Keys to Production, Three Forks Formation, Williston Basin

Steve Sonnenberg

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... laminated. Other sedimentary structures include compaction-loading features, dewatering structures, distortion around anhydrite nodules and granule-sized...

A Comparative Study in Deciding Between Conventional Vertical Drilling and Horizontal Multilateral Drilling for Coalbed Methane

B. Marbun, T. Thariq

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., water must first be produced this is called the “dewatering process”. Gas cannot flow due to the low permeability of matrix pores, whereas water has...

Deep Pore Fluid Pressure Prediction in Challenging Areas, Malay Basin, SE Asia

Stephen O’Connor, Richard Swarbrick, Jamaal Hoesni, Richard Lahann

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and that the main mechanism of overpressure generation is undercompaction as a result of ineffective dewatering, referred to as disequilibrium compaction...

Engineering, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of a Lower Wilcox Lignite

Paul E. Albertson

GCAGS Transactions

..., overburden thickness, and the expense of dewatering the alluvial aquifer. Andersen, H. V., 1960, Geology of Sabine Parish: State of Louisiana...

A Reinterpretation of Astropolithon Hindii Dawson 1878

Ronald K. Pickerill, Ian M. Harris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the cone and connect directly with allied dewatering sheet structures (Fig. 2a, see below). Petrographic examination reveals that the effects of quartz...

Bedding Types in Holocene Tidal Channel Sequences, Knik Arm, Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska

Susan Bartsch-Winkler , Henry R. Schmoll

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... beds about 4 m from the top of Anchorage section C. Synform on the left is composed of parallel beds which show evidence of dewatering (arrow). Sediments...

The Role of Diagenesis in Exfoliation of Submarine Canyons

Cecilia M. McHugh , William B. F. Ryan , B. Charlotte Schreiber

AAPG Bulletin

... of microfractures and former dewatering paths, and it was important to determine the origin of these fluids. If the solutional zones have the same chemical...

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DEPOSITIONAL AND DISSOLUTION THINNING: DEVONIAN PRAIRIE FORMATION, WILLISTON BASIN, NORTH AMERICA

CHRIS A. OGLESBY

Williston Basin Symposium

... of water should be available during basin dewatering and compaction. Two observations suggest that this process may have occurred on a minor...

Development of Rheological Heterogeneity in Clay-Rich High-Density Turbidity Currents: Aptian Britannia Sandstone Member, U.K. Continental Shelf

Simon P. Barker, Peter D.W. Haughton, William D. McCaffrey, Stuart G. Archer, Bill Hakes

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... descriptions of facies and dewatering fabrics. Lowe et al. (2003) developed the slurry-flow model further via analysis of the lateral facies and textural trends...

INTERTIDAL TO SUPRATIDAL CARBONATE FACIES OF THE SHERWOOD BEDS, MISSION CANYON FM, SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN

Dean Potter, Eric Strachan

Williston Basin Symposium

.... Dolomite is rarely encountered in intertidal island carbonates. Subaerial exposure and 'dewatering' of intertidal sediments create...

Status of Wilcox Coal Seam Natural Gas Play in Northeast Louisiana

Deane C. Foss

GCAGS Transactions

... dewatering began in 2007 at the Riverton and Woolen Lake fields and is ongoing. INTRODUCTION The Wilcox coal seam natural gas play is located...

Bingham Canyon Mine Expansion Evaluation

Kathleen Gundy, Todd Brobst, Megan Gaida

Utah Geological Association

... planes, geological interpretations, rock alteration and strength, RQD, rock mass ratings, pore pressures, and the dewatering options for the pit slopes...

Design, Execution and Lesson Learnt of Open PIT Trial Study in Iliran High Shallow Heavy Oil

Dyah Pitaloka Citrarasmi, Yasin Zaidun, Endras Pribadi, Saras Noer Hidayat, Bernard P. Sinambela

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Figure 10 - Revegetation Stages. 6) Water Management Dewatering is an activity aimed at keeping the pit from overflowing submerged by water both from...

Potential Role of Microbial Biofilms in Oil Sands Tailings Management

Victoria Kostenko, Robert John Martinuzzi

AAPG Special Volumes

...: tailings densification and dewatering, and tailings and released water detoxification. It suggests an environmentally friendly solution: application...

Diagenesis of the Bakken Formation, Elm Coulee Field, Richland County, Montana; #20160 (2012)

Chloe S. Alexandre, Steve Sonnenberg, and J. F. Sarg

Search and Discovery.com

... dewatering, and the second stage, open horizontal fractures, is related to pressure release from the hydrocarbon expulsion process. The beginnings...

The Niobrara Petroleum System, Rocky Mountain Region; #80206 (2012)

Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Search and Discovery.com

... – Recurrent movement on basement shear zones • Solution of evaporites • High Fluid Pressure – Maturation of source rocks • Compaction and dewatering...

Downhole Geochemical Analysis of Gas Content and Critical Desorption Pressure for Carbonaceous Reservoirs; #41600 (2015)

John Pope, Daniel Buttry, Robert Lamarre, Bret Noecker, Steven MacDonald, Brian LaReau, Patrick Malone, Neil Van Lieu, Daniel Petroski, Matthew Accurso, David Harak, Richard Kutz, Stephen Luker, Raymond Martin

Search and Discovery.com

... equilibrium before analysis. For some cases, in order to effect dewatering of a simulated coal seam, the hydrostatic pressure was gradually reduced while...

A New Approach to Pore Pressure Predictions: Generation, Expulsion and Retention Trio, Case Histories from GOM; #41612 (2015)

Selim Simon Shaker

Search and Discovery.com

...’ head (SWH). Entrapment represents the main cause of overpressure buildup. Fluid pressure inflation due to stress, aqua-thermal and dewatering processes...

Physical and Mechanical Characteristics of the Opal-A to Opal-CT Transition Zone: Enhanced Diatomite Permeability from Heterogeneous Diagenetic Embrittlement; #51112 (2015)

Ryan Weller and Richard J. Behl

Search and Discovery.com

... during dewatering. INCREASING DIAGENESIS INCREASING BRITTLENESS The claim of extreme heterogeneity is substantiated by a doubling of coexisting...

Seismi Guides Interpretation in the Ferron Coalbed Methane Play, by William S. Lyons, #40072 (2003)

Search and Discovery.com

Diagenesis

Donald L. Gautier

Special Publications of SEPM

... at which most sediment dewatering occurs. ft (1 the zone of carbonate In the uppermost 3,000 km) or so of the argillaceous sediment column, an immense...

Petrology and Diagenesis of the Flag Sandstone, Harriet Field, Barrow Sub-Basin

R. de Boer, L. B. Collins

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... common common present present common Slumps Slickensides present rare PROCESS High density massflows Dewatering Decreasing energy Erosion Erosional...

An Approach to Exploration for Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, with Examples from the Austin Chalk

M. Friedman, D.V. Wiltschko

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., high pore pressures (low effective pressures) are indicated by late dewatering of the underlying Eagle- there than elsewhere on the trend...

Mapping Liquefaction Hazards in the Wasatch Front Region: Opportunities and Limitations

Jeffrey R. Keaton, Loren R. Anderson

Utah Geological Association

... liquefaction susceptibility in sediments of Pleistocene age that, in coastal areas, would have moderate to low liquefaction susceptibility. Dewatering...

Slope and Deep Shelf Gully Sandstones, Upper Jurassic, East Greenland

Finn Surlyk

AAPG Bulletin

... deformation structures produced during dewatering of the sands. The lateral gully margins in most places are highly irregular and commonly overhanging. In cross...