Fluvial-To-Deepwater Stratigraphy and Structure Development of Southern part of North Makassar Basin, Indonesia

RM Iman Argakoesoemah, Hesekiel Bernando Nainggolan, Indra Wahyudi, Andry Hidayat, Muhammad Fikry Shahab

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to be in a dextral strike-slip mode. This is still a speculative thought on how the fault began to deform in a strike-slip movement in the Middle Miocene (Figure 3B...

Defining the geomechanical operating limits for subsurface CO2 storage

Simon Holford, Mojtaba Rajabi, Scott Mildren, Rosalind King, Adam Bailey

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... will predominantly grow vertically and hence is more likely to extend into the over­ lying seal. Rock failure and fault stability A large body of evidence from...

Reservoir prediction in wave-dominated fluvio-deltaic systems using seismic sequence stratigraphic techniques, an example from the cretaceous Golden Beach Formation, offshore Gippsland Basin

Lindsey Wilkinson, Ciaran Lavin, Clare Davies

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... in predicting hydrocarbon volumes. This study illustrates how detailed seismic mapping and attribute extractions were used to refine a sequence stratigraphic...

Merlin: Early Days, Big Goals In Wildcat Country

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., the Bro lga and Tirrawarra producing f ields. So w e're in the right area and we' re talki ng formations with primary target zones that a re deeper...

Chapter 1: The Importance of and Challenges in Studying Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks—Introduction and Overview

Kevin Bohacs, Remus Lazar

AAPG Special Volumes

... paleoclimate and paleo-oceanography; influence the flow of groundwater and hydrocarbons; serve as hydrocarbon source, reservoir, and seal; and host strata...

The West White Lake Field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, and its Relation to the Alignments of Oil and Gas Fields in South Louisiana

R. O. Steinhoff

GCAGS Transactions

... comes from sands in the fault block between Faults A and D. For example, the Union Oil of California No. 11-B State Lease 540 has 7 productive zones...

Understanding Geological Heterogeneity to Customize Field Development: An Example from the Vaca Muerta Unconventional Play, Argentina

Guillermina Sagasti, Martin Foster, Damian Hryb, Alberto Ortiz, Vicatoria Lazzari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the area of interest is characterized by an east-northeast gently dipping monoclinal intersected by different fault systems associated to various tectonic...

Styles of Compressional Wrench Faulting Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

G. Bulte

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of these zones to the proto Alpine Fault is the key to understanding how sinistral shear stress was propagated into the Taranaki Basin. The localising...

Application of Wide-Azimuth 3-D Seismic Attributes to Predict the Microfractures in Block MA Area for Shale Gas Exploration in South China

Yusheng Zhang, Gang Yu, Xing Liang, Li Jiang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to make the fault and fracture prediction. These tools allow us to evaluate and predict the distribution of gas-rich zones in the shale gas reservoirs...

Structural and hydrogeologic evolution of the Putumayo basin and adjacent fold-thrust belt, Colombia

Brad D. Wolaver, James C. Coogan, Brian K. Horton, Lorena Suarez Bermudez, Alexander Y. Sun, Timothy F. Wawrzyniec, Tongwei Zhang, Timothy M. Shanahan, Dallas B. Dunlap, Ruth A. Costley, and Luciana de la Rocha

AAPG Bulletin

... backthrusts in Eocene and younger strata (Macellari and Hermoza, 2009). The backthrusts form key features of broader triangle zones, wedge-fault systems...

Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers Offshore Tanzania

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

... leakage through the top seal or lateral fault seal. Careful reprocessing and depth imaging of the ST09007 seismic data revealed a second shallower flat...

Production Data and Layering

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... variation result in distinctive flow patterns, which affect how a reservoir produces hydrocarbons. Various methods allow barriers and baffles...

Managing And Quantification Geophysical Uncertainty In The Faulted Area: Study Case Stupa Field, South Mahakam Indonesia

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Evaluation of possible gas microseepage mechanisms

Alton Brown

AAPG Bulletin

... accumulations? Is it even possible to trap gaseous petroleum for geological lengths of time if microfractures penetrate the seal of an accumulation? To address...

ABSTRACT: Tectono-Stratigraphic Computer Experiments, by L. S. Smith-Rouch, K. E. Meisling, P. E. Hennings, and J. M. Armentrout; #91021 (2010)

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Integration of geology, rock physics, logs, and prestack seismic data for reservoir porosity estimation

Abdulaziz M. AlMuhaidib, Mrinal K. Sen, M. Nafi Toksoz

AAPG Bulletin

...). Lateral changes in depositional facies and their subsequent diagenesis cause a highly variable distribution of porosity and permeability, which affect...

Test of New Global Tectonics: DISCUSSION

Vincent Matthews, III

AAPG Bulletin

.... Brune, J. N., 1968, Seismic moment, seismicity, and rate of slip along major fault zones: Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 73, p. 777. Grow, J...

Natural Gas Compositions from Large Tight-Gas-Sand Fields in the Rocky Mountains: A Clue to How these Reservoirs Fill, Nicholas B. Harris, Ting-Wei Ko, R. Paul Philp, Trevor Stroker, and Andrew Govert, #90093 (2009)

Search and Discovery.com

The Discovery and Development of Oil Rim Fields in the Beibu Gulf, China

Andrew Fernie, Frank Zhou, Rick McCarthy, Gavin Douglas

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... as a byproduct. Seismic inversion and amplitude mapping reinforce the view that the alteration zones are pervasive and flat-lying. Case studies...

Abnormal Formation Pressures: Recognition, Distribution, and Implications for Geophysical Prospecting, Brazoria County, Texas

Edward T. Flanigan

GCAGS Transactions

... velocity which can be related to the distribution of normally and abnormally pressured zones in the subsurface. Abnormally pressured zones have lower...

Contributions of Photogeology in the Arkoma Basin

Louis Dejardins

Tulsa Geological Society

..., such as sandstone, from softer zones such as shale. If a field geologist is impressed often how such layers show variation and difficulty of correlation...

Texture, Mineralogy, and Petrophysical Properties of Geopressured Shales, Gulf of Mexico

Jin-wook Kim, Robert R. Berg, Joel Watkins, Thomas T. Tieh

GCAGS Transactions

.... Fertl, 1972, How downhole temperatures, pressures affect drilling: An Engineering Practices Report, Part 1: World Oil, pp. 67-70. Towe, K. M., 1962, Clay...

Toward consistency in petroleum exploration: A systematic way of constraining uncertainty in prospect volumetrics

David G. Quirk, Richard G. Ruthrauff

AAPG Bulletin

... of a tilted fault block prospect showing how parameters used in assessing the volume of hydrocarbon-filled trap cause inconsistency in probabilistic estimates...

Preservation, Degradation, and Destruction of Trapped Oil: Chapter 14: Part III. Processes

Philippe Blanc, Jacques Connan

AAPG Special Volumes

... that behave differently during catagenesis. In addition, several other agents (geologic, physical, and chemical) are at work to affect oil composition...

The reserve-growth model of oil fields in the Bohai Bay basin, China

Chenglin Liu, Zhiqiang Wang, Changbo Che, Jie Zhu, Hulin Yang, and Zui Xu

AAPG Bulletin

..., and it is not clear how much reserve growth contributes to the total petroleum resources of China. This paper uses the Bohai Bay basin, the largest petroleum basin...