Modeling Complex Reservoir Geometries Accurately: Using the Right 3Dgrid Types

Christian Höcker, Jonathan Zwaan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... conditions. • Accurate full-field modelling can only be done with grid types that are insensitive to fault directions. • Infill drilling with smallish...

Electrical Survey of Structural Conditions in Salt Flat Field, Caldwell County, Texas

Helmer Hedstrom

AAPG Bulletin

... points out the difficulties in mapping the oil structure of the Balcones fault zone in Texas in the usual way, by a study of surface geology. Core...

Seismological Review of the Santa Monica Mountains, California

Gerry W. Simila, Derek N. Reiber, Herbert G. Adams

Pacific Section SEPM

... fault region exhibits minor seismic activity. The associated focal mechanisms of several M=S.O+ events represent reverse faulting along east-west-trending...

Reply: A Case for Brittle Deformation of the Basement During the Laramide Revolution in the Rocky Mountain Foreland Province

Vincent Matthews III

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... , Engelder, J. T, Geiser, F? A , Hatcher, R. D., Klsh, S. A., Odorn, A L ,and Schamel, S , 1984, Fault-relatedrocks. Suggestions for terrnlnology Geology...

Tectonic Evolution Models for the Black Sea

Aral. I. Okay, Naci Grr

AAPG Special Volumes

...-slip fault that opened the west Black Sea basin follows the margin of the mid-Black Sea ridge.A kinematic model for the opening of the Black Sea, based...

Geology of Central Grant Range, Nevada

Jack H. Hyde , Gerald W. Huttrer

AAPG Bulletin

..., and Beaty Canyon faults. The Grant Canyon fault emplaces gently dipping Middle Cambrian limestone and shale over steeply dipping Lower Cambrian Prospect...

Sequence stratigraphic responses to shoreline-perpendicular growth faulting in shallow marine reservoirs of the Champion field, offshore Brunei Darussalam, South China Sea

D. Hodgetts, J. Imber, C. Childs, S. Flint, J. Howell, J. Kavanagh, P. Nell, J. Walsh

AAPG Bulletin

..., offshore Brunei Darussalam, comprises a thick middle-upper Miocene succession of shallow marine sediments associated with major growth fault systems...

ABSTRACT: TECTONIC EVOLUTION MODELS FOR THE BLACK SEA; #90024 (2004)

Aral I.Okay, Naci Görür

Search and Discovery.com

... Black Sea fault in the west, which is one of the two strike-slip faults that railroaded the Istanbul zone to its present position. The West Black Sea...

Resolving the Structural Complexities in the Deepwater Niger-Delta Fold and Thrust Belt: A Case Study from the Western Lobe, Nigerian Offshore Depobelt, #10289 (2010)

Olabode S. Matthew, Jason Won, George Udoekong, Olaoluwa O. Ibilola, Dolapo Dixon

Search and Discovery.com

... to the east and west of the wrench fault, resulting in diverse structural styles in the deepwater Nigerian Offshore. Copyright © AAPG. Serial rights...

Incorporating Fault Intensity and AVO Inversion to Characterize a Shale Gas Reservoir; #41346 (2014)

Carl Reine and Sean Lovric

Search and Discovery.com

...Incorporating Fault Intensity and AVO Inversion to Characterize a Shale Gas Reservoir; #41346 (2014) Carl Reine and Sean Lovric Incorporating Fault...

The Franciscan Assemblage and Great Valley Sequence in the Geysers-Clear Lake Region of Northern California

Robert J. McLaughlin

Pacific Section of AAPG

... three roughly stratiform, fault-bounded structural units that reflect the northeast dipping imbricate structure imposed on the Franciscan during...

AI: Game-Changer in Development or Exploration „ or Both?

Mark Brownless, Ryan Williams, Dave Brett

GEO ExPro Magazine

... an interpreter’s workflow. Another benefit of AI is its ability to interpret across the Geoteric Figure 1: Time slice at 800 ms of AI fault confidence...

Kinematic 3D Analysis of Dina Field Structure from Growth Strata Patterns, Neiva Sub-Basin, Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia

P. A. Galindo, F. Corredor

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... field structure, located in the western fold and thrust belt of the Upper Magdalena Basin, Colombia, to describe the 3D kinematic evolution of this fault...

Fracture and regional stress-related upper crustal azimuthal anisotropy in the vicinity of the 2016 M5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma, earthquake

Enyuan Jiang, Yan Jia, Jiaqian Liang, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... For raypaths mainly traveling through the fault zone of the M5.1 earthquake, the observed fast orientations are mostly parallel to the faults...

Ore Deposits of the North Tintic Mining District

A. E. Disbrow, H. T. Morris

Utah Geological Association

... they are cut by the New Bullion fault which trends N. 60° W. and dips about 45° to the southwest. On the ridge 600 feet north of the New Bullion adit...

Reducing Exploration Risk in the Offshore Northern Perth Basin: Trap Integrity Study Addresses a Key Exploration Risk

Richard Kempton, Laurent Langhi, Yanhua Zhang, Chris Nicholson, John Kennard, Nadege Rollet, George Bernardel

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the potential of available as a CSIRO open file report (Lang hi et al fault reactivation as a critical exploration risk 2012) which can be downloaded...

Rift Systems: Synrift and Postrift Sequences in the Northern North Sea

Tom Pettersen, Per Terje Svela, and Halfdan Carstens

AAPG Special Volumes

... The resulting basin structure is characterized by tilted Jurassic fault blocks separated by listric faults and buried by a thick Cretaceous-Tertiary...

Differential Compaction as a Cause of Regional Contemporaneous Faults

Robert E. Carver

AAPG Bulletin

... for a particular depocenter. As new depocenters are established higher in the section and gulfward, regional contemporaneous fault zones are established...

Effect of Faulting on Fluid Flow in Porous Sandstones: Geometry and Spatial Distribution

Marco Antonellini, Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... present a methodology to describe fault geometry at different scales and to characterize the distribution of these scales on the flanks of a salt...

Recognition of Tectonic Events in the Conformation of Structural Traps in the Eastern Oriente Basin, Ecuador, by Hugo Belotti, José Silvestro, Gustavo Conforto, Miguel Pozo, Jorge Erlicher, Jorge Rodriguez, and Eduardo Rossello, #30019 (2003).

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FORELAND DEFORMATION IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE RUBY RANGE OF SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

Russell G. Tysdal

Montana Geological Society

... downthrown block Each syncline is asymmetric, with a steeply upturned limb parallel to the fault boundary of the adjacent upthrown block...

Intraplate crustal deformation in Sabah: Preliminary results of Global Positioning System/Global Navigation Satellite System measurements in the Ranau area

Bailon Golutin, Felix Tongkul, Ismail Abd Rahim

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... movement from Kundasang to Kota Belud indicates the presence of a single crustal block moving away from the NE-SW trending Lobou-Lobou Fault Zone...

Savanna Creek Gas Field, Alberta

J. C. Scott, W. J. Hennessey, R. S. Lamon

CSPG Special Publications

..., that a large fault had been penetrated very near the surface. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3,372 feet and abandoned near the base...

Structural Relations on East Flank of Anadarko Basin, Cleveland and McClain Counties, Oklahoma

Lynn Jacobsen

AAPG Bulletin

... Oklahoma platform by a zone of buried large-scale faulting. The major displacement in Cleveland and McClain counties is a fault zone, herein named...

Structural analysis of a salt-cored transfer zone in the South Timbalier Block 54, offshore Gulf of Mexico: Implications for restoration of salt-related extensional structures

Shamik Bose, Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

.... South Timbalier Block 54 (ST54) constitutes one such area where a basinward-dipping regional and a landward-dipping counterregional growth fault form...