Locating Sweet Spots: Shale Petroleum Systems

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

... fractures will be conductive. Sealing and Entrapment In conventional (migrated hydrocarbon) reservoirs, cap (seal) rock is necessary to prevent the upward...

Sedimentary and Tectonic Controls on the Development of an Early Mississippian Carbonate Ramp, Sacramento Mountains Area, New Mexico

Wayne M. Ahr

Special Publications of SEPM

... on the Devonian-Mississippian unconformity in the central and southern parts of the area. There are no linear slope breaks on the ramp to indicate where...

Geomorphology of the Uinta Basin

John Clark

Utah Geological Association

... with stratigraphy, structure, or economic geology. The Uinta Basin is an asymmetric, synclinal basin trending east-west, with its axis displaced northward...

McPac Field (Matagorda Island Block 487-L) New Gas Reserves in a Mature Area

James D. McCullough Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... block reinforced by a differential pressure seal. The majority of the reserves in the two fields occur in two normally pressured sands, the "ME...

Three-dimensional structural model of the Painter and East Painter reservoir structures, Wyoming fold and thrust belt

Joseph D. Dischinger, Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

..., terminates laterally within the Boundary Ridge Member.The closure of rock volume below the top of the Nugget formation of the Painter reservoir and East...

Origin and Occurrence of CO2 in the Eastern and Andaman Sea, Offshore Myanmar

Scott W. Imbus, Frank H. Wind, David Ephraim

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... hydrocarbon systems (Figure 3). The "Middle Miocene" play relies on the Middle Miocene shale as both source rock and seal. Migration was essentially lateral out...

Unlocking The Complex Geology & Petroleum Systems; Efforts to Awakening The Sleeping Giant - A Prospectivity Rejuvenation Case Study of West Sebuku Block, South Makassar Basin, Indonesia

Rahmat Utomo, Chrisna Asmiati Tanos, Yuyus Kusnandar, Baskara Wikrama, Argha Satya Hilman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-slip fault in the north, which separates South and North Makassar Basin. The basin margin to the west, south, and east is bounded by Paternoster...

Geomechanical Analysis for CCS Study in the Subang Structure, Northern West Java Basin

Olifia Ammara Venty, Teddy Eka Putra, Nora Desiani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... injection can cause faults to move due to reduced effective stress (Hubbert & Rubey, 1959). Injection can also cause seal rock to fracture, leading...

Geology of the Arch Unit and Adjacent Areas, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Don E. Lawson, C. W. Crowson

Wyoming Geological Association

... is located in east-central Sweetwater County, Wyoming, approximately 45 miles east of Rock Springs. The presently defined limits of the field encompass...

Fault Seal Integrity in the Timor Sea Area: Prediction of Trap Failure Using Well-Constrained Stress Tensors and Fault Surfaces Interpreted from 3D Seismic

D. A. Castillo, D. J. Bishop, M. de Ruig

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Fault Seal Integrity in the Timor Sea Area: Prediction of Trap Failure Using Well-Constrained Stress Tensors and Fault Surfaces Interpreted from 3D...

Structure and genesis of the Boulder-Weld allochthon, Denver Basin, Colorado – Gravity slide or Laramide thrust sheet?

Edward J. Ned Sterne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... (559 km2) remnant of a once larger feature, that moved east from the flank of the Front Range into the western part of the Denver Basin. This review...

Reef Exploration in the East Sengkang Basin, Sulawesi

Andrew M. Grainge, Kenneth G. Davies

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... migration. Also the occurrence of dry holes in the East Sengkang Basin indicates a lack of mature source rock. Figure 13. Gas migration...

Walker Creek Field--U.S.A. Gulf of Mexico Basin, Arkansas

C. A. Chimene

AAPG Special Volumes

... control of production from Jurassic calcarenites, Red Rock Field, Webster Parish, Louisiana: Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association Geological...

Presidential Address: Developments in Sequence Stratigraphy: Foreland and Cratonic Basins: Presidential Address (1)

ROBERT J. WEIMER

AAPG Bulletin

..., T. L. Davis, and R. L. Kidney, 1982, Tectonic influence on sedimentation, Early Cretaceous, east flank Powder River basin, Wyoming and South Dakota...

New Data on Structure and Oil-Gas Potential of Near-Ural Part of West Siberian Platform in the Severo-Sos’vin Area

Ye. A. Chernyshov, V. A. Vlasov, A. A. Yeprev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... It is traced at 150 msec in the west and at up to 850 msec in the east. Figure 1. Seismic section along profile II (Sibiryakov Highway). The main...

Abstract: Reservoir Models for Meandering and Straight Fluvial Channels: Examples from the Travis Peak Formation, East Texas, by D. K. Davies, B. P. J. Williams, and R. K. Vessell; #91006 (1991)

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Pennsylvanian Algal Banks, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

John L. Wray

Kansas Geological Society

... of the western escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains was a marine shelf situated between the Pedernal landmass on the east and the Orogrande Basin...

Frontmatter: GeoGulf Transactions: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

James J. Willis and Norman C. Rosen

GCAGS Transactions

... of technology into the geosciences. They are the most prolific and economically impactful species in East Texas. Almost every plantation in East Texas...

ABSTRACT: The Exploration History of the East Africa Rift System: A Tullow Oil Perspective, by Cloke, Ian; #90135 (2011)

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A Mathematical Model for Evaluation of Caprock Sealing Capacity from Mercury Intrusion Data and Some Modelled Results

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Rosario Field--Venezuela Maracaibo Basin, Zulia State

Angel Molina

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the east by the main reverse fault, which is easily discernible on seismic sections (Figure 3). Source and Migration The most likely source rock all over...

Abstract: Temporal and Spatial Evolution of a Deepwater Turbidite Fan as Revealed by Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Seismic Data, East Breaks, Gulf of Mexico

Chris M. Edwards, Paul A. Dunn, Vitor Abreu, David C. Hoyal, Benjamin A. Sheets, and Roger B. Bloch

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...Abstract: Temporal and Spatial Evolution of a Deepwater Turbidite Fan as Revealed by Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Seismic Data, East Breaks, Gulf...

The Geology of the Wiriagar Field, Bintuni Basin, Irian Jaya

Paul J. Dolan, Hermany

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... folding. Subsequent east-west directed compression in the Pliocene created the structural trap. In addition, trapping of the oil has been facilitated...

Dilation Brecciation…A Proposed Mechanism of Fracturing, Petroleum Expulsion and Dolomitization in the Monterey Formation, California

P. O. Roehl

Pacific Section SEPM

.... The dolomites are of particular interest because they 1) are of post-depositional origin, 2) constitute the dominant oil-productive rock type, 3) possess...

3D CSEM acquisition and inversion for appraisal of deepwater gas field

Jun Cai, Friedrich Roth, Claudia Twarz, Shenghui Li, Elias Andre Nerland, Juan-Mauricio Florez-Niño, Marjorie Nogueira, David Lippett, Kerry Nicholas, Sholan Ramnath

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., stacked and compartmentalized by faulting. The latter increases seal risk and uncertainty whether the non-drilled segments contain high saturation...