Perf Stim/Power Perf Completion Techniques

J. Gilliat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that involves the release of a proppant into high velocity fluid stream at the moment of perforation. This proppant serves to improve the connectivity...

A Volumeter for Measuring Porosity of Incoherent Sands

John C. Ludwick

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., bottom plate, spatula, soft brush, and sample container are taken to a sampling site. The sample barrel is pressed into the sediment body until...

Deltaic Sedimentation in Athabasca Tar Sands

Maurice A. Carrigy

AAPG Bulletin

... body of water. Bates (1953) demonstrated that the density of water has a marked effect on the current pattern at the mouth of a stream and hence...

Geology of Hiawatha Gas Fields, Southwest Wyoming and Northwest Colorado

W. T. Nightingale

AAPG Special Volumes

... to coarse-grained, poorly sorted, loosely cemented sandstones and even to grits and local conglomerates. The sandstone members exhibit marked lateral...

Influence of Depositional Environment on Reservoir Quality Prediction

Salman Bloch, J. H. McGowen

Special Publications of SEPM

... extensive: porosity loss. In sandstones with a high proportion of rigid grams, bimodality can have a major effect on reser­ voir quality. Clarke...

Architecture and Sedimentology of the Miocene Moco T and Webster Turbidite Reservoirs, Midway-Sunset Field, California

Martin H. Link, Blaine R. Hall

Pacific Section of AAPG

... and characterize their reservoir properties through the use of logs, cores, and outcrop observations. A sand or sandstone body is defined here as a mappable subcrop...

Faunal Change and Events Across the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary of Huangmao Section, Guangxi, South China

S. Bai, Z. Ning

CSPG Special Publications

...’s crust is depleted in iridium. Enrichment of iridium may be caused by (a) extraterrestrial body impact, or, alternatively, by (b) concentration...

Meandering Fluvial Reservoirs

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

...-rich channel plugs within a background of floodplain muds. Coals are found in fluvial systems with high water tables. Levees sometimes border rivers...

Resolution limits of fluid overpressures from mineralogy, porosity, and sonic velocity variations in North Sea mudrocks

Christian Hermanrud, and Oddgeir Undertun

AAPG Bulletin

... accurate velocity-based pore pressure identification in North Sea mudrocks requires a knowledge of local mudrock heterogeneity and compaction...

Orientation Of Crinoids By Current Action

W. Schwarzacher

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The mean current velocity at this moment was calculated from the discharge and water depth. The position of the test body is given by the angle...

NORTH AMERICAN STRATIGRAPHIC CODE1

AAPG Bulletin

... terminology for igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 91, no. 6, p. 374376.Hofmann, H. J., 1990, Precambrian...

Enhancement of Reliability of Estimating Prospects of Local Structures from Geothermal Data

B. R. Kusov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Enhancement of Reliability of Estimating Prospects of Local Structures from Geothermal Data B. R. Kusov 1980 415 417 Vol. 18 (1980) No. 9. (September...

Session 5. Shelf Facies

Richard C. Selley

AAPG Special Volumes

... of studies of modern marine shelf deposits to interpreting ancient analogues because:- 1. Absence of vast epeiric seas at the present time; 2. Effect...

Bioturbation influence on reservoir quality: A case study from the Cretaceous Ben Nevis Formation, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, Canada

Nicola S. Tonkin, Duncan McIlroy, Rudi Meyer, Allison Moore-Turpin

AAPG Bulletin

.... L. Thrasher, and L. W. Lake, 1988, A theoretical and experimental analysis of minipermeameter response including gas slippage and high velocity flow...

Occurrence of Oil and Gas in West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Eastern Kentucky: Part IV. Relation of Petroleum Accumulation to Structure

J. E. Billingsley

AAPG Special Volumes

... shoestring field west of Marietta which is evidently an old stream channel. The north-south Berea sand gas field at its western end is a local "high...

A Delta-Slope-Submarine Fan Model for Maestrichtian Part of Great Valley Sequence, Sacramento and San Joaquin Basins, California

Victor B. Cherven

AAPG Bulletin

... as the product of high-velocity turbidity currents (fluidized grain flows, etc) across the basin floor. Figure 26, a profile in the northern part of the area...

A Large Flood-Tidal Delta and Its Successive Spill-Over Apron: Detailed Proximal-Distal Facies Relationships (Miocene Lignite Suite, Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany)

J. R. Boersma

CSPG Special Publications

... metres of the clay body contain sand beds at decimetre to centimetre scale that thin in a southerly direction. They appear to be the offshoots of the high...

Deep Water Discharge: Key to Hydrocarbon and Mineral Deposits (Part II)

W. H. Roberts, III

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... drainage. Important structural elements are a regional pre-Cretaceous unconformity and local deep faulting. A critical stratigraphic element is the middle...

Precambrian Geology of the Llano Region, Central Texas

James G. Jensen

West Texas Geological Society

... of high percentages of chromium and nickel in the Coal Creek Serpentinite support this interpretation rather than the idea of a dolomitic limestone origin...

The Significance of Grain-Size Breaks in Turbidites and Pyroclastic Density Current Deposits

Charlotte Gladstone, R. Stephen J. Sparks

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... a tripartite zonation with prominent grain-size breaks. Divergence of particle-laden gravity currents into a lower dense body and an upper dilute...

Determination of Productive Zones in Low Porosity, Low Permeability Carbonate and Clastic Rocks

James A. Turney

Dallas Geological Society

.... Another explanation could be that zone B in well 1 had a better indication of gas effect from the velocity ratio and fracturing from the fracture-finder...

3-D Seismic Recognition of the Jurassic Smackover Reservoir of Grayson Field Using Leading-Edge Reservoir Characterization Seismic Processing

Kevin B. Hill

GCAGS Transactions

.... AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET (AVO) The Grayson Field Smackover reservoir is a low velocity zone encased within high velocity rocks. This is a classic Type III AVO...

Cretaceous Strike-Valley Sandstone Reservoirs, Northwestern New Mexico

Donald G. McCubbin

AAPG Bulletin

... facing northeast. Local relief was more than 100 ft. A subcrop map and an isopach map show that the paleotopography was controlled largely...

Notes on Changing Paleoenvironments Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (Scollard Formation) in the Red Deer River Valley of Southern Alberta

David A. Eberth, Shaun C. O'Connell

CSPG Bulletin

... present only at the top of the succession. The uppermost portions of most sandstones display Sr, climbing ripples, turbated or contorted textures, local...

Storm Deposits in the Late Proterozoic Lower Bhander Sandstone of Vindhyan Supergroup Around Maihar, Satna District, Madhya Pradesh, India

Ajit Bhattacharyya, Soumen Sarkar , S. K. Chanda

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the underlying red shale. Flutes, grooves, bounce marks, etc. suggest an origin from high velocity current, usually unexpected in a tidal regime. Load structures...