Swelling-induced self-sealing mechanism in fractured cap rock: Implications for carbon geosequestration

Hongyan Yu, Yihuai Zhang, Maxim Lebedev, Kun Meng, Sisi Chen, Michael Verrall, Lukman Johnson, and Stefan Iglauer

AAPG Bulletin

...Swelling-induced self-sealing mechanism in fractured cap rock: Implications for carbon geosequestration Hongyan Yu, Yihuai Zhang, Maxim Lebedev, Kun...

Continuous Oil Pools and Self-Sourcing Reservoirs: International Examples and Australian Possibilities

John Scott

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... been converted to oil but has not been completely expelled. Self-sourcing reservoirs occur where a continuous oil pool is sufficiently fractured...

A geologic deconstruction of one of the world's largest natural accumulations of CO2, Moxa arch, southwestern Wyoming

Thomas P. Becker, Ranie Lynds

AAPG Bulletin

... et al., 2010), because it could imply that some sort of failure (i.e. mechanical seal capacity exceeded, capillary entry pressure too low, leakage...

Oil-Gas Complexes of the Timano-Pechora Province

A. V. Borisov, V. Ye. Leshchenko, E. N. Ovchinnikov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... is due to a worsening of the sealing capacity of the Kynov-Sargayev seal at depth. This seal is largely shale, and at depth it becomes more fractured...

Abstract: Joslyn Creek SAGD: Geologic Considerations Related to a Surface Steam Release Incident, Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Northeastern Alberta, Canada, by Frances J. Hein and Brent Fairgrieve; #90124 (2011)

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Piceance Basin Mesaverde anomalous self-potential response: Identification of capillary seals in a basin-centered gas accumulation

Stephen P. Cumella, William F. Woodruff, and Andre Revil

AAPG Bulletin

... primarily from electrokinetic, electrochemical, and membrane potentials, as well as redox potentials with environmental effects such as temperature...

Mini thief zones: Subcentimeter sedimentary features enhance fracture connectivity in shales

Alistair T. McCay, Zoe K. Shipton, Rebecca J. Lunn, and Julia F. Gale

AAPG Bulletin

...:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.158.01.01. Aplin, A. C., and J. H. S. Macquaker, 2011, Mudstone diversity: Origin and implications for source, seal, and reservoir...

The Crescent Lake copper deposit, central Newfoundland: deep levels of a volcanogenic hydrothermal system?

Craig J. Waldie, E. Craig Jowett, H. Scott Swinden

Atlantic Geology

... as the result of either changing temperature or fluctuating fluid pressures during the episodic crack-seal vein formation. Ore-related chlorite has...

Fractured Reservoirs of Santa Maria District, California

Louis J. Regan, Jr. , Aden W. Hughes

AAPG Bulletin

...Fractured Reservoirs of Santa Maria District, California Louis J. Regan, Jr. , Aden W. Hughes 1949 32 51 33 1. (January) Cumulative production...

Integration of Surface and Subsurface Tools in The Reservoir Characterization of Unconventional Plays; #41211 (2013)

Roderick Perez

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... and hydraulically fractured in the area agree to the predicted brittle regions in the λρ - μρ crossplot, suggesting that hydraulically induced fractures...

Lessons Learned from the Exploration of Naturally Fractured Basement Reservoir, A Case Study in Indonesia

Yudha Risnandar Sinulingga, Faisal Siddiq, Arii Ardjuna, Sumaryana, Budi R. Permana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... hydrocarbons as it does in Masilah Basin. It also acts as a regional seal and often preserves high overpressure in the underlying formations and fractured...

Improvements to Formation Evaluation, Almond Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming

William P. Iverson, Thomas L. Dunn, Ronald C. Surdam

Wyoming Geological Association

..., presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Casper. Iverson, W.P., R.S. Martinsen, and R.C. Surdam, 1995, Pressure seal permeability and two-phase...

Multidisciplinary thermal maturity studies using vitrinite reflectance and fluid inclusion microthermometry: A new calibration of old techniques

Rick C. Tobin, Brenda L. Claxton

AAPG Bulletin

... of thermal maturity can also be described for any rock or fluid type contained within source, carrier, reservoir, or seal facies. Fluid inclusions...

Numerical Simulation of Temperature Changes Caused by CO2 Injection in Geological Reservoirs

A. Kopp, A. Ebigbo, A. Bielinski, H. Class, R. Helmig

AAPG Special Volumes

... rock is fractured, the CO2 could leak toward the ground surface. Such leakage scenarios need to be investigated properly to be able to estimate...

Basin Analysis and Petroleum System of the Cuu Long Basin on the Continental Shelf of Vietnam

Phan Trung Dien, Phung Si Tai, Nguyen Van Dung

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... clay beds on the top of basement could act as a good top seal to underlying fractured plutonic reservoirs. Reservoirs Four types of reservoir have been...

Fluid Detection in Carbonate Reservoirs utilizing Gas Analysis-A Case Study; #41116 (2013)

Ali Abu Ghneej, Jalal Dashti, Badruzzaman Khan, Heyam Ammar, Abdulrazaq AL-Nabhan, Sunil K. Singh, Talal Al-Adwani, and Nacif Marai

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... of high pressure, tight, fractured carbonate reservoirs in Kuwait, which are drilled with Oil Base Mud (OBM) having high barite content causing severe...

Overpressure transmission through interconnected igneous intrusions

Nick Schofield, Simon Holford, Alex Edwards, Niall Mark, and Stefano Pugliese

AAPG Bulletin

...]), and fractured gas-charged intrusions, which resulted in temporary loss of well control. Although the overpressure could reflect local gas...

Abstract: Fractured Carboniferous Limestone Sealed by a Volcanic Ash - A New Play in the East Midlands UK, by P. Boult, B. Freeman, and G. Yielding; #90090 (2009).

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Fast and Reliable Estimates of Low Permeabilities by the Full-Immersion Pressure-Pulse Decay

Michael J. Hannon Jr.

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., although in practice temperatures varied as much as ± 0.02 to 0.05◦ C, depending on the duration of the test. Leakage Mitigation A number...

Success Criteria for Oil and Gas Exploration in Naturally Fractured Basement Reservoir, a Case Study in Indonesia

Faisal Siddiq, Yudha Risnandar Sinulingga, Arii Ardjuna, Sumaryana, Irvan Taufik Sutanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... fractured basement reservoir fields with success criteria shows a compelling relationship. The correlation between shale seal thickness and 2P...

Characterization and Origin of Brines from the Bakken-Three Forks Petroleum System in the Williston Basin, USA

Zell Peterman, Kiyoto Futa, Joanna Thamke, Thomas Oliver

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of the native pore water was increased by membrane filtration driven by overpressuring within the Bakken Formation. Alexandre, C.S., S.A. Sonnenberg...

AAPG Africa Region Annual Conference, 3rd Regional Deepwater Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, 14-19 November 2010 Abuja, Nigeria; Abstracts, #90115 (2010).

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Proppant Delivered Scale Inhibition - Unconventional Case Histories

Terry Palisch, Josh Leasure

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... multistage hydraulically fractured horizontal wells, scale prevention is critical to long term productivity and reduced lease costs in these plays...

Authigenic Kaolinite and Associated Pyrite in Chalk of the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Eastern Colorado

Richard M. Pollastro

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by a filter membrane peel technique: Am. Mineralogist, v. 58, p. 553-554. EHLMAN, A. J., HULINGS, N. C., AND GLOVER, E. D., 1963, Stages of glauconite...

A New Method to Help Identify Unconventional Targets for Exploration and Development Through Integrative Analysis of Clastic Rock Property Fields

Frank Walles

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... to cost-effectively identify fractured/fracturable, unconventional targets previously missed within active and inactive wellbores, fields and plays...