Leakage Pathways from Potential CO2 Storage Sites and Importance of Open Traps: Case of the Texas Gulf Coast

Jean-Philippe Nicot, Susan Hovorka

AAPG Special Volumes

... Grant No. DE-FG22-94MT-94002, 402 p.Yielding, G., B. Freeman, and D. T. Needham, 1997, Quantitative fault seal prediction: AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, p...

Geophysical Insights into Completions and Production Predictability for a Shale Gas Reservoir Using Fault Intensity and AVO Inversion

Carl Reine, Sean Lovric

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the most microseismic energy in areas with high fault intensity, followed closely by areas with high brittleness. The natural faults affect the spatial...

Geomechanical characteristics of potential carbon dioxide sinks and seals in the DeSoto Canyon Salt Basin, eastern Gulf of Mexico

Jingyao Meng, Jack C. Pashin, and Runar Nygaard

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... provides insight on determining the seal integrity for each potential reservoir unit and how to identify the favorable storage formations and sites...

A Structural and Tectonic Model of the Coastal Plains Block, Central Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Tom L. Heidrick, Karsani Aulia

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., Rokan-Kempas-Beruk uplift, Siak Kecil syncline, Sembilan uplift, and numerous smaller order elements (Fig. 5). Faults and fold-fault zones belonging...

A Case Study of Three-dimensional Fold and Growth Sequence Development and the Link to Submarine Channel-structure Interactions in Deep-water Fold Belts

Ian R. Clark, Joseph A. Cartwright

AAPG Special Volumes

... (6561640 ft). Zones of local transtension and transpression occur where strike-slip fault segments link; these form push-up structures with a sea...

Sulfide Ore Deposits Related to Thrust Faults in Northern Utah

Laurence P. James

Utah Geological Association

... to thrust fault zones in lower Paleozoic rocks, Alta-Cotton-wood area, northern Utah. Replacement (manto) ore bodies occur in limestone where thrust...

Abstract: How to Make a Map from an Outcrop

Franz L. Kessler and John Jong

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... 40 km SW of Miri, Sarawak, this Coastal Road outcrop offers excellent insight into fault-seal and clay-gouging dynamics. Fig. 1: Both flanks...

Abstract: Interpreting a 3D World When Convention Relies Upon 2D Presentations, by Peter Vrolijk, M. Ellen Meurer, and Sonia Bradley; #120140 (2014)

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Shale Morphology and Seal Characterization of the Lower Atoka Formation Deepwater Deposits, Jacksonville, Arkansas

Christian J. Clark, Arnold H. Bouma, Bruce M. Samuel

GCAGS Transactions

... these changes affect the clay mineralogy, seal stability, and overall reservoir architecture, and how these deposits should be interpreted and classified. We...

What matters for flow and recovery in carbonate gas reservoirs: Insights from the mature Central Luconia Province, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia

Georg M. D. Warrlich, Erwin W. Adams, Artur Ryba, Tommy Tam, King King Ting, and Hooi-Koon Tang

AAPG Bulletin

... compartments. Long-lived, fault-bounded reef margins, carbonate shoals, islands, and karsts can be vertical conduits for aquifer inflow. Platform shape...

Abstract: Quantifying the Impact of Uncertainty in Seismic Interpretation, by C. E. Bond, R. Butler, S. Jones, R. Muir, and A. D. Gibbs; #90090 (2009).

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Effects of Lateral Faulting on Oil Exploration

William Henry Corey

AAPG Bulletin

... of their antiquity. It shows clearly how the actual over-all fault pattern resembles closely Moody and M. J. Hill's theoretical strain relief pattern. This general...

Eromanga oil traps … a multi field post-mortem

Keith Martens

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the pre-structure charge hypothesis. • Most structures are less than 20% filled. Inadequate top seal, fault breach and/or lack of charge are cited...

State of Stress in the Timor Sea Area, Based on Deep Wellbore Observations and Frictional Failure Criteria: Application to Fault-Trap Integrity

David A. Castillo, Richard R. Hillis, Keven Asquith, Mike Fischer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... under an applied tectonic load. To investigate how the in situ stress field influences fault seal integrity, a joint venture study 'Crustal Stresses...

Petrophysical Challenges in the Udang Reservoir, North Belut Field, South Natuna Sea

Yana Hendrayana, Bowo Pangarso, M. Agussalim Asaad

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and determining which zones to perforate. Production logging tool data were acquired in some wells, and supported the interpretation that the additional...

Evolution and Hydrocarbon Prospect of the North Banggai-Sula Area: An Application of Sea Seep’ Technology for Hydrocarbon Exploration in Underexplored Areas

Farid Ferdian

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... expulsion on a translational continental margin: mud volcanoes, fault zones, headless canyons, and aquifers in Monterey Bay, California. Geological...

The Gibraltar case study, northern Llanos Foothills, Colombia. Success of a complex technical business in complicated environments.

T. Villamil, J. Muñoz, J. Sanchez, J. J. Aristizabal, J. Velasco, A. Fajardo, P. E. Luna, A. Mantilla, L. E. Peña, M. G. Paz, O. Silva, E. Sanchez, N. S. Meza, J. Martinez, L. A. Pachon, E. Gallardo

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... will solve are 1. Which is the depth of the oil water contact and how does this affect the upside reserve estimates of the structure. 2. The structure...

Downhole Geochemical Logging in the Eagle Ford: Hydrocarbon Detection in Vertical and Lateral Wells, #41466 (2014).

Rick Schrynemeeckers

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.... As such, these limitations negatively affect the ability of companies to properly assess and evaluate plays like the Eagle Ford that have numerous stacked...

Extended Abstract: Hydrocarbon Potential of the Deepwater Portion of the “Salina del Istmo” Province, Southeastern Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

Carlos T. Williams-Rojas, Enrique Reyes-Tovar, Lino Miranda-Peralta, Gerardo Reyna-Martinez, Alejandro Cardenas-Alvarado, Rodrigo Maldonado-Villalon, Veronica Munoz-Bocanegra, Carlos Lora-delaFuente

GCAGS Transactions

..., we were able to figure out how salt tectonics interacts with sedimentation to define the distribution of reservoirs and seal facies...

Abstract: Structural and Stratigraphic Compartmentalization at Cave Gulch Field, Wind River Basin, Wyoming, by Kimberly Doupe; #9033 (2004)

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Abstract: Structural Diagenesis: The Integration of Structural Geology and Diagenesis, by Stephen Laubach, Kitty Milliken, Peter Eichhubl, Rob Lander, Linda Bonnell, Jon Olson, and Andrew Thomas; #90078 (2008)

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A comparison of plug-derived and probe-derived permeability in cross-bedded sandstones of the Virgelle Member, Alberta, Canada: The influence of flow directions on probe permeametry

Rudi Meyer, Federico F. Krause

AAPG Bulletin

...: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 10, p. 309-317. Tyler, N., M. D. Barton, and R. J. Finley, 1991, Outcrop characterization of flow unit and seal...

Distribution and Generation of the Overpressure System, Eastern Delaware Basin, Western Texas and Southern New Mexico

Ming Luo , Mark R. Baker , David V. LeMone

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1988). The ancient fault zones along the eastern Delaware basin began to move vertically and with considerable strike-slip offset due to the collision...

Application of Pyrenean Fractured Carbonate Outcrops for Reservoir Characterisation; #41387 (2014)

Jon Gutmanis, Lluis Ardevol i Oro

Search and Discovery.com

... issues:    The often major influence of mechanical stratigraphy on fracture distribution, connectivity and style. The problem of how to include...

How to Generate Really Good Structural Maps

Francis Richards

GEO ExPro Magazine

... highlight a potential structural problem. Displacement measures the finite movement along a fault – see Figure 2, which also indicates how...