A Workflow For Success in Shales

Ted Holden, John Pendrel, Fred Jenson, Peter Mesdag

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-sealing, TOC is directly proportional to the kerogen volume, which can be determined by calibrating log responses to core data for at least one well...

Unconventional No Longer

David Bamford

GEO ExPro Magazine

... their shale gas assets. For more detailed reviews of the issues surrounding shale gas, I refer you to the work responses received for each of 12...

Dynamic Significance of Primary Structures in the Middle Jurassic Great Oolite Series, Southern England

George Devries Klein

Special Publications of SEPM

... Great Oolite Series include planar wedge shaped and trough cross and interference ripple marks micro cross lamination sand waves pseudonodules load...

Seamless in Seam - New Geosteering Technology Delivered Challenging Coal Seam Gas Project with Success

Arman Nick Kholgh, Martin Mackinlay, Sophie Garrard, Mohammad Zaman, Haifeng Wang, Chris Hibberson, Nicholas Challands, Hoan Van Luu, Rohit Tekale, Francis Advent Kalukal, Yang Liu, Nadia Ardikani

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... on the directional resistivity-based mapping tool, on both the measure­ ments and processing. The operator adopted a new mapping-while-drilling technology...

Measuring Seismic with Light

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

... seismic waves: fibre optic technology. The fibre optic system is entirely passive, with no electronic components at the wet end, and is therefore...

Some Results of Experimental Work on Increasing the Depth of Investigation of Seismic Reflection Surveying in the West Kuban Downwarp

Ye. A. Kozlov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the interferences observed in the region of investigation is also typical: in addition to non-regular waves, along with the “deep” reflections...

Storm- and Fair-Weather Combined Flow on the Central Texas Continental Shelf

John W. Snedden , Dag Nummedal, Anthony F. Amos

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by the low-frequency waves in different sectors of tropical storm systems. In general, these long period waves appear to propagate in a fan-shaped...

Wellbore Trajectory: Part 3. Wellsite Methods

Curtis Cheatham

AAPG Special Volumes

... basic types of wellbore trajectories: -- Vertical or straight -- Directional, including both deviated and horizontal wellbore trajectories VERTICAL...

Use of Seismic Surveying in Exploration for Reef Structures in the North Part of the Pripyat Depression

Yu. A. Fedotov, K. I. Levashov, Ye. T. Balashov, K. V. Fomkin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... were made to clarify the possibility of using reflected waves to study low-amplitude uplifts, faults, and non-anticlinal traps. Analysis of the structure...

Impact-Induced Sediment Deposition on an Offshore, Mud-Substrate Continental Shelf, Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary, Brazos River, Texas, U.S.A.

Thomas E. Yancey, Chengjie Liu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... different than the passage of tsunami waves (Dawson and Stewart 2007; Morton et al. 2007; Shanmugam 2006, 2012). HCS sands are reported most commonly...

Depths of Modern Coastal Sand Clinoforms

Neil C. Mitchell, Gerhard Masselink, John M. Huthnance, Luis M. Fernandez-Salas, Francisco J. Lobo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... oscillatory water waves: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 43, p. 1101–1110. Largier, J.L., Magnell, B.A., and Winant, C.D., 1993, Subtidal...

The Mechanical Composition of some Intertidal Sands

S. A. Harris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The fields for plots of median versus logarithmic equivalent grade for dunes and beach deposits are different, and together with plots of the ranges...

Optimizing Reservoir Coverage: A Comprehensive Study of Completion Design and Well Spacing in the Permian Midland Basin Using Acoustic Sensing Technology

Juan Coronado, Joe Brosig, Muhammad Khan, Nathan Crawford, Scott Gabel, Josh Kroschel

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... leak-off driven FarField dimensions (L, H, W) Figure 1: Capturing different segments of the fracture system using three different workflows URTeC...

Sequential Stage Development of Crescentic Bars: Hahoterim Beach, Southeastern Mediterranean

Victor Goldsmith, Dan Bowman, Kevin Kiley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... formed under different wave conditions. Development of inner micro-cresentic bars required 3 to 7 weeks of calm waves (H1/3 < 0.3 m), except for a short...

Slug Tests in Site Characterization: Some Practical Considerations

James J. Butler, Jr.

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...). Characterization of large-scale aquifer heterogeneity in glacial outwash by analysis of slug tests with oscillatory responses. Cape Cod...

Volume Blending with Directional Seismic Attributes (Geophysics Paper 13)

Arthur E. Barnes, Surender S. Manral

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... allows azimuth to behave like a directional attribute, with different colorbars used to illuminate different directions. Amplitude gradient attributes...

Evaluation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs in Indonesia Using Formation Imaging and Sonic Logs

William H. Borland, Richard E. Netherwood, Sanggam Hutabarat, Dedi Juandi, Leo Anis, Hari Kurniawan, Ramsin Eyvazzadeh

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... from low frequency sonic logging modes provides a key analytical tool that is complimentary to the image logs. Stoneley waves are essentially...

Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers: REPLY

Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson , Steven C. Young

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers: REPLY Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson...

Extended Abstract: Horizontal Environmental Drilling 101 – An Introduction to Horizontal Environmental Well Installation

David Bardsley

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... and remediation activities. The horizontal/directional drilling techniques are not experimental; they are a combination of existing oilfield...

High Fidelity Directional Survey Calculations Can Improve Hydraulic Fracture Positioning In Unconventional Laterals

Bill Lesso, Tim Paton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... from near vertical to near 90 degrees. It is intense directional drilling with curve rates from 5-18 degrees/100 ft. Typically, a different PDM...

Pore Fabric Characterization in Sandstones Using Magnetic Anisotropy Methods

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Petroleum Geology, Volume 5, Issue 3; Frontmatter

James W. Clarke, Grace Carrington, Antoinette B. Clarke

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... basement. A. V. Druzhinin p. 158 10. Results of the use of regulated directional reception of, seismic waves. V. I. Meshbey P. 163 11. Methods...

Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Facies on an Incised Carbonate Platform, Phar Lap Member (Middle Devonian), Graveyard Creek Basin, Northeastern Australia: Abstract

Simon C. Lang

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... occur near the middle to top of the sequence. Bi-directional and low-angle planar cross-bedding indicative of both tidal and wave-influence occur...

Starved Rock Member of St. Peter Sandstone--Offshore Shoal: ABSTRACT

Gordon S. Fraser, Norman C. Hester

AAPG Bulletin

... of interlaminated medium to fine sand and silt. Recently, the sand waves of the North Sea have been proposed as an analog for the St. Peter environment in Wisconsin...

LWD Geosteering and Natural Fracture Identification in Horizontal Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Greg Meszaros, Paul Boonen

West Texas Geological Society

..., shear and Stoneley waves and to determine the relative amplitudes of the different arrivals. A plot of the raw waveform can be an excellent fracture...