Porosity in Carbonate Slope and Basin Facies (Permian): Can It Be Predicted?

S. J. Mazzullo

West Texas Geological Society

... fluids during hydrocarbon maturation. Figure 9. Possible migration pathways of chemically aggressive, subsurface fluids generated by hydrocarbon...

New Techniques for New Hydrocarbon Discoveries-Surface Geochemical Surveys in the Lisbon and Lightning Draw Southeast Field Areas, San Juan County, Utah (MP-10-2)

David M. Seneshen, Thomas C. Chidsey Jr., Craig D. Morgan, Michael D. Vanden Berg

Utah Geological Survey

... in the Lisbon and Lightning Draw Southeast field areas Collection of Fracture-Fill Lichen, Bryophyte, and Soil Joints in outcrops may provide pathways...

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... and trends across the basin, allowing a more detailed assessment of hydrocarbon migration pathways, charging points and trapping geometries. Additionally...

Remaining Giant Potential from Paleogene Carbonate Play in Pagerungan Sub-Basin

Lisa C. Lamba, Lilik Prasetya, Ngakan A. Ascaria, Diah R. Wulandari, Bagus Priyanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to trap hydrocarbons from Palaeocene to Middle Eocene Ngimbang source rock located to the south in the first migration (Late Oligocene time...

Numerical modeling of microfracturing and primary hydrocarbon expulsion in the Jurassic Lower Tuwaiq Mountain Shale: A conceptual framework

Syed Haider, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Thomas Finkbeiner, and Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... a permeable system. The volume of organic matter and rate of its thermal maturation control the timing of microcrack coalescence and induce primary migration...

Abstract: Synrift Sequences: Their Recognition and Significance in Basin Analysis, by S. D. Prosser; #91012 (1992).

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Restorations of faulted domes

Mohammed M. Al-Fahmi, Andreas Plesch, John H. Shaw, and John C. Cole

AAPG Bulletin

..., 2004, Evolution of a hydrocarbon migration pathway along basin-bounding faults: Evidence from fault cement: AAPG Bulletin, v. 88, no. 7, p. 947–970...

Which geohazards are really hazards for marine infrastructure

Mark E. Vardy

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., Y, and burial depth). Fluid Migration Pathways Over-pressured layers and/or free gas is a common geohazard in the marine environment, but one which...

Oil and Gas Fields in the East Coast and Arctic Basins of Canada

Robert A. Meneley

AAPG Special Volumes

... are the combination of the regional stratigraphic trap, the development of the Drake Point anticline, and the presence of the set of northeast-trending faults...

The Relative Success of Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts in Exploration: Examples from Incised Valley Fill and Turbidite Systems Reservoirs: Chapter 2: Recent Applications of Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy

David W. Bowen, Paul Weimer, Alan J. Scott

AAPG Special Volumes

... for trap) (Table 1). Variabilities in Valley Fill Systems The valley fill reservoirs highlighted here reflect only a narrow range in a broad spectrum...

Utilizing a Multidisciplinary Approach to Reservoir and Completion Optimization Within the Woodford Shale Play of the Arkoma Basin

Stephen C. Zagurski, Steve Asbill, Christopher M. Smith, Dick Leonard, Juan De la Garza, Tanner Wood, Paul McColgan, Michael Smith, Brad Leonard, Steven Bourgoyne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... migration pathways that allowed HC gases and liquids, especially condensates dissolved in the gas, to migrate from the Woodford (see Figures 8 + 12...

Diagenetic Coloration Facies and Alteration History of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Zion National Park and Vicinity, Southwestern Utah

Gregory B. Nielsen, Marjorie A. Chan, Erich U. Petersen

Utah Geological Association

..., Reflectance spectroscopic mapping of fluid flow pathways in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v...

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

Frank R. Clark

AAPG Special Volumes

... migration of petroleum until it accumulates in the final resting place--the trap. This herculean task has been accomplished by welding together...

Vein Formation in Cretaceous Carbonates in the Laramide Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt of Eastern Mexico

H. Ferket, R. Swennen, S. Ortuo-Arzate, M. C. Cacas, F. Roure

AAPG Special Volumes

... and on the permeability and lithology of the host rock. Numerous examples of veins as ancient fluid migration pathways have been described (e.g., Callan and Spooner...

Characterization of the Devonian Kharyaga carbonate platform (Russia): Integrated and multiscale approach

Vincenzo Spina, Jean Borgomano, Georges Nely, Natalia Shchukina, Alan Irving, Catherine Neumann, and Valerie Neillo

AAPG Bulletin

... faults and karsts are considered as major permeability heterogeneities, but interference tests showed more complex fluid pathways at the smaller scale...

Chapter 1: An Overview of the Giant Heterogeneous Mississippian Carbonate System of the Midcontinent: Ancient Structure, Complex Stratigraphy, Conventional Traps, and Unconventional Technology in a High Fluid Volume World

Edith Newton Wilson, W. Lynn Watney, G. Michael Grammer

AAPG Special Volumes

... with abundant gas on the Anadarko side of the platform, suggests that fault conduits from both hydrocarbon kitchens were active migration pathways...

Dynamic Changes of Palaeotopography and Their Control on the Migration of Delta Lobe - Research on Liaoxi Low Uplift of Bohai Gulf Basin, China, #50524 (2011)

Tao Guo, Xinhuai Zhou, Weicheng Lai

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... movement in the sequence framework and their control on the migration of delta lobe are quite few. This paper discusses how it works by taking Liaoxi low...

Sequence Stratigraphy Based Mapping Technique for the Leonardian Bone Springs Pay

Arthur J. Pyron

West Texas Geological Society

... to the process of hydrocarbon migration is the development of pathways by which hydrocarbons can reach the paleogeomorphic highs (Pyron, 1984...

Paleovalley fills: Trunk vs. tributary

Erik P. Kvale, Allen W. Archer

AAPG Bulletin

... have been dammed by bed-load deposits. These Holocene systems illustrate that sediment yields can significantly influence the nature of fill...

2000 AAPG Annual Convention, April 16-19, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, - Abstracts, #90914 (2000).

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Seismic geomorphological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Cretaceous Cromer Knoll Group, Heidrun field, Norway

Lorena Moscardelli, Sarika K. Ramnarine, Lesli Wood, Dallas B. Dunlap

AAPG Bulletin

...), the character of potential migration pathways (faults and unconformities), the sealing integrity of the Shetland Group, and the geometry of the trap (Figure 11...

Variations in Syndepositional Fault Properties as a Function of Stratigraphic Position in High-Relief Carbonate Platforms

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Structural Controls on Growth Stratigraphy in Contractional Fault-related Folds

John H. Shaw, Enrique Novoa, Christopher D. Connors

AAPG Special Volumes

... of little or no folding to yield the observed growth pattern. Without precise age control, we cannot determine the time it took to form such scarps or to fill...

Structural and depositional evolution of the East Balkan thrust belt, Bulgaria

Charles J. Stuart, Michal Nemcok, Dian Vangelov, Eric R. Higgins, Chelsea Welker, David P. Meaux

AAPG Bulletin

... modification had a dominant control over sediment transport, lithofacies, and depositional patterns. Developing thrust belt fold structures, together...

The Walyering discovery and revisiting the Jurassic hydrocarbon potential of the northern Perth Basin

Matthew Wright, Anthony Cortis, Aisling Sloan, Andrew Farley

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... drilled into or close to a water contact, as individual column heights are typically observed to be ~30–100 m. 2. Source migration pathways. Isotubes...