Abstract: Source Rock Reservoirs are a Unique Petroleum System

Kenneth E. Williams

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... and their associated microfractures, from in the water-wet portions of the SRR, or in the migration pathways. In the absence of water within the nanopores...

Delineating confined slope turbidite systems offshore mid-Norway: The Cretaceous deep-marine Lysing Formation

Edith M. G. Fugelli, Tina R. Olsen

AAPG Bulletin

... still control the geometry of the individual turbidite systems. This suggests that these faults may have had an expression as monoclinal flexures...

Abstract: Role of Climate and Rifting in Sedimentation and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Onshore Lake Edward-George Basin, Albertine Graben, Uganda; #90255 (2017)

Wilson Tumushabe

Search and Discovery.com

... for reservoirs and top seals as well as circumstantial evidence of regionally source rocks, possible seals, traps and hydrocarbon-migration pathways...

Microbasin Analysis of South Louisiana: An Exploration Model, or: Hutton and Lyell Were Wrong!

Richard L. Adams

GCAGS Transactions

... growth faults are also vital as hydrocarbon migration pathways (Leach, 1994). The basement grabens form the "kitchens" where kerogens are turned...

Abstract: Internal Structures of Fault Zones and Their Relationship With Shallow Gas Migration and Accumulation in Sanhecun Sag, Jiyang Depression East China; #90310 (2017)

Yuyuan Li, Ming Zha, Changhai Gao, Jiangxiu Qu, Xiujian Ding

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... and study how the faults control shallow gas migration and accumulation. For each studied fault, a series of logging curves (including RT, AC, SP, COND etc...

Past, present, and future of basin and petroleum system modeling

Friedemann Baur, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, and Kenneth E. Peters

AAPG Bulletin

..., this would increase the number for migration models or scenarios. Question 7: Faults Faults and how to deal with them in basin modeling represent...

Petroleum Charge Analysis of the Southern San Joaquin Basin, California: Implications for Future Exploration; #30665 (2020)

Alton A. Brown

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... control by stratigraphic heterogeneities. Along-fault migration is relatively modest due to the sparsity of large-throw faults in the areas and depths...

Abstract: Numerical Basin Modeling – A Case Study from the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada, by F. Baur, R. Littke, H. Wielens, R. di Primio, and C. Lampe; #90091 (2009)

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A Bibliographic Guide to Fault Traps, Fault Seals, and Fault-related Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins

Compiled by Rasoul Sorkhabi

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the function of faults in fluid-flow migration and entrapment in sedimentary basins. It is a bibliographic guide for further reading and research...

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Use of outcrop observations, geostatistical analysis, and flow simulation to investigate structural controls on secondary hydrocarbon migration in the Anacacho Limestone, Uvalde, Texas

Christopher E. Wilson, Atilla Aydin, Louis J. Durlofsky, Alexandre Boucher, Darrell T. Brownlow

AAPG Bulletin

... and fractures control hydrocarbon migration pathways could aid attempts to identify and extract subsurface hydrocarbons. During hydrocarbon exploration...

Secondary Migration and Accumulation: Chapter 12: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

AAPG Special Volumes

... and does migrate: Every water-drive field that has been developed under engineering control yields unequivocal evidence of migration. East Texas is perhaps...

Abstract: EXAMINING LINKAGES BETWEEN CRITICAL WEDGES AND CRUSTAL CHANNELS: A COMBINED NUMERICAL, FIELD, AND LABORATORY INVESTIGATION; #90298 (2017)

Stephanie Sparks

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... migration pathways in relation to the fluid flow events. The project methodology will focus on seismic interpretation and data attribute analysis...

Hydrocarbon Seal Rocks: Chapter 8: Part II. Essential Elements

Marlan W. Downey

AAPG Special Volumes

... that are part of a petroleum system involves focusing on just those impermeable surfaces that control migration and accumulation of genetically related...

Compartmentalization and time-lapse geochemical reservoir surveillance of the Horn Mountain oil field, deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Alexei V. Milkov, Evvy Goebel, Leon Dzou, David A. Fisher, Allen Kutch, Neal McCaslin, David F. Bergman

AAPG Bulletin

..., 2002, Hydrocarbon systems analysis of the northern Gulf of Mexico: Delineation of hydrocarbon migration pathways using seeps and seismic imaging...

Fluid Kinematics in the Stepwise Fill and Spill of Oil in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Observed Using Fluid Inclusions in Reservoir Grains, Eadington, Peter J.; Kempton, Richard; Bourdet, Julien; Volk, Herbert, #90100 (2009)

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Effective stress constraints on vertical flow in fault zones: Learnings from natural CO2 reservoirs

S. J. Naruk, J. G. Solum, J. P. Brandenburg, P. Origo, and D. E. Wolf

AAPG Bulletin

... leakage pathways and loss of fluid containment. Allan, U. S., 1989, Model for hydrocarbon migration and entrapment within faulted structures: AAPG Bulletin...

Chronologic modeling of faulted and fractured reservoirs using geomechanically based restoration: Technique and industry applications

Laurent Maerten, Frantz Maerten

AAPG Bulletin

... deformation.These examples illustrate how undetected faults and fractures, reservoir compartmentalization, hydrocarbon-migration pathways...

Abstract: CREATING A 4D MODEL OF FRACTURE AND FAULT DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE ARBUCKLE MOUNTAINS, OKLAHOMA; #90298 (2017)

Travis Sparks

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..., TX, USA [email protected] ABSTRACT Fractures, faults, and fault zones are ubiquitous features in regions of folded and uplifted rocks...

Reservoir fluids and their migration into the South Eugene Island Block 330 reservoirs, offshore Louisiana

Steven Losh, Lynn Walter, Peter Meulbroek, Anna Martini, Lawrence Cathles, Jean Whelan

AAPG Bulletin

... to flow up the faults. Below the minibasin salt weld, fluid migration pathways necessarily depart from the listric fault system that bounds...

Fault Zone Diffusion of Pore Pressure During Production and Effect on Fault Stability, #42291 (2018).

Christopher Wibberley, Olivier Lancon, Yves-Marie Leroy,

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... show how injection close to faults connecting shallow reservoirs to the surface can induce up-fault migration of a fluid pulse in a matter of months...

Diagenetic barite and sphalerite in middle Mesozoic sandstones, Scotian Basin, as tracers for basin hydrology

Georgia Pe-Piper, David J. W. Piper, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Isabel Chavez

AAPG Bulletin

... oxides. Active detachment faults on salt welds provide potential pathways and a source of salt for migrating formation water. The particularities...

Deltaic Environments: Outline for Lecture 8

Robert J. Weimer

AAPG Special Volumes

..., no. 8, p. 1416-1443. Meckel. L. D., 1972, Anatomy of distributary channel - fill deposits in Recent mud deltas (abs.): Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull...

Evaluation of hydrocarbon broaching after subsurface containment failure, Gulf of Mexico

Thomas W. Bjerstedt, William W. Shedd, Michael G. Natter, Pierre B. Abadie, George J. Moridis, and Matthew T. Reagan

AAPG Bulletin

... a loss of subsurface well containment. An underground blowout may allow migration of fluids upward through adjacent formations or the annulus...

Gold (Hydrogen) Rush: Risks and Uncertainties in Exploring for Naturally Occurring Hydrogen

Linda Stalker, Asrar Talukder, Julian Strand, Matthew Josh, Mohinudeen Faiz

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... of hydrogen, the depth ranges they may be generated from, the migration mechanisms that are relevant, and how they might be retained or lost...