Outcrop and subsurface geology applied to drilling, sweet spot and target zone detection of resource shales: the Woodford example

Roger M. Slatt, Henry Galvis-Portillo, Daniella Becerra-Rondon, Ifunanya C. Ekwunife, Richard Brito, Jing Zhang, Carlos Molinares, Emilio Torres, David Duarte, Benmadi Milad

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and organic), and stratigraphic properties. Typical analyses are from thin sections, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and sometimes X-ray fluorescent spectroscopy (XRF...

Pressure Regime in the Upper Cretaceous Shales and Sandstones in the Washakie Basin, Wyoming

Ronald C. Surdam, Zung S. Jiao, Jie Liu

Wyoming Geological Association

... Shale in the Washakie Basin were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The samples were taken from selected well intervals from near the surface (51...

Top Seal Potential of Tertiary Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico Shales

Dawson, William C. and Almon, William R.

GCAGS Transactions

..., traps, and the petroleum system: AAPG Memoir 67, p. 1-12. Wardlaw, N. C., and R. P. Taylor, 1976, Mercury capillary pressure curves...

Geochemistry of a Modern Marine Evaporite: Bocana De Virrila, Peru

Susan L. Brantley, David A. Crerar, Nancy E. Moller, John H. Weare

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for mineralogy using powder x-ray diffraction, and analyzed for total and inorganic carbon (see Table 1). In addition, clay minerals in samples from sites C...

Exploration and Development of Hydrocarbons from Low-Permeability Chalks--an Example from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Rocky Mountain Region

Richard M. Pollastro, Peter A. Scholle

AAPG Special Volumes

... can be recognized on X-ray diffraction patterns of oriented, glycol-treated spe imens of the clay fraction(s) (Figure 10). Several studies document...

History of Burial Diagenesis Determined from Isotopic Geochemistry, Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas

K. L. Milliken , L. S. Land , R. G. Loucks

AAPG Bulletin

... separation. Ratios of kaolinite to quartz were determined by X-ray diffraction, and the mixtures were analyzed for ^dgr18O. Kaolinite was then removed from...

An integrated chemostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic analysis of extended (>1000 ft) lower Permian Wolfcamp cores, Reagan County, southern Midland Basin

Benjamin H. Richards, Matthew Wehner, Michael C. Pope, and Arthur D. Donovan

AAPG Bulletin

... XRF measurements with 74 provided x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements through Wolfcamp group from core 2 (Figure 4). The XRF compositional data...

Reservoir Characterization and Estimation of Remaining Oil Saturation using NMR logs for Optimizing a CO2 Flood: A Pilot Study

Sandeep Ramakrishna, Eric Murphy, Ron Balliet, Lonnie Sullivan, Kathleen Barclay, Raymond Schutte

West Texas Geological Society

..., permeability, and remaining oil saturations. The log data were compared and calibrated with X-ray diffraction (XRD), Specialized Core Analysis (SCAL...

Sulfidization and Magnetization Above Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Richard L. Reynolds, Martin B. Goldhaber, Michele L. Tuttle

Special Publications of SEPM

... 200 300 400 0 100 200 300 2900C 400 TEMPERATURE oC FIG 2 Thermomagnetic curves of ferrimagnetic pyrrhotite from well cuttings from the Cement...

The Behavior of Zn2+ and Mn2+ During Carbonate Diagenesis: Theory and Applications

Nicholas E. Pingitore, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... liquid and solid phases during progressive precipitation of calcite. Curves labelled calcites are the Mn2+/Ca2+ and Zn2+/Ca2+ ratios in the calcite being...

Neogene Paleoenvironment Off NW Africa Based on Sediments from DSDP Leg 14

Liselotte Diester-Haass, Herve Chamley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) and by X-ray diffraction (clay fraction). Coarse Fraction Analysis The samples were dried, weighed and washed through a 40 and a 63 µm sieve. The weight...

Fluid-Release Mechanisms in Compacting Marine Mudrocks and Their Importance in Oil Exploration

Maurice C. Powers

AAPG Bulletin

... diffraction studies of the swelling of montmorillonite and vermiculite, in Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 12: New York, The Macmillan Co., p. 123-149. Powers...

Reservoir Characterization and Diagenesis of the Oligocene 64-Zone Sandstone, North Belridge Field, Kern County, California

Thomas R. Taylor , Charles H. Soule

AAPG Bulletin

..., lower part of the section has 8-15% porosity and low permeability (0.1-10 md). Mercury injection capillary pressure curves for the lower zone have entry...

Petrophysical property variations in overmature Marcellus Shale: Implications for gas storage and producibility

Bei Liu, Maria Mastalerz, and Juergen Schieber

AAPG Bulletin

... samples. The x-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of whole rock and clay fraction (<4 µm) were acquired with a Siemens D5000 x-ray diffractometer...

A Set of Successful Chemical EOR Trials in Permian Basin: Promising Field and Laboratory Results

Mehrnoosh Moradi Bidhendi, Mahdi Kazempour, Uwana Ibanga, Duy Nguyen, Justin Arruda, Mike Lantz, Cooper Mazon

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... were also submitted for X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis to determine their mineralogy and rock assemblage, the results are tabulated in table 3...

Integrated Petrophysical Characterization of Hydrocarbon Shale Unconventional Reservoirs Using a Rock Typing Approach: Case Study, Vaca Muerta Play, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Rafael D. Panesso, Alfonso M. Quaglia, Guillermo A. Alzate, Juan C. Porras

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... magnetic resonance CMR+ and micro-resistive images FMI). In addition, there is data from core analysis (Tight Rock Analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD), mud...

Low-Temperature, Low-Pressure Diagenesis of Cretaceous Sandstones, Alaskan North Slope

Richard Smosna

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and porosity. X-ray diffraction analysis of the same samples identified the major clays and other mineral constituents. Selected samples were also examined...

Compaction Law for Cretaceous Sandstones of Alaska's North Slope

Richard Smosna

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of Nanushuk Group Rocks, North Slope, Alaska: U.S. Geol. Sur. Circ. 794, p. 14-31. BALDWIN, B., AND BUTLER, C. O., 1985, Compaction curves: Amer. Assoc...

Use of Seismic-Derived Velocities for Stratigraphic Exploration on Land: Seismic Porosity and Direct Gas Detection: Chapter 4

Norman S. Neidell, J. H. Beard, Ernest E. Cook

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the simple summing along diffraction curves which characterized the earliest of Kirchoff migration schemes. Berryhill (1977) described the mechanics...

Pore structure evolution characteristics of continental shale in China as indicated from thermal simulation experiments

Zhiye Gao, Qixiang Xuan, Qinhong Hu, Zhenxue Jiang, and Xiaoxue Liu

AAPG Bulletin

... by x-ray diffraction (XRD). The samples were crushed to a particle size less than 75 µm, and ∼10 g was used for each analysis. The XRD was performed...

Chapter 8: Stratigraphic Relationships and Reservoir Quality at the Three Forks–Bakken Unconformity, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Richard J. Bottjer, Robert Sterling, Anne Grau, Peter Dea

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... indication in thin sections that the green mudstone is burrowed, but these structures are difficult to see in hand specimens. X-ray diffraction data...

ABSTRACT: A Tale of Two Tufas

Abigail Miller, Dr. John Weber, Dr. Ian Winkelstern

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... of precipitation of tufa. X-ray diffraction analysis will be applied to identify the mineralogical composition of each of the two tufas. Different...

ABSTRACT: Landslides Above the Walnut and Paluxy Formation?s Contact

Mahipal Jadeja, John Wickham, and Laureano Hoyos, Jr.

Fort Worth Geological Society

..., and X-ray diffraction was used to confirm the presence of expansive clays. Data from various lab tests were used to generate computer models...

Abstract: Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Lower and Middle Morrow of Southeastern New Mexico

Louis J. Mazzullo

Abilene Geological Society

... sandstones is summarized, based upon x-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopic analyses of representative samples...

Abstract: Timing and Paleoclimate Indicators in Columbia Group of New Jersey Coastal Plain, by James F. Bowman, II, Robert Holzer, William Lodding; #90972 (1976).

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