Controls on Fracture Development, Spacing, and Geometry in the Austin Chalk Formation, Central Texas: Considerations for Exploration and Production

Kevin P. Corbett, Melvin Friedman, David V. Wiltschko, Jih Hao Hung

Dallas Geological Society

...: Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, v. 13, p. 352-358. Grabowski, G.J., Jr., 1984, Generation and migration of hydrocarbons in Upper Cretaceous...

Controls on fluid flow in the distal deepwater, offshore Niger Delta

Erieshibe Ashong, Jonathan Redfern, Mads Huuse

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and interpretation of fault-related sedimentation and controls on shelf-edge deltas: Implication on sand transportation to the basin floor in parts...

FetKin: Coupling kinematic restorations and temperature to predict thrusting, exhumation histories, and thermochronometric ages

Ariel Almendral, Wilmer Robles, Mauricio Parra, Andrés Mora, Richard A. Ketcham, and Michael Raghib

AAPG Bulletin

... that can have a pivotal effect on data interpretation (e.g., Mora et al., 2010). For visualization purposes, several MATLAB routines have been...

Structure of the Tokai segment from the integrated high-resolution seismic imaging: A case study from the eastern Nankai Trough

Andrzej Grszczyk, Rafael Almeida, Romain Brossier, Ludovic Mtivier

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... using migration techniques - are able to provide seismic images with high wavenumber content and potentially guide the geological interpretation...

Defining the Geomechanical Operating Limits for Subsurface CO2 Storage

Simon Holford, Mojtaba Rajabi, Scott Mildren, Rosalind King, Adam Bailey

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... , Braathen, A (2021) Fault interpretation uncertainties using seismic data, and the Park,J, Griffiths, L, Dautriat,J, Grande, L, Rodriguez, IV, Iran...

The influence of basement faults during extension and oblique inversion of the Makassar Straits rift system: Insights from analog models

A. Gartrell, C. Hudson, B. Evans

AAPG Bulletin

... constructed so that laterally offset rift basins would form on either side of a preexisting basement fault. Transfer zones comprising a series of en echelon...

Remote sensing detection of heavy oil through spectral enhancement techniques in the western slope zone of Songliao Basin, China

Guifang Zhang, Lejun Zou, Xiaohua Shen, Shanlong Lu, Changjiang Li, Hanlin Chen

AAPG Bulletin

... (Thrasher et al., 1996). Studies have documented that hydrocarbon migration is predominantly vertical in the absence of control by fault systems or other...

Extension, Displacement, and Block Rotation in the Larger Gullfaks Area, Northern North Sea: Determined from Map View Restoration

Delphine Rouby , Haakon Fossen , Peter R. Cobbold

AAPG Bulletin

... and dismembered by a population of normal faults. In effect, we seek to close the fault gaps that appear on a fault heave map with a minimum of overlap...

Undiscovered Exploration Leads in Shattered Gulf Coast Sediments

Allen Lowrie , F. Elizabeth Talbert , Ian Lerche , Richard L. Adams

GCAGS Transactions

... of intraslope basins, shelf-associated growth faults, and compression zones in front of advancing salt. The general effect of this abundant fault fracture...

Abstract: Joint OBN and 3-D DAS-VSP Data Acquisition and Processing in East China Sea; #91204 (2023)

Gang Yu1, Haibo Liu, Zhonglin Cao, Junjian Li, Jianguo Li, Yuanzhong Chen, Guangming He, Junjun Wu, Ximing Wang

Search and Discovery.com

... in the East China Sea, and the results of 3-D DAS-VSP data imaging processing and interpretation. The usual 3-D VSP data imaging processing steps...

Gravity-Induced Transfer Faults on the Lower Congo Basin Slope, Offshore Angola (West Africa): Implications for Deep-Marine Hydrocarbon Exploration on Passive Continental Margins

Dengliang Gao, Jeff Milliken

GCAGS Transactions

...-trending fault and secondary faults indicating a left-lateral component sense of shear along the primary fault. INTERPRETATION Located in the ultra...

Pleasant Valley Oil Field, Uintah County, Utah

W. Don Quigley

Utah Geological Association

... based on the present information available. These faults probably effect the accumulation and migration of oil and/or gas in the region if for no other...

Mechanical stratigraphy and faulting in Cretaceous carbonates

Alan P. Morris, David A. Ferrill, Ronald N. McGinnis

AAPG Bulletin

...) impede the propagation of fault tips until some threshold displacement is reached and the weak layer can be breached. This effect causes clustering...

Detailed Seismic Characterization of a Heavily Karsted Zone; #10506 (2013)

Alfredo Fernandez and Kurt Marfurt

Search and Discovery.com

...) Vertical section through the amplitude volume. II) interpretation of the principal seismic horizon in the area. Note the migration artifacts below...

STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE SOUTHERN TRACE OF THE TENDOY FAULT, SOUTHERN BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA

Phil M. Hammons

Montana Geological Society

... fault with a view toward evaluating these opposed interpretations. Previous Tendoy Fault Interpretation...

Exploration Hydrodynamic - Northwestern Colorado

Patrick A. Treckman, Gilman A. Hill, William A. Colburn, Floyd H. Millera

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... been mentioned previously in this paper. Regionally, a fault will act as a restriction to fluid flow within any reservoir cut by a fault. The effect...

Modeling the Mesozoic-Cenozoic Structural Evolution of East Texas

Ofori N. Pearson, Elisabeth L. Rowan, John J. Miller

GCAGS Journal

... traps and the burial history of petroleum source rocks. Interpretation and structural modeling of seismic lines from eastern Texas provide insights...

Computing permeability of fault zones in eolian sandstone from outcrop measurements

Herve Jourde, Eric A. Flodin, Atilla Aydin, Louis J. Durlofsky, Xian-Huan Wen

AAPG Bulletin

... of fault for which detailed structural and permeability data are available or can be estimated. Antonellini, M., and A. Aydin, 1994, Effect of faulting...

Applications of biomarkers acids and compound specific isotope analysis of biomarkers (CSIA-B): Overlooked methods to assist in oilfield development and exploration

J. M. (Mike) Moldowan, Jeremy E. Dahl

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... accumulation. Differences in biomarker acid consortia with depth or across a reservoir show the location of the generative kitchen(s) and the migration...

Depths of Oil Origin and Primary Migration: a Review and Critique

Robert J. Cordell

AAPG Bulletin

... of 1,500-3,000 m as t e interval of formation and primary migration of hydrocarbons. The weight of evidence and interpretation in the reports cited above...

Reconstruction of Allochthonous Salt Emplacement from 3-D Seismic Reflection Data, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Robert D. Walters

AAPG Bulletin

... the emplacement history of an allochthonous salt structure. A listric, counter-regional growth fault bounds the updip salt edge and apparently soles...

Brady Unit, Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming: Migration and Structural History

Scott L. Montgomery

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure support from a partial water drive, which is not seen in the south. These relationships are interpreted as an effect of water migration up...

Quantifying Uncertainty in Geological Structures, A.D. Gibbs, #40033 (2001)

Search and Discovery.com

West Muiron Discovery, WA-155-P - New Life for an Old Prospect

Lorraine Mitchelmore, Neville Smith

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... flank of the structure was closest to the interpreted oil migration direction, and a large downthrown fault block was still within structural closure...

Reservoir Characterisatioin of Mishrif Formation of Garraf Field, Iraq, Using 3D Seismic and AI Inversion (Paper P35)

M. Embong, M. Higashi, H. H. Abu Bakar, K. A. Zamri, F. H. M Ali, S. Moriya, S. B. M Said, A. T. Patrick Panting

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... Exploration Company in Ministry of Oil, Iraq). Data processing including pre-stack time migration (PSTM) was conducted in 2010 with excellent data quality...