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...

Natural fractures in shale: A review and new observations

Julia F. W. Gale, Stephen E. Laubach, Jon E. Olson, Peter Eichhubl, and András Fall

AAPG Bulletin

...-scale pathways for mixing of gases generated at different time intervals. In the Bakken, major faults may also have facilitated vertical migration...

Origin of the Giant Drake Gas Field, Canadian Arctic Islands; #20227 (2013)

Keith Dewing

Search and Discovery.com

... migration through the use of a 3-D geostatistical velocity model, and (3) seismic bandwidth extension was conducted in order to increase vertical...

PVT„Modelling as a Predictive Tool in Hydrocarbon Exploration, with Examples from the Mid Norwegian Continental Shelf

Odd R. Heum, Arne Dalland, Knut Kristian Meisings

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

.../DOWNWARD SECONDARY MIGRATION LOSS DURING LATERAL SECONDARY MIGRATION I v RECOMBINATION IN THE TRAP (PVT-MODELLING) __.... FILL-SPILLLEAKANALYSIS I...

Geometry and kinematics of Neogene allochthonous salt systems in the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, western Lloyd Ridge, and western DeSoto Canyon protraction areas, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Renaud Bouroullec, and Paul Weimer

AAPG Bulletin

... migration pathways. By relating the geometry of the Neogene allochthonous salt systems to external control parameters such as basement geometry and sediment...

Inclined-Shear Restoration of Growth Folds

Enrique Novoa, John Suppe, and John H. Shaw

AAPG Bulletin

... to define the timing of trap development relative to hydrocarbon migration and to determine how traps may have been modified by subsequent deformation...

Origins and habitats of supergiant fields: An interpretation

Richard S. Bishop

AAPG Bulletin

... and reduce vertical fault migration and cross fault leakage, thus increasing trap volume and lateral migration. Cross fault leakage is reduced due to decreased...

Considering Far-Field Fracture Connectivity in Stimulation Treatment Designs in the Permian Basin

Brandon C. Klingensmith, Mohammad Hossaini, Steven Fleenor, Katherine Thomas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... several questions, such as:  Where does the oil originate in shale and how does it become mobile?  Does proppant turn corners in a complex fracture...

Truncation Traps on Northwest Border of Gifhorn Trough, East Hannover, Germany: Case Histories

H. A. Hedemann, H. Lorenz with a contribution by D. Bobrink

AAPG Special Volumes

..., have been sealed off by faults, after the Albian transgression, thus preventing oil migration from the deeper part of the trough. However, en echelon...

Basic Wrench Tectonics

Ronald E. Wilcox , T. P. Harding , D. R. Seely

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1954a, b). The Ridge basin illustrates how major wrench faults can influence basin development and sedimentation as well as the tectonic history...

The Dynamic Interplay of Oil Mixing, Charge Timing, and Biodegradation in Forming the Alberta Oil Sands: Insights from Geologic Modeling and Biogeochemistry

Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Joseph Westrich, Cor van Kruisdijk

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the PRA area reflect variations in oil charge maturity, migration pathways, and varying levels of biodegradation, conditioned by highly variable oil...

2017 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition

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Insights from Stratigraphic Modeling: Mud-Limited Versus Sand-Limited Depositional Systems

William C. Ross , Dale E. Watts , Jeffrey A. May

AAPG Bulletin

... as a control on basin-fill geometries and facies distribution: a conceptual framework, in T. A. Cross, ed., Quantitative dynamic stratigraphy: Englewood...

GEOLOGY OF THE JURASSIC SAWTOOTH RESERVOIR AT NE RABBIT HILLS FIELD, NORTH-CENTRAL MONTANA

KAREN W. PORTER, CHARLES J. WIDEMAN, JON M. CONAWAY

Williston Basin Symposium

... is considered correlative with the entire Bowes Member in outcrop. The upper unit is interpreted as an aggradational braid plain fill deposited...

Stratigraphic and Paleostructural Controls on Hydrocarbon Migration in Cretaceous D and J Sandstones of the Denver Basin

Patrick A. Tainter

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... migration. Therefore, the major control stratigraphy had on migration was that the largest volumes of oil and gas were transmitted through...

Abstract: The Importance of Abnormal Pressures in Exploration and Production Geology, by G. Holm; #90942 (1997).

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ABSTRACT: Petroleum Inclusions: Markers of Tectonic and Diagenetic Evolution of a Foreland Petroleum Basin (Columbia); #90013 (2003)

Jacques Pironon, Jorg O. W. Grimmer, Frederic Walgenwitz

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... and was removed during an intense tectonic phase. While compressive tectonics, inclusions imploded and fracturing created migration pathways. The pre...

Gas Well / Water Well Subsurface Contamination—Plan for Investigation

Rickard R. Railsback

GCAGS Transactions

... potential contaminant migration pathways. The oil and environmental industries have the tools to figure out whether a specific well has impacted...

Predicting Sandstone Reservoir System Quality and Example of Petrophysical Evaluation; Dan J. Hartmann, Edward A. Beaumont, and Edward Coalson; Search and Discovery Article #40005 (2000)

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Futuristic Efforts to Characterize Shallow Anomalies; #42109 (2017)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, Graziella Kirtland Grech, Bent Erlend Kjolhamar

Search and Discovery.com

... system is present, as well as critical information on source, maturity and migration pathways. Such work is being carried out in the Barents Sea...

Free Gas Exploitation Within the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Viable Potential?

Allen Lowrie, Carol Blanton Lutken

GCAGS Transactions

... wells, multiple gas-enriched potential pay zones associated with active migration routes (as along faults), seismically suggested gas-concentrations...

Paleocave Facies Classification and Associated Pore Types

Robert G. Loucks, Paul K. Mescher

Abilene Geological Society

... passages can be completely plugged by sediment. The shape and size of the original cave passage control the dimensions of sediment-fill deposits...

Analyzing BeefŽ Fractures: Genesis and Relationship With Organic-Rich Shale Facies

Mohammed Al Duhailan, Steve Sonnenberg, Mark Longman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and Carey, 1995). Bitumen is extensive in such veins, indicating pathways for petroleum migration. The study on Vaca Muerta core was conducted...

Exploration and Development Significance of Post-Permian Folding and Fracturing Within the Permian Basin

Keith E. Winfree

West Texas Geological Society

... structural grain has a primary control on how individual fault blocks were reactivated. Northwesterly-trending faults had reactivation that was dominantly...

Geological and Geomechanical Modeling of the Haynesville Shale: A Full Loop for Unconventional Fractured Reservoirs

W. Sebastian Bayer, Marcus Wunderle, Ewerton Araujo, Rene Alcalde, Calvin Yao, Fred Suhy, Thomas Jo, Fleur Bases, Abu M. Sani, Abhishek Bansal, Eric Peterson, Rohan Goudge, Ankur Awasthi, Mukul Bhatia

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to incorporate tracer data in our study focuses on the analysis of proppant tracer migration and fluid tracer communication to identify potential pathways...