Port Neches North (Hackberry)

Howard W. Kiatta

Houston Geological Society

... flank of the Port Neches intermediate salt dome; within the Gulf Coast Oligocene Frio producing trend.     NATURE OF "TRAP" A combination...

Carancahua Creek and Indian Creek Fields

Jesse Fowler, J. D. Bartell

Houston Geological Society

...   Average Elevation 26 ft., ranges from 8 ft. to 35 ft.     NATURE OF TRAP The trap on the main pay sands is a combination fault closure...

Hospah Upper Sand, South (Oil), T. 17 N., R. 8-9 W., NMPM McKinley County, New Mexico

Richard M. Luce

Four Corners Geological Society

... of the Crevasse Canyon and Menefee Formations Exploration Method Leading to Discovery: Surface structure Type of Trap: Fault trap Producing Formation...

Nicholas Wash (Gas), T. 44 N., R. 18 W., NMPM, San Miguel County, Colorado

Ronald Belak

Four Corners Geological Society

... Anticline at southeastern end of Paradox Basin Fold and Fault Belt Surface Formations: Cretaceous, Burro Canyon Formation Exploration Method Leading...

Traps and Accumulation Patterns

New Orleans Geological Society

... by the rollover. This trap, as it fills, will leak oil up section along the main fault zone where it will eventually fill shallower reservoirs near...

Abstract: Reservoir Prediction Using the Forest and the Trees: Reducing Reservoir Risk and Uncertainty in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Exploration by Using a Wide Range and Scale of Predictive Tools

Cindy A. Yeilding, Eric J. Edstrand, Christopher J. Travis, J. Doug Boyd, Roger Reagan, Dennis M. Urban, and John D. Oldroyd

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... and lithology interpretations, and structural analysis of subsidence patterns, fault movement, and salt migration. Key products are a detailed...

ABSTRACT: Jurassic Exploration Trends of East Texas

Mark W. Presley , Chris H. Reed

GCAGS Transactions

... (1) over low-relief salt structures, (2) against faults and in fault closures, (3) in relatively shallow updip areas over basement structures, and (4...

Canal

Robert G. Specht

Wyoming Geological Association

... had migrated updip through the fault passed this trap. After the Muddy and Third Frontier sands were tested the lower bench of the First Frontier...

Seismic anomaly identification in Pliocene stratigraphy, BG Field, Malay Basin

Nur Hazira Hamsan, Md Yazid Mansor, Liaw Kim Kiat

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... trap). Methodology This study was based on a 2004 vintage 3D seismic data, covers ca. 335 sq km of study area in north-central Figure 1: NW-SE vintage...

Thermogenic Hydrocarbon Processes in The Guajira Basin … A Petroleum Systems Approach.

V. Ramírez, A. Rangel, R. Hernández

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... right strike slip system of Cuisa Fault, passing just north of the Chuchupa High. This fault system could be active since Paleocene, when...

Gulf Coast Magic

W. H. Roberts, III

GCAGS Transactions

... notably toward the fault, may have experienced a more active water exchange and therefore less retention of the "light ends." TRAP MAGIC It has been...

Cambrian-Ordovician Knox production in Ohio: Three case studies of structural-stratigraphic traps

Ronald A. Riley, John Wicks, John Thomas

AAPG Bulletin

... of stratigraphic trap formed by erosional relief created on unconformities that are subsequently buried by younger strata. Paleogeomorphic traps have...

Sumpal Fractured Basement Field, Structural Attribute Analysis and Interpretation Case Study, Workflow Management and New Insights from Pre-Stack Depth Migrated Data and Azimuthal Stacks

Yan Darmadi, John Hughes, Sugiharto Danudjaja, Rita Achdiat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... These same tectonic events led to formation of the thrusted fault blocks that comprise the Sumpal trap. The Sumpal structure (Figure 1) trends northwest...

Fold-accommodation faults

Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

... at different scales also contributes to fault slip. Depending on the kinematic evolution of the major fold, the thrusts may propagate along the steep or gentle...

Miller Field: A Subtle Upper Jurassic Submarine Fan Trap in the South Viking Graben, United Kingdom Sector, North Sea: Chapter 20

N. M. McClure, A. A. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

...Miller Field: A Subtle Upper Jurassic Submarine Fan Trap in the South Viking Graben, United Kingdom Sector, North Sea: Chapter 20 N. M. McClure...

Regional variability of onset and cessation of salt tectonics in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Southern North Sea subbasins

Christopher Brennan and Jürgen Adam

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir and trap distribution across the Southern North Sea. The main gas producers from the Permian subsalt strata on the United Kingdom continental...

Applying Quick Look Techniques to Ensure Accurate Reserve Assessments

Robert C. Shoup, Daniel J. Tearpock

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is the application of structural geology and structural models to validate the interpretations and the maps. In other words, if the trap is a fault-propagation...

Cat Creek Anticline: Tectonic History and Petroleum

W. John Nelson

Montana Geological Society

... discovery, is a Laramide foreland structure. The anticline is a fault-propagation fold that overlies a south-dipping, slightly listric...

Petroleum generation and accumulation in the Berkine basin, eastern Algeria

Noureddine Yahi, Rainer G. Schaefer, Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... Society Special Publication 3, p. 85-106. Jones, G., Q. J. Fischer, and R. J. Knipe, 1998, Faulting, fault sealing and fluid flow in hydrocarbon...

Structural Influence on the Accumulation of Petroleum in California: Part IV. Relations of Petroleum Accumulation to Structure

E. H. McCollough

AAPG Special Volumes

... in California. EAST-SIDE FIELDS All of the East-Side fields are homoclinal. An excellent example of fault trap is found in the Mount Poso field...

Starr County, Texas: A Review of the Early History, General Geology, and Oil and Gas Production

James R. Moyer

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... the major trap for each field. The key to the symbols used are as follows: A - Anticline F - Major Fault f - Minor Fault M - Monocline N - Nose L - Sand...

Subsidence Mechanisms in Offshore South Java and its Comparison to Onshore Geology: Extensional and Flexural Tectonics

Yan Bachtiar Muslih, Aldo Febriansyah Putra

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... geology supports such pattern in the offshore area. That is because extensional regime due to subduction roll-back mechanism spread through East Java...

Integrating strike-slip tectonism with three-dimensional basin and petroleum system analysis of the Salinas Basin, California

Tess Menotti, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Kristian Meisling, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... in the basin. The evolution of this basin was profoundly influenced by strike-slip movement on the Rinconada Fault, which bisected the depocenter...

Sequential Development of Alluvial/Lacustrine System: Southeastern Eumsung Basin (Cretaceous), Korea

W. H. Ryang, S. K. Chough

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... architecture of alluvial/lacustrine deposits of kilometers thickness may, in turn, provide a key to identify the dominant fault regime in stratigraphic...

Structural Geology: Tectonic History, Macrostructures, Regional Fault Map, Fault Systems, Second-Order Structures, and Impact of the Inheritance

Denis Marchal, Rene Manceda, Ricardo Fabián Domínguez, Federico Sattler

AAPG Special Volumes

... within a northwest–southeast extension regime with an oblique direction to the underlying fault system. Tron and Brun (1991), McClay and White (1995...