Heat flow as a basin model calibration? Not really

David Rajmon

GEO ExPro Magazine

... measured temperatures and calculated thermal conductivity: HF = thermal conductivity x temperature gradient. Surface sediment heat flow is determined...

Chapter Seven: Evaluating Barnett Shale Production Performance Using an Integrated Approach

J. H. Frantz, Jr., J. R. Williamson, W. K. Sawyer, D. Johnston, G. Waters, L. P. Moore, R. J. MacDonald, M. Pearcy, S. V. Ganpule, K. S. March

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of horizontal wells with multiple and complex vertical fractures, and the effect of multi-lateral wells on long-term production performance. Fig. 36 shows...

Effect of Nanoscale Pore Confinement on Multi-Component Phase Equilibrium

Kai Zhang, Xiaohu Dong, Jing Li, Jiateng Lv, Keliu Wu, Peter Kusalik, Zhangxin Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...es the trap of fluid molecules inside the pore, and the green means that the confinement effect is negligible. The gradient red color shows that th...

Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Fluid-Related Damage to Hydraulic Fractures

Patrice Abivin, Rasika Prabhu, Daria Khvostichenko, Casie Hilliard, Chris Nelson, Tzu-Chi Kuo, Yongfu Li, Priyavrat Shukla, Sergey Makarychev-Mikhailov

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... at elaborating on the mechanisms of the fluid-related damage and on new solutions to mitigate their detrimental effect. On the modeling side, a commercial...

Chapter 7: Curie Point Depths in Northwestern South America and the Southwestern Caribbean Sea

Carlos A. Vargas, Javier Idarraga-Garcia, Juan M. Salazar

AAPG Special Volumes

... characteristics of the study area. Then, we calculated the geothermal gradient from these CPD values to assess the likelihood of the hydrocarbon...

Seismic-Profiler Survey of Blake Plateau

John Ewing , Maurice Ewing , Robert Leyden

AAPG Bulletin

... escarpment, one of the steepest slopes known anywhere in the oceans. The gradient of the escarpment diminishes northward from the nose, the lower...

Regional Structural Framework of Gabon, Derived from Public Source Gravity Data, by Michael Alexander, and Karim Aimadeddine, #10199 (2009

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Magnetic and Torsion-Balance Survey of Munich Tertiary Basin, Bavaria

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Bulletin

... at the general elevation of the surface of the area, for (1) the horizontal gradient of gravity, which the torsion-balance measures, varies slowly...

Polarization Horn as Key in Identifying Resistivity Contrast at High Angle: An Observation from Six Successful Horizontal Wells, Natuna Sea Block B

Teguh Prasetyo, Bambang S. Murti, Sigit Suryonugroho

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... vertical resolution of the pre-existing 3D data (tuning effect). Sub-surface structural configuration and velocity variation add additional considerations...

Tests of Fracture Water and Gas Permeability on Vaca Muerta Gas Shale

Kun Su, Jorge Torres, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Pierre Barlet, Atef Onaisi, Sandrine Vidal-Gilbert

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is assimilated as two parallel plates, and 2) locally the velocity of gas or water flow is proportional to local pressure gradient and square of the fracture...

A Validated Digital Rock Workflow to Accurately Predict Apparent Permeability in Tight Rocks

Juan F. Bautista, Luke Fidler, Dave Freed, Bernd Crouse, Gana Balasubramanian, Hudong Cheng, Raoyang Zhang, Chaitrali Ghodke

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... number values. For Darcy flow, the non-slip boundary condition creates a steep velocity profile near the wall resulting in a steep pressure gradient...

6 Practical Aspects of Earth Temperatures

P. E. Gretener

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the local geothermal gradient. End_Page 100------------------------ 6.2 Effect of Temperature on Pore Pressure, Fluid Movement, and Diagenesis...

Lightning Analysis for Mapping Faults and Identifying Exploration Sweetspots; #41987 (2017)

H. Roice Nelson, Jr.

Search and Discovery.com

... (microseconds), location (150-600 foot horizontal resolution), rise-time (microseconds), peak current (kilo-amperes), polarity (80% of strikes negative...

Microvisual Studies of Size Distribution of Oil Droplets in Porous Media

E.O. Egbogah,, R.A. Dawe

CSPG Bulletin

... the superficial velocity, V, is in the direction of and proportional to the applied pressure gradient (corrected to some datum) Pv / L, and inversely...

Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulation on Bitumen Saturated Carbonates: A Rock Physics Study for 4D Seismology

Arif Rabbani, Jason Nycz, Zizhen Wong, Doug Schmitt, Ken Gray

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... as temperature increases may be indicated from the velocity gradient (Han et al. 2008). In the next effort, we used an adapted version of the pulse...

Abstract: Seismic Wave Attenuation due to Scattering and Leaky Mode Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Reservoirs; #90171 (2013)

Jun-Wei Huang, Gilles Bellefleur, and Bernd Milkereit

Search and Discovery.com

... frequency and t is the arrival time of peak amplitude. For the two horizontal receiver arrays, we obtained a Q value of 22 in the high velocity region...

Abstract: Characterization of Heavy Oil Reservoir using Vp/Vs Ratio and Neural Network Analysis; #90171 (2013)

Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines

Search and Discovery.com

... in gas sand, bitumen sand and shale identification thereby contributing to optimal horizontal well placement. This will in turn have the ultimate effect...

Abstract: Characterization of Heavy Oil Reservoir using Vp/Vs Ratio and Neural Network Analysis; #90171 (2013)

Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines

Search and Discovery.com

... in gas sand, bitumen sand and shale identification thereby contributing to optimal horizontal well placement. This will in turn have the ultimate effect...

Impact of Heat Flux Anomalies Around Salt Diapirs and Salt Sheets in the Gulf Coast on Hydrocarbon Maturity: Models and Observations

J.J. O'Brien , I. Lerche

GCAGS Transactions

... the edge. Dip of the salt sheet also imparts a horizontal component to the flow of heat, resulting in enhanced heating of the updip edge of the salt...

Deep Structure and Evolution of the Carolina Trough: Rifted Margins: Field Investigations of Margin Structure and Stratigraphy

D. R. Hutchinson, J. A. Grow, K. D. Klitgord, B. A. Swift

AAPG Special Volumes

... of separate but constant velocities (Warren, 1968), and a single layer having a basal-velocity gradient (Lewis and Meyer, 1977). Our model of con...

In Situ Stress Magnitude and Orientation Estimates for Cretaceous coal-Bearing Strata Beneath the Plains Area of Central and Southern Alberta

J. S. Bell, Stefan Bachu

CSPG Bulletin

... in gradient of the smaller horizontal stress, SHmin, across the study area. Areas where gradients of less than 16 kPa/m are mapped, and where...

Role of Hydrodynamic Factors in the Formation and Destruction of Oil and Gas Pools in the Timano-Pechora Province

V. Ye. Leshchenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... demonstrated the non-horizontal attitude of the surface of the water-oil contact. In the pool of stratum III of the Eifelian sediments of the Nibel...

Fracture Identification with Seismic Data, XinChang Field, China, by Peter Stewart, John Tinnin, James Hallin, and Jim Granath, #40370 (2008).

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Application of finite difference eikonal solver for traveltime computation in forward modeling and migration

Amir Mustaqim Majdi, Seyed Yaser Moussavi Alashloo, Nik Nur Anis Amalina Nik Mohd Hassan, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... and compared both resulting seismic images. Seismic migration is executed as a part of quality control (QC). We used a synthetic velocity model which...

Optimization of Improving Liquids Recovery from Duvernay Shale Condensate Reservoirs

Guicheng Jing, Zhangxin Chen, Gang Hui

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the Duvernay Shale Condensate Reservoirs by using reservoir simulation methods with multi-fracked horizontal wells and gas recycling injection...