Abstracts: Getting Better Shear-wave Data over Heavy Oil: Rational for Buried Acquisition; #90173 (2015)

Rob Kendall and Richard A. Bale

Search and Discovery.com

... of burial we believe it may also offer the possibility of recording improved shear-wave data. Shear waves are of interest for monitoring heavy oil...

Host 2500 Development Program - the Answer to Future Cost Effective Subsea Developments for Shallow, Medium and Deep Water Applications

Bjørn Sættenes

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.../umbilical tie-in tool Multibore horizontal stroking connector Multipurpose intervention tool Light weight overtrawlable protection structure Subsea...

Geological Studies on the Great Bahama Bank

Norman D. Newell, J. Keith Rigby

Special Publications of SEPM

... produced by the impact of storm waves along shelving shores and by the winds which collect loose sand from the beaches and pile it above the reach...

Integration of Sedimentologic and Hydrogeologic Properties for Improved Transport Simulations

Susanne E. Biteman, David W. Hyndman, M.S. Phanikumar, Gary S. Weissmann

Special Publications of SEPM

... estimates of aquifer properties were needed to accurately simulate multi-component reactive transport and to design an effective bioremediation strategy...

Seismic Sequences and Facies of Siliciclastic Deep-Water Deposits with Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration

Charles J. Stuart

Pacific Section SEPM

... surfaces. The horizontal resolution (also called the Fresnel zone) is the minimum lateral extent of a layer that will generate a coherent reflection...

Depositional Turbidity Currents in Diapiric Minibasins on the Continental Slope: Formulation and Theory

Horacio Toniolo, Michael Lamb, Gary Parker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... case of a turbidity current is a pulse-like event that consists of a head followed by very little body. There are ways, however, to generate turbidity...

Graphical Use of Cotangent in Determining Dip or Components of Dip: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

William N. Gilliland

AAPG Bulletin

... a rather obscure and incidental reference to an extremely simple procedure that may be used in determining angle of dip or any component of dip...

A new approach to refine and quality control correlations in shale and siltstone formations based on Principal Component Analysis of XRF data

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Sediments and History of Holocene Transgression, Continental Shelf, Northwest Gulf of Mexico

Joseph R. Curray

AAPG Special Volumes

... velocity can be calculated from the equation for horizontal component of orbital velocity adapted from Lamb (1945, p. 367) [EQUATION] where...

From WHP to BHP Using Machine Learning in Multi-Fractured Horizontal Wells of the Vaca Muerta Formation

Agustín Terminiello,Matías Nasca, Juan Filipich, Donald Mc Intyre, Pablo Crespo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that is experienced in the wellbore as the fluid ascends from the reservoir to the well head. For the case of horizontal wells, Δh can be considered from...

The Role of Wrench Faults and Fractures in Creating “Sweet Spots” in Tight Gas Exploration and Production at Rulison Field, Colorado

Thomas L. Davis, Robert D. Benson

AAPG Special Volumes

... is due to the different impedance that is affecting the seismic response of these two wave modes. Shear waves are affected by the rigidity modulus...

Sediments of the North Sea: Part 4. Near-Shore Sediments--Hemipelagic Deposits

K. Luders

AAPG Special Volumes

...., "Eine Titan-Eisenerz-Seife von Wangeroog," Senckenbergiana. Frankfurt/Main, 1935. 78. VEEN, J. VAN, "Sand Waves in the North Sea," Hydrogr. Review. 1935...

ABSTRACT: Bualuang Oilfield, Gulf of Thailand: A Successful Development Using Geosteered Horizontal Wells, by Comrie-Smith, Nick; Lawlor, Michael; Virdy, Manjeet Kaur; Khanna, Mohit; #90155 (2012)

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Caliche and Pseudo-Anticlines

W. Armstrong Price

AAPG Bulletin

... of horizontal dolomitic sandstone. CROSS-SECTION OF A PSEUDO-ANTICLINE In the head of a short branch of the Arroyo Calabozo at the northern end...

Dish Structures in Some Paleocene Deep-Sea Sandstones (Norwegian Sector, North Sea): Origin of the Dish-Forming Clays and their Effect on Reservoir Quality

Andrew Hurst, Antony T. Buller

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...; occasional cabbage-head structures appear as globular masses (Fig. 4). Texturally similar chlorite can also be seen in sandstones without dish structures...

The Sedimentology of the Grindslow Shales and the Kinderscout Grit: A Deltaic Complex in the Namurian of Northern England

John D. Collinson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., horizontal erosion surface, and sometimes passing up into rippled or parallel laminated finer sandstone. This association is interpreted...

Sedimentology of the “Lower Sundance” Formation (Upper Jurassic), Wyoming Region

C. A. Rautman

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... features suggestive of deposition as large, tidally influenced submarine sand waves. Thinner, flat-bedded sandstones which are locally oolitic, formed...

Bahaman Calcareous Sands

Leslie V. Illing

AAPG Bulletin

... from one side to the other^hellip During a period of emergence the previously formed oolite was indurated; after its resubmergence waves have broken...

Resources and Resourcefulness

Ira H. Cram

AAPG Bulletin

...Resources and Resourcefulness Ira H. Cram 1945 857 864 29 7. (July) Standing at the very head of a long list of difficulties which consistently...

Miocene of Caliente Range and Environs, California

J. E. Eaton , U. S. Grant , H. B. Allen

AAPG Bulletin

... shortening and horizontal offsetting; major rift faults as of to-day, after their relatively straight original courses have been bent into pronounced...

Using Ground-Penetrating Radar and Capacitively Coupled Resistivity to Investigate 3-D Fluvial Architecture and Grain-Size Distribution of a Gravel Floodplain in Northeast British Columbia, Canada

Adrian S. Hickin, Benjamin Kerr, Thomas E. Barchyn, Roger C. Paulen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Hickin 2005), downstream accretion (Miall 1996), or possibly the horizontal component of cross bedding (Wright 1959). Group 2 The second group...

Depositional Environments of the Wilcox Group, Texas Gulf Coast: Stratigraphic and Early Diagenetic Signatures

J. A. May, S. A. Stonecipher

GCAGS Transactions

... and erosion. Structureless and high-angle cross-bedded units give way upward to horizontal laminae and ripple cross-laminae (Figure 3c) typical of point-bar...

Rock Physics Model of the Eagle Ford Shale

Colin M. Sayers, John J. Walsh, Kevin Fisher, Sagnik Dasgupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) of seismic waves reflected from an interface between two geological layers may be used to obtain predrill information on RQ and CQ. The information from AVA...

High-resolution Measurements of Elasticity at Core Scale. Improving Mechanical Earth Model Calibration at the Vaca Muerta Formation.

Anton Padin, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Alain Lejay, Hamid Pourpak, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Atef Onaisi, Gregory Boitnott, Laurent Louis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... heterogeneities and strong vertical and horizontal anisotropic properties that greatly affect fracture growth. The abundance of heterogeneities is believed...

The National Conference on Earth Science, Banff, September 13-18, 1987: "Clastic Shorelines -- Processes to Preservation": CONFERENCE REPORT

Peter Gretener

CSPG Bulletin

... are at best a few ten thousands of years. On the geological time scale of millions of years, this rate is instantaneous. TIDES AND WAVES Shoreline...