New hydrocarbon trap models for the diagenetic transformation of opal-CT to quartz in Neogene siliceous rocks

Takashi Tsuji, Yasuhiro Masui, Satoru Yokoi

AAPG Bulletin

... a seal and the underlying clay-poor quartzose porcelanite forms a reservoir, facilitating the development of a hydrocarbon trap. The quartzose...

Dynamic Interplay among Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Petroleum Systems: An Introduction and Overview

Dengliang Gao

AAPG Special Volumes

... are handicapped by seal failures related to continued activity on strike-slip faults; however, despite this problem, many transpressive basins...

Hydrocarbon System Analysis for Methane Hydrate Exploration on Mars

Michael D. Max, Stephen M. Clifford, Arthur H. Johnson

AAPG Special Volumes

... in Valles Marineris and in other faulted and fractured terrains. In addition to potential igneous and volcanic mineral deposits, an extensive evidence...

Exploring in Asia for Oil and Gas in Naturally Fractured and Weathered Basement Reservoirs

Tako Koning, Nick Cameron

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...Exploring in Asia for Oil and Gas in Naturally Fractured and Weathered Basement Reservoirs Tako Koning, Nick Cameron 2022 2d Papers referred...

Mediterranean Carbonate Potential: Lessons from Existing Discoveries

Raffaele Di Cuia, Alberto Riva

GEO ExPro Magazine

... platform karst carbonates, intensely fractured over a long period of time. They are laterally sourced from Miocene clastics, sealed by Tertiary flysch...

Devonian Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Tarija Basin, South America; #10883 (2016)

Carlos R. D'Arlach

Search and Discovery.com

...Devonian Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Tarija Basin, South America; #10883 (2016) Carlos R. D'Arlach Devonian Naturally Fractured Reservoirs...

Imaging Miocene Duplex Carbonate Play beneath Ophiolite Belt Zone Using Seismic Synthetic Modeling Approach

Anggoro P. Kurniawan, Galang P. Adi, Maikel Arifin, Asep S. Arifin, Kartono Sani, Sigit Pamungkas, Alpius D. Guntara, Teguh Suroso

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., the Dongkala-1 well’s main objective was fractured platform carbonate beneath the unconformity but interestingly, it penetrated fractured ophiolite...

Constraining Permeability Evolution During and After Natural Fracturing in Overpressured Shales: Implications on Basin-scale Stress and Pore Pressure Evolution; #42570 (2021)

Laainam Chaipornkaew, Evan J. Earnest, Marek Kacewicz, Peter J. Lovely

Search and Discovery.com

... enhancement via horizontal tectonic stresses. Chaipornkaew et al. (EAGE 2019) proposed a mechanism that allows flow through fractured shales as a function...

Assessing Undiscovered Resources of the Barnett-Paleozoic Total Petroleum System, Bend Arch - Fort Worth Basin Province, Texas

Richard M. Pollastro, Ronald J. Hill, Daniel M. Jarvie, and Mitchell E. Henry

Fort Worth Geological Society

... and Perry (1996) but not assessed due to lack of data. Continuous-type accumulations include fractured shale and fractured...

Natural Fractures on the Pinedale Anticline as Seen in Cores and on Image Logs

Mark Longman, Erika Davis, Randy J. Koepsell

AAPG Special Volumes

... determined from FMI logs revealed a strongly positive correlation (R2 = 0.958) between the abundance of fractures and production. The two least fractured wells...

Devonian Oil in Mississippian and Mesozoic Reservoirs - Unconformity Controls on Migration and Accumulation, Sweetgrass Arch, Montana

John Dlson, Joe Piombino, Mark Franklin, Robert Harwood

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... a poor regional seal and oil shows and small pools are common in the Swift sandstones where oil has moved vertically from the underlying Sun River...

Ground-Water Resources of San Juan County

Mike Lowe

Utah Geological Association

...Ground-Water Resources of San Juan County Mike Lowe 1996 389 394 Both fractured rock and unconsolidated deposits are aquifers in San Juan County...

A Streamlined Approach to Fault Stress Analysis and Natural Fracture Prediction

Seth Busetti

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and fractured to some extent, but the orientation and patterns of natural discontinuities are not consistent across reservoirs or even within a reservoir due...

Shear Induced Matrix Damage and Micro-fracturing in Oil Shale

Nathan J. Welch, Meng Meng, Wenfeng Li, Luke P. Frash, Marcus Wigand, J. William Carey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... completed a series of experiments to observe and quantify the amount of oil produced from shear fractured, oil saturated shales. The shale plugs were prepared...

Experimental Compaction of Ooids and Lime Mud and its Implication for Lithification During Burial

Ajit Bhattacharyya , Gerald M. Friedman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... compactive stress. Experimental compaction resulted in crushed, buckled, faulted, split, spalled, and diagonally fractured ooids. Incremental confining...

Geochemical Evaluation of the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin: Implications for Migration in Fractured Shale Plays, by S. W. Rushworth; #90986 (1994).

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Abstract: Modern Approaches to Exploration in Fractured Reservoirs, by Ronald A. Nelson; #90934 (1998).

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Kinematic, Thermal, and Petroleum Modeling of the Northern Emirates

Jean-Paul Callot, François Roure, Jean-Luc Faure, Mihai Tarapoanca

AAPG Special Volumes

... the evaporite seal, either by seal leakage, along vertical faults, or eventually at the spill point of the prospects, along a lateral facies transition...

Late orogenic faulting of the foreland plate: An important component of petroleum systems in orogenic belts and their forelands

Frank J. Picha

AAPG Bulletin

..., but more importantly, they represent a posttectonic regional seal that is, in most cases, not breached by late orogenic strike-slip faulting.Petroleum System...

Eagle Springs Oil Field Nye County, Nevada

Louis C. Bortz, D. Keith Murray

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... diagenesis and forms the top seal for the reservoirs in the Eagle Springs field. A slide block composed of Paleozoic carbonate rock is present within...

Small-Scale Decollement Folding in the Upper Buda Formation

William Feathergail Wilson

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... of upper Buda breaking into fractured blocks gliding upon the middle shale surface. Gravity movement of both the upper and lower biomicrite units...

Abstract: Role of structural evolution in petroleum generation and entrapment in North Pakistan

L Csontos, L Pollner, A Abbasi, J Khoker, M Khokar

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... Cretaceous and Lower Jurassic, deltaic shale source rocks that yield their petroleum into fractured Mesozoic through Paleocene carbonates and sandstones...

New Onshore Seismic and Gravity Data Confirms the Potential for Giant-Sized Discoveries within the Seram Fold-Thrust Belt of Eastern Indonesia

Kim Morrison

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... oil and gas provinces in West Papua and Papua New Guinea and has some compelling similarities to the Zagros FTB. Fractured limestones of the massive...

West Rozel Point: T. 8 N., R. 8 W., SLB&M: Box Elder County, Utah

Carl F. Kendell

Utah Geological Association

...: Pliocene Basalt Lithology: Fractured Basalt Type of Drive: Water Drive Geometry of Reservoir Rock: Tabular Porosity: 15% Permeability: Up to several Darcies...

Adamc (Devonian) Field

Freddy Y. Yip

West Texas Geological Society

... cherty limestone overlain by the Woodford shale that acted as a top seal and a source for Devonian hydrocarbons. There are five distinct porosity...