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...

Gulf Coast Structural Geology

R.O. Kehle

New Orleans Geological Society

...). These are sediments bounded by trap door faults discussed earlier. Because stretch fault motions fill potential voids over crests of growing salt domes...

Well Data Projection into Undrilled Exploration Areas Using Gravimetric and/or Seismic Isochron Steering Functions

Richard H. Fillon, Rosanne J. Jowitt and Ronald L. Phair

GCAGS Transactions

... for exploration applications in unconfined basinal deposystems. Bradshaw, B.E. and J.S. Watkins, 1995, Mesozoic and Cenozoic salt migration pathways...

Common Conditions for Heavy Oils: Section IV. Exploration Methods

W. H. Roberts III

AAPG Special Volumes

... Bitumen Field evidence suggests that conditions for the collection and retention of various hydrocarbons exert control over the composition of resident...

Regional Variations in Formation Water Salinity, Hollin and Napo Formations (Cretaceous), Oriente Basin, Ecuador

Lawrence R. Smith

AAPG Bulletin

... at the possible occurrence to the east of undiscovered lighter oils resulting from initial migration pathways that bypassed major structures...

Rio Vista Gas Field--U.S.A. Sacramento Basin, California

Dane S. Johnson

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the downthrown side of potential trap forming faults and in structurally low positions within the encountered fault block. Additional development...

Geology of Jonah Field, Sublette County, Wyoming

D. P. DuBois, P. J. Wynne, T. M. Smagala, J. L. Johnson, K. D. Engler, B. C. McBride

AAPG Special Volumes

... of well control and seismic data. WBF = west-bounding fault. SBF = south-bounding fault. Contour interval is 100 ft (30 m).The field-bounding shear faults...

Abstract: Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank (GACB): Surprising Lessons of Ellenburger, Arbuckle, Knox, Prairie du Chien and Beekmantown Reservoirs, by Charles A. Sternbach; #90164 (2013)

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Basement Tectonics and Origin of the Sabine Uplift

Richard L. Adams

GCAGS Transactions

... the history of the Gulf Coast. The orientation of pre-existing transform faults and the presence of rift-related horst and graben structures control...

The Role of Geology in Increasing Utah’s Ground-Water Resources from Faulted Terranes – Lessons from the Navajo Sandstone, Utah, and the Death Valley Flow System, Nevada-California

Peter D. Rowley, Gary L. Dixon

Utah Geological Association

..., where basin-range faults dominate the geology and control most ground-water flow. Here, flow along fault-induced fractures better explains water...

Genesis field, Gulf of Mexico: Recognizing reservoir compartments on geologic and production time scales in deep-water reservoirs

Michael L. Sweet, Larry T. Sumpter

AAPG Bulletin

... of Neb 2 (Figure 13) on the southern end of the field to extend the trap beyond mapped faults. This fill scenario for Neb 2 would have eventually...

Abstract: A 3D Seismic Volume of a Major Buried Thrust Front, Foredeep to Emergent Thrust Sheets, Quiriquire Block: Platform for Improved Exploration and Production, Eastern Venezuela Basin

Vincent Rigatti, Phil de Gruyter, Wynn Gajkowski, Rob Hull, Rocky Roden, and Dick Sievers

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... the competent pre-thrust section, has a profound effect on the hanging wall and leading-edge geometries. Thus, thrust faults in this trend...

Reconstruction of the sedimentary heterogeneity in outcropping deep-water channel–levee deposits (Taza–Guercif Basin, late Tortonian, NE Morocco)

Daniele Invernizzi, Moreno Pizzutto, Fabrizio Felletti, George Pantopoulos, Mattia Marini, Adam McArthur

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Moreover, the paucity of well-documented outcrops exhibiting a continuous sedimentary record between channel-fill and overbank sediments remains a challenge...

Geologic modeling and fluid-flow simulation of acid gas disposal in western Wyoming

Shuiquan Li, Ye Zhang, Xu Zhang, Changan Du

AAPG Bulletin

... or pathways depending on how connected and how open they are) and because high vertical fracture permeability (kv) may contribute to gas leakage...

Enhanced Faults Interpretation in West Offshore Madura using Boundary Element and Slip Tendency Analysis

Ghufron Fauzi, Khadafi, Andri Akbar, Brett Freeman, Renny Sara Sipayung

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Freeman*** Renny Sara Sipayung* ABSTRACT Faults are frequently a key element in a petroleum system, playing a significant role in defining the trap...

Diagenetic History and its Effect on Reservoir Quality and Reservoir Characterization of Sandstone Sequences of Matulla Formation, October Field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt; #20452 (2019)

Ahmed Kassem

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... lithologies and thicknesses (Lelek et al. 1992) Migration pathways are color-coded according to their sequence. Blue is the earliest, then green...

Abstract: Relationship between Miocene to Present Sediment Dispersal and Structural Deformation in the NW Niger Delta, by A. M. Leduc, R. J. Davies, and A. L. Densmore; #90090 (2009).

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High-Resolution Multi Cross-Section Restoration and its Applications in Reservoir Quality Prediction

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Multiple Stages of Syndepositional Halokinetic (?) Deformation in the Permian Cutler Formation, Northern Margin of the Onion Creek Diapir, Paradox Basin, UT

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ABSTRACT Seal Bypass Systems in Deep Water Fold Belts, #90123 (2011)

Joe Cartwright

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... as seismically resolvable geological features embedded within sealing sequences that promote cross-stratal fluid migration and allow fluids to bypass the pore...

Palaeogeography and its Impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia

J. Bradshaw, J. Sayers, M. Bradshaw, R. Kneale, C. Ford, L. Spencer, M. Lisk

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... by detailed biostratigraphy. Reliable age control has remained a key feature of the more recent work but relational databases now support the maps rather than...

Pitfalls of using entrenched fracture relationships: Fractures in bedded carbonates of the Hidden Valley Fault Zone, Canyon Lake Gorge, Comal County, Texas

Ronald N. McGinnis, David A. Ferrill, Kevin J. Smart, Alan P. Morris, Camilo Higuera-Diaz, and Daniel Prawica

AAPG Bulletin

...., 2012). Canyon Lake Gorge reveals faults, fractures, and strata-bound fluid pathways (Figures 2, 3), in many cases enhanced by dissolution, which...

The Role of Diagenesis in Exfoliation of Submarine Canyons

Cecilia M. McHugh , William B. F. Ryan , B. Charlotte Schreiber

AAPG Bulletin

... ancient carbonate canyon/slope settings in areas with scarce data control by providing direct information on how the geometry of the rocks...

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Clastic Reservoirs and Systems

Lesli J.Wood

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... how seascapes and landscapes have evolved through time. There is little doubt that seismic geomorphology, when integrated with seismic and sequence...

Abstract: Prediction of Pore Pressure and Porosity of Unconventional Plays in Abu Dhabi Using Petroleum Systems Modeling Technology; #90254 (2016)

Manhal Sirat

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... can be performed to predict potential faults. Twelve (12) surfaces and pseudo well tops were created for thickness map gridding control. The model...