Chapter 3: Two Decades (2000–2020) and Five Paradigm Shifts Gleaned from AAPG’s Giant Fields Database

John C. Dolson, Zhiyong He, Brian W. Horn

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Mann, 1991, Migration from source to trap, in R. K. Merrill, ed., Source and migration processes and evaluation techniques: AAPG Treatise of Petroleum...

Contemporaneous Subsidence and Fluvial Channel Sedimentation: Upper Mannville C Pool, Berry Field, Lower Cretaceous of Alberta

John C. Hopkins

AAPG Bulletin

... basins (Weimer and Tillman, 1980). In these settings, listric faults parallel to depositional strike control the distribution of thick accumulations...

The exploration play: What do we mean by it?

Harry Doust

AAPG Bulletin

... such as charge type, reservoir-seal couple, with or without trap style, essential to the processes of petroleum generation, migration, accumulation...

Sequence stratigraphic evolution of the Mensa and Thunder Horse intraslope basins, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico—Lower Cretaceous through upper Miocene (8.2 Ma): A case study

Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, Todd G. Lapinski, Aaron A. van den Berg, Raquel Cepeda, John G. Roesink, and Mike Leibovitz

AAPG Bulletin

... geologic-facies maps show how sediment was transported in the basin and how the pathways changed through time. We are keenly aware that the lack...

Relationships Between Fault-Controlled Subsidence and Preservation of Shallow-Marine Small-Scale Cycles: Example from the Lower Pliocene of the Crotone Basin (Southern Italy)

Massimo Zecchin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., A healing-reloading feedback control on the growth rate of seismogenic faults: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 1075–1087. Cowie, P.A., Gupta...

Role of Diffusion in Primary Migration of Hydrocarbons

Detlev Leythaeuser, Rainer G. Schaefer, Arif Yukler

AAPG Bulletin

... is, under certain geologic conditions, the predominant transport mechanism of primary migration in the source rocks, how does the hydrocarbon composition...

The Complementary Roles of Kinetics and Thermodynamics in the Generation and Preservation of Oil and Gas, by Colin Barker; #90043 (2005)

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From Petroleum System Evaluation to Geomodeling, Production Forecasting and Reserves Determination in Unconventional Reservoirs

Cristhian F. Aranguren Silva, Antonio Ch. S. Gomes, Roberto Aguilera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...: the accumulation. But there is a lack of proper understanding of the first three processes: trap formation, generation, and migration of hydrocarbons...

The influence of topography on subaqueous gravity flows: a case study from the Jurassic Los Molles Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Gabriel Giacomone, Cornel Olariu, Eugen Tudor, Ronald J. Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... was an important control on sediment routing; complex pathways might have influenced the fluvial systems entering the deep basin and their associated...

Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank: Exercising Unconformity Thinking, #70276 (2017).

Charles A. Sternbach

Search and Discovery.com

... later unconformities) create traps, enhance reservoirs, and (along with faulting) provide petroleum system charge and migration pathways. Dolomite...

Geopressures and Hydrodynamics in the Gulf Basin Tertiary

Calvin A. Parker

New Orleans Geological Society

... across faults and within sand/shale cycles which exert a complex force field on all fluid migration. This suggests that the entire Gulf Basin...

Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Merang Triangle, South Sumatra Basin

John Clure, Nunuk Fiptiani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... shows the modelling of hydrocarbon generation and possible migration at the present day. The migration pathways are shown in sectional view in Figure...

Facies Distribution and Impact on Petroleum Migration in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

Tusar R. Sahoo, K. F. Kroeger, G. Thrasher, S. Munday, H. Mingard, N. Cozens, M. Hill

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...Facies Distribution and Impact on Petroleum Migration in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand Tusar R. Sahoo, K. F. Kroeger, G. Thrasher, S. Munday, H...

Abstract: Two Alternative Seismic Fault Interpretation Techniques—Part One

Mike Cline

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... that they might be of interest to those who may not have seen them already. Part Two, which will be published next month, will show how shaded relief maps can...

Seismic geomorphology and tectonostratigraphic fill of half grabens, West Natuna Basin, Indonesia

Darrin Burton, Lesli J. Wood

AAPG Bulletin

... examination of the fill growth within these basins helped define the timing of movement on the major faults versus episodes of sediment filling.Figure 7...

Chance of Success and Its Use in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 7: Part II. Nature of the Business

Peter R. Rose

AAPG Special Volumes

..., the term trap has no implications of geometry or configuration--only of containment and sealing. The troublesome issue f fill-up--best represented...

Seismic Foldout: Deepwater Niger Delta: Revealing the structural influence on reservoir channel deposition to highlight remaining prospectivity

Avril Burrell, Wole Oyetoran, PGS, Ahmad Abdullahi, NUPRC

GEO ExPro Magazine

... reservoirs may also benefit from being advantageously located near hydrocarbon migration pathways, with strike-slip faults providing routes for fluids...

Tunu Shallow Gas Combine Traps, from Drilling Hazard to Massive Successful Development

Rufino Rengifo, Thomas Yoga, Irfan Cibaj

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that the shallow formation is a path of migration and each time that a trap is available it will be filled with gas (small structure, stratigraphic...

Understanding Stratigraphic Heterogeneity: A Methodology to Maximize the Efficiency of the Geological Storage of CO2

Catherine M. Gibson-Poole, Lotte Svendsen, Maxwell N. Watson, Richard F. Daniel,Jonathan Ennis-King, Andy J. Rigg

AAPG Special Volumes

... facies for various depositional environments derived from modern and ancient analog data (modified from Root, 2007).MIGRATION PATHWAYS AND TRAPPING...

Eolian Sand Control

Richard C. Kerr, John O. Nigra

AAPG Bulletin

... will fill the trenches and re-establish the streamline symmetry and trap efficiency of the sand body. If the process be repeated whenever the symmetry...

Fluid Flow, Hydrochemistry and Petroleum Entrapment in Devonian Reef Complexes, South-Central Alberta, Canada

Benjamin J. Rostron, József Tóth, Hans G. Machel

Special Publications of SEPM

... nature of formational cross migration of Du The exact nature of the cross-formational migration of Duunknown How vernay oils into the Nisku Formation...

Computer Modeling of Multiple Surfaces With Faults: The Ivanhoe Field, Outer Moray Firth Basin, U.K. North Sea: Chapter 12

N. J. Hooper, J. G. M. Raven, M. J. Kilpatrick

AAPG Special Volumes

... and intersecting faults to be modeled efficiently, allowing multiple Z-values at any given location. Well cuts can be used to control fault plane projection...

Petrophysical Signatures of Fluid Injection in Mudstones and Shales

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Pericollisional Strike Slip Faults and Synorogenic Basins, Canadian Cordillera

G. H. Eisbacher

Special Publications of SEPM

... of orthogonal convergence to On a regional scale thrust faults thus can be merge with oblique and strike slip faults It is see how the indenter model...

Regional structural setting and evolution of the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, western Lloyd Ridge, and western DeSoto Canyon protraction areas, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Renaud Bouroullec, Paul Weimer, and Olivier Serrano

AAPG Bulletin

... be associated with some of the transfer faults presented in Stephens (2001). Most of the top-basement normal faults exerted a significant control...