Data Quality Control to Increase Geomechanical Modelling Accuracy

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Effect of CO2 Dissolution on Fluid Flow and Phase Behavior in Oil-water Systems in Shale Reservoirs

Yilei Song, Zhaojie Song, Yufan Meng, Haoming Ma, Zhangxin Chen, Yunfei Zhang, Lichao Zhang, Dong Feng

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-phase flash algorithm is introduced that utilizes a fugacity calculation model incorporating adsorption effects to compute the fluid properties of shale...

Mineralogical and Petrophysical Characterisation of a Fine Grained Sandstone With Significant Clay Coating Using 3-D Micro-CT and SEM Imaging From a 5mm Plug

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Stress, pore pressure, and dynamically constrained hydrocarbon columns in the South Eugene Island 330 field, northern Gulf of Mexico

Thomas Finkbeiner, Mark Zoback, Peter Flemings, Beth Stump

AAPG Bulletin

...., and J. L. Urai, 1997, Top seal leakage through faults and fractures: the role of mudrock properties: Proceedings of the Geological Society Conference...

Overpressures in the Anadarko basin, southwestern Oklahoma: Static or dynamic?

Youngmin Lee, David Deming

AAPG Bulletin

... from relatively coarse-grained rocks into relatively fine-grained lithologies. A gas capillary seal is a layer of zero permeability to fluid phases...

Modeling Reservoir Heterogeneity Within Outer Ramp Carbonate Facies Using an Outcrop Analog, San Andres Formation of the Permian Basin

R. A. Eisenberg, P. M. Harris, C. W. Grant, D. J. Goggin, F. J. Conner

AAPG Bulletin

... for horizontal transect data from three distinct stratigraphic units have nearly identical properties. Overall, the ranges of correlation are short (3-3.5 m; 10-12...

A Formation Evaluation of the Middle Bakken Member Using a Multimineral Petrophysical Analysis Approach

Robert Klenner, Jason R. Braunberger, James A. Sorensen, Kurt E. Eylands, Alexander Azenkeng, Steven A. Smith

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ), petrophysical p plug properties, and logged co descriptions The MMPA model used al of these data to compute bu mineral vol ore s. ll ulk lumes o n ive After...

ABSTRACT: Pressure Regressions and Petroleum Entrapment- Examples from Azerbaijan and Trinidad; #90017 (2003)

Mark Osborne, Kirton Rodrigues

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... to the reservoir by capillary leakage and fracture failure. Conversely, high pressure (low effective stress) is often the critical control on the maximum column...

Abstract: Predicting Matrix Production Potential of the Upper Monterey Using Pore Geometry Data; #91203 (2022)

Bryan Bell

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... the compositional quality control of OPAL-A deposits that are reflected in pore geometry data. It is pore geometry that defines rock quality...

Origin and anatomy of reservoir cements within a world-class Jurassic source rock

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Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Hydrocarbons: Chapter 12: Part III. Processes

William A. England

AAPG Special Volumes

... of accumulation starts. The trap may be defined by the capillary barrier presented by the top seal, as well as by the perturbation brought about by hydrodynamic...

Vaca Muerta Shale Reservoir Characterization and Description: The Starting Point for Development of a Shale Play with Very Good Possibilities for a Successful Project

Mariano N. Garcia, Federico Sorenson, Juan Carlos Bonapace, Fabio Motta, Christian Bajuk, Hernan Stockman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... seal under the stress of different types of loads, taking into account the mechanical properties of all of the interfaces. By performing FEA for a cement...

Exploring for the Future Geomechanics: Breaking Down Barriers to Exploration

Adam H. E. Bailey, Amber J. M. Jarrett, Liuqi Wang, David N. Dewhurst, Lionel Esteban, Shane Kager, Ludwig Monmusson, Lidena K. Carr, Paul A. Henson

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... program Rock mechanics testing targeted potential reservoir-seal pairs, characterising mechanical and petrophysical properties through unconfined...

Enhancing SAR Seep Interpretation with Broadband Seismic: A Case Study from the Timor Trough

Rowan Edwards, Marcus Sanderson, Pedro Martinez Duran, Gregor Duval, Mike King

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

.... The detection of these slicks relies upon the physical properties of oil (i.e. viscosity and elasticity) and the effect of dampening capillary and ultra...

The Search for New Exploration Plays: When Only the Best Will Do, #10810 (2015).

Julie Garvin

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... Criteria Technological Advances  What can we do today, that couldn’t be done yesterday? Creativity  Ask “How come?, Why not?, Who says...

Sanding Problems in Injection and Production Wells of Waterflood Projects, #42353 (2019).

Amr Sayed and Mahmood Amani,

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... the rock and the formation waters, and change in capillary strength at different water saturation values. The response of capillary strength to elevated...

Summary of Reservoir Characterization Studies in the Fullerton Clear Fork Reservoir

Stephen C. Ruppel

AAPG Special Volumes

...-fabric properties described by Jones and Lucia. Lucia and Kane also describe the approaches used to calculate initial water saturation using capillary...

Primary Migration of Petroleum: Chapter 2: PETROLEUM GENERATION AND MIGRATION

V. V. Palciauskas

AAPG Special Volumes

... sandstones" (MacKenzie et al., 1988, p. 63). They also inferred that capillary forces can play a minor role in expelling hydrocarbons close to shale-sand...

Dynamic Geo-Process Modelling: A Technique to Help Identify Favorable Prospects

Michael J. Zeltlin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the rocks and fluids (lithotypes). Formation ages. Points of control from which nodal properties are determined. Boundary conditions. Number...

Pore Pressure Prediction: Geological Perceptions

S. Shaker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... predicts how the pressure in the reservoir and the top seal changes as a result of structural relief. The concept assumes that PPP and MPP are equal...

Extended Abstract: Nuclear Logging While Drilling in Complex Lithology … Solution for a Glauconitic Sandstone Reservoir

Tarek Abdel Shafy, Amir Elsheikh, Mounir Diab, Martin Oldani, Ahmed Abouzaid, Thern Holger, Mohamed Said

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

..., introducing large uncertainties for estimated petrophysical properties and reservoir characterization. The application of traditional Gamma Ray...

Reservoir Fluids

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

.... This is knowledge required to understand how reservoirs behave. Physical processes also control the distribution of oil and water in a reservoir...

Quantitative evaluation of hydrocarbon containment using seal strength index (SSI) and benchmarking against global analogues

Shengyu Wu, Shaoqing Sun, David A. Pollitt

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to breach the seal in a subsurface container which has a defined seal lithology, trap/seal geometry, reservoir properties, fluid properties, and reservoir...

Present Interpretations of the Structural Theory for Oil and Gas Migration and Accumulation: Part III. Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum

Alex. W. McCoy , W. Ross Keyte

AAPG Special Volumes

... idea of this theory is that the principal active agent of oil and gas accumulation is moving water under both hydraulic and capillary pressure...

Assessment of CO2 Storage Capability in Denison Trough, Bowen Basin

Xingjin Wang, Chris Holmes, Ahmad Dehghan Khalili, Joan Esterle

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... work to determine seal integrity and economic feasibility. Keywords: Denison Trough, depleted gas reservoir, history match, injection rate, Merivale...