3-D Solution to a 2-D Pitfall: Seismic Detection of Carbonate Buildups, Kiva Field, Paradox Basin, San Juan County, Utah

Cindy L. Crawley Stewart

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation at a depth of 5,700 ft. The stratigraphic trap is formed by a lithologic change within the Upper Ismay zone from...

Biomarkers of Unconventional Systems - Short Course Slide Presentation

Simon C. Brassell

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...-source rock correlations in tight shales, as well as, bitumen retention within shales and migration pathways. Copyright © 2019 The Society for Organic...

Stratigraphic Exploration Plays in Ordovician to Lower Permian Strata in the Midland Basin and on the Eastern Shelf

S. J. Mazzullo

West Texas Geological Society

.... Dolomitization may have been facilitated by the migration of diagenetic fluids along these faults. Based on analysis of cores, it appears that at least some...

Field Conference: Structure and Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Transpressive Basins of Southern California

Thomas L. Davis, Jay S. Namson, Stuart Gordon

Pacific Section SEPM

... and Quaternary convergence. A common trap style consists of anticlinal trends located along steeply-dipping basinedge faults (Fig. 2A). During the field trip we...

Alluvial Fan Interactions with Adjacent and Contemporaneous Arid Continental Environments: Implications for Basin-Scale Fluid Migration and Charge, #50962 (2014).

Amy Gough, Stuart M. Clarke

Search and Discovery.com

... of interaction’ have the potential to significantly impact upon the basin-scale hydrocarbon migration pathways. This work considers the Cutler Group...

Thinking and Methodology Leading to a Major Sweetspot in Tight Sands - A Deep Eocene Misoa Sands Discovery; #40510 (2010)

Jean-Yves D. Chatellier, Leon Freddy, Sabrina Sarzalejo, Renee Perez, Paul Hague, and Martin Wilpshaar

Search and Discovery.com

... trap in Tomoporo area at time of first migration •  good porosity • Final results – Location for new seismic – New drilling discovery well 17,400...

The Heterogeneity of Paleocavern Systems Developed Along Syndepositional Fault Zones: The Upper Permian Capitan Platform, Guadalupe Mountains, U.S.A.

Eduard Koša, David Hunt, William M. Fitchen, Marie-Odile Bockel-Rebelle, Gerald Roberts

Special Publications of SEPM

... previ- fractures and faults act as high-permeability pathways that are ously realized. a major control on the production characteristics of the field...

Using multidimensional scaling to estimate the impact of shale volume, fault seal, and fluid migration methods on 3D petroleum saturation, Norwegian Viking Graben

Anatoly Aseev, Tapan Mukerji, Allegra Hosford Scheirer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... source rock. Still, tilted fault blocks and rifting systems make possible migration across faults through reservoir-reservoir juxtaposition zones...

The Effect of Deep Burial and Folding on Sandstone Reservoirs in some Giant Gas Fields, South America

Gregory Smith, Maxim Lebedev, Reza Rezee, Stefan Iglauer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., P., Sheppard, S.M.F. and Boulegued, J., 2002, Compartmentalisation of fluid migration pathways in the sub-Andean Zone, Bolivia. Tectonophysics 348...

Analysis of the Goose Point area near Lacombe, Louisiana, Validates New Geophysical Data Type—Natural Sourced Electromagnetism (NSEM)—for Detection of Lineaments Associated with Faults and Sedimentary Features

Kathleen S. Haggar, Les R. Denham, Louis J. Berent

GCAGS Transactions

... into stratigraphy (sands or limestones versus shales), potential gas accumulations, leaky zones/migration pathways along fault planes, or possibly even gas...

EPA--The Environmental Watchman

Stanley M. Greenfield

AAPG Special Volumes

... the newest technique of waste disposal and potential environmental pollution. I represent the newest federal agency in the pollution control field...

Abstract: New Insights on Stratigraphic Trap Exploration of the Rawat Rift Basin, Sudan; #91204 (2023)

Hassan Z. Adam, H.M. Awad, Tarig A. Rahman, Abdelfattah M. Bakhiet

Search and Discovery.com

...) confined sub-lacustrine fans controlled by NW-SE trending faults. These presented by our current litho-stratigraphic trap closure under investigation...

Lisbon Field Area, San Juan County, Utah

John M. Parker

AAPG Special Volumes

... anticline. Oil and gas fill the structure almost to the structural spill point. The Little Valley area Mississippian gas trap southeast of Lisbon has...

Cenozoic fault systems in southwest Qaidam Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Geometry, temporal development, and significance for hydrocarbon accumulation

Lei Wu, Ancheng Xiao, Dade Ma, Hongge Li, Bo Xu, Ya Shen, and Liguang Mao

AAPG Bulletin

... in extensional-fault systems.The foregoing interpretation helps the understanding of how the north–south-trending faults (such as , , , , and ) were formed...

Discovering Oil in Uganda: Opening the East African Rift Play, #110224 (2015).

Bob Cassie, Charles sheen, Paul Burden

Search and Discovery.com

... migration. A comparison to other rift basins suggested a number of trapping styles, including tilted fault blocks in pre- and syn-rift sections and drape...

Abstract: Defining a Trap: Implications of (Not) Understanding Fault Dimensions From Seismic Data in Exploration and Production, by Rotevatn, Atle; Fossen, Haakon; #90163 (2013)

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Calibrated Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Lavaca/Yoakum Canyon Complex, South Texas, U.S.A.

Colin J. White, John W. Snedden, Jon Virdell

GCAGS Journal

... Wilcox, though later reactivation appears to be the case on some of the Wilcox faults. Depositional fill between surfaces H1 and H2 likely aided...

Mixed carbonate-clastic reservoir characterization of the mid-Cretaceous Mauddud Formation (Albian), north Kuwait—Implications for field development

Nigel E. Cross, Sunil K. Singh, Abdulmohsen Al-Enezi, and Sayed Behbehani

AAPG Bulletin

..., highlights how local variations in stratigraphic, diagenetic, and structural characteristics control the distribution of reservoir properties. Using...

NEW GAS

Mariel Rëitsma

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Lower Lake Beds 400 Nsungwe Fm 600 Galula Fm 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 Karoo Group Basement Helium migration pathways Helium shows...

ABSTRACT: Exploring for Deep Gas in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf and Deepwater using Chimney Processing; #90021 (2003)

DAVID CONNOLLY, FRED AMINZADEH

Search and Discovery.com

... from geochemical maturity data. Also it has been documented that this vertical migration often occurs via faults. Detecting and confirming such vertical...

Transform Faulting—An Unseen Problem to Resource Plays

Bruce J. Martin, Trevor Brooks

GCAGS Transactions

... tight reservoirs contain high levels of hydrocarbon saturation while porous surrounding reservoirs lack saturation. Migration pathways...

Petroleum Potential of the Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene Sediments of the Reinga, Northland and Deepwater Taranaki Basins; #10820 (2015)

Pedro Martinez Duran, Robert Gater, Kevin Chesser, Thomas Coates-Harman, Bleddyn Davies, Jim Fenton, Jarrad Grahame, Annemone Haager, Cesar Marin, Gabor Vakarcs, Peter Baillie

Search and Discovery.com

... between high porosity and low porosity units directly overlying each other • And also we were able to spot possible migration pathways as a result...

Submarine channel response to intrabasinal tectonics: The influence of lateral tilt

Ian A. Kane, Vicky Catterall, William D. McCaffrey, Ole J. Martinsen

AAPG Bulletin

... faults as a transtensional zone marking the transition from block to basin (Figure 1B).The fill of the Bowland Subbasin consists of more than 4 km (2.4 mi...

Rotating Parallel Faults--"Book Shelf" Mechanism: ABSTRACT

G. Mandl

AAPG Bulletin

... to distinguish between two basic modes of the book shelf mechanism: the dilational mode, where rotating faults tend to open up and may become migration paths...

Fault Interpretation During Seismic Interpretation and Reservoir Evaluation: Fractured Reservoirs: Origin, Description, Evaluation

M. E. Badley, B. Freeman, A. M. Roberts, J. S. Thatcher, J. Walsh, J. Watterson, G. Yielding

AAPG Special Volumes

... a hydrocarbon trap. Medium-size faults, or even small faults, may compartmentalize a field into discrete accumulations, and small faults may cause widespread...