Know Your Faults!: Part I

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

... tectonic event and has finite geometric shape. A given fault surface may be theoretically imaged as an ellipsoid whose centre (where the fault presumably...

Petrophysics in High Angle and Horizontal Wells

David Maggs, Silvia Lattuada, Roger Griffiths, Mauricio Mele, Antonio Valdisturlo

GEO ExPro Magazine

... techniques harder to apply because of geometric effects on the data. Modern wellbore software can provide a viable solution. Schlumberger Increasing...

The Significance of Deltas in Subsurface Exploration

Daniel A. Busch

Tulsa Geological Society

... the range of initial productivity is great it is wise to employ a geometric, rather than an arithmetic, contour interval. Figure 4B is drawn...

Simultaneous inversion of velocity and angle-dependent reflectivity

Nizar Chemingui, Yang Yang, Jaime Ramos-Martinez, Guanghui Huang, Dan Whitmore, Sean Crawley, Elena Klochikhina, Sriram Arasanipalai

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... reflectivity, by incorporating angle and azimuth-dependent pre-stack reflectivity. Our method employs geometric information extracted from the dot product...

Utilizing the Kelly Criterion to Select the Best Projects When Capital is Temporarily Constrained

James A. MacKay, Gary P. Citron

GCAGS Transactions

...) to use is the geometric mean value (GMV) to calculate the modified Kelly-based risk adjusted KWI. (7) GMV=[ ( Cap+(PV*WI ) ) ^ Ps*(Cap-(C*WI))^Pf...

Grain-Shape Indices and Isometric Graphs: REPLY

H.J. Hofmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to sedimentary processes and environments, on the other. My 1994 paper was prepared to gain a better understanding of the geometric aspects (shape...

Structural models of faulted detachment folds

Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

..., Balanced cross sections: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 6, p. 743-757. Dahlstrom, C. D. A., 1990, Geometric constraints derived from the law...

Geomechanics to Solve Structure Related Issues in Petroleum Reservoirs, by Laurent Maerten, #40262 (2007).

Search and Discovery.com

Orthogonal Geometrics of Lower McMurray Formation Sand Complexes: Effects of Salt Dissolution Collapse-subsidence Across the Northern Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit; #51028 (2014)

Paul L. Broughton

Search and Discovery.com

.... Similar orthogonal geometric patterns developed with heterolithic to muddy flood plain deposits that filled eastern Bitumont trough, in contrast...

Construction of Stochastic Model for Ordovician Karsted Carbonates Reservoirs of Tahe Oilfield, China: Dimensional and Geometric Implications and Structural Considerations; #20459 (2019)

Jose N. Mendez, Qiang Jin

Search and Discovery.com

...Construction of Stochastic Model for Ordovician Karsted Carbonates Reservoirs of Tahe Oilfield, China: Dimensional and Geometric Implications...

SEDIMENTARY AND DIAGENETIC CONTROLS ON RESERVOIR PROPERTIES: MIDALE FIELD, SOUTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN

JOHN KALDI

Williston Basin Symposium

... and diagenetic parameters described above to quantifiable rock properties such as porosity/ permeability, recovery efficiency and pore geometric...

Testing Laramide Hypotheses for the Front Range Arch Using Minor Faults: Reply

Eric A. Erslev

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... will continue to focus our efforts on Laramide hypotheses that are consistent with the considerable geometric, kinematic and dynamic constraints provided...

Fabric Analysis of Folded Sedimentary Rocks

George W. Viele

Kansas Geological Society

... is not in itself interpretive. The plan of this paper is to describe first the significant geometric elements of a fold because these elements are the raw data...

Kinematic evolution of truncated asymmetric folds in the eastern Brooks Range fold-and-thrust belt, Alaska - Abstract

M. A. Jadamec, W. K. Wallace

Alaska Geological Society

... 2001 21 Geometric analyses provide insights into the kinematic development of map-scale folds and thrust sheets in the eastern Brooks Range fold...

The relationship between fracturing, asymmetric folding, and normal faulting in Lisburne Group carbonates: West Porcupine Lake Valley, northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska - Abstract

J. R. Shackleton, C. L. Hanks, W. K. Wallace

Alaska Geological Society

... whether these folds are detachment folds or fault propagation folds, although detailed geometric analysis may favor one kinematic model over another...

The impact of oil composition on fluid distribution in a reservoir pore network

Maram AlSaif, Mustafa Hakimuddin, Khaled Arouri, Ibrahim Atwah

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... with the use of advanced microscopic techniques, such as the X-ray microtomography (micro-CT). Such techniques are useful for imaging the geometric...

Determination of the Density of Rocks for Gravity Exploration

Z. M. Slepak

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

..., and the height of the stations by geometric levelling. The measurements were worked up according to the Bouguer formula, neglecting a correction...

Illinois Basin Geometry: Chapter 14: Part I. Illinois Basin: Structural Geology

Dennis R. Kolata

AAPG Special Volumes

... that lasted until the end of Paleozoic time. As a result, the geometric form of the basin changed from relatively local, high-relief subsidence during...

Evaluating Gas Content of Deep Gas-Shale Core Samples: The Lost Gas Problem

Alton Brown

West Texas Geological Society

... as in the USBM method. The following steps are used to fit the data. First, a geometric factor converts normalized time from that of the actual core...

Diverse Stromatolite Forms from the Upper Devonian of Saskatchewan

W. L. Kaufmann

CSPG Bulletin

... and sediment. The algal stromatolites described herein were recovered from the Upper Devonian of Saskatchewan and are classified according to the geometric...

Application of improved shearlet transform algorithm in noise filtering of complex fault block oilfield in eastern Bohai Sea

Yu Xiong, Cai Li, Yongqiang Yao, Shaoxuan Li, Lei Gao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... geometric analysis methods such as wedgelet transform and bandelet transform, ridgelet transform, curvelet transform, contourlet transform and other non...

Correlation Data as an Aid in Fault Interpretation: A Case Study

E. R. Telatovich

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... compelling geometric insight at first glance. However, it is an evaluation of certain ranges of input data values that generates the very interesting...

Structural Analysis of Sedimentary Basins: An outline of a 3-hour short course presented to the New Orleans Geological Society, April 29, 1981

Dr. John C. Crowell

New Orleans Geological Society

... in structural geology, largely involving inductive approaches, must dove-tail with modern plate-tectonic concepts. The latter are mainly deductive. Geometric...

ABSTRACT: Natural Mixing of Crude Oils From Different Sources in the Bohai Bay Basin, China

C. R. Robison

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... saline marine and hs nonmarine depositional settings. Figure 1. Structural and geometric constraints on inferring discrete and mixed sourcing of oils...

Evidence of a Permian Megatsunami Generated by the Guadalupian Bell Canyon Rader Slide

John D. Pigott, Travis W. Moreland, John S. Hornbuckle, Kulwadee L. Pigott, Fengyan Shi

West Texas Geological Society

... and fossils within a mud matrix. The inferred water depths (>200m) from paleobathymetric geometric restorations, anoxic XRF proxies and the absence...