Influence of normal fault growth and linkage on the evolution of a rift basin: A case from the Gaoyou depression of the Subei Basin, eastern China

Yin Liu, Qinghua Chen, Xi Wang, Kai Hu, Shaolei Cao, Lin Wu, and Feng Gao

AAPG Bulletin

...-rates and throw-rates across breached relay zones, central Italy: Implications for the preservation of throw deficits at points of normal fault linkage...

Unlocking the Remaining Potential of Cenozoic Aggraded Carbonate Platforms in SE Asia

Guy Loftus, Colin Grant

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., eustacy and proximity to landmasses influence how platforms prograde, aggrade and eventually drown. They also set the scene for the preservation of source...

Regional Plate Kinematics: Arm Waving or Underutilized Exploration Tool?, by James Pindell, Lorcan Kennan, and Stephen Barrett, #40064

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Microfracture classification, quantification, and petrophysical behavior in the Tengiz and Korolev carbonate reservoirs, Kazakhstan

Neil F. Hurley, Ted E. Playton, and Josephina Schembre-McCabe

AAPG Bulletin

...). Microfractures are known to follow size-scaling laws, and they have a tendency to seal when aperture sizes and volume-to-surface area ratios are small...

Structural Geology of the Circle Ridge Oilfield, Fremont County, Wyoming

Thomas C. Anderson, Patrick J. O'Connell

Wyoming Geological Association

... and recognition of strike-slip fault systems, in P. F. Ballance and H. G. Reading, eds., Sedimentation in oblique-slip mobile zones: International Association...

Structural and Reservoir Development of the Western Papuan Basin Gas and Condensate Fields

M.I. Spooner, R.I. McCarthy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the episodic and complex development of the 3KB fault system specific to the study area and how it imparted localised variation of the structural geology...

New High-Definition Microelectrical Images Shed Light on Complex Paleozoic Nubian Sandstone Reservoir; #41123 (2013)

Elie Haddad, Nadia El-Defrawy, Mohamed Hussein, Ahmed Hassan, Robert Laronga, El-Said Hassan, and Mohamed Nassar

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... the fractures and the faults they surround; the general fault strike direction in the Nubian Sand is NW-SE, which is the same strike orientation...

AAPG Memoir 76, Chapter 16: Pore Pressure ahead of the Bit: An Integrated Approach

Nader C. Dutta, William H. Borland, W. Scott Leaney, Richard Meehan, and W. Les Nutt

AAPG Special Volumes

... for seal distribution and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Norwegian Petroleum Foundation Special Publication 7...

Are Carbonates 'Difficult'?

Trevor Burchette

GEO ExPro Magazine

... unique to carbonate reservoirs that materially affect their development and commerciality, but Complex depositional facies mosaics on Australia’s Great...

Effects of Exhumation on Gas Saturation in Tight Gas Sandstones

Alton Brown

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... tight gas reservoirs. Gas expands during exhumation. The effect of gas expansion on saturation depends on how the accumulation is sealed. The paper...

Process controls on the development of stratigraphic trap potential on the margins of confined turbidite systems and aids to reservoir evaluation

William McCaffrey, Benjamin Kneller

AAPG Bulletin

.... This comprises a type A pinch-out geometry (see text for discussion). Figure 6 illustrates how individual beds tend to thin toward the confining slope...

Thermal Maturation by Vitrinite Reflectance of Woodford Shale Near Washita Valley Fault, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma

Brian J. Cardott, William J. Metcalf III, Judson L. Ahern

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... anticline, Tishomingo anticline, Belton anticline, and Hunton anticline (Ham, 1969), bounded by three major fault zones: Washita Valley, Reagan...

Abstract: Offshore Evidence for Contractional Tectonic Reactivation of the North Africa Margin, Western Mediterranean Sea, and Geodynamic Implications

Jacques Deverchere, Abdelkarim Yelles, and the MARADJA-MARADJA Scentific Parties

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... of the Internal Zones with the African passive margin by 15 Ma, the slow convergence between Africa and Europe is accommodated in a different way...

Geometry of the Thrust Front Near Pincher Creek, Alberta

S.N. Hiebert, D.A. Spratt

CSPG Bulletin

... throw clastic reservoir against tight seal rocks. For example, the Cardium is interpreted as fault-imbricated 1 km west of the Canadian Gulf Baysel...

Gold metallogeny of the northern Capricorn Orogen

Imogen Fielding, Simon Johnson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... that affect the distribution and occurrences of gold within a region (Hronsky et al., 2012, McCuaig et al., 2010). Determining how gold mineralization relates...

Some Shallow Tectonic Consequences of Subduction and Their Meaning to the Hydrocarbon Explorationist: Hydrocarbons

Peter A. Montecchi

AAPG Special Volumes

... milling," it is highly unlikely that reservoir or seal conditions could exist in these highly disturbed areas unless the melange were covered...

Impact of the Stress State and the Natural Network of Fractures/Faults on the Efficiency of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations in the Goldwyer Shale Formation

Partha Pratim Mandal, Reza Rezaee, Joel Sarout

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... requires a risk assessment plan to be implemented before HF operations in the nearby areas are undertaken. However, we do not know how the fault...

The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?

D. K. Larue

AAPG Bulletin

... as well as interpreted trends are introduced. At this point, discussions of how these knowns may or may not affect resolution of the business problem...

Regional detection and monitoring of injection-induced seismicity: Application to the 2010–2012 Youngstown, Ohio, seismic sequence

S. G. Holtkamp, M. R. Brudzinski, and B. S. Currie

AAPG Bulletin

..., this corresponds to a hydraulic diffusivity, , consistent with other measurements of diffusion-triggered seismicity in shallow fault zones (Shapiro et al...

Hibernia Oil Field--Canada, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Grand Banks, Offshore Newfoundland

A. H. Mackay, A. J. Tankard

AAPG Special Volumes

...: Tectonic Fold and Fault Traps Allen, J. R. L., 1978, Studies in fluviatile sedimentation: an exploratory quantitative model for the architecture...

Identifying Salt Suture Zones and Lithological Changes of the Louann Salt in the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Louisiana

Jamie Singer, Julie Bloxson, and William A. Heins

GCAGS Transactions

... or subsalt traps, understanding how sutures influence salt movement is critical for predicting trap integrity, seal efficiency, and migration...

Abstract: Abstract: Using 2D Petroleum Systems Modeling (TecLink®) in Complex Tectonic Settings - Application to the Greater Cusiana Field, Colombia, by Laurent de Walque, Carolyn Lampe, and Daniel Palmowski; #90066 (2007)

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Abstract: Controls on the Petroleum Prospectivity of the Apulian Platform, Western Greece: Insights from Field and Subsurface Data, by John Underhill; #90161 (2013)

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Failures and Successes Along With the Emergence of Gas-Rich Deep Bozhong Depression in Cenozoic Lacustrine Rift Bohai Bay Basin

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Exploring Natural Hydrogen and Abiotic Methane in Indonesia: Case and Idea from Tanjung Api Gas Seeps, East Arm of Sulawesi - Building a Geologic Hydrogen System in a Collision Zone

Awang Harun Satyana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... for the methane. Currently, geological H2 accumulation is being researched to understand its origin, how, and where it accumulates in the subsurface. Some...