Methods for identification of isolated carbonate buildups from seismic reflection data

Peter M. Burgess, Peter Winefield, Marcello Minzoni, Chris Elders

AAPG Bulletin

... and fault structures in overburden strata (Figure 10). Where the siliciclastic overburden is deformed in a compressional stress regime, well-cemented...

3D Seismic Definition of Fault Geometries and Interference as Structural Controls on Oil Fields in the Upia Area, Llanos Basin, Colombia

M G de Freitas

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

.... Effectiveness of individual faults and fault junctions to trap oil is discussed in the section Structural Controls in the Oilfields of Upia. STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK...

Basin-centered Gas or Subtle Conventional Traps?

Wayne K. Camp

AAPG Special Volumes

... Union Formation was originally interpreted to form the top seal of the conventional fault trap (Warner, 2000). However, based on additional well data...

Multiple-phase tectonic superposition and reworking in the Junggar Basin of northwestern China—Implications for deep-seated petroleum exploration

Yanjun Wang, Dong Jia, Jianguo Pan, Dongtao Wei, Yong Tang, Guodong Wang, Cairu Wei, and Delong Ma

AAPG Bulletin

..., J., J. P. Avouac, Y. Chen, S. Dominguez, and S. Gilder, 2008, Miocene to present kinematics of fault-bend folding across the Huerguosi anticline...

Coastal Land Loss and Landscape Level Plant Community Succession: An Expected Result of Natural Tectonic Subsidence, Fault Movement, and Sea Level Rise

Kathleen S. Haggar

GCAGS Transactions

...Coastal Land Loss and Landscape Level Plant Community Succession: An Expected Result of Natural Tectonic Subsidence, Fault Movement, and Sea Level...

Structural and depositional evolution of the East Balkan thrust belt, Bulgaria

Charles J. Stuart, Michal Nemcok, Dian Vangelov, Eric R. Higgins, Chelsea Welker, David P. Meaux

AAPG Bulletin

... an approximately northeastward thrust belt advance. Our calculations of the synorogenic stress regime from fault striae data at locations 25, 30, and 31 (see...

Tectonic Significance and Hydrocarbon Trapping Consequences of Sequential Folding Synchronous with San Andreas Faulting, San Joaquin Valley, California

T. P. Harding

AAPG Bulletin

.... In these cases, a vertical stacking of disparate trap types results (Fig. 7a). Elsewhere, and generally at positions farther from the fault, strong...

Regional Tectonic and Hydrocarbon-Trap Modeling Along the Louisiana Offshore

Allen Lowrie, Neil M. Sullivan, Karen S. Hoffman

GCAGS Transactions

...Regional Tectonic and Hydrocarbon-Trap Modeling Along the Louisiana Offshore Allen Lowrie, Neil M. Sullivan, Karen S. Hoffman 1990 Vol. 40 (1990...

Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin

P. Lipski

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... by a major down-to-basin fault system, known as the Electra Fault 1. Magellan Petroleum Australia Limited, GPO Box 2766, Brisbane Qld 4001. E-mail...

The Structural History of Tasmania: A Review for Petroleum Explorers

A. R. Stacey, R. F. Berry

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Volcanics (Fig. 4b). In the Late Cambrian, the last phase of the Tyennan Orogeny inverted earlier extensional faults (e.g. Henty Fault). Major reverse...

Sedimentation and Structure, Jackson Group, South-Central Texas

D. Hoye Eargle

GCAGS Transactions

..." into the fault, or anticline on the downthrown block, provided the structural trap for the oil in the area where the fault bends from a northeastern direction...

Redevelopment of the Main Pass 290 Field Offshore Louisiana, USA

James V. Bikun

GCAGS Transactions

...%) of new reserves. 3.) Six wells targeting previously unpenetrated small fault blocks close to the salt dome added 5327 MBE (24%). 4.) Four wells testing...

Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Southwest Sumatran Bengkulu Shelf

A. C. Howles Jr.

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-lateral slip along the Sumatran fault began during the Middle Miocene with the onset of the collision of the Australian-Indian plate with the Asian...

Exploration for Oil Accumulations in Entrada Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Richard R. Vincelette , William E. Chittum

AAPG Bulletin

...) was a critical element in the oil trap at Fig. 3. Structure map on top of Entrada Sandstone, Media field. Fig. 4. Isopach map from Sanostee marker...

ABSTRACTS: AAPG International Conference, September 21-24, 2003, Barcelona, Spain, #90017 (2003)

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The Tertiary Strike-Slip Basins and Orogenic Belt of Spitsbergen

Ron Steel, John Gjelberg, William Helland-Hansen, Karen Kleinspehn, Arvid Nøttvedt, Morten Rye-Larsen

Special Publications of SEPM

... Eocene collapse of the crest of the orogenic belt or from extens on adj cent to a curv d fault zone Rift basins up to 7 km deep developed west of Svalbard...

Structural History of the Terang and Sirasun Fields and the Impact Upon Timing of Charge and Reservoir Performance, Kangean PSC, East Java Sea, Indonesia

Wayne A. Basden, Henry W. Posamentier, Ron A. Noble

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by the Pleistocene Lidah shales. Both of the Sirasun pools and the Batur pool also have fault seal as a component of trap (Basden, Howes, and Wibisana...

Post-Eocene Development of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Convergent Overprint of a Passive Margin: Chapter 7: Southwest Pacific and Eastern Indian Ocean Margins

P. R. King, G. P. Thrasher

AAPG Special Volumes

.... A dramatic increase in subsidence in the late Oligocene is interpreted as foreland basin-type deepening. A basement block bounded by the Taranaki fault...

Figures: VI. Role of Wrenching in the Continental Architecture

Greg Zolnai

AAPG Special Volumes

..., VI-9 A. Fig. VI-6: Early-mid PROTEROZOIC (Hudsonian Orogeny) AFFB: Amer Fold-Fault Belt BP: Bear Province CB: Colorado Block ChP: Churchill Province...

ABSTRACT: Structural mapping of the Uncompahgre Front near Gateway, Colorado, With emphasis on Ancestral Rocky Mountain fabrics; #90012 (2003)

Len C. Mankowski, Tara L. Campbell, Jackie E. Huntoon, William J. Gregg, David J. Linari

Search and Discovery.com

.... Laramide deformation has presented a major barrier to studies of ARM fault kinematics, because most ARM faults have been assumed to have been...

3D Facies Modeling of SS-44 Mixed Load Channel Reservoir, Karmila Field, Sunda Basin, South East Sumatera

M. Reza Widiatmo, Undang Mardiana, Febriwan Mohamad, Asep Ginanjar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... was deposited in a fluviatile environment. Migration and trap in this basin are related by structure such as fault oil fracture system...

Oil Accumulation a Cyclic Phenomenon

J. S. Irwin

CSPG Bulletin

... that in any hydrocarbon trap, gas comes out, that is, bubbles out, of solution in oil with decrease of reservoir pressure, either to form a gas cap or to escape...

Exploration in the East African Rift System

Ian Davison, Ian Steel, Matthew Taylor, Eoin O Beirne, Theodore Faull

GEO ExPro Magazine

... has now been reached, but a pipeline to the Indian Ocean and/or an oil refinery are still some years away. Benjamin Croce Lake Manyara fault...

Developments in Upper Gulf Coast of Texas in 1972

John R. Lewis , Joseph C. Gauss

AAPG Bulletin

... southeast toward the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the production is found on salt-generated structures, predominantly in fault and unconformity traps around...

Significant Role of Structural Fractures in Renqiu Buried-Hill Oil Field in Eastern China

Fei Qi, Wang Xie-Pei

AAPG Bulletin

.... The main reservoir consists of Sinian dolomite. The buried hill is a fault block bounded on the west side by a large growth fault that trends north...