Abstract: Adapting Petroleum Systems Analysis to Evaluate Play Fairways and "Sweet Spots" in Unconventional Resources, by Leonard, Jay E.; Heydweiller, Erich C.; Leonard, China O.; Lash, Gary; #90163 (2013)

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Introduction to Offshore Geologic Hazards: Section 1: PART 2

Arnold H. Bouma

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and Washington 1. Seismicity and active faulting: Major fault zones (such as San Andreas, Sur-Nacimiento) extend offshore in central and northern...

Chapter 10: 3-D Seismic-Structural Workflows – Examples Using the Hat Creek Fault System

Graham Yielding, Brett Freeman

AAPG Special Volumes

... and (B) perspective views showing how horizon interpretation on each side of the fault is used for extrapolation to the fault surface to define the horizon...

Laramide Paleostress Trajectories From Stylolites In The Big Bend Region

Richard J. Erdlac, Jr.

West Texas Geological Society

... trending, right-stepping, en echelon fault zones. The uplift is about 500 km2 of topographically high Cretaceous limestone and resembles a parallelogram...

Microfractures Due to Overpressures Caused by Thermal Cracking in Well-Sealed Upper Devonian Reservoirs, Deep Alberta Basin

Xiomara M. Marquez , Eric W. Mountjoy

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure zones: AAPG Bulletin, v. 56, p. 2068-2071. Barker, C., 1988, Generation of anomalous internal pressure in source rocks and its role...

Athabasca Basin Drillcore Workshop, 2015 (SP24)

Colin Card, Sean Bosman

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... thought to be a critical component in focussing fault zones and, by extension, uraniferous fluids. In spite of the absence of similar metasedimentary...

Subsurface Disposal of Liquid Industrial Wastes by Deep-Well Injection

Don L. Warner

AAPG Special Volumes

... be of such character that it is important to know how they are distributed within the injection zones and where they are likely to m grate. The feasibility...

What Are Unconventional Resources? A Simple Definition Using Viscosity and Permeability, #80217 (2012)

Harris Cander

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... References Edman, J.D., 2012, How local variations in thermal maturity affect shale oil economics and producibility: World Oil (March 2012) v. 233/3...

Petroleum Systems of the Sandakan Basin, Philippines

John E. Graves, David A. Swauger

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The probability that a fault will seal should also improve in the distal area as a result of lower sandshale ratios, allowing for higher probability of cross...

Regional Hydrocarbon Systems of Colombia and Western Venezuela: Their Origin, Potential, and Exploration

Tomas Villamil

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The explanation for regional seal deposition lies in the tectonic extension and foundering of large portions of Colombia and western Venezuela...

Abstract: Following the Pre-Salt Play to its Outermost Extent in the Campos and Santos Basins, Brazil — An Analog for Gulf of Mexico Presalt?

Cian O'Reilly

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Basin: source, reservoir, trap and seal and how the evolution of these elements through the different depositional and structural domains can be seen...

Generation and Migration of Petroleum from Abnormally Pressured Fluid Compartments: Discussion (1)

JOZSEF TOTH, M. D. MACCAGNO, C. J. OTTO, and B. J. ROSTRON

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure gradients across hardened rock zones, Hunt (1990) mentions a number of other field conditions which he considers to be related to "seal bounded...

Gravity Slide Thrusting and Folded Faults in Western Arbuckle Mountains and Vicinity, Southern Oklahoma

Eric H. Phillips

AAPG Bulletin

... indurated bed; (8) rip-up zones or tectonic breccias parallel with bedding planes, implying fault movement along the bedding planes. STRATIGRAPHY...

Paleofluid Evolution In Fault-Damage Zones: Evidence From Fault–Fold Interaction Events In the Jabal Qusaybah Anticline (Adam Foothills, North Oman)

Mahtab Mozafari, Rudy Swennen, Fabrizio Balsamo, Luca Clemenzi, Fabrizio Storti, Hamdy El Desouky, Frank Vanhaecke, Christian Tueckmantel, John Solum, Conxita Taberner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... dilated fault cores (Fig. 8A) and millimeter-size crystals as vein infilling cements in damage zones. Some of the calcite veins display crack-seal...

The Parum Field: An Example of a Stratigraphic Trap in P.T. Stanvac's Central Sumatra Kampar Block

B. Heruyono, T. Villarroel

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the eleven (11) producing oil fields in P.T. Stanvac's Central Sumatra Kampar Block are structural traps with, in some cases, associated fault dependent...

ABSTRACT: 3-D Geomechanical Techniques to Better Characterizing Complex Structural Models: (i) Slip Inversion and (ii) Restoration, by Maerten, Frantz, Laurent Maerten; #90026 (2004)

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Fault Plane Features: An Alternate Explanation: DISCUSSION

Emile Rod

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Fault Plane Features: An Alternate Explanation: DISCUSSION Emile Rod 1966 Vol. 36 No. 4. (December), BILLINGS, M. P., 1942, Structural geology...

Wrench-Style Deformation and Paleostructural Influence on Sedimentation In and Around a Cratonic Basin

Donald L. Brown, Darren L. Brown

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..." to the wrench fault. Horsts, grabens, and half-grabenstend to form along these principal and secondary zones of weakness as a vertical resultant...

Geopressured Shale and Sealing Effect of Smectite to Illite Transition

Robert L. Freed , Donald R. Peacor

AAPG Bulletin

... of oalescing illite packets leads to the gradual development of a more efficient seal, which is consistent with the observation that geopressure zones...

Heat Flow and Thermal History of the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma; #10657 (2014)

Zachary Frone

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... systems along the Mountain View fault zone, has resulted in large changes in thermal conductivity. This has affected the local temperature distribution...

Implementation of frequency-dependent fault identification by convolutional neural networks with uncertainty analysis

Fan Jiang, Alejandro Jaramillo, Steve Angelovich, Phill Norlund, Julianna Toms

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...e notice there are many small-scale fault branches intersected with major faults. Those fault branches could potentially affect the ability to extrac...

Using Real-Time Acoustic Friction Analysis for Completions Design Evaluation

Riley McFall, Juan De La Garza, Muhammad Khan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... heavily faulted reservoirs influence fracture propagation as well as how the magnitude of the effects differs depending on fault severity. A fracture...

Lower Cretaceous Geology, Northwestern Karnes County, Texas

Delos R. Tucker

AAPG Bulletin

... say that the earliest fault displacements, from either or both of the mechanisms, occurred in the zones of weakness where the formations have...

Why does petroleum in carbonate reservoirs tend to occur at higher temperatures than in sandstones?

Paul H. Nadeau, and Stephen N. Ehrenberg

AAPG Bulletin

... stratigraphic circumstances. A possible avenue for further study might be to examine how the carbonate content of source rocks may affect temperatures...

The Petroleum System: Chapter 1: Part I. Introduction

Leslie B. Magoon, Wallace G. Dow

AAPG Special Volumes

..., seal rock, and overburden rock, and the processes include trap formation and the generation-migration-accumulation of petroleum. All essential elements...