Insights into Salinity Variations for Waterfloods, Frac-Fluids and Drilling Mud in Clay-Hosted Pores using Molecular Simulations

Hao Xiong, Deepak Devegowda

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... field pilot’, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, 14(2), pp. 182–192. doi: 10.2118/129877-PA. Sondergeld, C. H. et al. (2010) ‘Micro-Structural...

The Reservoir Rock: Chapter 11: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

AAPG Special Volumes

... to illustrate the reservoir capabilities of different rock types. Section 15. Sandstone In their evaluation of the lithologic character of reservoirs...

Shallow Marine Shelf Environments

Robert J. Weimer, Karen W. Porter, Cooper B. Land

Special Publications of SEPM

... on depositional systems, particularly in cratonic basins. Shelf sequences are a complex record of such interplay through time. Shelf sands may, or may...

Effective stress constraints on vertical flow in fault zones: Learnings from natural CO2 reservoirs

S. J. Naruk, J. G. Solum, J. P. Brandenburg, P. Origo, and D. E. Wolf

AAPG Bulletin

... sealed. Understanding the factors that cause this leakage is essential for predicting and preventing such leakage for both conventional reservoir...

Stratigraphic, Depositional and Diagenetic Controls on Tight Oil Reservoir Development, Big Valley Formation (Three Forks Equivalent), Southern Alberta

Jacqueline Colborne, R. Marc Bustin, Gerry Reinson, Nathan Bruder

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Stratigraphic, Depositional and Diagenetic Controls on Tight Oil Reservoir Development, Big Valley Formation (Three Forks Equivalent), Southern...

Mandal-Ekofisk(!) Petroleum System in the Central Graben of the North Sea: Chapter 33: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere

Chris Cornford

AAPG Special Volumes

... reservoir is the Upper Cretaceous to basal Paleogene chalk of the Ekofisk area in the southeastern part of the graben, with 607 million m3 (46%) producible...

Geologic analysis of the Upper Jurassic Haynesville Shale in east Texas and west Louisiana

Ursula Hammes, H. Scott Hamlin, Thomas E. Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

.... 11191123.Gale, J. F. W., 2002, Specifying lengths of horizontal wells in fractured reservoirs: Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Evaluation...

Clay Cutans and the Origin of Illite Rim Cement: An Example from the Siliciclastic Rotliegend Sandstone in the Dutch Southern Permian Basin

Nicolaas Molenaar, Marita Felder

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., A., and Nadeau, P.H., 1995, Clay microporosity in reservoir sandstones: an application of quantitative electron microscopy in petrophysical evaluation...

Organic Matter, Textures, and Pore Attributes of Hypersaline Lacustrine Microbial Deposits (Holocene, Bahamas)

Hannah L. Hubert, Eugene C. Rankey, Christopher Omelon

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of primary fabrics may provide insights into possible pore evolution in reservoir analogs. Ahr, W.M., 2008, Geology of Carbonate Reservoirs...

Representative Input Parameters for Geostatistical Simulation

M. J. Pyrcz, E. Gringarten, P. Frykman, C. V. Deutsch

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the size of the modeling domain relative to the range of spatial correlation; fluctuations in realizations of the full reservoir model do not depend...

Sedimentology of the upper Morrow Formation in Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas

Lee F. Krystinik, Beverly A. Blakeney

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

.../Mt. Pearl complex is composed of two superimposed valley-fill deposits which perform as a single reservoir throughout most of the trend...

Sedimentology of the Upper Morrow Formation in Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas Morrow Sandstone (Pennsylvanian) of Southeastern Colorado and Kansas

Lee F. Krystinik, Beverly A. Blakeney De Jarnett

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in southwestern Kansas and the Morrowan deltaic deposits along the north flank of the Basin can be diagenetically complex, the upper Morrow valley-fill...

Abstract: A Geological Exploration Model for Offstructure Gas Accumulations in Geopressured Lower Miocene Sandstones, Offshore Texas

Charles Brewster , Charles Sharpe , Sharon Landeche , Lori Hathon , Bob Klein

GCAGS Transactions

... ft thick and shows increasing resistivity at the base. This is where the top of the reservoir becomes developed, and the resistivity increases to 1-2...

Chapter 5: Pre-Salt Depositional System: Sedimentology, Diagenesis, and Reservoir Quality of the Barra Velha Formation, as a Result of the Santos Basin Tectono-Stratigraphic Development

M. D. de Carvalho, F. L. Fernandes

AAPG Special Volumes

... in blue. Sedimentary Facies The main reservoir rock of the BVF is characterized by a complex arrangement of in situ shrub carbonate facies...

Depositional Facies and Aqueous-Solid Geochemistry of Travertine-Depositing Hot Springs (Angel Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.)

Bruce W. Fouke , Jack D. Farmer , David J. Des Marais , Lisa Pratt , Neil C. Sturchio , Peter C. Burns , Mykell K. Discipulo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the spring system. This suggests that the high extent of CO2 degassing and large open-system solute reservoir in these thermal systems overwhelm...

Carbonate Rocks and Reservoirs of Indonesia: Core Workshop Introduction and Overview

Mark W. Longman, Charles T. Siemers

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... profound new insight for the log analyst or seismic stratigrapher involved in finding or developing a carbonate reservoir. Indonesia is blessed with some...

Chapter 9: Porosity-Deformation Relationships in Organic-Rich Shale

Han Jiang, Hugh Daigle, Kitty L. Milliken, Nicholas W. Hayman

AAPG Special Volumes

...., 2011, Geomechanical challenges in petroleum reservoir exploitation: KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, v. 15, no. 4, p. 669–678, DOI...

The magnetic fabric of the Wolfcamp shale, Midland Basin, west Texas: Understanding petrofabric variability, hydrocarbon associations, and iron enrichment

Gerhard W. Heij, and R. Douglas Elmore

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir properties, and yet, petrofabric analysis is rarely incorporated in reservoir characterization in a quantitative and scalable manner...

Petrography and Geochemistry of Vein-Filling Calcites, Balcones Fault Zone, Upper Cretaceous Strata, North-Central Texas

William C. Dawson , Halina M. Szymczyk , Donald F. Reaser

GCAGS Transactions

... tectonic features along the Austin Chalk reservoir trend of southeastern Texas (Dawson, 1986; Reaser, 1991; Collins et al., 1992). Methods Calcite...

Petrology and Diagenesis of Sandstones in the Post Oak Formation (Permian) Southwestern Oklahoma

Zuhair Al-Shaieb, Richard E. Hanson, R. Nowell Donovan, John W. Shelton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... dissolution. Other Post Oak sandstones exhibit a complex diagenetic history. Pore-filling clays are in many cases authigenic as shown by petrographic...

SOURCE-DERIVED OLEANENES IDENTIFIED IN NIGER DELTA OILS

C. Eneogwe, O. Ekundayo and B. Patterson

Journal of Petroleum Geology

... by the source rock, but could have extracted them from shallower, immature sediments during migration from the source to the reservoir (cf. Philp...

Paleoecologic and Organic Geochemical Assessment of Cretaceous Hydrocarbon Source Rocks in the Gulf of Guinea: New Insights from Eastern Dahomey and Benue Rift Basins with Implications for the Cenomanian-Coniacian Petroleum System, #50722 (2012)

Samuel O. Akande, Olabisi A. Adekeye, James A. Adeoye, Neeka Jacob, benga Lufadeju

Search and Discovery.com

... fragments of Orthokarstina sp.? and Ammobaculites sp? (Figure 3). Generally, the original shells of the fossils are already diagenetically altered...

Depositional Control on Carbonate Cement in the San Joaquin Basin, California

Yang Il Lee, James R. Boles

Special Publications of SEPM

... deep burial 70 120oC precipitated from diagenetically modified marine waters eastern San Joaquin basin indicate that carbonate cements originate from...

Marine and Nonmarine Gas-Bearing Rocks in Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk and Neslen Formations, Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah: Sedimentology, Diagenesis, and Source Rock Potential

Janet K. Pitman , Karen J. Franczyk , Donald E. Anders

AAPG Bulletin

... in diagenetically modified, low-permeability reservoir sequences. These rocks are of the same age and origin as other hydrocarbon-bearing units being explored...

Ground-Penetrating-Radar Characterization and Porosity Evolution of An Upper Pleistocene Oolite-Capped Depositional Cycle, Red Bays, Northwest Andros Island, Great Bahama Bank

Colby S. Hazard,, Scott M. Ritter, John H. McBride, David G. Tingey, R. William Keach, II

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., eds., Reservoir Characterization: Integrating Technology and Business Practices: SEPM Foundation, 26th Annual Gulf Coast Section, Bob F. Perkins...