Experimental Measurement of Fracture Permeability at Reservoir Conditions in Utica and Marcellus Shale

Luke P. Frash, J. William Carey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are in contrast to the lesser effect of changes in confining stress on already-formed fractures with a corresponding range of one to two orders of magnitude...

Integrated RTA and PTA Techniques to Study Single Fracture Stage Performance

Ahmed Farid Ibrahim, Mazher Ibrahim, Matt Sinkey, Tom Johnston, Wes Johnson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... half-length; however, the fracture length varies from cluster to another due to reservoir properties and stress shadow effect. This paper presents...

Critical Porosity in Understanding Acoustic Porosity Anomalies. A Case Study in Complex Carbonate Reservoir in Indonesia

Aditya Arie Wijaya, Sunawar Kunaifi, Krishna Pratama Laya, Luqman, Dimmas Ramadhan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... anisotropy data from dipole sonic. The use of shear as opposed to compressional wave data is better suited in this case study, with a clearer trend...

Shape Entropy and Settling Velocity of Natural Grains

J.P. Le Roux

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., N.C., 1966, Effect of shape upon the settling velocity of regular convex geometric particles: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 36, p. 370-376...

Buoyancy and Interfacial Force Effects on Two-Phase Displacement Patterns: An Experimental Study1

Tomochika Tokunaga, Katsuro Mogi, Osamu Matsubara, Hiroyuki Tosaka, and Keiji Kojima

AAPG Bulletin

... medium. This approach prevents the effect of capillary barrier of the mesh from appearing in our measurements. We measured the injection pressure...

Woodbine Formation Sandstone Reservoir Prediction and Variability, Polk and Tyler Counties, Texas

Robert J. Bunge

GCAGS Transactions

... offset (AVO) study, was conducted to detect reservoir sands, to no avail. Reservoir prediction, then, relied on the strong integration of data...

Chapter 14 (Case Histories of Three-Dimensional Seismic Surveys)—Case History 10: Value of Geophysics in the Production of Bay Marchand Field

William L. Abriel, William Haworth

AAPG Special Volumes

...-resolution 3-D seismic, and time-lapse seismic (4-D). Additional applications of high-end geophysical techniques include inversion, AVO, shear-wave seismic...

The role of seismic attributes in understanding the hydraulically fracturable limits and reservoir performance in shale reservoirs: An example from the Eagle Ford Shale, south Texas

Robert Bodziak, Kit Clemons, Andy Stephens, and Robert Meek

AAPG Bulletin

... facies units and their effect on well performance. We use three-dimensional seismic data to map the structure and facies distribution in an area where...

Woodbine Formation Sandstone Reservoir Prediction and Variability, Polk and Tyler Counties, Texas; #10331 (2011)

Robert J. Bunge

Search and Discovery.com

... geophysical work, including elastic inversion and an amplitude versus offset (AVO) study, was conducted to detect reservoir sands, to no avail. Reservoir...

Effect of particle gradation and rock block content on soil-rock mixture shear strength parameters

Norsyafiqah Binti Salimun, Hisham Mohamad

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...Effect of particle gradation and rock block content on soil-rock mixture shear strength parameters Norsyafiqah Binti Salimun, Hisham Mohamad Bulletin...

2010 AAPG Annual Convention "Unmasking the Potential of Exploration & Productio", April 11-14, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, #90104 (2010)

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Characterization of Heterogeneity in Unsaturated Sandstone Using Borehole Logs and Cross-Borehole Tomography

Andrew Binley, Giorgio Cassiani, Peter Winship

Special Publications of SEPM

... semivariograms, an anisotropy ratio greater or equal to 8 is derived. Cyclic behavior E1 in the vertical semivariogram (“hole effect”) appears consistent...

High Resolution Cuttings Analysis for Well Placement in the Uinta Basin

Ilham Permata, Sattor Khakimov, Shaken Kenzhekhanov, Max Toktarov, Karly Clippinger

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., petroleum content, gas-to-oil ratios (GOR) estimation, and organic acids. In addition, oil crossover effect or Oil Saturation Index (OSI) has been proven...

Fault linkage and graben stepovers in the Canyonlands (Utah) and the North Sea Viking Graben, with implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation

Haakon Fossen, Richard A. Schultz, Egil Rundhovde, Atle Rotevatn, Simon J. Buckley

AAPG Bulletin

.... Bense, V. F., and R. V. Balen, 2004, The effect of fault relay and clay smearing on groundwater flow patterns in the lower Rhine embayment: Basin...

Quantitative Mineralogy of Vaca Muerta and Alum Shales From Core Chips and Drill Cuttings by Calibrated SEM-EDS Mineralogical Mapping

Claire I. Fialips, Bernard Labeyrie, Valérie Burg, Valérie Mazière, Yann Munerel, Hélène Haurie, Isabelle Jolivet, Régis Lasnel, Jean-Paul Laurent, Laurent Lambert, Laurence Jacquelin-Vallée

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... wrongly interpreted as 100% clay). To confirm the effect of anisotropy on SEM-EDS QEMSCAN mineralogy data, it would be possible to perform QEMSCAN analyses...

Seal Failure Related to Basin-scale Processes

Christian Hermanrud, Hege M. Nordgrd Bols, Gunn M. G. Teige

AAPG Special Volumes

...., P. A. Bjrkum, and P. H. Nadeau, 1996, The effect of grain-coating microquartz on preservation of reservoir porosity: AAPG Bulletin, v. 80, p...

Effects of Biogenic Silica on Acoustic and Physical Properties of Clay-Rich Marine Sediments (1)

JANE S. TRIBBLE , FRED T. MACKENZIE , JOZSEF URMOS , DAVID K. O'BRIEN , and MURLI H. MANGHNANI

AAPG Bulletin

..., A. Weiner, and J. To, 1985, Mineralogy and diagenesis: their effect on acoustic and electrical properties of pelagic clays, Deep Sea Drilling Project...

On the Origin of Paleocurrent Complexity Within Deep Marine Channel Levees

Ian A. Kane, William D. McCaffrey, Jeff Peakall

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... petrological characterisation of deep-marine sandstones using grain fabric and permeability anisotropy: methodologies, theory, application and suggestions...

Varying Least Principal Stress along Lithofacies in Gas Shale Reservoirs: Effects of Frictional Strength and Viscoelastic Stress Relaxation

Partha Pratim Mandal, Reza Rezaee, Mustafa Sari, Joel Sarout

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... pressure has no effect. Using this approach, we could also relate the changes in minimum principal stress (Shmin) from one lithofacies to the other...

What Do Hydraulic Fractures Look Like in Different Types of Reservoirs: Implications from a Series of Large-Scale Polyaxial Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments from Conventional to Unconventional

Peng Yi, Fu Haifeng, Cui Mingyue, Liu Yunzhi, Xu Yun, Lu Yongjun, Wang Xing, Wang Yonghui

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... effect factors, a large polyaxial testing system was built to simulate the process of field stimulation, as shown in Figure 2. This system has...

Regional-Scale Porosity and Permeability Variations, Peace River Arch Area, Alberta, Canada (1)

STEFAN BACHU and J. R. UNDERSCHULTZ

AAPG Bulletin

... hand, although it is accepted that measurement and data entry errors are probably present in the core-analyses electronic files, their effect...

Natural fractures in shale: A review and new observations

Julia F. W. Gale, Stephen E. Laubach, Jon E. Olson, Peter Eichhubl, and András Fall

AAPG Bulletin

..., The effect of anisotropy on the Young’s moduli and Poisson’s ratios of shales: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 61, no. 2, p. 416–426, doi...

Securing Government Data Assets in Oil and Gas

Sukma Saleh Hasibuan, Saleh Abdurrahman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of earnings, as dominant fuel to meet domestic energy need, as feedstock for petrochemical industry and creating substantial multiplier effect...

Implementation of Seismic Data Quality Characterisation Using Supervised Deep Learning

Joshua Thorp, Krista Davies, Julien Bluteau, Peter Hoiles

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., the quality of the seismic data has a direct effect on the understanding of the subsurface, and ultimately the justification for well planning. Because...

Comparison of three Bayesian methods for lithofluid facies prediction using elastic properties

Jingfeng Zhang, Kevin Wolf, Anar Yusifov, Matt Walker, Pedro Paramo, Jeffrey Winterbourne, Reetam Biswas, Atish Roy, Qiang Liu, Xingchao Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Figure 5. Comparison of the three methods demonstrating the noise effect. Although the Viterbi and EP methods have demonstrated advantages, they do...