Estimating Drilling Direction for Optimum Production in a Fractured Reservoir

Richard C. Nolen-Hoeksema , J. H. Howard

AAPG Bulletin

... by an inclined hole. This degenerate case can be reduced to a two-dimensional form by projecting the well bore onto the horizontal plane. The optimum drilling...

Barform deposits of the Carolyn Shoemaker formation, Gale crater, Mars

Benjamin T. Cardenas,, John P. Grotzinger, Michael P. Lamb, Kevin W. Lewis, Christopher M. Fedo, Alexander B. Bryk, William E. Dietrich, Nathan Stein, Madison Turner, Gwénaël Caravaca

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and linearized (projected to a linear CAHV camera model, Yakimovsky and Cunningham (1978)). Linearization results in epipolar-aligned and equally scaled...

The Cuyama Strike-Slip Basin, California, U.S.A.: An Exemplar of Contrasting Syntectonic and Post-Tectonic Strata

Bryce Hoppie, Robert E. Garrison

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... little depositional asymmetry. Minor erosion is distributed equally among regressive and transgressive relative sea-level changes. Asynchronous changes...

Classification of Porosity and Fractures in Reservoir Rocks

W. A. Waldschmidt , P. E. Fitzgerald , C. L. Lunsford

AAPG Bulletin

... over into Group 4. The one exception belonged in Group 4 with some lapping over into Group 5. This sample was about equally divided into anhydrite...

Salt Structures of Gulf of Mexico Basin--A Review

Grover E. Murray

AAPG Special Volumes

... zones (Fisk, 1944; Murray, 1956b). Individual salt stocks are vertical to slightly inclined, with any or all flanks being vertical to inclined. Some...

The Paradox: A Pull-Apart Basin Of Pennsylvanian Age

G. M. Stevenson, D. L. Baars

Four Corners Geological Society

... the Paradox pull-apart basin nucleated and subsequently developed throughout Middle Pennsylvanian time. Smaller sub-basins developed by orthogonal...

Chapter 12: Mowry Shale–Belle Fourche Shale, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA—A Mesozoic Clastic-Biosiliceous Shelf System: A Prolific Source Rock with Associated Mudstone Reservoir Potential

K. M. Bohacs, O. R. Lazar, R. D. Wilson, J. H. S. Macquaker

AAPG Special Volumes

... bedsets are roughly equally common: thickening-upward bedsets comprise 42% of those observed in this facies association, whereas aggradationally stacked...

Chapter 13: Linking Cognitive Science and Disciplinary Geoscience Practice: The Importance of the Conceptual Model

Thomas F. Shipley, Basil Tikoff

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The most common use of cross-sections in textbooks is to present orthogonal sections as faces of a block diagram where the 2-D information in a single...

Comparison of National and Private Petroleum Company Exploration Techniques, Philosophy, and Success

A. A. Meyerhoff

CSPG Bulletin

... of a poorly informed public and of equally poorly informed private and public officials. Public education is only a part of the cure for these hostile...

Sedimentology of the Modern and Holocene Burdekin River Delta of North Queensland, Australia…Controlled by River Output, Not By Waves and Tides

Christopher R. Fielding, Jonathon Trueman, Jan Alexander

Special Publications of SEPM

... facies are somewhat finer-grained but equally well-sorted sands. Three varieties of coastal flats are recognized (mangrove, salt, and other types...

Models for guiding and ranking well-to-well correlations of channel bodies in fluvial reservoirs

Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney, Fabrizio Felletti, and William D. McCaffrey

AAPG Bulletin

... potentially lead to many correlation panels, which are architecturally very different but equally plausible, given that they would equally honor geometric...

Structural Fabric of Serpentinite and Amphibolite Along the Motagua Fault Zone in El Progreso Quadrangle, Guatemala

Paul J. Roper

GCAGS Transactions

... the fault zone the foliation is steeply inclined. Farther to the north the foliation becomes subhorizontal and is related to massive thrust sheets. Within...

New Theory of Continental Spreading

Arthur Wade

AAPG Bulletin

... but with, of course, some modifications of shape and area are inclined to modify their views somewhat in recent years. Papers by Schuchert (6) and Bailey...

Reservoir Modeling by Constraining Stochastic Simulation to Deterministically Interpreted Three-dimensional Geobodies: Case Study from Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Long Lake Steam-assisted Gravity Drainage Project, Northeast Alberta, Canada

Milovan Fustic, David Thurston, Adal Al-Dliwe, Dale A. Leckie, Dany Cadiou

AAPG Special Volumes

...-bedded, bitumen-saturated sand, characterized with scattered dips and with a base marked by breccia or scour, and overlain by inclined heterolithic strata...

Improved Modelling of Pressure-Dependent Permeability Behaviour in Coal Based on a New Workflow of Petrophysics, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Simulation

Honja Miharisoa Ramanandraibe, Ayrton Soares Ribeiro, Raymond Johnson Jr, Zhenjiang You

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... is orthogonal to the hydraulic fracture stimulation orientation (Johnson et al. 2010a, 2010b), in this study Ky . Kx. The ratio between vertical...

Geologic Evolution and Petroleum Geology of the Aleutian Ridge

David W. Scholl, Tracy L. Vallier, Andrew J. Stevenson

Circum Pacific Council Publications

.... D, During approximately the past 6-5 m.y, large volumes of terrigenous debris flooding the trench floor, and a faster and more orthogonal direction...

Land 3D Acquisition Techniques Related to S.E. Asian Situation

Walter Ritchie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the subsurface and the 3D method is considered to be equally applicable to production and development efforts as well as an exploration tool. (Fig. 2...

Toward a Management Science for Unconventional Wells: A Methodological Approach

Richard R. Batsell, Sanjay Paranji, Jason S. Mintz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the information across several correlated independent variables and render that information in orthogonal predictor vectors ; 2) thus allowing...

Horizontal Well Evaluation to Determine Geological Facies, Mechanical Properties, and Natural Fracture Changes Using Slim Through-the-Bit Dipole Sonic and Oil-Based Microimaging Tools

Edgar Velez, Elia Haddad, Firas Al Shaikh, Ghada Barbour, Kyle Barrie

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... motion, acting as a pressure pulse that radially contracts and expands in the URTeC 5459 7 borehole equally in all directions. In the presence...

The Composition of Fluvial Sands in a Temperate Semiarid Region

John A. Breyer, H. A. Bart

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... equally spaced. Because unequal spacing did not allow orthogonal polynomials to be used along the North Platte-Platte segment, coefficients of linear...

Colombia-Venezuela-Trinidad Prolific Oil Province: Revised Triassic-Recent Depotectonic History, by R. Higgs, #30057 (2008).

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Staggered source acquisition to improve images fidelity

Chunming Wang, Hongwei Guo, Gengxin Peng, Ying Hu, Junru Jiao, Bin Yang, Kun Xu, Grace Yan, Xianhuai Zhu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in conventional layout into multi-sub-shot lines. The subshot lines are equally staggered along the shooting direction within rolling interval between...

Structural Stage Spacing: A Win-Win-Win Technique for EUR, Costs and HSE

Ben Stephenson, Randall Fannin, Chris Dick, Marty Williams, Deniz Cakici

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... during stimulation and prevent the stimulation of the surrounding shale. This concept is equally applicable to other large-scale planar structural...

Numerical Methods for Mineral Estimation from Well Logs

John H. Doveton

Special Publications of SEPM

... in a Cartesian space, where the measurement logs are orthogonal reference axes. Finally if reference minerals are located in this log space...

Runoff Microdeltas: A Potential Emergence Indicator in Cross-Bedded Sandstones

R. W. Dalrymple

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) have described numerous emergence indicators for distinguishing between intertidal and subtidal sediments, but many of them could be used equally well...