Unstable Progradational Clastic Shelf Margins

Charles D. Winker, Marc B. Edwards

Special Publications of SEPM

... structures directly control shallow water environments is less clear Most Quaternary growth ico do not have obvious faults in the Gulf of Mex bathymetric...

The Perpetual Mystery of Petroleum Migration

W. H. Roberts, III

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...The Perpetual Mystery of Petroleum Migration W. H. Roberts, III 1992 48 47 AUTHOR'S NOTE As petroleum geologists, we live with the ultimate...

Paleodrainage Patterns: Their Mapping from Subsurface Data, and their Paleogeographic Value: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Marvin J. Andersen

AAPG Bulletin

... these between control points in the cross section, one gains knowledge of the lateral distribution and variation within the valley-fill material...

Sand-injection Structures in Deep-water Sandstones from the Ty Formation (Paleocene), Sleipner st Field, Norwegian North Sea

Nicholas Satur, Andrew Hurst

AAPG Special Volumes

... the reservoir. The map view summarizes the most likely pathways for dry-gas migration in the reservoir. Chemical markers are mixed with dry gas...

Vein Structures And Intrastratal Microfractured Zones Interpreted In Cores Of Late Miocene Diatomite, Midway Sunset Field, California; #20263 (2014)

Bonnie Bloeser, Mary Nelis

Search and Discovery.com

... • how natural fracture systems control hydraulically induced fracture stimulation treatments •  “IMZs are a hybrid fault/vein structure...

PSDM for Unconventional Reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale Case Study

Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Dave List, Chris Lang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... images; some faults have less than 15 ft of throw. URTeC 1618884 4 Vertical Anisotropy On Figure 3, notice how the isotropic PSDM image does not tie...

PSDM for unconventional reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale case study; #80405 (2014)

Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Cosmin Macesanu, Oscar E. Ramirez, Dave List, Chris Lang

Search and Discovery.com

... the migration velocity in Figure 3 by the δ field in Figure 5) to vertically warp the image to well control, we found that the predicted Niobrara depth for a new...

African Oil -- Past, Present, and Future

Andy C. Clifford

AAPG Special Volumes

... and antithetic faults developed (Figure 44). Typical migration paths of Akata Formation sourced hydrocarbons are shown, together with the complexity of traps...

Tectono-Stratigraphic Model for Sedimentation in Lake Tanganyika, Africa: Chapter 8

Andrew S. Cohen

AAPG Special Volumes

... with pelagic sediment. Material shed from border faults are not, however, the dominant component of basin fill in the deeply subsided areas of Lake Tanganyika...

Effects of Lateral Faulting on Oil Exploration

William Henry Corey

AAPG Bulletin

... ones have been added to Hill's very conservative map to fill out the pattern for more detail studies. Several of his faults have been modified...

Chapter 9: Evolution of the Hat Creek Fault System, Northern California

Simon A. Kattenhorn, Bob Krantz, Erin L. Walker, Matthew W. Blakeslee

AAPG Special Volumes

..., trap seal or leakage, migration pathways, and for evaluating development infrastructure and risk in a large percentage of global oilfields (Childs et...

Sandstone Diagenesis in Sediment–lava Sequences: Exceptional Examples of Volcanically Driven Diagenetic Compartmentalization in Dune Valley, Huab Outliers, Nw Namibia

Clayton Grove, Dougal A. Jerram, Jon G. Gluyas, Richard J. Brown

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or geological structure. These poorer potential reservoir rocks are connected to the fluid migration pathways, whereas the better-reservoir-quality red sandstones...

Attributes and Origins of Ancient Submarine Slides and Filled Embayments: Examples from the Gulf Coast Basin

Robert A. Morton

AAPG Bulletin

... of these internally derived slide deposits depends on the composition of the preexisting shelf margin. Embayment fill above the slide consists mostly...

Hydrocarbon Migration: What We Know, What We Don’t Know and Why It Is Important

Barry Jay Katz Chevron Energy Technology Company

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... of lateral and vertical migration. Faults can play a role within this phase of migration by acting as both conduit and seal, with some individual faults...

Use of Bed-Form Climb Models to Analyze Geometry and Preservation Potential of Clastic Facies and Erosional Surfaces

D. K. Larue , P. A. Martinez

AAPG Bulletin

... 1989 40 53 73 1. (January) Based on a combination of Walther's Law of Facies and bed-form climb theory, we propose a model that explains how erosion...

Reducing Exploration Risk and Uncertainty in the Gulf of Thailand and on the Khorat Plateau … The Role of Tectonics, Palaeodrainage and Earth System Modelling (Poster 1)

John M. Jacques, Kerri L. Wilson, Paul J. Markwick, David G. Wright, Claudia Fintina

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... pathways? GEO Asia 2006 Petroleum Geology Conference 14 June 2006 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia • • • • How does climate and tectonic...

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southeast Alaska Continental Margin

T. R. Bruns, P. R. Carlson

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... spaced single-channel seismic-reflection profiles to identify faults and submarine scarps on the shelf south of Icy Point, which appeared to align...

Geometry, Lithofacies, and Spatial Distribution of Cretaceous Fluvial Sandstone Bodies, San Jorge Basin, Argentina: Outcrop Analog for the Hydrocarbon-Bearing Chubut Group

John S. Bridge , Guillermo A. Jalfin , Sergio M. Georgieff

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...; Homovc et al., 1995; Peroni et al. 1995). Tectonic inversion also provided pathways for hydrocarbon migration and favorable structural/stratigraphic...

STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE SAWTOOTH SALIENT OF THE MONTANA DISTURBED BELT

Stephen P. Gardner, Jonathan M. Achuff

Montana Geological Society

... a transition from the northerly strike of the thrust faults of the Sawtooth salient to a northwesterly strike in the Sun River reentrant...

Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Chapter 9

Julie Palmer, Geoff Bulte

AAPG Special Volumes

... of nonmarine carbonaceous sediments. The migration conduits can only be assumed and probably include faults and bedding planes. The areas adjacent to both...

Lithology and reservoir properties of the Delaware Mountain Group of the Delaware Basin and implications for saltwater disposal and induced seismicity

Katie Smye, D. Amy Banerji, Ray Eastwood, Guin McDaid, Peter Hennings

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are the geologic factors that control the DMG as a produced water disposal candidate? Are those controls being exceeded in places? How can this resource...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Attributes Help Define Controls on Reservoir Development: Case Study from the Red River Formation, Williston Basin

R. A. Pearson, B. S. Hart

AAPG Special Volumes

... level, (2) thin (1728 ft [58.5 m]) porous zones throughout much of the field, (3) a large, off-structure porosity zone in an area without well control...

Expulsion from the Source Bed--Primary Migration: Chapter 8: Part I. Genesis of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott

AAPG Special Volumes

... migration during compaction. However, most of them were not End_Page 173------------------------ very specific about how early a stage of compaction...

Geomechanical restoration as a tool for fractured reservoir characterization: Application to the Permian Basin, west Texas

Joseph M. Stockmeyer, John H. Shaw, Lee T. Billingsley, Andreas Plesch, Michael Wales, Leore C. Lavin, Ray Knox, and Luke Finger

AAPG Bulletin

.... 17, p. 640–656,doi:10.1029/98TC01907. Aydin, A., 2000, Fractures, faults, and hydrocarbon entrapment, migration and flow: Marine and Petroleum...

RELATIONSHIPS AMONGST OIL QUALITY, THERMAL MATURITY AND POST-ACCUMULATION ALTERATION IN CANADIAN WILLISTON BASIN (SOUTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN AND SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA)

KIRK G. OSADETZ, LLOYD R. SNOWDON, PAUL W. BROOKS

Williston Basin Symposium

..., and Snowdon, L.R., (in review), Oil families, their sources and migration pathways in Canadian Williston Basin, (southeastern...