Technological Revolution in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 11

Edgar Wesley Owen, C. V. Millikan

AAPG Special Volumes

.... J. Brill, 670 p. Gilbert, G. K., 1913, Interpretation of anomalies of gravity: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 85, p. 29-37. Gilmour, Andrew, 1950...

Repurposing Legacy Seismic Reflection Data in Support of Aquifer Characterization in Texas

Thomas E. Ewing, Cody H. Draper, Daniel M. Lupton

GCAGS Transactions

...; in high-velocity environments, refraction residuals may become significant in interpretation. Data may also be checked for anisotropy. Because...

Interpretations of Foothills Structures, Alberta, Canada: Structure

Theodore A. Link

AAPG Special Volumes

...------------------------ The writer desires to withdraw his interpretation of the major sole fault of Turner Valley in his contributions (Link and Moore...

Interpretations of Foothills Structures, Alberta, Canada

Theodore A. Link

AAPG Bulletin

... desires to withdraw his interpretation of the major sole fault of Turner Valley in his contributions of 1934 and 1935 (FOOTNOTE 3) wherein...

Gravity Constraints on the Crustal Structure of Central America

Kevin Mickus

AAPG Special Volumes

... in conjunction with seismic reflection/refraction models, seismicity studies, geologic mapping, and well data to determine a gravity-based crustal structure...

Linked Tectonics of the Northern North Sea Basins

A. D. Gibbs

CSPG Special Publications

... basins and Platform. This may be an effect of processing. The interpretation presented here is that the steep, westward-dipping faults are antithetic...

First-Arrival Traveltime Inversion in the CMP Domain: Method and Application

Search and Discovery.com

... piecewise smoothing and interpolation applied to the CMP traveltimes to reduce the effect of picking errors and to regularize the offset-traveltime...

Base of Salt Determination Utilizing Full Tensor Gradient Data

Gary W. Coburn

GCAGS Transactions

... to make the standard gravity curves match had no effect at all on the salt interpretation. However, deeper horizons were actually dipping...

Gulf of Mexico Basin: Interactions Among Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Hydrocarbon Accumulation

William R. Paine, A. A. Meyerhoff

GCAGS Transactions

... of continental margins: Tectonophysics, v. 7, no. 3, p. 219-229. Sheridan, R. E., C. L. Drake, J. E. Nafe, and J. Hennion, 1966, Seismic-refraction...

Optimizing Well Performance in Challenging Times

Ruthie Papandrea, Lane Boyer, Eric Garner, Michael Manning

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... interpretation is an accurate representation of wellbore placement. These are significant assumptions and may not be valid in every case. Pilot holes should...

Continental Margins from Viewpoint of the Petroleum Geologist

Hollis D. Hedberg

AAPG Bulletin

... for additional continuous refraction seismic profiles across the margin is critical. Moreover, continuing studies are needed, not only to better know...

A Risk-Reduction Recipe Using Frequency-Based Pore Pressure Predictions from Seismic

Roger A. Young, Robert D. LoPiccolo

GCAGS Transactions

..., but they are contingent on a number of well-known assumptions; sometimes the results can be spectacularly wrong. A newer approach is based on an analysis...

Reservoir Characterization Enhancement through Integrated Wellbore-Reservoir Flow Model and Pressure Transient Analysis (Paper P20)

K. Khadivi, R. Masoudi, M. Soltanieh, F. A. Farhadpou

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... change in permeability with depth. The model presented captures the wellbore storage effect directly and can handle wells with partial or complete...

Defining Paleo-Exposures and Paleo-Aquifers in Carbonates with Isotopic and Cationic Data: A Brief Review

Paul D. Wagner

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... submitted to Amoco an interpretation that incorporated similar types of absolute-value assumptions in crossplot form (Figure 7). Carbonates falling outside...

Numerical Forward Modeling of Carbonate Platform Dynamics: An Evaluation of Complexity and Completeness in Carbonate Strata

Peter M. Burgess, V. Paul Wright

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., transport, and deposition governed by a regional transport direction that can vary stochastically through time, and by wave refraction that causes...

Excess Area and Depth to Detachment

Jean-Luc Epard , Richard H. Groshong, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... assumptions built into the use of equations 1 and 2 which, if not satisfied, invalidate the interpretation. The following five assumptions typically...

Building a worldwide carbonate database for rock-physics modeling

Jorge Fernandez-Concheso, Lev Vernik

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to complicate pore shapes and move beyond ellipsoidal inclusion assumptions. Introduction Mur and Vernik (2020) compiled a database of laboratory measurements...

Leveraging Regional Geology and Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts at Field and Reservoir Scales: Building More Reliable Earth Models Under Sparse Data

Kate C.S. Evans, Jeffrey M. Yarus, Elham Mohsenian, Jose Montero, Jiazuo Zhang,, Alex Bromhead

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... interpretation support through conceptual models, but also provides properties through subsurface modeling using alternative data sources not traditionally...

The Tectonic Development of the Southern Beaufort Sea and its Relationship to the Origin of the Arctic Ocean Basin, by Yorath and Norris (1975): DISCUSSION

L. W. Sobczak

CSPG Bulletin

... of the continental margin of Banks Island and Mackenzie Delta: Can. J. Earth Sci., v. 12, no. 3, p. 373-384. Stacey, R. A., 1971, Interpretation...

Petroleum Origin and Accumulation in Basin Evolution--A Quantitative Model

D. H. Welte, M. A. Yukler

AAPG Special Volumes

... the needs of oil exploration. The invention of refraction and reflection seismics in the 1920s was a big step forward in the search for petroleum. Every...

Petroleum Origin and Accumulation in Basin Evolution--A Quantitative Model

D. H. Welte, M. A. Yukler

AAPG Bulletin

... of refraction and reflection seismics in the 1920s was a big step forward in the search for petroleum. Every improvement in geophysical methods...

Recent Tectonics of the Lena-Anabar Downwarp and Its Effect on Oil and Gas Distribution

B. I. Kim, I. V. Reynin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... and their effect on oil and gas distribution. Two assumptions were made: 1) All types of tectonic movements are reflected in the elevations of the surface relief...

GIS-based Interpretation of Rock, Oil, Gas and PVT Data to Predict New Well Outcomes … Virtual Well Examples From the Eagle Ford and Second White Speckled Shale Formations of North America

John B. Curtis, Stephen W. Brown, John E. Zumberge, Kevin A. Ferworn, Matthew M. White

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...GIS-based Interpretation of Rock, Oil, Gas and PVT Data to Predict New Well Outcomes … Virtual Well Examples From the Eagle Ford and Second White...

Bampo-Peutu(!) Petroleum System, North Sumatra, Indonesia: Chapter 38: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere

Steven P. Buck, Thane H. McCulloh

AAPG Special Volumes

... rocks and the effect on timing and volume of petroleum expelled: Unpublished internal company report, Mobil Exploration and Producing Services Inc., 5 p...

Testing a Seismic Interpretation of Great Bahama Bank with a Computer Simulation

Gregor P. Eberli , Christopher G. St. C. Kendall , Phil Moore , Gregory L. Whittle , Robert Cannon

AAPG Bulletin

...Testing a Seismic Interpretation of Great Bahama Bank with a Computer Simulation Gregor P. Eberli , Christopher G. St. C. Kendall , Phil Moore...