An Integrated Workflow for Complex Characterization of Formation Water in Shale Reservoir Rocks. A Case Study of Bazhenov Formation

Ekaterina S. Kazak, Andrey V. Kazak, Felix Bilek

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... were recorded in the range of wave numbers 650–4000 cm-1 with a resolution of 4 cm-1. To increase the signal-to-noise ratio, we averaged 32 spectra...

Natural fractures of the Tuscaloosa marine shale

Cristina Mariana Ruse, and Mehdi Mokhtari

AAPG Bulletin

... of natural fractures exists across the play, and its effect on hydrocarbon production is yet to be fully understood. This study uses an integrated...

Integrating Core and Wireline Log Datasets --- A Pathway to Permeability from AvO Seismic?

Lahra Lanigan, Jarrod Dunne

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and oil porefill cases for each sand facies in this study showed a clear shift due to the hydrocarbon effect. However, only minor differences were...

Data-driven near-surface Q compensation: A case study in Sichuan Basin of China

Xinyuan Feng, Yulian Zhao, Mingtu Xiao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... with the increase of frequency and time, the usual compensation algorithm will overcompensate the high-frequency end, resulting in excessive noise and signal...

Seismic criteria and structural styles for half graben differential inversion: Implication for hydrocarbon accumulation, Abu Sennan blocks, Western Desert, Egypt

Ghada Farrag, Ali Bakr, Ali Abd-Allah, and Sherif El-Shahawy

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... rotations of the continental blocks. The first tectonic event to affect the Mesozoic strata was a Cimmerian/Tethyan (Triassic–Early Jurassic) rifting...

South Florida Basin--A Prime Example of Carbonate Source Rocks of Petroleum

James G. Palacas, Donald E. Anders, J. David King

AAPG Special Volumes

... height. In cases of higher signal-to-noise ratio with little interference, peak areas were used as calculated by a Kratos DS-55 mass-spectrometry...

Quantitative analysis of taphofacies and paleocommunities in the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte

Fangchen Zhao, Jean-Bernard Caron, Shixue Hu, Maoyan Zhu

PALAIOS

... of laminated background and thin event mudstone layers representing two distinct taphofacies, A and B, respectively. Fossils in taphofacies A consist...

Core Resistivity Profiles and Their Bearing on Dipmeter Survey Interpretation

Z. V. Jizba , W. C. Campbell , T. W. Todd

AAPG Bulletin

... effect, provided the cores were soaked a minimum of 10 minutes after saturation with carbon dioxide, and were not exposed to the air after soaking...

System and Method for Automated Detection of Fracture Dependant Interactions

Edgar Dias, Larry Bowden

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... responses and/or water-oil ratio increases in the parent well as shown in Figure 2. The analysis generates FDI event labels based on fluid ratio response...

Improving three-dimensional high-order seismic-stratigraphic interpretation for reservoir model construction: An example of geostatistical and seismic forward modeling of Permian San Andres shelf–Grayburg platform mixed clastic–carbonate strata

Yawen He, Charles Kerans, Hongliu Zeng, Xavier Janson, and Samuel Z. Scott

AAPG Bulletin

... of ±0.5 wavelength. We suggest improving conventional interpretations of the G9 base by selective interpolation or mixed-polarity event picking near...

Mechanisms of Natural Fracturing in a Sedimentary Basin

Kinji Magara

AAPG Bulletin

... aquathermal effect. Because the thickness of erosion usually varied locally, this event could have caused significant lateral variation in fluid potential...

Abstract: Crack-tip Stress Field, Coulomb Failure, and the Spectral Characteristics of Tensile Rupture; #90174 (2014)

David W. Eaton and Chad M. Hogan

Search and Discovery.com

... locations and with event magnitudes that satisfy the Gutenberg-Richter magnitude-recurrence relation. We also consider representative source spectra...

Geological and Structural Interpretation of Ado-Ekiti Southwest and its Adjoining Areas Using Aeromagnetic Data; #30407 (2015)

Ayodeji Jayeoba and Dare Odumade

Search and Discovery.com

... (RMI) data were processed using Butterworth low pass filtering technique to increase the signal to noise ratio and to remove all high frequency...

Effects of a Finite Length Rifting Event on Development of Sedimentary Basins and Continental Margins: ABSTRACT

James R. Cochran, Michael S. Steckler

AAPG Bulletin

...Effects of a Finite Length Rifting Event on Development of Sedimentary Basins and Continental Margins: ABSTRACT James R. Cochran, Michael S. Steckler...

Frac Hit Prevention and Engineered Treatment Design in the Permian Basin Using In-Situ Stress from 3D Seismic

Michael Shoemaker, James Hawkins, John Becher, Veronica Gonzales, Sandeep Mukherjee, Reza Garmeh, David Kuntz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to calculate Poisson’s ratio from the seismic. Prestack common midpoint gathers were conditioned to enhance signal-to-noise. For added sensitivity...

ABSTRACT: Porosity and Heterogeneity Effect on Vp/Vs Ratio in Carbonate Rocks from a Reservoir in the Middle East

Search and Discovery.com

Marine Seismic Sources: Part IV

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Nievaart. www.naracoopaholidayunits.com.au Sound is signal or noise. A listener will define sounds of interest as signals and everything else that might...

Challenges to Processing, Interpretation and Depth Conversion Posed by Dynamic Statics Over the Ujung-Pangkah Field

Donald Easley, Ferry Yustiana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in Figure 7. Reflection statics were also applied with some signal to noise improvement but no advantage was observed for the medium to longer spatial...

Advanced Processing and Inversion of Two AEM Datasets for 3D Geological Modeling: The Case Study of Spiritwood Valley Aquifer; #80434 (2014)

Vincenzo Sapia, Andrea Viezzoli, Greg Oldenborger, Flemming Jørgensen

Search and Discovery.com

... are then averaged spatially increasing signal to noise levels without compromising lateral resolution. Models are constrained spatially to reflect the lateral...

Potential New Method for Paleostress Estimation by Combining Three-dimensional Fault Restoration and Fault Slip Inversion Techniques: First Test on the Skua Field, Timor Sea

A. P. Gartrell, M. Lisk

AAPG Special Volumes

... eastwest, the minimum principal stress (3) oriented approximately northsouth, and a stress ratio (R) of about 0.3, was calculated for the late Miocene...

Burial Diagenesis of Paleosols in the Giant Yacheng Gas Field, People's Republic of China: Bearing on Illite Reaction Pathways

R. H. Lander , S. Bloch, S. Mehta, C. D. Atkinson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to noise ratio and high degree of departure from truly random orientation of the samples preclude quantitative estimation of polytype abundances. K/Ar dates...

Diagenesis of Devonian Reefal Carbonates in the Oscar Range, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Neil F. Hurley , Kyger C. Lohmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is leached. A final generation of ferroan, homogeneous, dull- to non-luminescing blocky calcite cement formed in a late-burial event that, according...

Numerical RTA for Dry Gas Wells

Mathias L. Carlsen, Curtis Hays Whitson, Mohamad M. Dahouk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and water surface rates will be identical during infinite-acting (IA) behavior; (2) with the same ratio LFPꞌ/OGIP, producing water-gas-ratio (WGR...

Accumulation of gas hydrates in mass transport deposits at Krishna-Godavari Basin, Bay of Bengal: Foraminiferal, sedimentologic, and seismic evidence

Ajoy K. Bhaumik, Shiv Kumar, Swagata Chaudhuri, Satabdi Mohanty, Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee, K. Sain, Anil K. Gupta, and Pushpendra Kumar

AAPG Bulletin

... and 1569.19 m, respectively. The 60-fold recorded data with a sampling interval of 1 ms have a high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). The procured data were...

Applying carbon-isotope stratigraphy using well cuttings for high-resolution chemostratigraphic correlation of the subsurface

J. Garrecht Metzger, David A. Fike, and L. B. Smith

AAPG Bulletin

... to alteration of the original signal (for fixed carbonate content). When picking material in a given sample, micritic components seem to have the best...