Petroleum Systems of the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela: Chapter 29: Part V. Case Studies--Western Hemisphere

Suhas C. Talukdar, Fernando Marcano

AAPG Special Volumes

... and older rock units. Compressional structures developed at the north end of the Venezuelan Andes and in the east end of the Perija Range. In the Maracaibo...

Geology of the Eastern End of the Uinta Mountains, Utah-Colorado

G. E. Untermann, B. R. Untermann

Utah Geological Association

... was initiated near the close of the Cretaceous period, resulting in the present Uinta Range which represents the principal east-west trending system...

Prediction of Carbonate Reservoirs Pore Pressure and Porosity in Onshore Abu Dhabi Using Petroleum Systems Modeling Technology; #41812 (2016)

Oluwaseun A. Fadipe, Radzieman Mohamad, Andy MacGregor, Aziza Bouhlel, Abdelwahab Noufal, Manhal Sirat, D. Popa

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... presentation given at AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop Source Rocks of the Middle East, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 25-26, 2016 **Datapages © 2016 Serial...

Lower Tertiary Keathley Canyon Intra-Miocene Wedge and Salt Glacier

Jean Pierre Malbrough, Abu Kabir Mostafa Sarwar

GCAGS Transactions

... glacier movement is controlled by bouyancy and salt supply. When salt masses are more bouyant than their surrounding rock, they want to travel upwards...

2.2 Basement Involved: 2.2.3 Passive Margins: The Atlantic Continental Margin

L. Morgan and W. Dowdall

AAPG Special Volumes

... found along the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly (ECMA) in the Carol na and Baltimore Canyon Troughs. The maximum thicknesses of the undeformed post-rift...

Latest Jurassic - Early Cretaceous Events and the "Late Cimmerian Unconformity" in North Sea Area

P. F. Rawson , L. A. Riley

AAPG Bulletin

... of the East Midlands shelf, showing main breaks in the sequence (wavy lines) (modified from Rawson, in press). Position of line of section (N-S) is shown...

Tectonically induced adjustment of passive-margin accommodation space; influence on the hydrocarbon potential of the Orange Basin, South Africa

Douglas A. Paton, David van der Spuy, Rolando di Primio, Brian Horsfield

AAPG Bulletin

... in a significant switching of the location of overburden sediment deposition. Although this switching can have a significant effect on source rock interval...

Reservoirs in Fractured Rock: Geologic Exploration Methods

David W. Stearns, Melvin Friedman

AAPG Special Volumes

... in ductility of common sedimentary rock types is plotted in Figure 2 against depth of burial, using normal gradients of overburden pressure, pore pressure...

Growth-Fault Evolution in Offshore Texas

Barry E. Bradshaw, Joel S. Watkins

GCAGS Transactions

... South Addition, Brazos, Brazos South Addition, Matagorda Island, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi, and East Breaks OCS Areas. Structural Framework Four...

Reconstruction of Burial Diagenesis by 2-D Sedimentary Simulation and Analysis of Petroleum Potential of the Upper Tertiary Sequences in Southern Ulleung Sedimentary Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan), #10334 (2011)

Daekyo Cheong, Daehong Kim

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... Ulleung Sedimentary Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan), #10334 (2011) Daekyo Cheong, Daehong Kim PS Reconstruction of Burial Diagenesis by 2-D Sedimentary...

Organochemical Evaluation of Gevar'am Shales (Lower Cretaceous), Israel, as Possible Oil Source Rock

Ora Amit

AAPG Bulletin

...Organochemical Evaluation of Gevar'am Shales (Lower Cretaceous), Israel, as Possible Oil Source Rock Ora Amit 1978 827 836 62 5. (May) The Gevar'am...

Thermomechanical origin of regional fracture systems

Joseph M. English

AAPG Bulletin

... for creating tensile fractures in rock during major exhumation events. The extent of this phenomenon is particularly dependent on the magnitude...

Integrating strike-slip tectonism with three-dimensional basin and petroleum system analysis of the Salinas Basin, California

Tess Menotti, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Kristian Meisling, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... source rock because of greater sedimentary burial east of the fault. Our model roughly replicates the skewed distribution in oil-field size. Factors...

Development and Relation of Oil Accumulation to Structure in the Shiprock District of the Navajo Indian Reservation, New Mexico

K. B. Nowels

AAPG Bulletin

... out in Red Wash approximately 10 miles west of Rattlesnake and extends south and east approximately 36 miles until hidden by overburden or wash from...

Latest Quaternary Regional Sedimentation Processes in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), #11201 (2019).

John E. Damuth, Hilary C. Olson,

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... or slide deposits. The East Breaks Slide Complex is the largest MTD complex of slump/slide blocks and debris flows and extends from the shelf edge...

Thermal Maturity Modeling of Organic-Rich Mudrocks in the Delaware Basin Using Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material, #42247 (2018).

Telemachos A. Manos, Nicholas Perez

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..., hydrogen-index, and pressure suppression. Because thermal maturity of organic material is an important factor in determining source rock viability, RSCM...

Preface to Part II: Chapter 10: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

AAPG Special Volumes

... migration, from the source bed into a carrier bed or reservoir rock. Part II considers the reservoir rock and the trap as physical or geometric entities...

Case Studies in Canadian Petroleum Geology: Vertical Migration of Hydrocarbons at Alma, Offshore Eastern Canada

J.S. Bell

CSPG Bulletin

... faulting. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v. 70, p. 115-166. Jaeger, H.C. and Cook, N.G.W. 1976. Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, 2nd edition...

Integrated Risk Assessment Approach Helped in Successful Drilling in a Horizontal Well in Complex Geological Settings - A Case Study From Offshore South East Asia

Avirup Chatterjee, Amitava Ghosh

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... South East Asia Avirup Chatterjee, Amitava Ghosh IPA19-E-131 PROCEEDINGS, INDONESIAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION Forty-Third Annual Convention & Exhibition...

Natural Fractures and Strain Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Beer Mug Anticline

Scott P. Cooper

AAPG Special Volumes

... rock with large-scale vuggy porosity. Most of these strata exhibit inherited (F0) fracture patterns that predate folding, as well as fold-related...

2D Seismic and Well Log Data Integration to Predict Pore Pressure Distribution in Brilian Field, Bintuni Basin

Refsi Dian Paparezzi, Warto Utomo, Muhammad Thariq Almuqtadir

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...) where σ is overburden pressure, ρb is bulk density of rock, ρf is fluid density, ρm is rock matrix density, g is gravitational acceleration, and z...

Continental Rise off Eastern North America

K. O. Emery , Elazar Uchupi , J. D. Phillips , C. O. Bowin , E. T. Bunce , S. T. Knott

AAPG Bulletin

... east of the Mississippi River. The geomagnetic profiles portray a systematic pattern of positive and negative anomalies that are in accord...

Geopressures and Secondary Porosity in the Deep Jurassic of Mississippi

Calvin A. Parker

GCAGS Transactions

... an underpressure if overburden is increased and if the reservoir is truly sealed with no rock compaction. Basically, fossil pressure is a former...

Geological Aspects of Abnormal Reservoir Pressures in Gulf Coast Louisiana

George Dickinson

AAPG Bulletin

... to be independent of depth and geological age of the formation. The high pressures are caused by compaction of the shales under the weight of the overburden...

Petroleum Systems Analysis of the Gamtoos Basin, South Africa; #11171 (2018)

Anthea C. Davids, Chantell B. Van Bloemenstein, Curnell J. Campher

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.... Figure 7. The location of the Gamtoos pseudo wells used for Basin Modelling. Figure 8. (a) The overburden which covers the Kimmeridgian Source Rock...