The Determination of Seal Capacities for Highly Pressured HP/HT Traps: A Best-PracticeŽ Workflow

Stephen O'Connor, Richard Swarbrick, Richard Lahann, Alexander Edwards, David Scott, Sam Green

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a near-isotropic stress state at depth. Interestingly, not all basins show a relationship between small seal capacities and breached traps. Where...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7, Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 8:  Integration of Capillary Top-Seal Leakage with Map-Based Fluid-Flow Modeling

Michael, G. E., P. D’Onfro, and F. Eilertsen

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The amount of oil and gas that spills laterally is extensive and moves in location between model time steps with response to differential compaction...

Reservoir characteristics of Devonian cherts and their control on oil recovery: Dollarhide field, west Texas

Arthur Saller, Brian Ball, Steve Robertson, Bruce McPherson, Clay Wene, Robert Nims, John Gogas

AAPG Bulletin

... heterogeneous permeability. Fractures apparently formed in the chert by differential compaction between more ductile micritic carbonate and more brittle chert...

Characterization of the Helderberg Group as a geologic seal for CO2 sequestration

J. Eric Lewis, Ronald R. McDowell, Katharine Lee Avary, Kristin M. Carter

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... stratigraphically between these two units, and consequently, its potential as a geologic seal must be evaluated. Predominantly a carbonate interval with minor...

The Origin of Soft-Sediment Deformation Structures in Permo-Carboniferous Glacial and Proglacial Beds, South Africa

J. N. J. Visser, W. P. Colliston, J. C. Terblanche

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by ice. Deformation zone 1 has a thickness of between 1 and 4 m, and consists of silty rhythmite containing ice-rafted debris as well as thin...

Abstract: The Roles of Differential Subsidence and Variable Sedimentation from the Sequence Architecture of Turbidites in a Transform Margin Setting, Los Angeles Basin, California, by M. S. Clark; #90090 (2009).

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Fracture Development Related to Differential Compaction and Mechanical Stratigraphy, Sacramento Mountains, NM

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Analysis of Fracture Style and Development Associated With Differential Compaction Around Mississippian Carbonate Mounds, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

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Wireline Packer Remediation Using Novel Bismuth Technology

Isaac Hochberg, Andrew Fowlie, Konstandinos Dalianas

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... differential and axial loads. After the bismuth annular plug was qualified, the deployment method for the bismuth pellets was optimised to ensure...

Development of A Semi-Analytical Model for Simulation of Gas Production in Shale Gas Reservoirs

Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of cumulative gas production between the semi-analytical model and CMG. Multiple Hydraulic Fractures In addition to validation of the single hydraulic...

Geologically Based Pore Pressure Modeling: Reconciling Pressure vs. Depth Plots with Mud Weight Equivalent vs. Depth Plots

S. Shaker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

..., structural regime and fault plane lithology juxtaposition substantially affect the pressure differential between sandstone and shale. Hydrocarbon presence...

Delaware Mountain Group, West Texas, A Case of Refound Opportunity: Part 2--Cherry Canyon Formation (E & P Notes)

Scott L. Montgomery, Dean Hamilton, Tim Hunt, and John Worrall

AAPG Bulletin

... of the Central Basin platform, suggests the existence of multiple channel trends not yet explored in the Delaware basin. Entrapment in the War-Wink area...

Facies in the Lower Austin Chalk Group, from a Roadcut on U.S. 90 and a Core behind the Outcrop, near Langtry, Texas

Christine Griffith, Michael Pope, Kyle Gillespie, Alexis Godet, Daniel Minisini

GCAGS Transactions

... bedding in the roadcut is interrupted by multiple channel forms, 0.4–3 ft deep and 5–80 ft wide (0.1–0.9 m deep and 1.5–24.4 m wide). These channel forms...

Enhancing the Process of Knowledge Discovery from Integrated Geophysical Databases Using Geo-Ontologies

Shastri L. Nimmagadda, Heinz Dreher, Andi Noventiyanto, Aswin Mostafa, Giuseppe Fiume

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a formal specification of a program) of the concepts and relationships (Nimmagadda et al. 2012) that can exist for an entity or set of multiple dimensions...

TOC Content Distribution Features in Utica-Point Pleasant Formations, Appalachian Basin

Guochang Wang, Alireza Shakarmi, Jonathan Bruno

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of this method. Besides establishing the explicit relationship between TOC content and well logs, multiple well logs could be used together to establish...

Coal-Sourced Compactional Traps in Sandstone Reservoirs: Similarities Between Northern West Virginia and WY, by A. V. Oldham, T. E. Repine, Jr., and D. W. Oldham; #90986 (1994).

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ABSTRACT: Tear Faulting as a Result of Forelimb Attenuation, Thermopolis Anticline, Wyoming, by C. K. Zahm; #90909 (2000)

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Influence of In-Situ Stresses on Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations in Coals of the Surat Basin, Southeast Queensland – Australia

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Settlement Associated with Thawing of Permafrost: ABSTRACT

Frederick E. Crory

AAPG Bulletin

... estimate quantitatively the total settlement from information in single boreholes and the differential settlement between 2 or more adjacent borings...

The Comparison of Using a Whipstock and a Dyna Drill in Directional Drilling

Bambang Widjanarko DS, R. W. Prajogo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... drilling, controlled directional drilling has been performed since 1929. Pertamina has drilled many directional wells mostly for multiple exploitation...

Geologic History and Reservoir Development in the Shoebar Field Area, Lea County, New Mexico

Louis J. Mazzullo

Abilene Geological Society

..., and differential movement along major faults. Faults and unconformities were important to the development of reservoirs throughout the section because tectonic...

Burial Cementation and Dissolution in Carboniferous Slope Facies, Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan: Evidence for Hydrothermal Activity; #20234 (2014)

Joel F. Collins, David Katz, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, and Wayne Narr

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... CALCITE SPAR 90OC SEAL BREACH: BITUMEN + CALCITE Collins et al (in press) 9 ORIGIN of the BURIAL OVERPRINT 22000 MULTIPLE PRESSURE...

Production of Carbonate Sediments by Selected Large Benthic Foraminifera on Two Pacific Coral Reefs

Pamela Hallock

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 42-47. ROTTGER, R., 1978, Unusual multiple fission in the gamont of the larger foraminiferan Heterostegina depressa: Jour. Protozool., v. 25, p. 41-44...

Resolving Multiphase Fractions in Horizontal Wells Using Speed of Sound Measured with Distributed Acoustic Sensors and a PVT Database

Peyman Moradi, Brian Seabrook, Neal Adair, Ricardo Garza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... volume fraction tracking approach tailored for horizontal oil wells with multiple inflow points. This approach aims at producing multiphase production...

Salt Structures of Gulf of Mexico Basin--A Review

Grover E. Murray

AAPG Special Volumes

... the sedimentary sequence as long as there is sufficient density differential between the salt and the sediments. Geophysical data suggest that both...