A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

J. Durrant, A. Young

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the base of this formation the high-velocity calcareous shale unit generates a strong, regionally correlatable, reflector on seismic data. The strength...

ABSTRACT Chemical Variations of CO2 in the Rankin Trend Natural Gases, Carnarvon Basin, Australia: An Example of Mineral Sequestration?, #90103 (2010)

Eric Tenthorey, Allison Hortle, Chris Boreham, James Underschultz 

Search and Discovery.com

..., are especially useful for elucidating preferred gas migration pathways and also for assessing the relative importance of mineral dissolution and/or solution...

Mechanical and stratigraphic constraints on the evolution of faulting at Elk Hills, California

Patricia E. Fiore, David D. Pollard, William R. Currin, David M. Miner

AAPG Bulletin

..., an index map outlining the production blocks of the field has been plotted on all vertical-displacement fields. In (a), the locations of the Stevens...

Sedimentologic and Physical Oceanographic Evidence of a Shelf Edge Counter Current Off Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone

David W. McGrail

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that an anomalous northwestward migration of sediment is taking place under the southeastward flowing surface waters of the Canary Current...

A Three-Dimensional Insight into the Lower Magdalena Valley Forearc Basin of Northwest Colombia: Implications for Thermal History and Petroleum Systems; #30639 (2020)

Josué Alejandro Mora, Robert Ondrak, Román Gonzalez, Eliseu Kinoshita, Gabriel Veloza, Onno Oncken, Vickye Vélez, Mario de Freitas

Search and Discovery.com

... plotted versus depth; a 10% correction accounting for cooling due to the drilling mud was applied. The best-fit line was set to intersect with the x-axis...

ABSTRACT: Structural Filter

Dong Liu

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... By preserving edge effect, the filter can also preserve lateral amplitude variation with offset (AVO) in most horizontal and dipping events presented...

ABSTRACT: Wavelet Dispersion and Bright-Spot Detection, by Peter C. Luh; #91022 (1989)

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Estimating Exploration Potential in Mature Producing Area, Northwest Shelf of Delaware Basin, New Mexico

Naresh Kumar

AAPG Bulletin

.... 66, p. 317-331. Kumar, N., and J. D. Foster, 1982, Effect of an underlying bioherm on the San Andres (Permian) reservoir and trap, Hanford field...

A new model for assessing trap integrity and oil preservation risks associated with postrift fault reactivation in the Timor Sea

Anthony Gartrell, Wayne R. Bailey, Mark Brincat

AAPG Bulletin

..., S. Losh, J. Austin, and R. Woodhams, 1994, Gulf of Mexico growth fault drilled, seen as oil, gas migration pathway: Oil Gas Journal, v. 94, June 6...

Spatial Mapping of Seismic Facies Variations to Mitigate Reservoir Risk in Coal Prone Fluvial-Deltaic Settings

Dylan Cremasco, Yahya Villareal Basman II, Judith Travers

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... for capturing the dimming seismic reflector, and thus defining the channel trends. The strong correlation between waveform class and reservoir thickness...

Inferring Stratigraphy from Seismic Data

R. E. Sheriff

AAPG Bulletin

.... Dohr, G. P., and P. K. Stiller, 1975, Migration velocity determination. Pt. 2, Applications: Geophysics, v. 40, p. 6-16. Domenico, S. N., 1974, Effect...

Notes on Compaction

George V. Chilingar

CSPG Bulletin

...., 1959, "Possible Factors and Processes of Primary Oil Migration," Trudy Vnigri, Vypusk 132, pp. 204-41. (Available from G. V. Chilingar.) Eremenko, N...

Influence of normal fault growth and linkage on the evolution of a rift basin: A case from the Gaoyou depression of the Subei Basin, eastern China

Yin Liu, Qinghua Chen, Xi Wang, Kai Hu, Shaolei Cao, Lin Wu, and Feng Gao

AAPG Bulletin

... fault zone rather than by a single fault. Successive slip of the Zhen 1–Wu 1 fault and the Zhen 2 and Wu 2 faults caused subsidence and migration...

Prospect Definition Using Cost-Effective 2-D Swath in Rocky Mountain Stratigraphic Traps

James R. Oltmans II

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and acquisition costs. The aperture window for proper 3-D migration will cause the necessary surface coverage to spread with increasing structural dip. Each...

Sediment Dispersal Trends of the Caminada-Moreau Beach-Ridge System

John Harper

GCAGS Transactions

... Pass through lateral migration of interchannel shoals. The Caminada-Moreau beach system displays several levels of form-process variability...

Structure of Falkland Plateau and Offshore Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: Rifted Margins

W. J. Ludwig , C. C. Windisch , R. E. Houtz , J. I. Ewing

AAPG Special Volumes

... are more convincing when interval velocities are plotted on the sections because an identifiable reflection event has been used, which can...

Chapter 16: Unravelling the Pre-Salt Province of Santos and Campos Basins: Exploration Risks of Selected Key Elements of the Petroleum Systems

S. P. Rostirolla, M. R. Mello, W. Peres, O. A. Pedrosa, Jr., H. A. Kemna, G. Carmo, Jr., A. Cardoso Netto

AAPG Special Volumes

... rocks and their maturation processes are the proportion of black and cracked oils present, the effectiveness of migration, and carbon dioxide (CO2...

Hydrocarbon occurrences in the western Anatolian (Aegean) grabens, Turkey: Is there a working petroleum system?

N. Bozkurt Ciftci, R. Ozgur Temel, Y. Haluk Iztan

AAPG Bulletin

... of the major border structures, volcanic rocks, and zones of polymetallic mineralization, yet this effect is typically constrained within a narrow...

Role of Mineral Matrix in Kerogen Pyrolysis: Influence on Petroleum Generation and Migration

J. Espitalie, M. Madec, B. Tissot

AAPG Bulletin

... effect on petroleum generation and migration would depend on the three variables: the composition of the mineral matrix, organic matter content...

Abstract: The Impact of Cenozoic Tilting on Fluid Contacts and Hydrocarbon Distribution of the Cretaceous Upper Shuaiba Reservoirs, Bab Basin Northwest Oman; #91204 (2023)

Abdullah Al Hamdi, Mohammed Azzazi, Christophe Nicholls

Search and Discovery.com

... be established when the data is plotted below top Dammam, Late Eocene. The original fluid contact, OWC, appears to have been “frozen” in its original...

Abstract: Velocity Updating for Converted-Wave Prestack Time Migration; #90211 (2015)

Xiaogui Miao

Search and Discovery.com

...Abstract: Velocity Updating for Converted-Wave Prestack Time Migration; #90211 (2015) Xiaogui Miao Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90211 CSPG...

Pyrolysis Techniques for Source-Rock Evaluation

Colin Barker

AAPG Bulletin

... by generation of hydrocarbons and the migration of these hydrocarbons out of the rock. Usually the process of generation is incomplete at depths of interest...

Holocene Meander-Belt Evolution in an Active Extensional Basin, Southwestern Montana

Jan Alexander , John S. Bridge , Michael R. Leeder , Richard E.LL. Collier , Robert L. Gawthorpe

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... E.LL. Collier , Robert L. Gawthorpe 1994 Vol. 64B No. 4. (November), Lateral migration fluvial meander belts preserves wider than normal coarse...

Combining high resolution modelling and one-way wave field extrapolation migration to image beneath a complex overburden: A case study from Porcupine Basin, Ireland

Partha Pratim Mandal, Weidi Koh, Julien Bluteau, David Laws, Jennifer Greenhalgh

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... locations are lost after Kirchhoff migration). This significantly reduces the turnaround time even at very fine cell sizes, which are necessary for high...

Migration and Segregation of Oil and Gas

S. R. Silverman

AAPG Special Volumes

... Pennsylvanian oils in the Seminole, Oklahoma area as a natural chromatographic effect resulting from an easterly migration of these oils. Hodgson and Baker (1959...