focal mechanism of recorded earthquakes...

Comparative Microseismic Interpretation of Hydraulic Fractures, #41308 (2014)

Shawn Maxwell

Search and Discovery.com

...-survey design study. Such design studies involve determining the minimum detectable magnitude and expected location accuracy at different positions...

Use of exploration methods to repurpose and extend the life of a super basin as a carbon storage hub for the energy transition

J. R. Underhill, I. de Jonge-Anderson, A. D. Hollinsworth, and L. C. Fyfe

AAPG Bulletin

... heritage to a new, low-carbon energy hub. Given its favorable geology, infrastructure, and the location of major industrial emitters in adjacent land areas...

Abstract: Review and Application of Petroleum-Finding Rate Methodologies to Appraisal of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in United States, by Betty M. Miller; #90969 (1977).

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Abstract: The George and Stiles Method of Determining Porosity Cutoffs: A Computer Program, by K. C. Powers; #91017 (1992).

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Evaluating Seal Potential: Reducing Uncertainties in Determining Hydrocarbon Retention of Caprocks

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History of the Imogene Oil Field Atascosa County, Texas

John W. Bolinger

GCAGS Transactions

... 35 miles south of San Antonio. Figure 1 shows the location of the field with respect to other oil fields and the surrounding territory. This area...

Determination of n in Weight Frequency Data

Thomas A. Jones

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of grains is of no relevance in this weight framework. If individual pebbles were being measured, the usual method of determining n would be used; in sieving...

Clinoform Progradation by Turbidity Currents: Modeling and Experiments

Thomas P. Gerber, Lincoln F. Pratson, Matthew A. Wolinsky, Ron Steel, Jere Mohr, John B. Swenson, Chris Paola

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... near the clinoform rollover. Abrupt basinward shifts in depocenter location are therefore an indication of allogenic variability in forcing. In contrast...

Integration of the Graphic Correlation Methodology in a Sequence Stratigraphic Study: Examples from North Sea Paleogene Sections

Jack E. Neal, Jeff A. Stein, James H. Gamber

Special Publications of SEPM

... of a LOC terrace has great im a sequence strati portance in determining its position within graphic framework Paleobathymetry estimates are a key piece...

Mass-transport and slope accommodation: Implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs

Ben Kneller, Mason Dykstra, Luke Fairweather, and Juan Pablo Milana

AAPG Bulletin

... on the top of MTDs creates widespread potential for stratigraphic trapping. The location, geometry, and property distribution of such reservoirs...

Burial and exhumation history of the Galilee Basin, Australia: Implications for unconventional hydrocarbon prospectivity

Amy I’Anson, Ian Deighton, R. Dietmar Müller, Adriana Dutkiewicz, and Christian Heine

AAPG Bulletin

... to predict maturity and hydrocarbon generation and expulsion by reconstructing the geological history of a location (Waples, 1998). We used Fobos Pro software...

Unconventional Reservoir Flow Assessment Using Spectral Acoustics and Numerical Temperature Modelling

Maxim Volkov, Vener Nagimov, Samuel Avilez, Dmitriy Lazutkin, Mikhail Khachaturyan, Artem Prodan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Location of zones producing unwanted water or gas. In the complex completion design, independent analysis of the wellbore, annular, and reservoir...

Ginger - a little spice on the shelf: supra-slump stratigraphic trapping in the Barrow Sub-basin

Steve Moss, Margarita Kongawoin, Richard Harmer, Michael Isherwood

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... debris flow units. As such, the reservoir sandstones are interpreted to be located within a supra-slump or supra-MTD location. The nearby Little...

Geology and Hydrocarbon Prospects of the Surma Basin, Bangladesh

M. A. Maroof Khan, M. Ismail, Manzur Ahmad

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... as well as for identification and evaluation of the probable source beds responsible for oil and gas generation. Figure 1. Location map. Lietz and Kabir...

Ch.5 - Sequence Stratigraphy Concepts - The Influence of Depositional Environments of Coal Stratigraphy

John C. Horne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... from these broadly defined stratigraphic units established an empirical biostratigraphic zonation useful for determining relative ages of the various...

Ekofisk: First of the Giant Oil Fields in Western Europe

Edwin Van den Bark, Owen D. Thomas

AAPG Special Volumes

... considered it impractical or even foolhardy to drill in water more than 200 ft (61 m) deep at a location over 160 mi (256 km) from the nearest land...

Second-Order Accommodation Cycles and Points of “Stratigraphic Turnaround”: Implications for Carbonate Buildup Reservoirs in Mesozoic Carbonate Systems of the East Texas Salt Basin and South Texas

R. K. Goldhammer

West Texas Geological Society

... duration) eustatic cycles are of prime importance in determining both the sequence-scale (km-scale) and cycle-scale (m-scale) stratigraphic packaging...

Authigenic Quartz Microfabrics in Cretaceous Turbidites: Evidence for Silica Transformation Processes in Sandstones

James P. Hendry , Nigel H. Trewin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., JONES, M.G., AND MILLER, J., 1978, Diagenesis of late Cenozoic diatomaceous deposits and formation of the bottom simulating reflector in the southern...

Provenance of the Hillsboro Formation: Implications for the Structural Evolution and Fluvial Events in the Tualatin Basin, Northwest Oregon

Doyle Wilson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... fraction of sedimentary units, muddy sediments can be included in provenance studies by determining their major-element and trace-element chemistry...

Managing Potential Injection-Induced Seismicity through Monitoring and Mitigation; #42553 (2020)

Thomas E. Tomastik, J. Daniel Arthur, Steve Tipton

Search and Discovery.com

... networks are limited in their ability to accurately locate hypocenters or even detect microseismic events. For optimal constraints on the location...

Gulf of Mexico: Processes and Environments of Deposition

James Coleman

New Orleans Geological Society

... variation exists in this vertical sequence, depending upon location within the bay fill. Figure 3.8. The major processes operative at a river mouth...

Quantitative Analysis of North Sea Subsidence

Julian A. Thorne , Anthony B. Watts

AAPG Bulletin

... made by Sclater and Christie (1980) and Wood (1982) illustrated the importance of End_Page 88------------------------------ Fig. 1. Location...

Applications of Shallow High-Resolution Seismic Reflection to Environmental Problems

Richard D. Miller, William E. Doll, Carlene Merey, William E. Black

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

..., the paleosol reflector (interpreted as the 100- to 110-msec reflection) does not represent an impermeable barrier, but seismic data do suggest...