An overview of the petroleum systems of the northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, James Adson, and Stephen P. J. Cossey

AAPG Bulletin

... has created complex petroleum systems, where migration pathways are constantly evolving and changing because of the ongoing deformation (McBride et al...

Low pressure buildup with large disposal volumes of oil field water: A flow model of the Ellenburger Group, Fort Worth Basin, northcentral Texas

Shuang Gao, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Peter H. Hennings, Paul La Pointe, Katie M. Smye, Elizabeth A.Horne, and Robin Dommisse

AAPG Bulletin

... permeability in the EBG. The faults are regarded as flow pathways and major contributors to permeability in agreement with many studies of karsted...

Impacts of Igneous Intrusions on Source and Reservoir Potential in Prospective Sedimentary Basins Along the Western Australian Continental Margin

S. P. Holford, N. Schofield, C. A.-L. Jackson, C. Magee, P. F. Green, I. R. Duddy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... are needed to improve knowledge of the sealing capability of intrusions within the subsurface, and in particular, to understand how migration pathways...

Reservoir quality modeling of tight-gas sands in Wamsutter field: Integration of diagenesis, petroleum systems, and production data

Rick C. Tobin, Tony McClain, Robert B. Lieber, Aysen Ozkan, Laura A. Banfield, Ann M. E. Marchand, Lee E. McRae

AAPG Bulletin

... (albeit at a slightly reduced rate) for at least 20 m.y. after the initial trap fill. The final reduction of permeability to present-day tight-gas...

Structural Style, Sequence and Timing in the Acevedo Block: Implications for Subthrust Exploration in the Upper Magdalena Valley

G. J. Rait, I. Dawes, T. D. J. England, G. W. Paukert

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... faults and might be important for the history and directions of hydrocarbon migration within the basin. The dimensions of such blocks, of the scale...

New insights into deformation mechanisms in the gravitationally driven Niger Delta deep-water fold and thrust belt

Dominic Maloney, Richard Davies, Jonathan Imber, Simon Higgins, Stephen King

AAPG Bulletin

... have important implications for fluid-migration pathways and hydrocarbon-trap formation. Understanding whether brittle or ductile mechanisms...

Stratigraphic-Lithologic Oil and Gas Pools in Continental Basins, China

Hu Jianyi, Fan Chenglong, Zhang Jinquan, Liu Shuxuan, Xu Shubao, Tong Xiaogang

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... of the lithofa­ cies and reservoir rocks is controlled by the river system, and the migration and entrapment conditions are consistent...

The Anadarko “Super” Basin: 10 key characteristics to understand its productivity

Richard D. Fritz and John R. Mitchell

AAPG Bulletin

..., unconformities, faults, and fractures provide good migration pathways for hydrocarbons to move across the basin to good seals and related traps. 7...

Examples of Unconformities of Related Systems Tracts, Cretaceous through Precambrian Strata, Front Range (Colorado) and Wyoming

John Dolson, Robert J. Weimer

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... stratigraphic trap, migration and charge in a tectonically active foreland basin, in Dolson, J.C. ed., Unconformity related hydrocarbon exploitation...

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

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the trap formation, through a network of faults connecting the trap to deeper carrier beds. Because of variations in the migration pathways...

Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes

Bryan T. Cronin and the Jubilee Team, Tullow Ghana Limited

AAPG Bulletin

... faults are less common, and larger, more widely distributed pockmarks are found. Without a pervasive network of potential vertical fluid escape pathways...

Modeling Fracturing and Faulting Within Sediments Around Rapidly Moving Lateral Salt Sheets (1)

ZHIHUAI YU , IAN LERCHE , AND ALLEN LOWRIE

AAPG Bulletin

... provides effective pathways for hydrocarbon migration from source rocks to traps under the salt sheet provided the fractures are not quickly filled...

Controls on Deposition within Arid Continental Basin Margin Systems: Implications for Basin-Scale Fluid Migration, #10771 (2015).

Amy Gough, Stuart Clarke, Philip Richards, Antoni Milodowski

Search and Discovery.com

... pathways in the ZOI, and how the fan itself is then full of longitudinal preferential flow zones. Can lead to the complete outwards migration of fluid away...

Spectrum of gas migration phenomena across multilayered sealing sequences

Claudia Bertoni, Joe Cartwright, Martino Foschi, and Joe Martin

AAPG Bulletin

... sediments and identify specific units where migration is focused through discontinuities (e.g., faults) and storage units where the gas spreads laterally...

3D seismic in Trinmar -the window to a brighter future

Hosein, F. and Knowlton, A.M.

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... had little sand development and was not productive. Lower Trap An east hading growth fault with over 500 meters of upper Cruse syndepositional fill...

Effects of natural gas acidic components on local porosity generation in a carbonate reservoir: Insights from reactive transport modeling

Guanru Zhang, Peng Lu, Pan Luo, Eric Sonnenthal, Yi Huang, and Chen Zhu

AAPG Bulletin

..., and the hydrocarbon migration pathways only intersect with the AA′ at the top of the anticline (Figure 1A). Therefore, the boundaries at the left and right wings...

Tectonic Settings of Continental Extensional Provinces and Their Impact on Ssedimentation and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity

Chris K. Morley

Special Publications of SEPM

..., and seal bon prospectivity in terms of migration pathways and seal and trap formation Typical amounts of subsidence are ca 4 and trap formation...

Evaluating Seals for Hydrocarbon Accumulations

Marlan W. Downey

AAPG Bulletin

... Faulted structures: The term "fault trap" is somewhat of a misnomer; faults do not trap. Faults can place porous reservoirs adjacent to seals...

Petroleum system for the continuous oil play in the lacustrine Lower Triassic, Junggar Basin, China

Keyu Tao, Jian Cao, Wenxuan Hu, Dongming Zhi, Dewen Lei, Yong Tang, Jianhua Qu, Xun Kang, and Leslie B. Magoon

AAPG Bulletin

... atypical. The faults, which have formed since the late Hercynian orogenies, probably constitute the primary hydrocarbon pathways of vertical migration...

Integrating 3-D seismic data, field analogs, and mechanical models in the analysis of segmented normal faults in the Wytch Farm oil field, southern England, United Kingdom

Simon A. Kattenhorn, David D. Pollard

AAPG Bulletin

... lithological control on large-scale vertical segmentation of normal faults. Childs et al. (1996) document how mechanically weak interfaces similarly control step...

Abstract: The Importance of Halokinesis from Deep Water Reservoir Development — From Exploration Model from the Miocene Offshore Angola, by Lars Seidler, Andrew Wakelin, and Andre Da Costa; #90082 (2008)

Search and Discovery.com

Detection of Vertical Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways in Seismic Data: Toward the Quantification of Top Seal and Charge Risk

Search and Discovery.com

Geoscience workflows for CO2 storage

Steve Moss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... (a) Migration pattern observed from time-lapse seismic data in 2020 and (b) Conceptual sketch of potential structural and stratigraphic control on C02...

Petroleum systems framework of significant new oil discoveries in a giant Cretaceous (Aptian–Cenomanian) clinothem in Arctic Alaska

David W. Houseknecht

AAPG Bulletin

... on the arch itself. Migration pathways from the Colville basin likely included the LCU (Bird, 2001) and small-scale normal faults, which commonly...

Structural setting and evolution of the Mensa and Thunder Horse intraslope basins, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico: A case study

Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, Aaron A. van den Berg, Todd G. Lapinski, John G. Roesink, and James Adson

AAPG Bulletin

.... These two minibasins comprise several structural features that affected their geologic evolution: basement faults, autochthonous salt, three allochthonous...