Scaled Physical Model of Secondary Oil Migration: Discussion

P. S. Ringrose , S. R. Larter , P. W. M. Corbett , D. L. Carruthers

AAPG Bulletin

... laminations on core plug oil/water relative permeability and Capillary pressure: Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE Paper 27968, 11 p. Huang, Y., P...

Chapter 4: Adding New Reserves and Production in Giant Fields

John S. Sneider, Michael A. Rosen, Dorothy E. Ballentine

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Figure 6. A capillary pressure curve converted to reservoir depth based on reservoir fluid properties compared to schematic cross section of a generic...

ABSTRACT: Favorable Stratigraphic Conditions for Carbon Sequestration Exist in the Rocky Mountain Basins, by Ronald Drake II and Sean Brennan; #90156 (2012)

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Net Pay Cutoffs from Capillary Pressure; #120008 (2009)

Andy May

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... of building a capillary pressure model, how the parameters are selected, and how the model can be used to pick appropriate cutoffs in a heavy oil...

Quantifying Capillary Trapping on Ultimate Coal Seam Gas Recovery: A Laboratory Study

Yiran Zhu, Zhang Shi, Huilin Xing, Shuai Gao, Zhongwei Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Quantifying Capillary Trapping on Ultimate Coal Seam Gas Recovery: A Laboratory Study Yiran Zhu, Zhang Shi, Huilin Xing, Shuai Gao, Zhongwei Chen...

The Biggest Risks in Hydrocarbon Exploration That are Often Overlooked: Cases of Exploration Failures in Indonesia and The Solutions

Awang H. Satyana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in rock properties, can be made. Processes of sedimentation of source, seal, reservoir and overburden rock, maturation of source rock, generation...

Petrophysics of the Wasatch Formation and Mesaverde Group, Natural Buttes Producing Area, Uinta Basin, Utah

Dan J. Hartmann, Logan MacMillan

Utah Geological Association

... radius (port size) of the samples. Port size is used to discriminate capillary pressure type curves, from which one can estimate the height of the gas...

Modeling and Simulation of Mass Transfer and Equilibrium in Tight Oil Formations

Marjan Sherafati, Kristian Jessen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... properties for a Bakken crude oil system including the capillary effect in the porous medium. Wang et al. (2013) evaluated the effect of capillarity...

Abstract/Excerpts: Multi-scale Effective Flow Properties of Heterogeneous Mudstones, by Andrew C. Aplin, Gary D. Couples, Michael Drews, Kuncho D. Kurtev, and Jingsheng Ma; #120098 (2013)

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Petrophysical Rock Typing in Unconventional Shale Plays: The Niobrara Formation Case Study

Asm Kamruzzaman, Manika Prasad, Stephen Sonnenberg

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... by characterizing its critical reservoir rock properties that have direct control on well producibility. Materials and Methods We developed the rock typing...

Developing a High-efficiency Method for Field-scale Simulation of a Tight and Naturally Fractured Reservoir in the Williston Basin

Xincheng Wan, Lu Jin, Todd Jiang, Nicholas Bosshart, James Sorensen, Chenyu Wu, Ahmed Merzoug

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the oil–water interface, which is a function of the fluid and rock properties. Capillary pressure plays a crucial role in determining the thickness...

The northern Gulf of Mexico offshore super basin: Reservoirs, source rocks, seals, traps, and successes

John W. Snedden, Robert C. Cunningham, and Jon W. Virdell

AAPG Bulletin

... on the geologic factors inherent to the GOM that limit capillary leakage through the top seal. We specifically exclude fault-dependent traps in which...

Abstract: Comparison between Darcy and Invasion Percolation Simulations of Kilometer Scale Hydrocarbon Migration across Fine Grained Sediments: An Example from the Malvinas Basin, Offshore Argentina, by A. Vayssaire; #90091 (2009).

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The Benefits of a Synergistic Approach to Reservoir Characterization and Proration Rose City Prairie Du Chien Gas Field, Ogemaw County, Michigan: Rejuvenation of a Mature Giant, North Ward Estes Field, Texas

C. N. Tinker, L. D. Chambers, H. J. Ritch, C. D. McRae, M. A. Keen

AAPG Special Volumes

... five lithofacies using average porosity samples for each lithofacies. Here again, LF 1 and 2 show the most favorable capillary pressure properties...

Prewell and postwell predictions of oil and gas columns using an iterative Monte Carlo technique with three-dimensional petroleum systems modeling

Are Tømmerås, Øyvind Sylta, Matthias C. Daszinnies, and Davide Mencaroni

AAPG Bulletin

... a column that is greater than the static capillary entry pressure seal (Sylta, 2005). A simple hysteresis model accounts for damage to the capillary seal...

Relating shale thickness to seal potential

Justin Palmer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Relating shale thickness to seal potential Justin Palmer Relating shale thickness to seal potential Justin Palmer*, Chevron Gulf of Mexico...

Wettability Measurements on Two Sandstones: An Experimental Investigation before and after CO2 Flooding

Cut Aja Fauziah, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Ahmed Barifcani, Stefan Iglauer

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... trapping (Hesse and Woods 2010; Iglauer et al. 2015), capillary trapping (Suekane et al. 2008; Pentland et al. 2011; Ruprecht et al. 2014; Krevor et al...

A Method for Developing 3-D Hydrocarbon Saturation Distributions in Old and New Reservoirs

Michael J. Heymans

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... test results, and capillary pressure core test measurements to average variations in 3-D hydrocarbon saturation distributions throughout a reservoir...

Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Modeling in the Barmer Basin of Western Rajasthan, India: Lessons for Exploration in Rift Basins with Late-Stage Inversion, Uplift, and Tilting

Bodapati S. Naidu, V. R. Sunder, Vachaspati Kothari, Pinak Mohapatra, Stuart D. Burley, John Dolson, Paul Farrimond

AAPG Special Volumes

... how vertical migration may take place through seals and along faults. The key uncertainties in this area are the top seal and the properties of faults...

Fluid distribution modeling impact on estimating CO2 saturation in Cranfield: A capillary pressure equilibrium approach with invertible neural networks

Sohini Dasgupta, Arnab Dhara, Mrinal K. Sen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... homogeneous subsample related to the capillary pressure (Pc ) (Brooks, 1965) is determined. The dry moduli and rock properties of a CO2 storage reservoir...

Rapid Development of a Smart Stimulation Fluid Additive

Antonio Recio III, Kristina Henkel-Holan, Denise Benoit

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... all of which define the capillary forces that control fluid mobility downhole. As shown in Figure 10, microemulsion ME-4 outperforms the target...

Evaluating the Impact of Stress-Induced Changes on Caprock Integrity in the San Juan Basin.

Nathaniel Nimo Yeboah, William Ampomah, Tom Bratton, Dung Bui, Adewale Amosu

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... the geomechanical impacts of subsurface injection, particularly injection-induced stress on reservoir and caprocks. This research focuses on examining how...

Evaporite-Hydrocarbon Association: Source Rocks, Seals and Plumbing Problems

John Warren

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a constancy of properties over a sedimentary basin . A fundamenta l requirement for an effective seal is that the minimum displacement pressure...

Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China

Keyu Tao, Jian Cao, Wenxuan Hu, Dongming Zhi, Dewen Lei, Yong Tang, Jianhua Qu, Xun Kang, and Leslie B. Magoon

AAPG Bulletin

... stratigraphic units on Figure 2 based on a depth corrected reflection seismic profile and well control listed in Table 1. The extent of the piedmont fault zones...

Controls on Pore Geometry in the Tirrawarra Sandstone Reservoir, Cooper Basin, Australia

Mohammad R. Rezaee, N. M. Lemon

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and cementation which in tum control pore geometry. Geologic setting Reservoir properties such as porosity and permeability are controlled by the size...