A model for an unconventional trap in low permeability upper Tonkawa shallow marine sandstones in Dewey, Roger Mills, and Ellis Counties, Oklahoma.

Andrew Cullen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...-trap began to fill. The apparent column height of 2,900ft would generate a buoyant pressure of nearly 1000 psi at the top of the trap As denudation...

Frontier Exploration in the Georgetown Block, Guyana, South America

Allan Kean, Julio Colmenares, Pablo Eisner, Chuck Preston

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... and this is an outline of our approach to evaluating an area pre-drill. Based on our 2D seismic interpretation, integration of the well control and the regional...

Seismic Modeling of an Early Jurassic, Drowned Carbonate Platform: Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco (1)

A. EWAN CAMPBELL and JAN STAFLEU

AAPG Bulletin

... pathways for compacting sediment piles. Increased pore pressure allows gliding of the sediment, triggering listric faults in the basin fill. Lithologic...

Examples of fault steps controlling event migration in seismic swarms

Vincent Roche, Mirko van der Baan, John Walsh

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... The observations above illustrate how event migration is linked to fault segmentation and depends on whether deformation occurs through a step. In the example from...

MesozoicCenozoic evolution of North Atlantic continental-slope basins: The Peniche basin, western Iberian margin

Tiago M. Alves, Carlos Moita, Frode Sandnes, Tiago Cunha, Jos H. Monteiro, Luis M. Pinheiro

AAPG Bulletin

... of the western Iberian continental slope north of 3845N. Two distinct sectors bounded by first-order transfer faults exist between the Galicia Bank and the Nazar...

Applying DHI/AVO Best Practices to Successfully Identify Key Risks Associated with a Fizz-Water Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator in the Norwegian Sea

W. A. Fahmy, J. M. Reilly

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... was interpreted to be the timing of the trap formation relative to hydrocarbon maturation and migration, as the inversion occurred late in the Miocene...

The competition of oil and gas for trap space and seal capacity

Martin Neumaier, Jan de Jager, Ben Kurtenbach

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...), there is just not enough vapor available to entirely fill the trap (vapor is charge limited), which allows a very short column of liquids to accumulate...

Chapter 17: Depositional History and Petroleum Habitat of Qatar

F. S. P. van Buchem, N. Svendsen, E. Hoch, R. Pedersen-Tatalovic, K. Habib

AAPG Special Volumes

... and gas migration. Taking into account tectonic control, depositional systems, and climatic variations, the Phanerozoic history of Qatar can be subdivided...

AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, May 19-22, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; - Abstracts, #90163 (2013).

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Hydrocarbon Occurrences in the Frontal and Central Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma

Joseph A. Curiale, William E. Harrison, Garmon Smith

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... studies. Possible Migration Pathways In addition to the geographic association of oil and asphaltite, Figure 2 clearly shows that both oil and solid bitumen...

Controls upon Depositional Architecture and Cyclicity of Alluvial Fan Systems and Associated Environments: Implications for Hydrocarbon Potential, #50589 (2012)

Amy Gough, Stuart M. Clarke, Antoni E. Milodowski

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... initially by changes in base level. The dominance of this control reduces with fill: climate and sediment supply are more dominant controls...

Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomite reservoir facies: An overview

Graham R. Davies, Langhorne B. Smith Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... models have been invoked to explain fluid-migration pathways and localization of HTD-hosted MVT deposits and regional dolomites, with some of the latter...

Reservoir characterization of fairways in a tight light oil play of the Upper Cretaceous Cardium Formation, west Pembina, Alberta, Canada

John Adam Fraser and Per Kent Pedersen

AAPG Bulletin

... likely occurred through fractures and faults within the foredeep. However, updip hydrocarbon migration took place within intraformational low...

Hydrocarbon Accumulation in "Meramec-Osage" (Mississippian) Rocks, Sooner Trend, Northwest-Central Oklahoma

Sherod A. Harris

AAPG Bulletin

..., and lateral seals of the trap. In addition, an explanation of how the producing mechanism of the field functions was needed. Exhibits were planned...

Influence of Lithofacies and Diagenesis on Norwegian North Sea Chalk Reservoirs

J. E. Brasher , K. R. Vagle

AAPG Bulletin

... of early hydrocarbon migration becomes progressively more important for those diagenetic pathways that proceed progressively farther to the left of path 7...

Quantifying Seal Effectiveness, Seal Effectiveness Timing, HC Column Height, % Trap Fill, Timing Risk using Petroleum System 1D Models for Leads and Prospects

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Extensional fault segmentation and linkages, Bonaparte Basin, outer North West Shelf, Australia

E. Frankowicz, K. R. McClay

AAPG Bulletin

...'Brien, G. W., M. Lisk, I. Duddy, P. J. Eadington, S. Cadman, and M. Fellows, 1996, Late Tertiary fluid migration in the Timor Sea: A key control...

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...

A Case History from the California Borderland: Chapter VII: Part One. Study of Modern and Ancient Turbidities

Oscar E. Weser

AAPG Special Volumes

... of basin filling as well. This example demonstrates how topographic consideration can influence the stage of basin fill and, as in every study...

Some Mass Balance and Geological Constraints on Migration Mechanisms

R. W. Jones

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... capable of quantitatively evaluating the large number of possible combinations of physical and chemical parameters that control migration, nature...

ABSTRACTS: AAPG International Conference, September 21-24, 2003, Barcelona, Spain, #90017 (2003)

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Primary Stratigraphic Traps in Sandstones: Geologic Exploration Methods

David B. MacKenzie

AAPG Special Volumes

... characteristics. One of the most difficult problems is how to predict the capacity of an updip stratigraphic-trap barrier. The problem arises because...

Shale Gas in South Africa

James Mullins

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the sills themselves could provide migration pathways to fluids, but this could hold crucial insights into potential hydraulic fracturing operations. Our...

Risk Based and Proportionate Measurement, Monitoring, and Verification (MMV) Plans that Meet Key Regulations

Diego A. Vazquez Anzola, Shelagh J.Baines

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... risk elements of a project and focus on how risk assessments must be conducted and managed, ensuring that other natural resources, human health...

Abstract: Cretaceous Fan Plays of the African Transform Margin

Tracey Henderson

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... of the West African transform margin has resulted in rapidly varying subsidence, thermal and basin fill histories for each sub-basin, causing considerable...