The equivalent pore aspect ratio as a tool for pore type prediction in carbonate reservoirs

François Fournier, Matthieu Pellerin, Quentin Villeneuve, Thomas Teillet, Fei Hong, Emmanuelle Poli, Jean Borgomano, Philippe Léonide, and Alex Hairabian

AAPG Bulletin

... effective models (Cleary et al., 1980; Norris, 1985; Zimmerman, 1991) has been commonly used to model the velocity–porosity and elastic moduli–velocity...

A Novel Method for Experimental Characterization of the Poroelastic Constants in Unconventional Formations

Deepak Gokaraju, Munir Aldin, Akshay Thombare, Abhijit Mitra, Sudarshan Govindarajan, Robert Patterson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Novel Method for Experimental Characterization of the Poroelastic Constants in Unconventional Formations Deepak Gokaraju, Munir Aldin, Akshay...

Compressibility, Porosity, and Permeability of Shales Involving Stress Shock and Loading/Unloading Hysteresis

Faruk Civan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... implements a kinetic model and the second approach applies an elastic cylindrical pore-shell model. Both approaches yield high-quality correlations...

Quantitative Interpretation in the Bedout Sub-basin: The value of seismic inversion in areas of sub-optimal seismic data quality

M. Kongawoin, A. Pauli, A. Locke, L. Hansen

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... quality M Kongawoin 1, A Pauli 2, A Locke 2 & L Hansen 1 Keywords: Bedout, Caley Formation, quantitative interpretation, rock physics, elastic properties...

Volumetric strain associated with methane desorption and its impact on coalbed gas production from deep coal seams

Xiaojun Cui, R. Marc Bustin

AAPG Bulletin

... Langmuir constants are fit parameters of measured pressure and adsorbed volume data. VL and pL and other variables in the text are described in Table 1...

One more stride forward in Thunder Horse subsalt imaging with elastic FWI

Bunmi Elebiju, Qingsong Li, Ken Hartman, Francis Rollins, Ye Feng, Karl Kaiser, Werner Schinagl, Chi Chen, Alex Yanjun Hao, Zhiyuan Wei, Jiawei Mei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...One more stride forward in Thunder Horse subsalt imaging with elastic FWI Bunmi Elebiju, Qingsong Li, Ken Hartman, Francis Rollins, Ye Feng, Karl...

Facies-constrained elastic full-waveform inversion for tilted orthorhombic media

Ashish Kumar, Ilya Tsvankin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Facies-constrained elastic full-waveform inversion for tilted orthorhombic media Ashish Kumar, Ilya Tsvankin Facies-constrainted elastic full...

Reservoir characterization using multi-seed stochastic inversion

Vincent Thomas, Nicolas Desgoutte, Nathalie Lucet

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., the dataset is well adapted to the comparison of various inversion and characterization techniques. Deterministic elastic inversion Deterministic...

Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Structures, Part II: Propagation of a Pressurized Fracture in Rock Layers with Damage Rheology; #40484 (2010)

Seth Busetti and Ze'ev Reches

Search and Discovery.com

... a wellbore-scale section of layers with frictional contacts located away from near-borehole effects. Beds of high elastic modulus and yield strength reflect...

Impacts of Kerogen and Clay on Stress-Dependent Permeability Measurements of Shale Reservoirs

Cheng An, Xuyang Guo, John Killough

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with clay content. By studying the elastic moduli and ductile creep behavior of shale gas reservoir rocks from Barnett, Haynesville, Eagle Ford...

Displacement Geometry in the Volume Containing a Single Normal Fault

Jim A. M. Barnett , John Mortimer , John H. Rippon , John J. Walsh , Juan Watterson

AAPG Bulletin

... displacements vary by an order of magnitude (Figure 5), which could be accounted for by rigidity moduli values differing by a factor of ^radical10 (equation 3...

Iraqi Kurdistan: Its All in the Timing

Abdullah Awdal, Jon Gutmanis

GEO ExPro Magazine

... that the rock consists of layers that have different mechanical responses to stress, because they have different strengths and different elastic moduli...

The Heart Mountain detachment enigma resolved, yet again

EDWARD C. BEUTNER, GREGORY P. GERBI, LINDSAY M. SCHOENBOHM

Montana Geological Society

... a residual Laramide horizontal stress in the region and 3 km of cover at the time (ca. 48 mya) of detachment, and use appropriate elastic...

Abstract/Excerpts: Improving Petroleum Systems Modeling with Basin-Scale 3D Stress-Strain Models, by Thomas Hantschel, Michael Fuecker, Tim Matava, and Armin Kauerauf; #120098 (2013)

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Abstract: Identifying Reservoir Drainage Patterns from Microseismic Data; #90187 (2014)

Andreas Wuestefeld, Ted Urbancic, and Adam Baig

Search and Discovery.com

... of lithology, elastic moduli, and/or dominant fluid flow paths caused by the discrete fracture network. Figure 2) Orientations of strain axis...

Abstracts: 2-D Finite-difference Modelling of Pore-pressure Diffusion in Heterogeneous Anisotropic Porolelastic Media: Implications for Induced Microseismicity; #90173 (2015)

David W. Eaton

Search and Discovery.com

... on relatively few poroelastic parameters such as permeability, dynamic fluid viscosity and elastic moduli. The concepts are illustrated here with numerical...

Abstracts: Tuning Effects in P-wave Reflections from a CO2 Injected Saline Aquifer: A Preliminary Appraisal; #90173 (2015)

Bernard Giroux, Maxime Claprood, and Lorenzo Perozzi

Search and Discovery.com

...) using available log data. Elastic moduli of the solid and drained matrix were obtained from the mineralogy content, respectively after application...

Seismic Imaging of Gas Hydrate Distribution - A Case Study; #80441 (2015)

Jun-Wei Huang

Search and Discovery.com

..., certain correlation lengths are assigned to the second gas hydrate layer and 2-D elastic models are constructed (Figure 3a). Receivers to capture...

Integrated Geologic Analysis from Two Marcellus Shale Science Wells in Northeastern West Virginia; #51359 (2017)

Thomas J. Paronish, Shuvajit Bhattacharya, Timothy Carr

Search and Discovery.com

... the Marcellus (7445’ to • Mineralogy logs (ELAN and Lithoscanner) 7557’) • Sonic Scanner (Dipole sonic, Elastic • 50 Sidewall Cores for TOC...

Understanding the Variation in Drilling Rate Index with Fracture Toughness and Tensile Strength of Intact Rocks … Some Laboratory Scale Studies and Their Implications in Drilling, #70259 (2017).

Rahul Talreja, Rajeev Ranjan, V.M.S.R. Murthy, Shri B Munshi

Search and Discovery.com

... for elastic moduli of rock core specimens in uniaxial compression. American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM Designation D 3148-72...

Fracture Surface Area Estimation from Main Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Pressure Falloff Data

Tong Zhou, Guoqing Liu, Fengxia Li, Yuanzhao Li, Christine Ehlig-Economides

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...; 𝑥𝑥 𝑓𝑓 , 𝑅𝑅 𝑓𝑓 and ℎ 𝑓𝑓 are fracture half-length, radius and height; 𝛽𝛽𝑠𝑠 and 𝑔𝑔0 are constants. URTeC 40 3 Table 1 Area exponent...

Seismic-attribute Analysis for Gas-hydrate and Free-gas Prospects on the North Slope of Alaska

M. W. Lee, T. S. Collett, T. L. Inks

AAPG Special Volumes

... pressure of 10 MPa. Table 1 shows the elastic constants used for modeling. For a reference, velocities and velocity ratios for the water-saturated shaly...

Insights on Hydrocarbon-Generation Microfracturing in Organic-Rich Shales

Mohammed Al Duhailan, Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Lawrence D. Meckel

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on the anisotropy of the elastic moduli (Young modulus 𝐸 and Poisson’s ratio 𝑣). For kerogen aspect ratio 𝜓 = 1 , the difference between the principle...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 14: 3-D Coupled Basin Reaction, Transport, and Mechanics Modeling: Applications to Fracture, Fault, and Salt Tectonic Regimes

Tuncay, K., A. Park, P. Ortoleva

AAPG Special Volumes

...: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v. 68, p. 18091819.Berryman, J. G., 1986, Effective medium approximation for elastic constants of porous...

Risk Reduction for Effectively Increasing Drilling Efficiency in the Thin Reservoirs of the Three Forks of the Williston Basin. A Case Study Employing a Geostatistical Seismically Constrained Subsurface Geomodel

Inna Tsybulkina, Cesar Marin, Kevin Chesser, Shane Mogensen, Samuel D. Fluckiger

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the highest possible signal-to-noise ratio and lateral continuity (Figure 1). Data conditioning improves the correlation of elastic properties predicted...