Evolution of Gas Transport Mechanisms in Micro/mesopores of Organic-Rich Shales During Hydrocarbon Recovery

Zhengru Yang, Christopher R. Clarkson, Amin Ghanizadeh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... images), suggesting a strong correlation between surface diffusion and solid bitumen. Within macropores, slippage-viscous flow is the dominant transport...

Variable Speed Drive for Centrifugal Pump Investigation to Optimize Oil and Gas Production

Wisnu Wardana, Fakhrian Abqari

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., improve process control, and improve system reliability and capital cost savings. With centrifugal pump installations, savings of between 30% and 50...

Role of Compaction in Development of Geometry of Superposed Elongate Sandstone Bodies: ABSTRACT

Leonard F. Brown, Jr., J. H. McGowen, M. J. Seals, T. H. Waller

AAPG Bulletin

.... Within shallow, poorly developed synclines, which apparently provided primary paleotopographic control of channels, superposed channel systems...

Abstract: Pore Geometry and Pore-Fluid Types: Effects on Seismic Properties of Carbonate Rocks Under a Compaction Disequilibrium Scenario; #90224 (2015)

Gautier Njiekak and Douglas R. Schmitt

Search and Discovery.com

... conditions at a constant differential pressure (difference between the confining and pore-fluid pressure) allowed for the assessment of the effects...

Sequence stratigraphy of experimental strata under known conditions of differential subsidence and variable base level

John Martin, Chris Paola, Vitor Abreu, Jack Neal, Ben Sheets

AAPG Bulletin

... deposition may also increase because it is a primary mechanism to force channels to relocate laterally (Mohrig et al., 2000). The coupling between sediment...

Pressured Shale and Related Sediment Deformation a Mechanism for Development of Regional Contemporaneous Faults

Clemont H. Bruce

GCAGS Transactions

...] Seismic illustration showing differences between fault systems formed by differential compaction and gravity slide. Dashed white line shows...

Optimizing Lateral Landing Depth for Improved Well Production

Roberto Suarez-Rivera, W. D. Von Gonten, J. Graham, S. Ali, J. Degenhardt, Ajay Jegadeesan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that a primary source of height growth suppression is the pervasive rock layering in mudstones and hybrid reservoir systems, which often exhibit strongly...

Pulsed Fracturing in Shale Reservoirs: Geomechanical Aspects, Ductile-Brittle Transition and Field Implications

M. Reza Safari, Raju Gandikota, Uno Mutlu, Missy Ji, Jonathan Glanville, Hazim Abass

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... due to pulsed loading in shale that show ductile-brittle transition. In shale gas, one of the primary goals is to create extensive fracture networks...

Composite Particles in Mudstones: Examples from the Late Cretaceous Tununk Shale Member of the Mancos Shale Formation

Zhiyang Li, Juergen Schieber

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to differential settling: Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, v. 98, p. 10279–10288. Livaccari, R.F., 1991, Role of crustal thickening and extensional...

Abstract: Particle Swarm and Differential Evolution Optimization - Global Optimization for Geophysical Inversion, by Puneet Saraswat; #90105 (2010)

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Insights on fracture and karst cavern origin and diagenesis from core observations at Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan

Ted Playton, Evan Earnest, Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez, Assem Bibolova, Dana Tolessin, Ilyas Tussupbayev, and Bagdat Toleubay

AAPG Bulletin

... with similar reservoir age, oil column, and burial depths. Tengiz and Korolev have been on primary oil production for multiple decades, and to date...

The Influence of Micro-Fabric Heterogeneity on Sheared Rock Properties

Dustin Crandall, Magdalena Gill, Johnathan Moore, Sarah Brown, Paige Mackey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... these fractures. We sheared multiple cores from the Marcellus and Eau Claire shales in a closed system with confining pressures of greater than 1000 psi...

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

CHRIS A. OGLESBY

Williston Basin Symposium

...DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DEPOSITIONAL AND DISSOLUTION THINNING: DEVONIAN PRAIRIE FORMATION, WILLISTON BASIN, NORTH AMERICA CHRIS A. OGLESBY 1987 47 52...

The Characteristics and Origins of Dish and Pillar Structures

Donald R. Lowe, Robert D. LoPiccolo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... dishes (arrows) and primary flat laminations (faint laminations between and parallel to darker dish laminations). All samples from fine-grained sandstone...

Origin of the Peripheral Rim, Redwater Reef, Alberta

Grant D. Mossop

CSPG Bulletin

.... The remaining 55 ft. of relief between rim and lagoon developed as a result of events late in the Cretaceous. Both of these episodes of differential depression...

Geology of Venture, a Geopressured Gas Field, Offshore Nova Scotia: Chapter 5

Kenneth J. Drummond

AAPG Special Volumes

...). Between 2000 and 4300 m (6562 and 14,108 ft), porosity development is believed to be both primary intergranular and secondary solution porosity. In Venture...

Pipeline Impacts in Vegetated Wetlands

Emmanuel J. Russo, Thomas E. Hunter, Raymond Sauvage, Christee Herbert

GCAGS Transactions

... of activity in oil and gas exploration, with a slight lag between discovery and production. Pipelines have traditionally been designed within feasible...

Start to Finish: Optimizing Completions from the Bit to the Perforation Cluster

Stephen Drylie, Carl Merkt, Buddy Woodroof, Tanner Wood

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., fracturing and production results, and geosteering interpretations. LA URTeC 3965301 2 Case histories will demonstrate multiple ways that drilling data...

Patrick Draw Area, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming

Guy Burton

Wyoming Geological Association

...Patrick Draw Area, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming Guy Burton 1961 276 279 Gussow, W. C., 1954, Differential Entrapment of Oil and Gas, a Fundamental...

Efficient subsurface carbon storage modeling with Fourier neural operator

Suraj Pawar, Pandu Devarakota, Faruk O. Alpak, Jeroen Snippe, Detlef Hohl

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to learn mapping between infinitedimensional function spaces and have been successfully applied for real-time prediction of multiphase flows. We...

Integrated Rock Characterization of a Shale Gas Field in the Horn River Basin, Canada

Tadesse Weldu Teklu, Daejin Park, Hoiseok Jung, Jennifer L. Miskimins

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., TOC versus Grain density, Porosity versus TOC, Gas Content versus TOC and maturity, and multiple permeability correlations were analyzed and presented...

Flow Measurement Systems – Fundamental Design Considerations

Herman Turner

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... production metering on separators, pump and compressors for liquid and gas movement and accountability between field measurement points and metering...

Field Development Optimization in Midland Basin: An Integrated Multi-disciplinary Approach

Antonio Wilkinson, Jason Jweda, Brady Kolb, M.D. Rincones, Kelli Snidow, Carl Warren

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... appear to have upward biased drainage. Discussion The primary focus of this study was to understand stratigraphic drainage overlap between target...

Primary Migration of Oil and Gas

Kinji Magara

CSPG Special Publications

... origin and primary migration: Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., v. 60, p. 213-244. Timko, D. J. and Fertl, W. H., 1971, Relationship between hydrocarbon...

Stop 1: Carbon Junction, Co

Donald E. Owen, Charles F. Head, Richard A. Ashmore, William A. Ambrose, Walter B. Ayers, Jr.

Four Corners Geological Society

... transgressive episodes during the Late Cretaceous and are inferred to have been caused by eustatic sea level rise coincident with differential subsidence...