Stress Inversion via Borehole Image Log and Fracturing Data: Integrated Approach

Mojtaba P. Shahri, Hamed Chok, Jian Huang, Peter Elkington

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...n Fig. 2b, induced tensile fractures have a trace angle of FTA with respect to the wellbore axis because of an existing shear stress compo...

Ice Cores and Global Warming

D. B. Swift, R. Erdlac, Jr.

West Texas Geological Society

... proposed an IGY ice coring program for continental glacial ice sheets. As a result of Dr. Bader’s proposal, ice cores were drilled at both Byrd Station...

Integrated well data and 3D seismic inversion study for reservoir delineation and description

Qazi Sohail Imran, Numair Ahmad Siddiqui, Abdul Halim Abdul Latif, Yasir Bashir, Almasgari Abdalsalam, Abduh Saeed Ali, Muhammad Jamil

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... fields in the eastern and western sides. Figure 1 shows the location of study area, play types and major fault zones. The size of the area is 30 km by 12...

Hydrocarbon Flushing in the Eromanga Basin - Fact or Fallacy?

K. C. Moriarty, A. F. Williams

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... = 0, i.e. under hydrostatic conditions, the angle of tilt is zero and there is no hydrodynamic effect. When groundwater gradients do exist within...

Abstract: The Impact of CEC, Salinity, Mineralogy, and Particle Size Distribution on Multistage Triaxial Measurements of Reconsolidated Mudrocks; #90283 (2016)

Mohab Dessouki, Michael Myers, Lori Hathon

Search and Discovery.com

... the friction angle was found to increase with increasing salinity. This effect is believed to be due to double layer or porosity effects...

Critical Geomechanics Concepts for Hydraulic Fracturing and Well Completions in Shales; #41210 (2013)

Neal Nagel

Search and Discovery.com

... AAPG Wksp: Geomechanics of Shales and Carbonates 35-HF July 16, 2013 NF Friction Angle Effect Nagel, et al., SPE 147363 Nagel, et al., SPE 152192...

Using Stage Level Microseismic Analysis to Gain Insight Into Fracture Efficiency and Completion Effectiveness

Iris Haihong Wang, Ryan Fairfield, James Courtier, Danny Gray, Shawn Lee

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the total time elapsed during a single completion stage; Despite location errors, directionality of where events are occurring can be identified, which...

Analytical Approach for Multivariate Exploration Planning via Secondary Migration Modelling

Amin Shokrollahi, Sara Borazjani, Syeda Sara Mobasher, Ulrike Schacht, Khalid Amrouch, Pavel Bedrikovetsky

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., it is the identification of probable petroleum traps within a set of stratigraphic traps of a particular location of source rock and carrier bed. One solution lies...

Modeling of Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Incorporating Hydraulic and Natural Fractures Interaction

Kildare George Ramos Gurjao, Eduardo Gildin, Richard Gibson, Mark Everett

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... natural fractures are varied: (1) orientation angle ranging from ±20° to ±60°, (2) fracture density examining 5 to 20 natural fractures per cluster...

New Fullbore Production Logging Sensor Improves the Evaluation of Production in Deviated and Horizontal Wells

Calvin Kessler, Gary Frisch

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is determined from data obtained from multiple passes of an in-line or fullbore spinner or from data obtained from station measurements made...

Geotechnical Applications in Soft Sediments: Section 2

Wayne A. Dunlap

AAPG Special Volumes

... on structures. Considering the first effect, laboratory cyclic loading tests show that significant strength losses can occur under repeated loading, especially...

Coastal Processes and Depositional Patterns on Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Robert W. Cunningham , William T. Fox

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to the shoreline whereas at Good Harbor Beach (z), the wave rays approch at an angle from the north. Thus in nor'easters little or no longshore drift should...

Structural Petrology of the Pico Anticline, Los Angeles County, California

Lawrence C. Bonham

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (10° to 15°), the effect is evident in some of the fabric diagrams presented later. S-Surfaces Planes of stratification are the most prominent...

Composition and Discrimination of Sandstones: A Statistical Evaluation of Different Analytical Methods

Hilmar von Eynatten, Carles Barcelo-Vidal, Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of altered sandstones: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 548-558. DECKER J., AND HELMOLD, K.P., 1985, The effect of grain size on detrital modes...

Shallow-Marine and Estuarine Benthic Molluscan Communities from Area of Beaufort, North Carolina

Samuel O. Bird

AAPG Bulletin

... above station 10A and that location was taken as the upstream limit of the estuary in this study. The mean annual salinity at the station is about 8.0...

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

... A&M University, College Station, Texas, 111p. Corbett, K.P., 1989, Natural hydrofracturing and ductile faulting in the Austin Chalk, Texas: American...

Ground-Penetrating Radar Study of North Padre Island: Implications for Barrier Island Internal Architecture, Model for Growth of Progradational Microtidal Barrier Islands, and Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Cyclicity

James R. Garrison Jr., Joshua Williams, Sara Potter Miller, Egon T. Weber II, George McMechan, Xiaoxian Zeng

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: College Station, Texas, 163 p. Andrews, P.B., 1970, Facies and Genesis of a Hurricane Washover Fan, St. Joseph Island, Central Texas Coast...

Improvement of Seismic Depth Imaging on Carbonate Reef Through the Application of Common Reflection Angle Migration: An Example From Salawati Basin, Indonesia

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Improved Technique for Determination of Densities and Porosities

H. R. Brankstone , W. B. Gealy , W. O. Smith

AAPG Bulletin

... the specimen by oven drying should precede any coating process. MAGNITUDE OF ERRORS DUE TO PROTECTIVE COATINGS The effect of a thin coating may...

Oil Industry’s Interest and Involvement in Oceanographic and Marine Meteorological Matters

G. Verboom, C. J. Shaw

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... It is of course well known that the oceans have a dominating effect on the world’s climate and weather, and we could spend considerable time in discussing...

Quartz Grain Orientations--1 (The Photometric Method)

R. F. Sippel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the computer, and the two forms of instrument are compared in their ability to analyze assumed three-dimensional distributions of quartz grain c axes. Effect...

Role of the Bosporus in Black Sea Chemistry and Sedimentation: Water

R. Scholten

AAPG Special Volumes

... surface current slopes northward at an angle which is a function of the two densities and the hydraulic head. When sea level is only moderately high...

ABSTRACT Prediction of Open Fractures in Granite Basement: A Proven Successful Geo-Mechanical Approach, #90128 (2011)

Dirk A. Nieuwland

Search and Discovery.com

... to the strike of the open fractures. Clearly, the location and orientation of such fractures needs to be known. Often the maximum depth to which...

Post-Laramide, Collapse-Related Fracturing and Associated Production; Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Ryan C. Thompson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... value is high at each station indicating consistent fracture sampling. Table 2. Outcrop fracture stations, location, formation symbols (see Table 1...

Formation Evaluation of Type-1 Fractured Basement Rocks Using Borehole Data

Adriaan A. Bal, Javier Franquet, Stephen Dymmock, Robert Maddock, Glen Palamountain, Ali Baradi, Dinah Pantic, Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reservoirs have very low-to-zero matrix porosity, and permeability is restricted to fracture permeability. In effect, most if not all, hydrocarbon...