Distinct-element Stress Modeling in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin, South Australia

Suzanne P. Hunt, Peter J. Boult

AAPG Special Volumes

... the Coulomb slip model (Figure 5). Below the frictional limit, only elastic deformation (strain) occurs (Figure 5a). At a constant magnitude of applied...

Predicting the regional distribution of fracture networks using the distinct element numerical method

Bronwyn A. Camac, Suzanne P. Hunt

AAPG Bulletin

.... 259270.Dee, S. J., G. Yielding, B. Freeman, D. Healy, H. J. Kusznir, N. Grant, and P. Ellis, 2007b, Elastic dislocation modeling for prediction of small scale...

Compressibility of sorptive porous media: Part 2. Experimental study on coal

Shimin Liu and Satya Harpalani

AAPG Bulletin

..., methane is mainly stored in coal as sorbed gas, and reservoir depletion leads to desorption of gas in coal that is accompanied by a non-elastic...

Restorations of faulted domes

Mohammed M. Al-Fahmi, Andreas Plesch, John H. Shaw, and John C. Cole

AAPG Bulletin

... for density and Lamé’s elastic constants as shown in Table 1. The restorations were driven by implementing a displacement boundary condition to the top...

Mechanism and continuity of gypsum smears in the East Qiulitage anticline, Kuqa foreland basin, China

Tong Wu, Xiaofei Fu, Haixue Wang, Mingxu Lu, Lingdong Meng, and Lei Gong

AAPG Bulletin

... increase, as do the number of fractures (Figure 7E, F). In addition, the elastic moduli determined from the stress–strain curves for mudstone and gypsum...

The Three Elements of Structural Geology Part 5, #41849 (2016).

Terry Engelder,

Search and Discovery.com

... Stress Trajectories in an Elastic Earth 2.1.7 2.1.8 2.1.9 Natural Hydraulic Fracturing Hydrocarbon Fluid Migration Characteristics of a Single Joint...

AVO Seismic Technology - Workshop Summary

Brian Russell

PTTC

...-Richards AVO Hodogram Biot-Gassmann Crossplotting Elastic Impedance Inversion P- and S-Waves Polarization Angle shear is defined as shear modulus µ. P...

Reservoir Characterization for Gas Production and CO2 Sequestration

Adriana Gordon, Raul Cova, Evan Mutual, Bill Goodway, Scott Leaney, Wendell Pardasie, Matt Ng

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., serving as weights for inversion guidance. Low-frequency models for all the elastic properties (AI, Vp/Vs, and density) were built using filtered well log...

GeoMind: An intelligent earth model building tool

Saleh Al Saleh, Ewenet Gashawbeza, Mustafa Marzooq, Hussam Banaja, Husain Al Shakhs, Jianwu Jiao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... an elastic modeling program to simulate the seismic response of each model. This continuous process keeps enhancing the prediction accuracy of GeoMind...

Intelligent static and dynamic reservoir model building based on knowledge networks

Miguel Bosch

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of subsurface model reconstruction, the nodes represent subsurface properties (e.g. lithology, porosity, elastic parameters, mass density) and observed data...

Advancing water resource assessment with InSAR data and subsidence models

Ryan Smith

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of deformation, have enabled this advancement. InSAR has proven to be a valuable tool for characterizing elastic deformation in regions experiencing little long...

Some Results of Dynamic Analysis of Reflected Waves in the Area of the Kuleshov Oil Field

A. I. Belyayeva, O. I. Rogoza, S. A. Semenova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...) conditions at point of reception, 4) parameters of the recording apparatus, 5) elastic properties of the surface formations and particularly...

TTI Wave Equation Migration by Phase-Shift Plus Interpolation

Richard A. Bale

Search and Discovery.com

... parameters. The method is demonstrated on an elastic synthetic dataset generated over a thrust-belt setting, as found in the Canadian Foothills...

TTI Wave Equation Migration by Phase-Shift Plus Interpolation

Richard A. Bale

Search and Discovery.com

... parameters. The method is demonstrated on an elastic synthetic dataset generated over a thrust-belt setting, as found in the Canadian Foothills...

Abstract: Principle Stress Estimation in Shale Plays using 3D Seismic; #90172 (2014)

David Gray, Paul Anderson, John Logel, Franck Delbecq, Darren Schmidt

Search and Discovery.com

... reservoir. Method Hooke’s Law is a fundamental elastic relationship relating strain to stress. Therefore, it represents the fundamentals of hydraulic...

Abstract: Investigating Physical Mechanisms of Seismic Anelasticity; #90174 (2014)

T. Coulman and Igor Morozov

Search and Discovery.com

... and the other being a known elastic standard (Figure 1). A torsional or axial sinusoidal force is applied to the standard and through it, to the rock sample...

An Analytical Formulation of Seismic-derived Resistivity, by Denny Merkurius F. Mendrofa and Bambang Widarsono, #40245 (2007).

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Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 1. Damage fracturing

Seth Busetti, Kyran Mish, Ze'ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... a linear elastic matrix populated with penny-shaped cracks (Kachanov, 1992). In this scheme, the energy expression considers the effective moduli, e (d, d...

Enhancing Consistency Between Geological Modeling and Seismic Pre-Stack Amplitude Inversion With Pseudo-Wells: An Example From the Gendalo Field

David Glenn, Febry Hariyannugraha, Rhys Schneider, Khristina Kirschner, Skip Walden, Steve Smith, Eduardo Berendson, Chris Skelt, Leonard Lisapaly, Robert van Eykenhof, Mark Sams

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., seismic attributes, and a conceptual geological model. A transform between NTG and elastic rock properties enabled conversion of the * ** *** **** Unocal...

Fit For Purpose Integrated Structural Identification Using Azimuthal Monopole Sonic Waveforms and Vertical Seismic Profiling: The First Case Study From The Vertical Unconventional Well in North Sumatera Basin - Indonesia

Erfandi Adhiansyah, Annisa Nur Mahdiya, Murthala Hatta, Irma Eliza, Barry Albert Lumankun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in North Sumatera Indonesia an advanced acoustic wireline data set was acquired to assess the degree of anisotropy and the formation elastic properties...

Anisotropy Analysis in Shale Using Advanced Sonic Data - Bakken Case Study, #41049 (2012)

Mehdi Ostadhassan, Zhengwen Zeng, Hadi Jabbari

Search and Discovery.com

...), in order to entirely characterize VTI medium, five independent elastic moduli are needed; As previously noted, in the vertical wells perpendicular...

The Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico: Flexural Modeling and Evidence for Lithospheric Heterogeneity Across the Marathon Foreland

Kenn-Ming Yang, Steven L. Dorobek

Special Publications of SEPM

... were Results from flexural then used to calculate static profiles of the deflected lithosphere using flexural models for elastic lithosphere...

A Reply to Porter's Review

John Morton

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... constants A and B are general for the Cooper Basin but more specific constants have been developed (Overton & Hamilton 1986). This equation may be re...

Abstract: Macro-velocity Model Building in a Laplace-domain Waveform Inversion; #90174 (2014)

Changsoo Shin and Wansoo Ha

Search and Discovery.com

... inversion are very smooth regardless of the damping constants for synthetic datasets. When compared to a frequency-domain inversion, the shapes of Laplace...

A Comprehensive Workflow for Propagation Simulation and Structural Characterisation of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures in Naturally Fractured Unconventional Oil Reservoirs

Long Ren, Shiyuan Zhan, Desheng Zhou, Yuliang Su, Wendong Wang, Mingqiang Chen, Cheng Jing, Jian Sun, Kang Tang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... constants (for pseudo-3D models, α=1 and β=2.3), dij is the distance between the centers of elements i and j; and are the elastic coefficients...