Failure modes of shales and their implications for natural and man-made fracture assemblages

Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... development: Insights from modeling: American Journal of Science, v. 309, p. 607–632, doi: 10.2475/07.2009.04. Antonellini, M., and A. Aydin, 1994, Effect...

Dependence of Micro-Mechanical Properties on Lithofacies: Indentation Experiments on Marcellus Shale

John Mason, Joseph Carloni, Shefford Baker, Alan Zehnder, Teresa Jordan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... well-documented (Sondergeld et al. 2010, Ulm et al. 2006, and others). Therefore, it might be useful to investigate the effect of anisotropy on small...

Laboratory Study of Gas and Water Flow in the Nordland Shale, Sleipner, North Sea

J. F. Harrington, D. J. Noy, S. T. Horseman, D. J. Birchall, R. A. Chadwick

AAPG Special Volumes

... with a general trend of reducing compressibility with increasing effective stress. Hydraulic permeability, anisotropy ratio, and specific storage were...

Geomechanical prestack depth migration of the Kraken 3D (Browse Basin, Australia)

Jarrod Dunne, Ferudun Kilic, Matthew Zengerer, Pramod Kumar, Hamish Stein, Shiv Pujan Singh, Stephen Gallagher

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... (in press), University of Melbourne. Sun, Y. F., 2004, Pore structure effect on elastic wave propagation in rocks: AVO modeling. Journal of Geophysics...

Influences of Pore Fluid to Parigi Carbonates Seismic Parameter: A Carbonates Seismic Rock Physics Study

Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, John Adler, Usep Mohamad Ishaq, Erwin Riyanto, Mahatman L. Budi, Eko Bambang Supriyanto, Susilowati

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the other factors. It is to find the the effect of one factor to the seismic wave parameter while fixing other factors. This experiment can be done in our...

From Inversion Results to Reservoir Properties, #40869 (2012)

M. Kemper, N. Huntbatch

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...-Realisation Analysis Conclusions Not the “3D highway” Inversion results are used to good effect by Development Geophysicists on the “3D Highway”. 3D...

Abstract: Use of Seismic and EM Data for Exploration, Appraisal and Reservoir Characterization; #90171 (2013)

Anton Ziolkowski and Folke Engelmark

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..., and anisotropy. Surface geophysical exploration methods make measurements of existing fields - for example, gravity, magnetics, and magnetotellurics...

Impact of Geological and Geo-Mechanical Controls in Creating Various Drilling Problems, #42199 (2018).

Md Amanullah, Raed Alouhali, Mohammed Arfaj

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... and their likely effect in causing various drilling problems with emphasis on loss circulation problems that are frequently encountered in the Middle...

2000 AAPG Annual Convention, April 16-19, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, - Abstracts, #90914 (2000).

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A Multi-Domain Approach to Completion and Stimulation Design in the Marcellus Shale

Courtney MacDonald, James Brewer, Mahmut D. Cakici, David Rampton, Karan Dick, Abhijit Mookerjee, Brian D. Clark, Utpal Ganguly

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., although the horizontal stress anisotropy was increased from Well 1 to Well 3. Figure 5 shows the originally interpreted joint sets. This information...

Defining Boundaries and Structures of Broadlands Geothermal Field, New Zealand, by Geophysical Methods--Case History

G. F. Risk

AAPG Special Volumes

... anisotropy at about 0.5 km depth show a reasonable correlation with flow rates in one area. Two areas where very high temperatures (>260°C) are measured...

Bedforms, Primary Structures and Grain Fabric in the Presence of Suspended Sediment Rain

R. W. C. Arnott , Bryce M. Hand

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Ripples proved stable across the range of fallout rates examined. Depositional fabrics, deduced from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, confirmed...

2017 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition

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Geomechanical Modeling of Time-Dependent Strain in the Bakken and Implications of Stress Shadow Interactions Between Hydraulic Fractures

Neil A. Peterson, Michael Mehle, Yamina Aimene

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in terms of their effects on energy transmitted to the formation and consequently its effect on fracture initiation and propagation potentials using...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Tectonically Induced Fracturing, Folding, and Groundwater Flow in South Florida

Missimer, Thomas M. and Maliva, Robert G.

GCAGS Transactions

..., L.A., and Robinson, J.L., 1996, Description of anisotropy and heterogeneity and their effect on groundwater flow and areas of contribution...

Chemical Effects of Pore Fluids on Rock Properties

Henri S. Swolfs

AAPG Special Volumes

.... D., 1957, Anisotropy of fracture in quartz: Am. Jour. Sci., v. 255, p. 214-225. Bloss, F. D., and G. V. Gibbs, 1963, Cleavage in quartz: Am...

Pore-scale Evaluation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements in Organic-Rich Mudrocks Using Numerical Modeling

Saurabh Tandon, Zoya Heidari, Hugh Daigle

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to surface relaxation anisotropy and correlation time. We showed that the dominant peak of T2 distribution relatively varied by 29%, 11%, and 10%, due...

Origin of Reservoir Fractures in Little Knife Field, North Dakota

W. Narr , Robert C. Burruss

AAPG Bulletin

... in sedimentary brines: potential effect on the PVT properties of fluid inclusions: Economic Geology, v. 75, p. 603-617. Harris, J. F., G. L. Taylor...

Spatial Continuity and Surveillance Recommendations in the Permian Basin Tight Rock Wolfcamp: Autocorrelation and Variogram Analysis for Determining Extent of Reservoir Homogeneity

Shane J. Prochnow, Hannah Luk, Matthew Jones, Michael Richey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... error in log analysis (nugget effect) out to ~2.5 miles (4 km) from the nearest well log. Significant positive autocorrelation extends out...

Relating Electrical Resistivity to Permeability Using Resistor Networks

Alison Kirkby, Graham Heinson, Lars Krieger

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... with orientation, with anisotropy ratios of up to 200 determined from modelling. Characterising the resistivity anisotropy of faults and fractures...

Geologic modeling and fluid-flow simulation of acid gas disposal in western Wyoming

Shuiquan Li, Ye Zhang, Xu Zhang, Changan Du

AAPG Bulletin

... have underestimated the extent of anisotropy at the grid scale. For example, upscaling of detailed sedimentary facies indicates the effect...

Mini-Permeameters for Consolidated Rock and Unconsolidated Sand: GEOLOGICAL NOTE

R. Eijpe , K. J. Weber

AAPG Bulletin

..., the permeability at any point in the reservoir may depend on direction. Such a permeability anisotropy is found, for example, in a channel-fill sandstone body...

Abstract: An Introduction to Permeability Averaging and the Effects of Scale on the Permeability of Heterogeneous Rocks, by James W. Jennings; #120034 (2012)

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ABSTRACT: Diagenesis in Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts : synthesis of an overregional study; #90011 (2002)

R. Swennen, H. Ferket, L. Benchilla, F. Roure, K. Muska, R. Ellam, SUBTRAP team

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... planes develop immediately prior to thrust emplacement. Of importance here is that layer parallel shortening may cause some reservoir anisotropy...

Abstract: Using Geomechanics to Predict Stimulation and Production Response in Shale Gas Reservoirs; #90171 (2013)

Daniel Moos and Colleen Barton

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... also makes it possible to differentiate the cause of seismic anisotropy (e.g., is it stress-induced or structural / fracture-induced?) often observed...