Abstract: Stress Re-Distribution During Long-Term Steam Injections and Its Potential Influence on Reservoir Development; #90187 (2014)

Katherine Buckingham, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic, and Anisa Kassam

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... chamber development, cap-rock issues, casing failures, and fault activation. A number of logistical issues make moment tensor analysis of reservoir...

The North Sea — Evolution of a Major Oil and Gas Play

P. E. Kent

CSPG Special Publications

... large discovery in Scottish waters, was in thick Paleocene sands and the Frigg stratigraphic trap gas field on the mid-line was in Eocene sands. Other...

Abstract: A Geometric Model of Fault Zone and Fault Rock Thickness Variations: Reconciling the Fault Zone Structure of Small to Large Displacement Faults, by Conrad Childs, Tom Manzocchi, John J. Walsh, Chris G. Bonson, Andrew Nicol, and Martin P. Schöpfer; #90078 (2008)

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Chapter 7: Petroleum Geology of Jordan

Sebastian Lüning, Jochen Kuss

AAPG Special Volumes

...., 1994). Salt diapirism, pull-apart tectonics, and stratigraphic pinchouts have created a suitable trap regime. Figure 19. Play Concept in the Dead Sea...

Quick-look techniques for evaluating two-dimensional cross sections in detached contractional settings

M. Scott Wilkerson, Connie L. Dicken

AAPG Bulletin

... in the numbers of ramps and flats, in the strata and stratal thicknesses in corresponding ramps, and in displacement along the fault. These techniques...

Global Sequence Boundaries of the Triassic and Their Identification in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Ashton F. Embry

CSPG Bulletin

... the boundary to the maximum flooding surface and a pronounced shift in sedimentary regime (changes in facies and/or sediment composition). A third-order...

Depositional and Structural Controls on the Distribution of Tar Sands in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

R. Lawrence Phillips

Pacific Section of AAPG

...-dipping homocline within the cross-bedded facies (the maximum thickness of petroleum-saturated sand, 30 m [100 ft], occurs in a fault trap down dip...

The Hydrocarbon Potential of the Arabian Plate: Chapter 9

Z. R. Beydoun

AAPG Special Volumes

... fracturing and also provides large trap volumes for even modest vertical closure or oil column. The extraordinary horizontal scale and the phenomenal width...

General Geology, San Onofre Area

J. L. McNey

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., between San Mateo Creek and the site is nearly flat lying. Between the site and the Cristianitos fault, bedding steepens; the strike is variable...

Fault and Fracture Control of Fluid and Diagenesis Around the Iberia Salt Dome, Iberia Parish, Louisiana

W. Lee Esch , Jeffrey S. Hanor

GCAGS Transactions

...Fault and Fracture Control of Fluid and Diagenesis Around the Iberia Salt Dome, Iberia Parish, Louisiana W. Lee Esch , Jeffrey S. Hanor 1995 Vol. 45...

Geomechanics of hydraulic fracturing microseismicity: Part 1. Shear, hybrid, and tensile events

Seth Busetti, Wenjie Jiao, and Ze’ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... the microseismic events by their source parameters, focal mechanisms, and fault-plane orientations. These parameters are used to determine the mechanical...

Port Acres and Port Arthur Fields, Jefferson County, Texas: Stratigraphic and Structural Traps in a Middle Tertiary Delta: Case Histories

Michel T. Halbouty, Thomas D. Barber

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the downthrown side of a contemporaneous fault, the trap must be classified as a combination structural-stratigraphic trap because the lower Hackberry...

Earthquake Swarm near Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, Investigated with Temporary Seismic Network and Machine Learning Seismic Phase Analysis

Kyren R. Bogolub, Jackson P. Bell, Enrique R. Chon, Robert M. Kirkham, Anne F. Sheehan

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... velocity model and a double-difference algorithm. The Northern Sangre de Cristo Fault (NSCF) cuts through the subdivision at the base of the Sangre de...

The Exmouth Plateau Deep Water Frontier: A Case History

P. M. Barber

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Despite the presence of extremely large rotated fault blocks and associated compaction drape closures, drilling of 11 wells on the Exmouth Plateau...

Sedimentation and Tectonics of the Absaroka Basin of Northwestern Wyoming

Kent A. Sundell

Wyoming Geological Association

..., South Fork detachment fault, Park County, Wyoming: geometry-extent-source; Contrib. to Geology, v. 23, p. 47-62. Blackstone, D. L., Jr., 1990, Precambrian...

Lengguru, Irian Jaya: Prospect Selection Using Field Mapping, Balanced Cross-Sections, and Gravity Modelling

D. T. Moffat, L. F. Henage, R. A. Brash, R. W. Tauer, B. H. Harahap

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... risks in Lengguru involve: (a) accurate identification and delineation of individual structural traps, and (b) recognition of whether or not a trap...

The Antelope Arch of the Great Divide Basin, Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming

Robert E. Wellborn, John P. Wold

Wyoming Geological Association

.... Union sandstone for 7090 MCFD. The well depleted rapidly from a suspected limited fault trap. In the Crooks Creek area both the Tipco and Sun wells...

Geologic Environment of Cuyama Valley Oil Fields, California: North America

Irving T. Schwade , Stanley A. Carlson , James B. O'Flynn

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the southwest by the Russell fault, but only slightly dependent upon the fault zone for closure; San Ardo is a stratigraphic trap in which production has...

Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of the Texas Gulf Coast Aquifer System and Implication for Developing Groundwater Availability Models

Steven C. Young

GCAGS Transactions

..., groundwater age, and geological formations. Alexander, L. L., and J. W. Handschy, 1998, Fluid flow in a faulted reservoir system: Fault trap analysis...

Oil and Gas Possibilities in the Overthrust Belt of Northeastern Nevada

Floyd C. Moulton

Utah Geological Association

... generating levels. These generated hydrocarbons moved into the available trap under the Tertiary basin fill. I believe many oil and gas fields...

Re-Thinking Reservoirs: The Case of the T2 Sands in the Southern Llanos Basin of Colombia, #80559 (2016).

Jaime Gelvez, Carlos Villamizar, Antonio Velasquez, Andres Mora, Victor Caballero, Felipe de la Parra, Johan Ortiz, Edwardo Cardozo

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... play concept in which the reservoirs of Upper Cretaceous, Paleocene, and Eocene age may conform to a regional giant stratigraphic trap, charged...

The Karkinit Basin of the Black Sea - Northwestern Part of the Tethyan Region (geodynamic development, mud volcanism and gas exhalations); #90017 (2003)

Konstantin A. Kleschev

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... of Balkanid-Pontid while the northern and northwestern passive margins are slightly static or aseismic that demonstrates the calm current tectonic regime...

A Monte Carlo Approach to Determine Stress Orientations and Differential Stress Ratios from Microseismicity and Earthquake Focal Mechanisms Using Elastic Dislocation Modelling; #42138 (2017)

H. Broichhausen, C. Seiler, E. Macaulay

Search and Discovery.com

.... A new iterative-statistical approach to calculate stress orientations and ratios from microseismic moment tensors, taking into account the fault...

Petroleum Geology of the Canadian Pacific Continental Margin

C. J. Yorath

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... by the Queen Charlotte transform fault, along which the Pacific plate moves north­ ward at about 55 mm/yr. To the south, the Juan de Fuca plate converges...

Update-Petroleum Exploration and Development During 1994 - 95 in Victoria

PESA Staff, Energy & Minerals Victoria, Stephen Ryan, B. Simons, Ciaran Lavin, Gregory Parker, S. Sarma, G. Collins, L. A. Knight, K. Mehin, A. Link

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the Safety Case Regime. This was implemented by changes to the PSLA in january 1993 and puts the onus on Operators to demonstrate by means of risk...