Inorganic Origin of Petroleum

V. B. Porfir'ev

AAPG Bulletin

... been argued in many works, particularly by Porfir'ev and Grinberg (1948). Hence, in the geosynclinal regime of the Donets coal basin, the three-fold...

Geochemically driven exploration models in uplifted areas: Examples from the Norwegian Barents Sea

S. E. Ohm, D. A. Karlsen, T. J. F. Austin

AAPG Bulletin

... that the trap has been tilted and spilled oil. The Goliat and recent Nucula oil discoveries, and possibly also the recently reported gas and oil discovery well...

Preliminary Report on Tar Sand Occurrences in the Bush Butte Quadrangle, Wyoming, with Emphasis on the Trapper Canyon Deposit

Alan J. Ver Ploeg, Rodney H. DeBruin

Wyoming Geological Association

..., since there is no evidence for structural control of the trap, i.e., anticlinal or fault control or any indication of the Bonanza-type trap i.e....

Geometry, Distribution, and Provenance of Tectogenic Conglomerates Along the Southern Margin of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Part III. Middle Rocky Mountains

J. R. Steidtmann, L. T. Middleton, R. J. Bottjer , K. E. Jackson , L. C. McGee , E. H. Southwell, S. Lieblang

AAPG Special Volumes

... Eocene) make up a large clastic apron and were generated by uplift of the range as a whole along the Wind River fault zone. The South Pass Formation...

Wasatch Plateau Gas Fields, Utah

Paul T. Walton

Utah Geological Association

... to the Swell. Erosion subsequent to the monoclinal uplift has been controlled to a great extent by graben fault systems but a dendritic type drainage...

Fractured basementŽ play in the Sabah Basin? „ the Crocker and Kudat formations as hydrocarbon reservoirs and their risk factors

Mazlan Madon, Franz L. Kessler, John Jong, Mohd Khairil Azrafy Amin

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... example, the basement trap at Nuang is formed on the crest of a tilted fault block in an extensional province (Tatau Half Graben Province) (Figure 10...

Chapter 12: Mexico—Area 1—Amoca, Miztón, and Tecoalli Oil Discoveries, Sureste Basin, Gulf of Mexico

Tito Andrea Bianco, Emanuele Tozzi

AAPG Special Volumes

... Field—Depth maps of two representative reservoir levels. At the shallower Orca 1 Formation level, the field consists of a fault-assisted trap; whereas...

Chapter One: The Brae Play, South Viking Graben, North Sea: An Introduction

Colin C. Turner, Bryan T. Cronin

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Gudrun trap is a northeast–southwest-oriented anticline, the origin of which is explained by progressive inversion along the Gudrun fault system...

Geology of the Lower Cretaceous Parsons Lake Gas Field, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories

R. P. Cote, M. M. Lerand, R. J. Rector

CSPG Special Publications

... related to the listric nature of the Eskimo Lakes Fault. This rollover provides the structure to trap hydrocarbons in the Parsons Lake area. Stratigraphy...

Monte Christo Vicksburg (Eckart) Field Hidalgo County, Texas

G. L. Richards

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... (Figure 2 Frio F-27 map). The well was drilled to a total depth of 11052′ and cut the Monte Christo fault (the northern extension of the Tabasco fault...

Faulting of an Alternating Sandstones and Shales Turbidite Sequence: Fault Mechanism and Architecture and Their Roles in Fault Seal

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The Control of Potential Arbuckle Hydrocarbon Traps in Northeastern Oklahoma by Precambrian Topography

Louis R. Reeder

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... as more than 300 peaks and domes in Osage and adjacent counties, most of which are associated with fault zones. Because of the fault zones associated...

Synthesis and Applications to Petroleum Geology

C.H. Nelson, T.H. Nilsen

Special Publications of SEPM

... may have direct access to the basin floor and thus may build fans. Subsidence of basin margin may trap sediment in a situation similar...

Review of Hitchcock Field, Galveston County, Texas

J. O. "Jock" Reiter

GCAGS Transactions

...-structural trap in this sand. Figure 8 is a structure map contoured on the 6,500 "G" oil sand. This sand produces oil on the upthrown side of fault "D...

Evolution of a hydrocarbon migration pathway along basin-bounding faults: Evidence from fault cement

James R. Boles, Peter Eichhubl, Grant Garven, Jim Chen

AAPG Bulletin

...Evolution of a hydrocarbon migration pathway along basin-bounding faults: Evidence from fault cement James R. Boles, Peter Eichhubl, Grant Garven...

The genesis of natural hydrogen exploration

James Dodson, HYDROGENESIS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... lithologies. 4. Thermogenesis of organic matter. 5. Hydrogen emanation from deep, crustal faults. 6. Trapped by volcanic sills. 7. Salt trap. 8 Trapping...

The Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... hydrostatically pressured blocks are faulted down against geopressured fault blocks creating fault traps. It is now clear that attempts to assess...

Ultra-Deep Resistivity 3D Inversion Reveals Third Dimension of Faulted Turbidite Sand, Deepwater Sabah, Malaysia

Keng Hung Kok, Sze Fong Kho, Subashini Paramanathan, Angelina Jia Hui Ting, Valsan Vevakanandan, Anna Numpang, Doreen Dayah, Roslan Mokhtar, Mohd Nazmi Othman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... placement operations. The well was expected to encounter multiple vertically displaced fault blocks, which were expected to be defined on the 1D...

Chapter 14: The Jubilee Field, Ghana: Opening the Late Cretaceous Play in the West African Transform Margin

Paul Dailly, Tracey Henderson, Kathy Kanschat, Phil Lowry, Stephen Sills

AAPG Special Volumes

... such a fault-controlled minibasin, and the trap has been formed by a combination of pinch-out, shale-out, and extensional faulting around the margin...

Three-dimensional seismic interpretation of a meteorite impact feature, Red Wing Creek field, Williston Basin, western North Dakota

Benjamin D. Herber, Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, Roger J. Barton, Daniel N. Behringer, William S. Hammon III, and William S. Gutterman

AAPG Bulletin

... closure against a fault (Figures 2; 10; 17; 28A, C). This trap was the most complex of the four development wells. Porosity is considered...

Houston Geological Society Report of Study Group III: Topic: Structural and Stratigraphic Distribution of Coastal Reservoirs

A. L. Selig, Shirley L. Mason, Ralph Cantrell

Houston Geological Society

... by the appropriate symbol below the name of the field. The "strike fold, no associated fault" class includes a number of one or two well fields in which...

The Birth of an Industry; Dullnig Field 1886

John M. Long, Clarence F. Theis

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... George Dullnig bought a farm resting on a corner of the Balcones Fault Zone, with an up-to-the-coast fault creating the oil trap that condemned his...

The Downdip Yegua Trend of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast

Ann Ayers Martin

Houston Geological Society

.... The field was discovered in 1954 by General Crude. Raywood field produces from a simple downthrown closure of a large arcuate fault system. The structure...

The Downdip Yegua Trend: Dequincy (Yegua) Field, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Jack N. Pierson

Houston Geological Society

... trap is partially formed by closure against the down thrown side of a large, northeast-southwest trending, down-to the-coast, expansion fault...

Gulf of Mexico: Seismic Stratigraphy of Some Cretaceous Carbonates and Tertiary Channels, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

D. Bradford Macurda, Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... is predominantly characterized by vertical buildup. In the southwest part of Figure 1, between 3 and 4 sec, there is a prominent mound. A fault...