Environments and Diagenesis, Morrow Sands, Cimarron County (Oklahoma), and Significance to Regional Exploration, Production and Well Completion Practices

Raymond E. Kasino, David K. Davies

Tulsa Geological Society

..., penetration of an estuary fill may yield a coarsening upward sand body of fluvial origin surrounded by marginal marine sediments. Exploration and Exploitation...

Economic Geology of the Gulf of Mexico and the Blake Ridge Gas Hydrate Provinces

Alexei V. Milkov, Roger Sassen

GCAGS Transactions

... contribute to eventual cost-effective exploitation of gas hydrate in the future. The geologic and economic factors listed are less favorable in the Blake...

Integration of 3-D and Site Survey Seismic Data in Analysis of near-Surface Hazards to Platform Location at Dulang Field, Malay Basin

Zuraida Mat Isa, F. W. Richards, Hamzah Yunus

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... of these datasets provided a faster and more effective method of assessing shallow hazards to platform installation than using the site survey data alone...

A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Mohammed Kurdi, Hamid Roshan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to be deduced from the in-situ stresses to analyse the near wellbore area. To take the effective stress into account in the calculation, the pore...

Navigating full-waveform inversion success in Mexico with complex geology: Shallow-water and land case studies

Wei Kang, Federico Fenoglio, Liubov Mulisheva, Pavel Vasilyev, Luxin Zhang, Abdalla Abouelela, Xin Cheng, Denes Vigh, Silvino Dominguez Garcia, Alejandro Cabrales, Alfredo Vazquez Cantu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... azimuth of the existing data when the exploration targets are beyond refraction penetration depth and present sharp velocity contrasts. To overcome...

Diver-Operated Simple Hand Tools for Coring Nearshore Sands: NOTES

John E. Sanders

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to penetration of the coring tube and (2) loss of sample from the lower end of the coring tube. By means of the diver-operated tools described herein both...

Technological Revolution in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 11

Edgar Wesley Owen, C. V. Millikan

AAPG Special Volumes

... penetration rate. If samples are required the mud program can he so designed, usually with no substantial effect on the drilling rate. Section 6. Deviated...

Basin Filling Sequences in Active Margin Basins Determined by Seismic Stratigraphic Methods

T. R. Nardin, D. S. Gorsline

Pacific Section SEPM

... becomes a less effective path for subsequent flows. At that time, just as in the avulsion of subaerial delta distributaries, the next major flow overtops...

Substrate Destruction and Sediment Production by the Boring Sponge Cliona Caribbaea on Grand Cayman Island

Kelly Lee Acker, Michael J. Risk

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Coral Reef Syrup., v. 3, p. 477-483. MOORE, C. H., JR., AND SHEDD, W. W., 1977, Effective rates of sponge bioerosion as a function of carbonate...

Development of a Hydrofacies Framework for Dual-Domain Transport Modeling

Mary K. Harris, Margaret R. Millings and Gregory P. Flach

Search and Discovery.com

... has delineated facies through multi-scale field characterization data (cone penetration testing (CPT), rotosonic coring, gamma logs, water and soil...

Review: Geophysical Methods for Karst Detection and Mapping

T. L. Dobecki

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... in Europe (Colley, 1963; Neumann, 1967) but less frequently applied in the United States (Arzi, 1975; Butler, 1984). The method is most effective for voids...

Imaging two-dimensional transition zone seismic data in geologically complex areas using a highly heterogeneous data acquisition configuration

Hussain I. Hammad, Valmore Celis Franco

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., five types of sources are employed: three-differently-sized airguns, seismic vibrators, and impulsive sources. While the acquisition is multiform...

Optimal survey design for full-waveform inversion via bi-level optimization

H. S. Aghamiry, S. Operto

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of Cˆ te d’Azur, Geoazur, CNRS o - IRD - OCA, Valbonne, France; ‡ Speaker SUMMARY tion cost (Liner and Underwood, 1999). Effective Full-Waveform...

Evolution of Modern Caribbean Fringing Reef, Galeta Point, Panama

I. G. Macintyre , P. W. Glynn

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1972). However, these methods have limited depths of penetration and they also may severely alter local environments. The most effective alternative...

Submarine Slumps

David G. Moore

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... plus the product of the effective load normal to the shear plane and the tangent of the effective internal friction angle. Cohesion is that portion...

Processes and Rates of Recent (Holocene) Basin Filling in an Active Transform Margin: Santa Monica Basin, California Continental Borderland

D. N. Malouta , D. S. Gorsline, S. E. Thornton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... from the northern mainland sources (Gorsline, 1980; Thornton, 1981; Hein and Gorsline, 1981). Santa Monica Basin is located in a moderate sedimentation...

Conoco Belida Field - Directional Drilling Case Study

J. R. Fairbaim

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... USD 377 / ft to USD 292 / ft over the life of the project. Effective bottom hole assembly design allowed 12-1/4" hole sections to be drilled with one...

Dominant Factors in the Formation of Firm and Soft Sand Beaches

E. M. Kindle

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., the other dry, the penetration of the nail in the dry sand will be four or five times greater than in the wet sand. Perhaps the most puzzling beach feature...

ROP Improvement and Vibration Management with 17½ In. Hybrid Drill Bit Saved a USD 1.9 M Run in Arafura Sea Deepwater Operation

A. Mayendra, N. Tokuda, T. Waragai

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... In addition, the rate of penetration (ROP) increased by 45% from the best offset well, especially in the “hard limestone” above the Wangarlu...

Advances in the Application of Biostratigraphy to Petroleum Exploration and Production, by G.O. Giwa, A.C. Oyede, and E.A. Okosun, #50029 (2006).

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Abstract: Understanding Unconventional Resource Potential by Conventional Petroleum Systems Assessment

Dan Jarvie, Ron Hill

West Texas Geological Society

.... Establishing the effective source rock for various conventional reservoirs requires correlation of source rock extracts to oils. Effective source rocks...

Alaskan North Slope Oils and Source Rocks: BASIC SOURCE ROCK EVALUATION AND CARBON ISOTOPE

J. E. Keal, W. G. Dow

AAPG Special Volumes

... locally effective or expended oil source beds but most often contain primarily gas-generating organic matter. Organic facies variations occur within...

Knowledge-Based Geologic Information Systems Keystone Resort, Colorado, May 13-15, 1985

Charles F. Iglehart, John L. Stout

AAPG Bulletin

... sources and compiling economic and geologic information. Other topics included the relational aspects of organizing geographic information...

ABSTRACT: The Successful Development of Shale Gas Resources in the United States, by Daniel J. Soeder; #90154 (2012)

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Abstract: Evaluating the Impact of Mineralogy on Reservoir Quality and Completion Quality of Organic Shale Plays, by Helena Gamero-Diaz, Camron K. Miller, Richard Lewis, and Carmen C. Contreras-Fuentes; #90169 (2013)

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