Preface

AAPG Special Volumes

...-angle reverse faults. The anticlinal trap of Messoyakh produces gas from hydrates and from that gas sealed beneath shales and sandstones plugged by gas...

Structural segmentation in the Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea: Insights from analogue models and implications for hydrocarbon exploration

Gengxiong Yang, Hongwei Yin, Jun Gan, Wei Wang, Jitian Zhu, Dong Jia, Xiaofeng Xiong, and Wenqiao Xu

AAPG Bulletin

... previous studies have conducted extensive research on orthogonal and oblique extension, few have examined how VD direction changes to control...

Fault Compartmentalization in a Mature Clastic Reservoir: An Example from Elk Hills Field, California; #40907 (2012)

Alan P. Morris, Kevin Smart, David A. Ferrill, Nathaniel Reish, and Peter F. Cowell

Search and Discovery.com

... faults that contribute to permeability reduction - important at production, but not trap formation, time scales. Fault Seal Behavior A major cause...

The Cadomin Formation: A Model for the Deep Basin Type Gas Trapping Mechanism

C. J. Varley

CSPG Special Publications

... that responds to rates of gas generation and addition, gas migration, and gas loss to the updip transition and water zones. These parameters control...

Hibernia Oil Field--Canada, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Grand Banks, Offshore Newfoundland

A. H. Mackay, A. J. Tankard

AAPG Special Volumes

.... In the Hibernia reservoir, the alluvial sequence forms a southward-thickening wedge attributed to structural control of the depocenter by relay and transfer faults...

Clastic Pipes and Soft-Sediment Deformation of the Jurassic Carmel Formation, Southern Utah, U.S.A.: Implications For Pipe Formation Mechanisms and Host-Rock Controls

David Fairchild Wheatley,, Marjorie Ann Chan

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., Hall, B., Cartwright, J., and Huuse, M., 2007, Clastic intrusion at the base of deep-water sands: a trap-forming mechanism in the eastern Mediterranean...

Application of SPE SRMS and Certification of CO2 Storage Capacity

Bill Billingsley, Peter Stephenson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... barriers to capture the full range of geological models that might control CO2 migration. Monitoring of the CO2 movement using time-lapse seismic...

Application of Quantitative Seismic Geomorphologic Techniques to Understanding Uncertainty in Clastic Depositional Systems

Lesli J. Wood, Lorena Moscardelli

West Texas Geological Society

..., etc.) now enable geoscientists to see in greater detail than ever before how seascapes and landscapes have evolved through time. There is little doubt...

AAPG Studies in Geology No.53 - Part 2: Case Studies

edited by John H. Shaw, Christopher D. Connors and John Suppe

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the petroleum system such as fracture distribution and intensity, migration pathways and traps, and source-rock/reservoir juxtaposition during generation...

Scaled Experimental Models of Extension: Dry Sand vs. Wet Clay

Martha Oliver Withjack, Roy W. Schlische, and Alissa A. Henza

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...., 2006). These models provide valuable information about deformational processes. For example, they suggest how normal faults nucleate, propagate and link...

Chapter 1: Cretaceous to Neogene Arc–Continent Collision, Orogenic Float Development, and Implications on the Petroleum Systems of Northern Venezuela

Jairo Lugo, Felipe Audemard

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Tectonic control in source rock maturation and oil migration in Trinidad and Implications for petroleum exploration, in J. L. Pindell and R. F. Perkins, eds...

Large-Scale Fluid Migration Driven by Salt Dissolution, Bay Marchand Dome, Offshore Louisiana

R. Stephanie Bruno,, Jeffrey S. Hanor

GCAGS Transactions

... Societies, v. 38, p. 525-534. Lin, G., and Nunn, J.A., 1997. Evidence for recent migration of geopressured fluids along faults in Eugene Island, Block 330...

AAPG Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 16-19, 2005; #90039 (2005)

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Foreword: Part III. Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the problem of oil migration and accumulation have claimed that petroleum has had a deep source from which it has moved upward along faults or fracture zones...

Field Development Planning of a Thin Compartmentalised Oil Column: Vincent Field, Offshore Western Australia

Ole Sundsby, Darren Baker, Peter Griffiths, Hein Knipscheer

Search and Discovery.com

... (particularly close to FWL): Cannot overcome even the poorest of fault seal (assuming pre-migration / water wet faults) Ultimately the low oil mobility means...

Analysis of Seabed Features and Shallow Stratigraphy for Indications of Fault Reactivation and Seepage: Results from the 2012 Marine Surveys in the Southern Perth and Bonaparte Basins

D. Jorgensen, I. Borissova, G. Bernardel, A. Carroll, C. Consoli, H. Dulfer, K. Higgins, T. Nicholas, K. Picard

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... footage for sedimentological, biological and chemical analysis. These datasets have been used to investigate possible fluid migration pathways...

Chapter 4: Hydrocarbon Provinces of Libya: A Petroleum System Study

Hassan S. Hassan, Christopher C. G. Kendall

AAPG Special Volumes

... and the general eastward tilting of the strata provide significant pathways for northeast to southwest oil migration from the source rocks to the traps (Figure 10...

Quantitative Geometry of Thrust and Fold Belt Structures

Peter B. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

... and Elliott (1982)? If so, how is their slip accommodated? There is good evidence that thrust faults do not reach the erosional surface, but are blind...

Development of Petroleum Systems in Northern Alaska … Timing of Petroleum System Events Controls Presence of Accumulations, #30160 (2011)

Oliver Schenk, Kenneth J. Bird, Kenneth E. Peters, Leslie B. Magoon,

Search and Discovery.com

... of their importance as hydrocarbon migration pathways and traps. The overlying foreland basin sediments reach a total thickness of up to 8,000 m and were...

Summary and Conclusions: Chapter 16

Roger W. Macqueen, Dale A. Leckie

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The length of time during which foreland basin sediments accumulated also is variable. Foreland basin fill in some basins accumulated in a short period...

Reservoir Distribution on a Salt-Influenced Deep-Water Slope: Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil,#11049 (2018).

Clara R. Rodriguez, Christopher A-L. Jackson, Atle Rotevatn, Rebecca E. Bell, Malcolm Francis

Search and Discovery.com

..., and hydrocarbon migration in salt-influenced basins. It is therefore critical for the oil industry to understand how sediment interacts with salt in such basins...

Depth of Oil Origin and Primary Migration: a Review and Critique: REPLY TO G. T. PHILIPPI

Robert J. Cordell

AAPG Bulletin

...? And even if it were, how could the oil migrate through the extremely sm ll pore spaces? The great difficulty of hydrocarbon migration in the form of oil...

Characteristics and formation mechanisms of large volcanic rock oil reservoirs: A case study of the Carboniferous rocks in the Kebai fault zone of Junggar Basin, China

Zhonghong Chen, Xulong Wang, Ming Zha, Yueqian Zhang, Yingchang Cao, Disheng Yang, Kongyou Wu, Yong Chen, and Guanghui Yuan

AAPG Bulletin

... of pathways for oil migration and traps for oil accumulation. Faults and unconformities are critical factors in the communication of oil vertical...

THE ARBUCKLE – STILL OKLAHOMA’S GREATEST MYSTERY

Lloyd Gatewood

Fort Worth Geological Society

... in the Arbuckle trough of the Ardmore-Anadarko basin. In the reconstruction of the geologic history of an area we know that earlier events control...

Dynamic Response of Deepwater Depositional Systems to Growth of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico

Ciaran J. O'Byrne , Joydeep K. Haldar, Richard Klecker , Arthur E. Berman and John Martinez

GCAGS Transactions

... in influencing slope sediment pathways, drainage capture and compensatory relief. Growth of the MFFB effectively created elevated 'plateau' areas...