Utilizing Microseismic Scanlines to Characterize the Fracture State in Unconventional Reservoirs

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Facies architecture of a net transgressive sandstone reservoir analog: The Cretaceous Hosta Tongue, New Mexico

Peter J. Sixsmith, Gary J. Hampson, Sanjeev Gupta, Howard D. Johnson, John F. Fofana

AAPG Bulletin

... of an architectural element comprising swaley and hummocky cross-stratified sandstones (facies associations 3.1 and 3.2). Note that local tectonic dip...

Primary Structures in Some Recent Sediments

Edwin D. McKee

AAPG Bulletin

... developed on windward sides, these dip in directions opposite those of the no mal, high-angle cross-strata. Additional diagnostic features apparently...

The Types and Role of Stepovers in Strike Slip Tectonics

ATilla Aydin, Amos Nur

Special Publications of SEPM

... arrangement of faults in map view and 2 down dip stepovers that are due to en echelon arrangement of faults in cross section Along strike stepovers...

Understanding Attributes and Their Use in the Application of Neural Analysis … Case Histories Both Conventional and Unconventional, #41473 (2014).

Deborah Sacrey, Rocky Roden

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..., such as amplitude, dip, frequency, phase and polarity. Attributes can be measured at one instant in time or over a time window, and may be measured...

Using a Petroleum System Approach for Evaluation of CO2 Sequestration Potential in Saline Reservoirs

Hannes E. Leetaru, David G. Morse, Scott M. Frailey, John McBride

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...Using a Petroleum System Approach for Evaluation of CO2 Sequestration Potential in Saline Reservoirs Hannes E. Leetaru, David G. Morse, Scott M...

Modeling Anisotropy in Computer Mapping of Geologic Data: Chapter 7

Gregory Kushnir, Jeffrey M. Yarus

AAPG Special Volumes

... trends into surface models are presented, a regional approach where the entire dataset is adjusted before gridding, and a local approach where...

The Tectonics and Oil and Gas Possibilities of the Northern Part of the Territory of North Caspian Depression

I. I. Kozhevnikov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... Cretaceous; Pg - Paleogene; N2 + Q - Pliocene and Quaternary; 15° - angle of dip of rocks according to cores. A belt of marginal uplifts probably...

Storm- and Tide-Dominated Shorelines in Cretaceous Moosebar-Lower Gates Interval--Outcrop Equivalents of Deep Basin Gas Trap in Western Canada

Dale A. Leckie, Roger G. Walker

AAPG Bulletin

... structures; instead, the dominant structure is hummocky cross-stratification (HCS). This structure consists of low-angle, gently undulating laminations...

Chapter 10: Earthquake, Tomographic, Seismic Reflection, and Gravity Evidence for a Shallowly Dipping Subduction Zone beneath the Caribbean Margin of Northwestern Colombia

Rocio Bernal-Olaya, Paul Mann, Carlos A. Vargas

AAPG Special Volumes

...) defined a 900-km (559 mi) subducting Caribbean plate with a 40° dip angle beneath northern South America. Heuret et al. (2012) note that the seismic...

Stratification Produced by Migrating Bed Forms

J. C. Harms, J. B. Southard, D. R. Spearing , R. G. Walker

Special Publications of SEPM

... and inclined more nearly at the static angle of repose. A similar form of cross stratification is deposited by migrating current ripples (Fig. 3-7...

New Approach to Geomechanics Solves Serious Horizontal Drilling

Shannon Higgins-Borchardt, Tony Krepp, Marcelo Frydman, Jason Stichler

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...New Approach to Geomechanics Solves Serious Horizontal Drilling Shannon Higgins-Borchardt, Tony Krepp, Marcelo Frydman, Jason Stichler URTeC 1560046...

OVERTHRUST FAULTING AND PALEOZOIC GAS PROSPECTS IN MONTANA'S DISTURBED BELT

G. WILLIAM HURLEY

Montana Geological Society

... Belt is divisible into three layers, a regional layer, a high angle thrust layer, and a low angle thrust layer. The regional layer...

Process-Driven Architectural Variability In Mouth-Bar Deposits: A Case Study From A Mixed-Process Mouth-Bar Complex, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

R. Bruce Ainsworth,, Boyan K. Vakarelov,,† James A. MacEachern, Rachel A. Nanson, Tessa I. Lane, Franklin Rarity, Shahin E. Dashtgard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) Macaronichnus segregatis (three examples arrowed) from the parallel-stratified to low-angle cross-stratified interval at RDV-1UC (Fig. 4). D) Bioturbated muddy...

Automated Analysis of Imbrication and Flow Direction in Alluvial Sediments Using Laser-Scan Data

R.P. Millane, M.I. Weir, G.M. Smart

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... have been observed to be related to flow direction. The first is the angle of the a-b (long and intermediate axes, respectively) plane to the horizontal...

Sedimentation Pattern of a Rift-filling Unit, Tesuque Formation (Miocene), Espanola Basin, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico

William Cavazza

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for tectonic activity in the north-central Rio Grande riff: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Field Conf. Guidebook 35, p. 75-81. GIBBS, A. D., 1983, Balanced cross...

PSDM for Unconventional Reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale Case Study; #80392 (2014)

Morgan P. Brown

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... to justify anisotropic PSDM. Azimuthal velocity analysis using Wave Equation PSDM (WEM) azimuth angle gathers indicates a very weak level of overburden...

Abstract: Stratigraphic Traps: Quantitative Approach Based upon a Producing Field Database, by J. Gerard; #90090 (2009).

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Sedimentary Structures in Modern Carbonate Sands of the Bahamas

John Imbrie, Hugh Buchanan

Special Publications of SEPM

... at the angle of repose down dip assortment and dip accretion deposits if they are cross strata less than the angle of repose without sheet deposits...

Determining Paleo-Structural Environments through Natural Fracture and Calcite Twin Analyses: A Case Study in the Otway Basin, Australia

Hugo B. Burgin, Khalid Amrouch, Mojtaba Rajabi, David Kulikowski, Simon P. Holford

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... striking fractures with The APPEA Journal 247 dip angles lower than 45, while fracture set F4 contains those striking NE–SW with a similar angle of dip...

An Integrated Approach to 3D Seismic Acquisition Feasibility Studies: Review of Present Techniques and Future Trends

Claude Bordenave, Frederic Merlet, Lotfi Ben Brahim, Nyoman Swatika

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...An Integrated Approach to 3D Seismic Acquisition Feasibility Studies: Review of Present Techniques and Future Trends Claude Bordenave, Frederic...

Extended Abstract: Identifying Geological Deformation Using High-Resolution Borehole Images in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: Shale and Deformation Band Characterization

Weixin "Wayne" Xu, Anish Kumar

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... encountered in deepwater GOM were considered to be hemi-pelagic that have relatively constant dip magnitude and dip azimuth (Figure 1A). The new images...

Adventures in Pre-Stack Depth Migration; #110121 (2010)

James Allen

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...., 1993 Prov-PSTM Prov- Prov-Kirchoff PSDM Prov- Prov-WEQ PSDM Prov- Dip PSTM Dip- Kirchoff PSDM Dip- Dip WEQ PSDM Dip-Far angle PSDM Dip...

Organization, flow impact and modeling of natural fracture networks in a karstified carbonate bitumen reservoir: an example in the Grosmont Formation of the Athabasca Saleski leases, Alberta, Canada

Ghislain de Joussineau, Kent R. Barrett, Mauro Alessandroni, Thierry Le Maux

CSPG Bulletin

... statistical properties (average fracture strike, dip angle and fracture density). Because of the image log resolution, typically in the order of at best...

Which Fault Matters: Evaluation of Reservoir Compartmentalization by Integration of Borehole Image and Real-Time Isotope Data δ13C1; #42395 (2019)

Natalie Ha, Chandini Murlidhar, Arjan Brem, Valsan Vevakanandan, Ting Ting Zhang

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... truncation feature cutting the sedimentary structure/beddings at higher angle dip is a common response of a fault on the image. Real-Time Isotope Tool...