2019 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition

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Pore types in the Barnett and Woodford gas shales: Contribution to understanding gas storage and migration pathways in fine-grained rocks

Roger M. Slatt, Neal R. O'Brien

AAPG Bulletin

... (and probably other gas shales) and to speculate on their potential control on gas storage and migration pathways. Different pore types can also influence...

Three-dimensional seismic interpretation of a meteorite impact feature, Red Wing Creek field, Williston Basin, western North Dakota

Benjamin D. Herber, Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, Roger J. Barton, Daniel N. Behringer, William S. Hammon III, and William S. Gutterman

AAPG Bulletin

.... Crater Floor and Crater Fill Identification of the crater floor at the Red Wing Creek feature is difficult because it is highly deformed by thrust faults...

A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Belly River-Brazeau (Campanian) Fluvial Channel Reservoirs in West-Central Alberta, Canada

Peter E. Putnam

CSPG Bulletin

..., a variation of a "deep basin" Figure 18. Structure on the top of the Chungo Member. Map is based on well control only; faults are generally inferred...

Depositional Patterns Across Syndepositional Normal Faults, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Ajibola O. Owoyemi, Brian J. Willis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... structurally deformed along faults and adjacent rollover anticlines below this erosion surface and chaotic fabrics of the sediment fill above...

Chapter 8: Structural Styles and Tectonic Evolution of the Santiago Basin, Peru—Implications for Hydrocarbon Traps

J. Witte, M. R. Strecker, M. Raez

AAPG Special Volumes

... migration pathways (Rocha et al., 2008). Early salt movements could have also favored early trap formation, potentially catching migration pulses from...

Exploring for unswept gas: Integrating reservoir models, production data, and fault seal analysis in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia

David Kulikowski, and Alexander G. Robson

AAPG Bulletin

... in reservoir architecture along a fault plane. For a more specific understanding of how faults may influence flow, the 3-D depositional architecture must...

The Role of Mass Wasting In the Progressive Development Of Submarine Channels (Espírito Santo Basin, Se Brazil)

Yongpeng Qin, Tiago M. Alves, José Constantine, Davide Gamboa

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... because part of the MTD in the basal scar was removed downslope by turbidity flows and replaced by channel-fill deposits. This paper shows...

Features Associated with Major Growth Faults

New Orleans Geological Society

... sense as these faults are arcuate and differentially load the salt as near point sources. In a later section there is a discussion of how this process...

Abstract: Contaminant Fate and Transport in Gulf Coast Sediments: A Case Study

George Losonsky, Raymond Sturdivant, Jr., William M. Davis, Scott M. Bergeron, Michael B. Kyle, William H. Schramm

GCAGS Transactions

... states, taking numerous migration pathways. Hydrocarbons from the waste storage pits can directly enter groundwater in dissolved phase and migrate...

AI: Game-Changer in Development or Exploration „ or Both?

Mark Brownless, Ryan Williams, Dave Brett

GEO ExPro Magazine

... kitchen basins, structural highs, migration been interpreted as a singular fault had traditional pathways, trap/seal integrity analysis, shallow hazard...

What Will it Take to Bring a Renaissance to Gulf of Suez Exploration: Has the Time Arrived to Try Some Unconventional Source Rock Plays?; #11153 (2018)

John Dolson

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... structural grains, at nearly 90 degrees to the Tertiary rifting, exert a strong control on where transfer faults are located (Figure 1). The stratigraphy...

Sequence stratigraphy, seismic sedimentology, and lithostratigraphic plays: Upper Cretaceous, Sifangtuozi area, southwest Songliao Basin, China

Wenzhi Zhao, Caineng Zou, Yingliu Chi, Hongliu Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

... the high-resolution sequence framework of a thick basin fill, stratal slice series are used for an initial view of how systems tracts developed...

Abstract: Experiments to Better Understand Pennsylvania's Gas Migration Problem, by Iannacchione, Anthony; Vandenbossche, Julie; Janssen, Don; #90163 (2013)

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Impacts of hydrothermal dolomitization and thermochemical sulfate reduction on secondary porosity creation in deeply buried carbonates: A case study from the Lower Saxony Basin, northwest Germany

Bianca C. Biehl, Lars Reuning, Johannes Schoenherr, Volker Lüders, and Peter A. Kukla

AAPG Bulletin

... migration pathways. Baldschuhn, R., G. Best, and F. Kockel, 1991, Inversion tectonics in the North-West German Basin, in A. Spencer, ed., Generation...

Fault Seal Analysis: A Case Study of the Temana Field, Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia (Paper 12)

Shutaro Hasegawa, Naofumi Sakuyama, Syoji Iwanaga, Othman Ali Mahmud

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

.... The objectives of the study were (i) to establish whether the selected faults in the Temana Field were likely to be hydrocarbon seal and how this behaviour...

Why Bother? (With Play Based Exploration): The Five Reasons Why Play Based Exploration Worthwhile in a Modern Busy Understaffed and Overworked Exploration Company Environment, #110227 (2016).

Ian Longley

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... As IS so -p ci ax at es • Migration is an INPUT to these models NOT an output • Most/all basins have faults • When migration hits these faults we have...

A Diagenetic Study of the Wolfcamp Shale, Midland Basin, West Texas

Alyssa K. Wickard, R. Douglas Elmore, Gerhard Heij

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The complex morphology of the barite (Ba) fracture fill can be seen as it traveled through permeability pathways to displace the matrix. c...

Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of Early SYN-RIFT Tidal Sediments: The Nukhul Formation, Suez Rift, Egypt

Ian D. Carr,, Rob L. Gawthorpe, Christopher A.L. Jackson, Ian R. Sharp,, Ali Sadek

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with low-relief growth folds and surface-breaking faults that, together, formed part of an evolving fault array. This basin configuration and associated...

Diagenesis, Basin Development, and Porosity Prediction in Exploration--An Introduction: Chapter 1

Andrew Horbury, Andrew Robinson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., "Geochemical evidence for a temporal control on sandstone cementation," by Jon Gluyas et al., attempts to describe how the mechanisms operate...

A New Hypothesis for Initiation of Unaweep Canyon (Western Colorado) During the Laramide Orogeny

William C. Hood and Rex D. Cole

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... would preferentially follow zones of disruption, such as faults. The thick sedimentary fill within the canyon precludes direct observation of faults...

Abstract/Excerpts: Northern Gulf of Thailand: Differences in the Khmer and Pattani Basins, by Kelly Dempster, Jeffrey R. Johnson, and Fang Lin; #120098 (2013)

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ABSTRACT: Predicting the Internal Structure of Faults in Basaltic Rocks and its Effect on Along- and Across- Fault Fluid Flow; #90132 (2011)

Rachael Ellen

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... [email protected] It is well known that faults have the potential to alter fluid flow pathways within hydrocarbon reservoirs, and as a result...

Treatise of Petroleum Geology / Handbook of Petroleum Geology: Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps. Chapter 9: Predicting Reservoir System Quality and Performance

Dan J. Hartmann and Edward A. Beaumont

AAPG Special Volumes

... saturation (So), or 100% Sw, and ends up with a higher So. Water refills the reservoir as hydrocarbons exit a trap (fill-up). During fill-up some...

Future Trends in Stratigraphic Analyses, Mesozoic of Middle North America: Abstract

R. J. Weimer

CSPG Special Publications

...) sea-level changes and their control on distribution of unconformities, on depositional patterns, and on related diagenesis affecting reservoir...