Modeling of Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Systems: Chapter 18: Part IV. Identification and Characterization

Douglas W. Waples

AAPG Special Volumes

... accumulation models share the common problem that they average the properties that control fluid flow (such as absolute and relative permeability...

Exploring for the Future: new geomechanical data in frontier Australian basins

Adam Bailey, David Dewhurst, Liuqi Wang, Chris Carson, Jade Anderson, Grace Butcher, Paul Henson

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... samples. These data were acquired to build a better understanding of basin sediment rock properties, particularly looking at the reservoir and seal...

Pore Pressure Estimation … A Drillers Point of View and Application to Basin Models, #42044 (2017).

Martin D. Matthews

Search and Discovery.com

... pressure models to 2D and later 3D we used to joke that by the time we had enough control on the models properties we would not need the models The weakest...

Codell carrier-bed play, Denver Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, John E. Zumberge, John B. Curtis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., 2011. http://www.sponser.co.il/ForumFiles/1_2011_11_Annual_Analyst_Presentation_FINAL_COMBINED_PUBLIC.pdf Pagano, T.A., 2006, Rock properties...

Core-Analysis Practices--Basic Methods and New Developments

T. A. Pollard , Paul P. Reichertz

AAPG Bulletin

... significance in the near future: pore-size-distribution and mercury capillary-pressure measurements, compositional studies, electrical properties...

Abstract: Quantifying the Uncertainty of Elastic Facies Classification; #90319 (2018)

Keith Edwards, Muneera F. Al-Awadhi, Abdelrahman Abdeltwab

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... those facies map in an elastic parameter domain. Elastic parameters are based on properties that control how elastic waves propagate in the subsurface...

Controls of Reservoir and Cap Rock on Gas Hydrate Formation, #40911 (2012)

Linyun Tan

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...’ kinetic energy. In addition, the pressure could control the number of gas molecules in per unit volume: this would determine how many gas molecules could...

Evaluation of Late Cap Rock Failure and Hydrocarbon Trapping Using a Linked Pressure and Stress Simulator

A. E. Lothe, H. Borge, . Sylta

AAPG Special Volumes

... in overpressured sedimentary basins over geological time. Knowledge of the lateral flow properties of major faults is needed to simulate how pressure...

Understanding Tortuosity and Permeability variations in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Niobrara Formation

Adenike Tokan-Lawal, Christopher J. Landry, Masa Prodanovic, Peter Eichhubl

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... algorithm (LSMPQS software), and Lattice Boltzmann simulation to characterize the capillary-dominated displacement properties and the relative permeability...

Poroelastic-Textural Characterization Through Multi-Step Hysteretic Mercury Intrusion Measurements

James Greene, Laurent Louis, Greg Boitnott, Coralee Cox, Matthew McAllen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... injection capillary pressure (MICP) theory. The derived poroelastic properties are compared against static elastic measurements on sister core plugs...

Fault facies modeling: Technique and approach for 3-D conditioning and modeling of faulted grids

N. Fredman, J. Tveranger, N. Cardozo, A. Braathen, H. Soleng, P. Roe, A. Skorstad, A. R. Syversveen

AAPG Bulletin

... of fault rock properties, in A. G. Koestler and R. Hunsdale, eds., Hydrocarbon seal quantification: Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication...

Production Optimization of CO2 Huff-n-Puff Process in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs with Effects of Gas Relative Permeability Hysteresis, Geomechanics, and Capillary Pressure

Sardar Asadov, Caner Karacer, Mustafa Onur

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... considering the nano-pore confinement effect on their PVT measurements. Nojabaei et al. (2013) demonstrate how to incorporate excessive capillary pressures...

Altamont-Bluebell: A Major Fractured and Overpressured Stratigraphic Trap, Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter T. Lucas, James M. Drexler

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and fluid properties and the highly disseminated occurrence of producing zones result in unusual engineering and evaluation problems which include: (1) very...

Exploring for unswept gas: Integrating reservoir models, production data, and fault seal analysis in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia

David Kulikowski, and Alexander G. Robson

AAPG Bulletin

... the required reservoir modeling and fault seal analysis studies. This work provides several examples of how detailed reservoir modeling and fault seal...

Abstract: The Puzzling Problem of Sealy and Leaky Faults; #90251 (2016)

Abdelwahab Noufal

Search and Discovery.com

... and would influence the total fault seal risk assessment. Hence, the results offer useful insights in the main factors and highlights how the system...

Gas Slippage in Tight Rocks With Sub-irreducible Water Saturation

Jing Li, Pin Jia, Keliu Wu, Xiangzeng Wang, Shiyuan Qu, Juntai Shi, Tianhao Jiang, Yifu Dong

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Relation To Q And Other Formation Properties. The log analyst, 1979, 20(03). [19]. Hoffman, M. E, 2013. Reservoirs That Are Not in Capillary Pressure...

Laboratory Investigation of the Relationship Between Actual and Apparent Product Thickness in Sands

Duane R. Hampton

Pacific Section of AAPG

... by subtracting the capillary fringe thickness as suggested by Hall, Blake and Champlin (1984) and Schiegg (1985) or by dividing by a constant factor...

Abstract: Evaluation of Permeability in Tight Sandstones of Eastern Saudi Arabia Based on Digital Rock Physics; #90319 (2018)

Ivan Deshenenkov, Abrar Alabbad

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... reservoir parameter that indicates how efficient fluids flow to wellbore through the pore network. It is important to understand the controls and factors...

The Geometry and Thickness of Deformation-band Fault Core and its Influence on Sealing Characteristics of Deformation-band Fault Zones

Z. K. Shipton, J. P. Evans, L. B. Thompson

AAPG Special Volumes

... thickness is very small, this should provide a capillary seal to two-phase flow. There does not seem to be an increase in grain crushing (producing...

Understanding Stratigraphic Heterogeneity: A Methodology to Maximize the Efficiency of the Geological Storage of CO2

Catherine M. Gibson-Poole, Lotte Svendsen, Maxwell N. Watson, Richard F. Daniel,Jonathan Ennis-King, Andy J. Rigg

AAPG Special Volumes

... packages of sandstone reservoirs exist separated by locally effective, but regionally nonextensive, intraformational seals. Seal capacity analyses indicate...

Abstract: Abstract: Mudstone Pore Systems: Controls and Implications for Fluid Flow, by Andrew C. Aplin, Kuncho D. Kurtev, and Julian K.S. Moore; #90066 (2007)

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Fluid-Flow Regimes and Sandstone Shale Diagenesis in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Ronald C. Surdam, Zun Sheng Hao, Peigui Yin

Special Publications of SEPM

... permeability fluid flow barriers were converted to capillary seals and three dimensional closure of these seals created the compartment Above...

Reducing the Risk of CO2 Storage Projects through Cost Effective Reservoir Characterisation: Application of Digital Core Analysis to a CO2 Injection Reservoir

Mohammad Bagheri, Mark Knackstedt, Tess Dance, Matthias Raab

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... the topology and geometry of the pore structure to understand and quantify capillary trapping of CO2. How DCA results can affect the reservoir...

Abstract: Characterising Productive Sands in the Shallow Clastics Field: Integration of under Balanced Drilling (UBD) and Core Analysis Results (Paper 6)

J-H van Konijnenburg, Mah Kok-Gin, J. MacArthur

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...: How do high porosities and permeabilities relate to high Sew and long transition zones? Moreover, how do the observed rock properties influence...

Interpretation of Subsurface Hydrocarbon Shows: ABSTRACT

Tim T. Schowalter

AAPG Bulletin

..., capillary properties, hydrocarbon-water interfacial tension, oil density, and water density of the reservoir are known. Producing wells are by definition...