Predictions of Oil or Gas Potential by Near-Surface Geochemistry

V. T. Jones , R. J. Drozd

AAPG Bulletin

... to a critical orifice that acts as a partial seal, allowing hydrocarbons to build up behind the fault zones but also allowing some leakage. The exceedingly large...

Cepu Block Hydrocarbon Migration and Seal Evaluation - New Insights From Application of Fluid Inclusion Technologies

A. Ditya, K. Petersen, H. B. Soenandar, I. Sulistyaningrum, S. Becker

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Cepu Block Hydrocarbon Migration and Seal Evaluation - New Insights From Application of Fluid Inclusion Technologies A. Ditya, K. Petersen, H. B...

Hidden Structures in the Permian Basin

Jack G. Elam

West Texas Geological Society

... of rifting. The model was initially constructed to explain how a tilted fault block, bound by a very high angle fault, could have formed. That problem could...

Potential Petroleum Resources--Classification, Estimation, and Status

Lewis G. Weeks

AAPG Special Volumes

... any measurement value in regard to the results of the worldwide exploration experience of the industry. Many factors determine or affect the incidence...

Geology of the Western San Juan Mountains

D.L. Baars, J.A. Ellingson

Four Corners Geological Society

... similar to the modern San Andreas fault system of southern California. An antithetic swarm of wrench faults, the Colorado lineament, extended northeastward...

Frictional Mechanics of Seismogenic Thrust Systems in the Upper Continental CrustImplications for Fluid Overpressures and Redistribution

R. H. Sibson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Fault-valve behaviour in optimally oriented shear zones: an example at the Revenge gold mine, Kambalda, Western Australia: Journal of Structural Geology...

Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Southwest Sumatran Bengkulu Shelf

A. C. Howles Jr.

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-lateral slip along the Sumatran fault began during the Middle Miocene with the onset of the collision of the Australian-Indian plate with the Asian...

Significance of Oil and Gas Seeps in World Oil Exploration

Walter K. Link

AAPG Bulletin

... field is a leaking reef limestone. Oil comes up along the fault zones on the edge of the reef. This faulting is caused by draping over the reef itself...

Chapter Seventeen: Structural Evolution of the T-Block Brae Fields, South Viking Graben

Simon Allerton, Eugenio Giuliani, Amy Kwiatkowski, Mark Jones, Julian Robinson, Adam Styles

AAPG Special Volumes

... part of the Late Jurassic, with development of a north–south striking northern fault segment. The faulting propagated southward from the northern...

Tertiary Geologic Framework, Neotectonics, and Petroleum Potential of the Oregon-Washington Continental Margin

P. D. Snavely, Jr.

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... may be ascribed to localized heating, since these samples were collected near or within fault zones. However, the uniformity of kerogen type...

Mechanical Models of Triangle Zone Evolution

William R. Jamison

CSPG Bulletin

... region. An alternative conclusion is that certain mechanical characterizations of geological deformation (such as the frictional character of fault zones...

Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures

A. Zanella, P. R. Cobbold, N. Rodrigues, H. Løseth, M. Jolivet, F. Gouttefangeas, and D. Chew

AAPG Bulletin

... fault zones in sandstones, Sub-Andean Zone, southern Bolivia: Tectonophysics, v. 340, no. 3–4, p. 141–172, doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00144-5. Lamb...

Structural Styles in Basin Formation: Chapter 6: Concepts

A. D. Gibbs

AAPG Special Volumes

...) have pointed out that polarity changes in the basin structure, and hence in sedimentation, may occur across transfer faults or accommodation fault zones...

A Reappraisal of the Bok Bak Fault Zone

J. K. Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... York, p. 305-33•• Holocombe, C.J., (1977). How rigid are the lithosphere plates? Fault and shear ro~ations in southeast Asia. J. Geo1,. Soc. London~ V...

Wrench Faulting and Lineaments in the Val Verde Basin*

G. Pat Bolden

West Texas Geological Society

...Wrench Faulting and Lineaments in the Val Verde Basin* G. Pat Bolden 1983 4 5 Vol. 23 (1983) No. 2. (October) The Carta Valley Fault Zone Area...

Reservoir Geomechanics Applied to Drilling and Completion Programmes in Hostile and Complex Environments: North West Shelf, Timor Sea, North Sea and Colombia

David A. Castillo, D. Moos

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... High - Nancar Trough region, Timor Sea: Prediction of Fault Seal Failure using Well-Constrained Stress Tensors and Fault Surfaces Interpreted from 3D...

Diagenetic History of the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation and Its Effects on Reservoir Properties: Vocation Field, Manila Sub-Basin, Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain

Llinas, Juan Carlos

GCAGS Transactions

... affect and modify the distribution of reservoir grade rocks. Well permit 2851 is an example of how penetrative dolomitization was able to generate...

Relation of Unconformities, Tectonics, and Sea-Level Changes, Cretaceous of Western Interior, U.S.A.

Robert J. Weimer

AAPG Special Volumes

... on sedimentation during sea-level changes and how these factors control distribution of source rock, migration patterns, reservoir rock, and seal. Asquith...

Relation Between Extensional Geometry of the Northern Grant Range and Oil Occurrences in Railroad Valley, East-Central Nevada

Karen Lund , L. Sue Beard , W. J. Perry, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

..., north-dipping fault zones place structurally higher rocks on the north against lower rocks on the south. The northern fault, called the Ragged Ridge fault...

Abstract: Problems of Mechanics of Strike-Slip Faults, by A. G. Sylvester; #91012 (1992).

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The Effects of Neogene Thrusting on Deposition in the Bermejo Basin, Argentina

James A. Beer, Teresa E. Jordan

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is not yet possible. The Jarillal-Huachipampa contact provides an intriguing example of how tectonism that is too distant to affect subsidence rates...

Shongaloo Field: A Recent Smackover (Jurassic) Discovery in the Arkansas-Louisiana State Line Graben

William D. DeMis and Jeffrey V. Milliken

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... fault trap within the graben. Vertical separation on the trapping fault ranges from 500 ft to less than 200 ft. The trapping fault can only...

Shongaloo Field: A Recent Smackover (Jurassic) Discovery in the Arkansas-Louisiana State Line Graben

William D. DeMis, Jeffrey V. Milliken

GCAGS Transactions

... back to the 1940's. Shongaloo field is an upthrown fault trap within the graben. Vertical separation on the trapping fault ranges from 500 ft...

Multi-Surface Restoration and Petroleum System Evaluation in the Gulf of Suez, by Isabelle Moretti and Julien Gargani, #40405 (2009).

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Turbidite Systems in Deep-Water Basin Margins Classified by Grain Size and Feeder System

Harold G. Reading , Marcus Richards

AAPG Bulletin

.... It is the most fundamental feature in separating reservoir from seal. In addition, the organization of the depositional system depends on how...