Belize, Central America: Geologic Models for Certain Paleozoic Reservoirs in the Permian Basin

S.J. Mazzullo, A.M. Reid

West Texas Geological Society

... to many Paleozoic reservoir systems in the Permian Basin. This region offers many excellent models for the development of subtle hydrocarbon traps...

Upper Jurassic updip stratigraphic trap and associated Smackover microbial and nearshore carbonate facies, eastern Gulf coastal plain

Ernest A. Mancini, William C. Parcell, Wayne M. Ahr, Victor O. Ramirez, Juan Carlos Llinas, Milo Cameron

AAPG Bulletin

... and delineating these potential reservoir facies. In this field, the petroleum trap is a stratigraphic trap characterized by microbial boundstone...

Diagenetic Traps in Sandstones

Douglas J. Cant

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1984, Lithology-dependent diagenetic control of reservoir properties of conglomerates, Falher Member, Elmworth field, Alberta: AAPG Bulletin, v. 68...

Reflux dolomitization and associated diagenesis of Devonian Upper Stettler Formation and Crossfield Member, south central Alberta: Petrologic and isotopic evidence

Ihsan S. Al-Aasm, Samantha Raymus

CSPG Bulletin

...) and, in conjunction with oxygen/carbon values, may further confirm that recrystallization processes have diagenetically altered matrix dolomites...

PROCESSES OF DOLOMITIZATION — IMPORTANT FACTORS INFLUENCING PORE GEOMETRY AND RESERVOIR QUALITY IN MISSISSIPPIAN INNER SHELF CARBONATES OF SOUTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN

D. M. KENT, M. C. AKHURST, AND J. B. BURTON

Saskatchewan Geological Society

...PROCESSES OF DOLOMITIZATION — IMPORTANT FACTORS INFLUENCING PORE GEOMETRY AND RESERVOIR QUALITY IN MISSISSIPPIAN INNER SHELF CARBONATES...

What is Next for the MatureŽ Sacramento Basin? The West Side Story, A Brief Look into the Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic Rock; #11091 (2018)

Robert Sterling

Search and Discovery.com

... Cretaceous “Classic” Productive Formations in Sacramento Basin Reservoir Targets There have been numerous names assigned to the older rocks...

Phosphoria Formation (Permian) and Its Resource Significance in the Western Interior, U.S.A.

Edwin K. Maughan

CSPG Special Publications

.... Maughan, E.K. 1979. Petroleum source rock evaluation of the Permian Park City Group in the northeastern Great Basin, Utah, Nevada and Idaho...

Corrigan-Cowden Unit: The Next Generation

David J. Entzminger, Kevin Ferdinand, Dan Lawson, Bob Loucks, Paul Mescher, Kim Patty

West Texas Geological Society

.... The reservoir characterization and production analyses have provided the foundation for the additional work and interest in the Corrigan Cowden Unit. Seven cores...

Lithofacies and porosity heterogeneity of Ordovician–Pennsylvanian successions of the Midland Basin: Implications for wastewater disposal reservoir potential

Amanda Z. Calle, Katie M. Smye, Elizabeth A. Horne, Raymond L. Eastwood,, Robert C. Reedy, and Peter Hennings

AAPG Bulletin

... of porosity (>250 million bbl; Figure 15B) typifying a complex reservoir system. This reservoir complexity requires further understanding due...

Diagenetic Resetting of Sm-Nd Isotope Systematics in Wilcox Group Sandstones and Shales, San Marcos Arch, South-Central Texas

David N. Awwiller, Lawrence E. Mack

GCAGS Transactions

... in the acid-soluble and silicate fractions. The acid-soluble reservoir in deeper samples contains progressively less Sm and Nd, and higher Sm/Nd...

Geochemical, petrographical, and petrophysical evaluations of a heterogeneous, stratiform dolomite from a Barremian oil field, offshore Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Gary Ottinger, Osama Al Zinati, Hideko Takayanagi, Koshi Yamamoto, and Yasufumi Iryu

AAPG Bulletin

... distribution in a carbonate reservoir: Recognition of a palaeo oil–water contact and its relationship to reservoir quality in the Humbly Grove field...

Petroleum Geology, Paleotectonics, and Sedimentation of the Scotts Bluff Trend, Northeastern Denver Basin

Matthew R. Silverman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., which includes most of the reservoir rock, grades into bioturbated bar-margin siltstones which, in turn, grade into interbar shah. Longdistance...

Continuum-based rock model of a reservoir dolostone with four orders of magnitude in pore sizes

Sven Roth, Bibhu Biswal, Ghazaleh Afshar, Rudolf J. Held, Pal-Eric Oren, Lars Inge Berge, Rudolf Hilfer

AAPG Bulletin

... to reproduce complex reservoir rocks and obtain a representative multiscale pore system. One has to keep in mind that none of the pores was explicitly modeled...

A Petrographic Approach for Evaluating Trace-Element Mobility in a Black Shale

S.M. Lev, S.M. McLennan, W.J. Meyers, G.N. Hanson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and backscattered electron images: Implications for interpretation of complex crustal histories: Chemical Geology, v. 110, p. 1-13. HARLAND, W.B....

Influence of the Geological and Geochemical Characteristics of Heavy Oils on Their Recovery: Section III. Geological Environments and Migration

J. Connan, H. Coustau

AAPG Special Volumes

... AREA, U.S.): A CASE OF OIL BIODEGRADED AND FLUSHED AFTER ENTRAPMENT IN A DIAGENETICALLY CEMENTED RESERVOIR The occurrence of so-called tar sands...

The Provenance of Heavy Minerals in the Mesozoic and Tertiary Formations, Venture B-13 Borehole, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, by Y.A. Kettanah and G.D. Wach, #50041 (2006).

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Mesogenetic Dissolution: Its Role in Porosity Development in Carbonate Reservoirs (1)

S. J. MAZZULLO and P. M. HARRIS

AAPG Bulletin

... to cementation. In fact, many deeply buried carbonate reservoir rocks, regardless of whether they are porous, contain evidence of complex histories...

Abnormal Formation Pressure and Shale Porosity

Halfdan Carstens , Henning Dypvik

AAPG Bulletin

... Bull., v. 60, p. 1127-1128. Carstens, H., and H. Dypvik, 1979, Prediction, detection and evaluation of abnormal formation pressures in virgin areas...

Influence of Geological and Geochemical Characteristics of Heavy Oils On Their Recovery

J. Connan, H.R. Coustau

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... after entrapment in a diagenetically cemented reservoir. These hydrocarbon deposits have been known by industry for more than one hundred years...

AAPG Memoir 67: Seals, Traps, and the Petroleum System. Chapter 12: Anomalously Pressured Gas Compartments in Cretaceous Rocks of the Laramide Basins of Wyoming: A New Class of Hydrocarbon Accumulation

R.C. Surdam, Z.S. Jiao, H.P. Heasler

AAPG Special Volumes

... compartment. In contrast, the Cretaceous sandstones within each basin are subdivided stratigraphically and diagenetically into relatively small, isolated...

Freshwater-Phreatic Calcite Cementation, Schooner Cays, Bahamas: ABSTRACT

David A. Budd

AAPG Bulletin

... afte the last stage of cementation. Empty pores and all four stages of phreatic-zone cementation were observed in the diagenetically immature 700 yr...

Prediction of lithofacies and reservoir quality using well logs, Late Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation, Mamm Creek field, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Aysen Ozkan, Stephen P. Cumella, Kitty L. Milliken, Stephen E. Laubach

AAPG Bulletin

... networks: Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, v. 8, no. 4, p. 300309.Pitman, J. K., and E. S. Sprunt, 1986, Origin...

Microporosity in Arab Formation Carbonates, Saudi Arabia, D.L. Cantrell and R.M. Hagerty, #30008

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Depositional Environments, Diagenesis, and Porosity of Upper Cretaceous Volcanic-Rich Tokio Sandstone Reservoirs, Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish Louisiana

William J. Clark

GCAGS Transactions

... to carbonate minerals, and (4) increase in irreducible water saturation due to pore-lining and pore-filling clay. Thus, potential reservoir zones with lithic...

Memorial: James Carlton Taylor (1924-1976)

T. H. McCulloh

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... of the Los Angeles basin. He resumed his work with Shell in April 1953 as a production geologist specializing in petrographic studies of reservoir...