Geological controls on petroleum plays and future opportunities in the North Sea Rift Super Basin

John R. Underhill and Nick Richardson

AAPG Bulletin

... belonging to the Humber Group, which form the immediate seal, and tilted fault-block structures were created. As extensional activity increased, fluvio...

Midway--Sunset Field--U.S.A. San Joaquin Basin, California

R. B. Lennon

AAPG Special Volumes

.... As with the other "shallow zones," it is not possible to determine how much oil has been produced out of the Etchegoin zones. Upper Miocene Sands By far...

Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of New Brunswick, Canada

William Carruthers Gussow

AAPG Bulletin

... and by the occurrence of albertite et cetera at about 7,375 feet, for this material is believed to occur along fault planes or in fault zones...

Breccia pipe and sinkhole linked fluidized beds and debris flows in the Athabasca Oil Sands: dynamics of evaporite karst collapse-induced fault block collisions

Paul L. Broughton

CSPG Bulletin

... the deeper reaches of the inter-block fault planes as adjacent blocks obliquely rotated apart and towards each other, resulting in zones with compressional...

A practical guide to the use of success versus failure statistics in the estimation of prospect risk

Frank J. Peel, and John R. V. Brooks

AAPG Bulletin

... methods and inductive probability derived from look-forward logic. For example, if we ascertain that cross-fault seal has failed in 6 out of a set of 60...

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

..., is as follows: A fault whose strike is parallel with the regional dip of the strata has little or no effect on the accumulation of oil. A fault whose...

Arkoma Basin Petroleum - Past, Present, and Future

Neil H. Suneson

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... how the sandstones are connected across the fault. Figure 12. Depositional model for the Red Oak sandstone including east-west-oriented slope-channel...

Prediction of Natural Gas Composition in Ultradeep Sandstone Reservoirs (1)

COLIN BARKER and NICHOLAS E. TAKACH

AAPG Bulletin

... data, at present we do not know how far the influence of the seal mineralogy extends into the reservoir. A consideration of seal mineralogy is beyond...

Global Warming—An Oil and Gas Company Perspective: Prospects for Geologic Sequestration?

CRAIG A. LEWIS, JOHN H. SHINN

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... in choosing appropriate mitigation and disposal options, including how soon each option can be expected to be available, the volume of emissions...

Variability in Syn-Rift Structural Style Associated with a Mobile Substrate and Implications for Trap Definition and Reservoir Distribution in Extensional Basins: A Subsurface Case Study from the South Viking Graben, Offshore Norway; #10423 (2012)

Christopher A-L. Jackson, Karla Kane, Eirik Larsen, Elisabeth Evrard, Gavin Elliott, and Rob Gawthorpe

Search and Discovery.com

... we use potential field, 3D seismic and well data to investigate how normal fault growth and movement of the evaporite-dominated Zechstein Supergroup...

Tectonic Model for Late Paleozoic Deformation of the Central Basin Platform, Permian Basin Region, West Texas

Po-Ching Tai, Steven L. Dorobek

West Texas Geological Society

... are arranged in a right-stepping en echelon pattern with low obliquity to the boundary fault zones of the CBP. At a larger scale, the CBP consists of two...

ABSTRACT: Qaidam Foreland Basins Strike-Slip Fault and Oil Gas Accumulation, by Fan, Zhao; #90135 (2011)

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Near-Surface Characterization for Seismic Exploration Based on Gravity and Resistivity Data; #41892 (2016)

Jan Mrlina

Search and Discovery.com

... in an already developed field Figure 5. A major fault was sharply defined by both gravity and resistivity where no such clear picture was provided...

Abstract: Log-Derived J Functions for Calculating Saturations, Estimating Permeability, and Identifying Reservoir Compartments; #90213 (2015)

Daniel J. O'Meara Jr.

Search and Discovery.com

... models comprising a multitude of zones, fault blocks, PVT relationships, and rock types. By honoring well-established principles of capillarity...

Structural Evolution of the Hosmer Thrust Sheet, Southeastern British Columbia

Gary L. Benvenuto, Raymond A. Price

CSPG Bulletin

... displacement (8 km) on the southwest-dipping Rocky Mountain Trench normal fault. Individual northeast-plunging structures in the Purcell Mountains west...

North Viking Graben: An East African Perspective

Deborah L. Scott, Bruce R. Rosendahl

AAPG Bulletin

... fault systems. All of these associations are a predictable consequence of a specific linking pattern. In the East African rift zones, the most commonly...

Kinematic Analyses of Drape Folds in the Rocky Mountain Foreland — Some Geologic Implications

David M. Weinberg, David W. Stearns

Wyoming Geological Association

..., variations in fault dip do not affect Δy; hence when comparing one fold to another, the dip of the basement fault should not be considered as a source...

Stratigraphic Control on the Lateral Distribution of Hydrothermal Dolomites away from Major Fault Zones, #50277 (2010)

G. Michael Grammer, Jennifer Schulz, David Barnes, Robb Gillespie, William B. Harrison, John E. Thornton

Search and Discovery.com

...Stratigraphic Control on the Lateral Distribution of Hydrothermal Dolomites away from Major Fault Zones, #50277 (2010) G. Michael Grammer, Jennifer...

Geological Concept to Geomodel; Lessons Learned from the Belanak Field Arang-3 Development

Reza Satria Nugraha, Retno Wijayanti, Hani Mohede

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... targeting deeper zones. These wells provided blind tests for how the model predicted parameters such as depth to target, gross thickness, and effective...

Principal Features of the Heart Mountain Fault and the Mechanism Problem

William G. Pierce

Wyoming Geological Association

...Principal Features of the Heart Mountain Fault and the Mechanism Problem William G. Pierce 1975 139 148 Bucher, W. H., 1933, Volcanic explosions...

3-D AVO Analysis and Modeling Applied to Fracture Detection in Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

Antonio C.B. Ramos, T.L. Davis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... was acquired in this field. In this work, pre-stack P-wave amplitude data, from the multicomponent dataset, are used to delineate zones of large Poisson...

Phyllitic Fractured Reservoirs of Southern Sumatra

Joel Guttormsen, Rita Achiat, Reki Indrawan, Redo Waworuntu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... zones (fault damage halo)). Meta-pelitic reservoirs have no matrix porosity. While these reservoirs may have an abundance of secondary porosity...

Borehole Image and Production Logging Drives Well Interventions in Horizontal Gas-oil Gravity Drainage Wells in a Giant Middle Eastern Carbonate Field

Edward Follows, Andrew Beck, Andrew Farmer, Saud Al Salmi, Gerbert de Bruijn, Livio de Pieri, Rudy Welling

AAPG Special Volumes

... (de Keijzer et al., 2007) found fault zones up to 60 m (197 ft) wide, inferred to be similar to the northeastsouthwest-striking seismic faults. The BHI...

Adams Field Area Medina County Texas

George R. Pinkley

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... zones except for testing along the fault northeast of the Hughes area. One needs a detailed seismic study to see what happens with depth, especially...

Geology of the Super Giant Cano Limon Field and the Llanos Basin, Colombia

C.N. McCollough

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... (Figure 14). Thus it became necessary to believe that the fault would form a seal. As the end of the dry season approached, it was clear that we...