Fracture Description in the Austin Chalk Using Cast Images

Joseph F. Goetz, Douglas D. Seiler, Charles S. Edmiston

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... the directions of horizontal drainage holes. In horizontal wells, fractures appear as sine waves of varying amplitude reflecting the incidence angle...

Abstract: The Solid, Quantified, Growing and Radiating Earth, by Stavros T. Tassos; #90072 (2007)

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Artesian Salt Formations

Bailey Willis

AAPG Bulletin

... head in Tertiary strata of the Gulf region has long been demonstrated by many wells. In the latitude of the Gulf Coast the drill has not penetrated...

The Most Active Dry Hole in Canada

M. B. Dobrin

CSPG Bulletin

..., Dominion Astronomer, who is chairman of the Canadian National Committee for the I.G.Y. The proposal was quite eagerly suported by Mr. R. G. Madill, head...

Chapter 23: Oligocene–Miocene Carbonates of the Perla Field, Offshore Venezuela: Depositional Model and Facies Architecture

Luis Pomar, Mateu Esteban, Wenceslao Martinez, Diana Espino, Veronica Castillo de Ott, Laszlo Benkovics, Teresa Castro Leyva

AAPG Special Volumes

... with a weak suspension component triggered by internal waves to be the process involved in the origin of nummulitic banks. The low sorting and the scarce...

Case Study on Real-Time Pump Health Check for Optimizing ESP Performance and Extending Lifespan in Unconventional Wells

Matthew Wortmann, Haiwen Zhu, Hardikkumar Zalavadia, Chris James, Chad Harbaugh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... maintenance by precisely monitoring pump performance and correlating production data with degradation metrics. By comparing actual degraded head...

Shallow-Water Geology and Environments of Alacran Reef Complex, Campeche Bank, Mexico

Louis S. Kornicker , Donald W. Boyd

AAPG Bulletin

... of the frame in relation to the destructive potentiality of waves and currents in the area. In areas beset with the full force of open ocean surf, only rigid...

Carbonate Accumulation on the Inner Continental Shelf of Maine: A Modern Consequence of Late Quaternary Glaciation and Sea-level Change

Walter A. Barnhardt , Joseph T. Kelley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (up to 100% CaCO3) are confined to a small area in the vicinity of Mt. Desert Island, a granitic massif on the deeply embayed coast. Exposure to waves...

Application of Multi-segment Well Modeling to Simulate Well Interference

Hewei Tang, Zhi Chai, Bicheng Yan, John Killough

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the governing equations and numerical implementation for the coupled wellbore-reservoir model. A general mass conservation equation for each component...

Morphodynamic and Hydrodynamic Controls On the Stratigraphic Architecture of Intertidal Compound Dunes On the Open-Coast Macrotidal Flat In the Northern Gyeonggi Bay, West Coast Of Korea

Joohee Jo, Kyungsik Choi

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... In the event of large waves that coincide with the dominant current, westerly to northwesterly waves during winter to spring accentuate the ebbward migration...

Channel and Floodplain Facies in a Wandering Gravel-Bed River

Joseph R. Desloges, Michael Church

Special Publications of SEPM

... crossbeds gravel deltas on point bars, edge of riffles dunes, lower flow regime sand waves sand, medium to coarse medium to fine sand small-scale...

Shannon Shelf-Ridge Sandstones Field Trip

R. W. Tillman, R. M. Martinsen, N. Gaynor, D. J. P. Swift

Special Publications of SEPM

...-scale sand waves and troughs Storm-flow deposited which prograded across the tops of the shelf ridges. Central- Ridge (Planar Laminated) Facies (Figs. 10...

Comparative Microseismic Interpretation of Hydraulic Fractures, #41308 (2014)

Shawn Maxwell

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... of the stimulation. These observations are also a critical component to enable fracture optimization, by comparing the results of different stimulation strategies...

Abstract: Towards Using Seismic Moment Tensor Inversions to Infer Reservoir Rock Properties; #90174 (2014)

Adam M. Baig, Ted I. Urbancic, Eric von Lunen, and Jason Hendrick

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... pattern of the P and S waves away from the event’s hypocentre. The careful measurement of the amplitudes and polarities of the P, SV, and SH waveforms...

Fine-Grained Versus Coarse-Grained Wave Ripples Generated Experimentally Under Large-Scale Oscillatory Flow

Don I. Cummings, Simone Dumas, Robert W. Dalrymple

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). These results support the hypothesis advanced by Leckie (1988) that large waves generate markedly different stratigraphic signatures in fine-grained...

Crustal Structure and Evolution of an Explosive Silicic Volcanic System at Yellowstone National Park

Robert B. Smith, Lawrence W. Braile

Wyoming Geological Association

... not significantly alter the velocity structure as measured by the critically refracted (horizontally propagating) head waves. A quandry thus exists; the lower...

Ichnology and the Characterization of Brackish-Water Paleoenvironments Within the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group of West-Central Saskatchewan and East-Central Alberta, Canada; #50219 (2009)

Alireza Morshedian, James A. MacEachern and Shahin E. Dashtgard

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... and sedimentological datasets indicates that deposition occurred within brackish-water embayments, bay-head deltas, tidal flats, and coastal plain environments...

Automatic Dip-Component Computer for Use with Brunton Compass: GEOLOGICAL NOTE

Richard L. Threet

AAPG Bulletin

...] where ^agr equals apparent dip or dip component in the desired direction; ^Thgr equals true dip, and ß equals the horizontal angle between the strike...

Memoir 71, Chapter 17: Feasibility of Detecting Seismic Waves Between Wells at the Fractured Twin Creek Reservoir, Utah-Wyoming Overthrust Belt

Jorge O. Parra, Hughbert A. Collier, and Burke G. Angstman

AAPG Special Volumes

...Memoir 71, Chapter 17: Feasibility of Detecting Seismic Waves Between Wells at the Fractured Twin Creek Reservoir, Utah-Wyoming Overthrust Belt Jorge...

Abstract: 4-D, 3-C Seismology and Dynamic Reservoir Characterization - A Geophysical Renaissance, by T. L. Davis, R. D. Benson, S. L. Roche, and D. Talley; #90937 (1998)

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Abstract: 4-D, 3-C Seismology and Dynamic Reservoir Characterization - A Geophysical Renaissance, by T. L. Davis, R. D. Benson, S. L. Roche, and D. Talley; #90928 (1999).

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Sedimentology of Loyalhanna Member ("Big Injun Sand") of Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone: ABSTRACT

Cindy Carney, Richard Smosna

AAPG Bulletin

...-bedding. As the sand built up, the cross-bedded units were capped by horizontal beds. Cross-bedding indicates that sand waves migrated to the northeast...

Composite (VS/VP) Ratios in Transversely Isotropic Geology: Possible Aid for Identifying Organic Contamination in Porous Rocks

Alvin K. Benson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... that even small amounts of a second component, such as 10% shale or 10% oil-saturated sandstone, can change (VS/VP) ratios significantly from...

Converted Shear-Wave Anisotropy: New Technology for Fractured-Reservoir Management; #90017 (2003)

James Gaiser, Richard Van Dok

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... horizontal stress obtained from borehole data: breakouts and induced fractures. Finally, the asymmetry of PS-waves (only upgoing S-waves) provides a unique...

The Bahamas Drilling Project: Background and Acquisition of Cores and Logs

Robert N. Ginsburg

Special Publications of SEPM

... with depths less than 10 meters, which makes waves and tidal currents effective agents of suspenof suspen which makes waves and tidal currents...