Geological Considerations during Microseismic Monitoring, Processing, and Interpretation of Hydraulic Fracture Treatment

J. Le Calvez, S. Hanson-Hedgecock, P. Primiero, T. Al-Wadhahi, O. Harrasi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., resulting in a biased interpretation. Often ignored, geology and rock properties play a critical role in understanding and optimizing stimulation...

Petrography and Lithology of the Lake Bonneville Sand and Gravel Deposits, Davis County, Utah

Richard S. Kopp

Utah Geological Association

... four moment measures; central tendency (mean size), dispersion (sorting), asymmetry (skewness), and peakedness (kurtosis). The petrographic analysis...

Conditions of Primary Migration of Hydrocarbons in the Paleozoic Sediments of the Buzuluk Depression and its Frame

S. P. Maksimov, B. I. Dmitriyeva, Ye. S. Larskaya

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... thickness of rocks overlying the unit under consideration at the particular moment of geologic development; and GS is geothermal step. The temperature...

Monitoring in a Western Canadian Shale Play With a Sparse Surface Network: Moment Tensor Analysis Implications

Kit Chambers, Bogdan Batlai, Brad Bialowas, John Nieto, Dario Baturan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Monitoring in a Western Canadian Shale Play With a Sparse Surface Network: Moment Tensor Analysis Implications Kit Chambers, Bogdan Batlai, Brad...

Abstract: Large Scale Seismicity Related to Wastewater Injection near Trinidad, Colorado, USA; #90174 (2014)

Gisela Viegas, Katherine Buckingham, Adam Baig, and Ted Urbancic

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... of these events would help clarify what the mechanism is. For example, if the foreshock and mainshock are collocated, it may indicate that the foreshock breaks...

Origin, Transportation, and Deformation of Mesozoic Carbonate Rafts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

J. Carl Fiduk, Marianne Clippard, Sarah Power, Vivian Robertson, Lynn Rodriguez, Omoyele Ajose, Dan Fernandez, Daniel Smith

GCAGS Journal

... blocks away from well locations. In excess of 100,000 sq. km (62,000 sq. mi) of seismic data covering all or parts of Alaminos Canyon (AC), East Breaks...

Road Log From Las Vegas to Ely, Nevada, Via Caliente and Pioche

Charles M. Tschanz, Paul P. Orkild, Forrest G. Poole

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

.... 1). Ordovician through Mississippian rocks are transitional between thin cratonic platform section 15-20 mi (24-32 km) to the 599 east and much...

Chapter 19: Andean Deformation and Its Control on Hydrocarbon Generation, Migration, and Charge in the Wedge-Top of Southern Bolivia

Martin Pereira, Gustavo Vergani, Ignacio Cambon, Juan Reynaldi, Jorge Iturralde, Ramsis Guerrero, Gloria González

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and remigration of hydrocarbons was also analyzed. The petroleum system model shows that most of the source rocks reached the critical generation moment...

Fibre Optic Sensing

Henk Kombrink

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... “For leak detection, fibre is critical, because usually within a few seconds we are able to say at which depth the leak occurs.” What is the expected...

The Transition Between the Colorado Plateaus and the Great Basin in Central Utah; Guidebook to the Geology of Utah, Number 4

Edmund M. Spieker

Utah Geological Association

... to help in general orientation. The Wasatch Plateau is bounded on the northeast, east and south by erosional features, cliffs on the east and canyons...

Sedimentology of Westwater Canyon Member, Morrison Formation, Southern San Juan Basin: ABSTRACT

C. E. Turner-Peterson, L. C. Gundersen

AAPG Bulletin

... with its own distinct current direction, compose the member along the southern San Juan Basin. Lower Westwater streams flowed east-northeast at all...

Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Tectonic History of Ridgway Area, Northern San Juan Mountains, Colorado: ABSTRACT

Paul C. Weimer

AAPG Bulletin

..., Sage Breaks Shale, and Niobrara Formation. These formations have lithologic and paleontologic content similar to their equivalents in the Denver...

ABSTRACT: Seismic Stratigraphic Framework for the Upper Cretaceous in the NPRA, by Vignali, Marco F.; #90026 (2004)

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The Port Isabel Fold Belt: Neogene Gravitational Spreading in the East Breaks, Western Gulf of Mexico

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Point Pleasant-Brassfield(!) Petroleum System, Appalachian Basin, U.S.A.: Chapter 24: Part V. Case Studies--Western Hemisphere

Richard J. Drozd , Gary A. Cole

AAPG Special Volumes

... by Middle Jurassic time (170 Ma). The critical moment for this petroleum system was when the Point Pleasant source rock was buried to its greatest depth...

ABSTRACT: Climate Change and Shelf Physiography -- Their Role in Shaping Sequence Architecture: An Example from the East China Sea, by Bartek, Louis, Robert Wellner, Jeff D. Warren; #90026 (2004)

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ABSTRACT: Explanation for Differences in Deepwater Salt Tectonics Between the North-Central and Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, by Michael R. Hudec; #90158 (2012)

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Occurrences of Oil and Gas in Association with the Paleo-Shelfbreak

William C. Krueger Jr., F. K. North

Special Publications of SEPM

... in Stanley D J and Moore G T eds The Shelfbreak Critical Margins Soc Econ Paleontologists Mineralogists Spec Pub 33 p 315 332 East stratigraphic evolution...

Mapping Rock-Property Changes and Fluid Migration Due to Hydraulic Fracturing

Jyoti Behura

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for the oil and gas to flow from the stimulated portions of the rock to the wellbore and then to the surface. The above process breaks up the rock...

Sand Leakage Around a Rocky Headland at Niteroi

Michael D. Emmerling, William F. Tanner

GCAGS Transactions

...) and seven samples collected from beach no. 2(W. of headland) were sieved and the four grain-size moment measures were determined for each of the samples...

Breaks in the Formation of the Neocomian Clinoforms of West Siberia

V. I. Shpil’man, G. P. Myasnikova, L. L. Trusov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Breaks in the Formation of the Neocomian Clinoforms of West Siberia V. I. Shpil’man, G. P. Myasnikova, L. L. Trusov 1994 25 28 Vol. 28 (1994) No. 1/2...

Three-Dimensional Trend Mapping Using Gamma-Ray Well Logs: Simpson Group, South-Central Kansas

J. H. Doveton , Zhu Ke-an , J. C. Davis

AAPG Bulletin

... ons. This paper describes an extension of the moment method to the direct expression of lithofacies variation as a function of both geographic...

Size Distribution of Chemically Extracted Quartz Used to Characterize Fine-grained Sediments

J. Paul Dauphin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... dissolution with hydrofluosilicic acid (modified after Syers et al., 1968). Pyrosulfate Fusion On heating, sodium pyrosulfate (Na2S2O7) breaks down...

Evaluation of the Petroleum Systems of the Province of Bravo Salina, Mexico

Lazaro I. Rodriguez Arvizu, Juan R. Roman Ramos, Arturo Bautista Lopez, Luis Alarcon Cruz, Ricardo Padilla Bastida

GCAGS Transactions

... environment. Modeling results indicate that hydrocarbon generation started in the Eocene, reaching the migration-accumulation critical moment...

Shell, Texaco and Occidental - Pioneers in the Exploration in Putumayo, Oriente and Marañón Basins; #10882 (2016)

Hector F. San Martin, Scott E. Thornton

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... expulsion from shallower rich source rocks. Petroleum Systems Event Table, Putumayo, Oriente, Marañón Basins Pepino, Basal Tena Sst. Critical Moment...