Regional Hydrocarbon Systems of Colombia and Western Venezuela: Their Origin, Potential, and Exploration

Tomas Villamil

AAPG Special Volumes

... barrels of oil encountered in Colombia and western Venezuela. (4) Trap formation, maturation, and migration of Miocene to Pleistocene ages. These traps...

4D Taranaki in New Zealand: Understanding a Petroleum System from Regional to Prospect Scale; #120115 (2013)

Karsten F. Kroeger and Rob Funnell

Search and Discovery.com

... of the prospect, some factors (for example, crustal composition and structural evolution, climatic and sea-level changes, fluid flow along faults...

Imaging-Based Characterization of Calcite-Filled Fractures and Porosity in Shales

Bolivia Vega, Cynthia M. Ross, Anthony Kovscek

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and light blue). Figure 13 shows a special focus on the features associated with the calcite fracture fill-host rock interface. Dark pathways...

What is Horizontal Resolution?

L. R. Denham, R. E. Sheriff

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..." geology are precisely the features which trap hydrocarbons: faults, reefs, channels, etc. Only classic anticlinal traps with gently dipping flanks...

Wellbore Integrity R&D: Ensuring Well Control and Zonal Isolation in Unconventional Resource Plays

Erica Folio, Olayinka Ogunsola, Elena Melchert

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Wellbore Integrity R&D: Ensuring Well Control and Zonal Isolation in Unconventional Resource Plays Erica Folio, Olayinka Ogunsola, Elena Melchert...

Deep-water Marine Reservoirs

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... or not. It is not always easy to assess this with limited well control. This is a particular problem when it comes to the costly appraisal of deep-marine...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) Signature, Offshore Western Greece, #30537 (2017).

V. Kosmidou, G. Makrodimitras, N. Papatheodorou

Search and Discovery.com

... petroleum system of the Ionian zone is proven in Katakolon and has Jurassic “Posidonia” and Cretaceous “Vigla” shales as source rocks, with migration...

Morphometrics of Channel Belts from the Mungaroo Formation, NWS, Australia

T. H. D. Payenberg, B. Willis, J. Fowler, S. C. Lang, A. Powell, T. Marsh, P. Sixsmith, B. Vakarelov

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... fill deposits when defining differences between channel belt types. Note how migration patterns move from downstream to more lateral and mixed downstream...

Chapter 5: Tectonic Evolution of Sedimentary Basins around the Arcuate Southeastern Margin of the Caribbean Plate

Tricia G. Alvarez, Paul Mann, Lesli J. Wood

AAPG Special Volumes

... #90238. Persad, K. M., S. C. Talukdar, and W. G. Dow, 1993, Tectonic control in source rock maturation and oil migration in Trinidad and implications...

AAPG Memoir 76, Chapter 16: Pore Pressure ahead of the Bit: An Integrated Approach

Nader C. Dutta, William H. Borland, W. Scott Leaney, Richard Meehan, and W. Les Nutt

AAPG Special Volumes

... exploration it can be used to assess seal effectiveness and map hydrocarbon migration pathways. It can assist in analyzing trap configuration and basin...

Abstract: Petroleum Migration and Reservoir Filling, by W. A. England; #91004 (1991)

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Possible Ground Water Influence on the Habitat of Oil in the Gulf Coast

James K. Rogers

GCAGS Transactions

... in the sands and consequent more rapid rate of gravity separation of oil and water, a trap to updip migration in the sand must be present...

The Reservoir Architecture of Turbidite Channels: Models and Mysteries, #51044 (2014).

Tim McHargue

Search and Discovery.com

... of channel architecture have emerged: a cut-and-fill model, and a lateral accretion model. Both models are appropriate in at least some cases, but debate...

Failure modes of shales and their implications for natural and man-made fracture assemblages

Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

....jsg.2008.05.002. Graham, B., R. Girbacea, A. Mesonjesi, and A. Aydin, 2006, Evolution of fluid pathways through fracture controlled faults in carbonates...

Discovery of Enigma Field Washakie County, Wyoming

Walter K. Arbuckle, Elliott A. Riggs

Wyoming Geological Association

..., moving the ends of faults into areas of less control and bending them downdip to create traps (on our map). This proved to be false, and we now believe...

Deciphering Earth's Natural Hourglasses: Perspectives On Source-To-Sink Analysis

William Helland-Hansen, Tor O. Sømme, Ole J. Martinsen, Ian Lunt, John Thurmond

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... source terrains. These methods are presented along with a discussion on how they can improve models for basin fill. Sink and source reconstruction...

Confirming the Presence of a Working Petroleum System in the Eastern Black Sea Basin Using Sea Surface Slicks; #11251 (2019)

Harry Dembicki, Jamshid J. Gharib

Search and Discovery.com

... located below the apparent origin points of the slicks. The 3-D seismic imaging also demonstrated that there are potential migration pathways from...

Machine learning applications to seismic structural interpretation: Philosophy, progress, pitfalls, and potential

Kellen L. Gunderson, Zhao Zhang, Barton Payne, Shuxing Cheng, Ziyu Jiang, and Atlas Wang

AAPG Bulletin

... (CNNs), a computer vision approach, to interpret faults, salt bodies, and structural traps. Automated structural trap interpretation presents unique...

Origin of Gulf Coast Oils and Gases: Research Conference Highlights

Dietmar Schumacher, Robert W. Jones

New Orleans Geological Society

... Jurasic and Cretaceous reservoirs due to migration along faults. Schumacher and Parker (Pennzoil) reported the occurrence of geochemically distinctive...

Chapter 13: Seismic Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Deposits in the Salaverry Forearc Basin, Peru: New Insights in Assessing Potential Reservoirs and Plays

Diego Timoteo, Farid Chemale Junior, Edgar Borda

AAPG Special Volumes

... 20F). High-angle normal faults compartmentalize the potential reservoirs into minor faulted blocks and also generate migration pathways for hydrocarbon...

Seismic Geomorphology and Evolution of Submarine Channels from the Angolan Continental Margin

M.J.R. Gee, R.L. Gawthorpe, K. Bakke, S.J. Friedmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 20, p. 631–648. Alexander, J., and Leeder, M.R., 1987, Active tectonic control of alluvial architecture, in Ethridge...

ABSTRACT Using Polygonal Fault Systems to Reconstruct the State of Stress Associated with Salt Diapirs, #90104 (2010)

Carruthers Thomas D.; Cartwright Joe A.

Search and Discovery.com

... and fill of sedimentary basins. Reconstructing salt growth is therefore a vital part of  hydrocarbon playmaking in salt basins. One of the major risks...

Productive Series Play of the Paleo-Volga Delta, South Caspian Basin: Exploration History, Sedimentation, and Petroleum System

Olive W. Terry Baganz, Elchin Bagirov, Gerald Eric Michael, Al Shultz

AAPG Special Volumes

... and migration rate relative to trap volume are important in explaining whether a structure contains oil versus gas and whether it is fully or only...

Structural and stratigraphic control on the migration of a contaminant plume at the P Reactor area, Savannah River site, South Carolina

Antonio E. Cameron Gonzalez, Camelia C. Knapp, Michael G. Waddell, Adrian D. Addison, John M. Shafer

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...Structural and stratigraphic control on the migration of a contaminant plume at the P Reactor area, Savannah River site, South Carolina Antonio E...

Lateral Changes of Frontal Accretion and Mud Volcanism Processes in the Barbados Accretionary Prism and Some Implications

E. Deville, A. Mascle, S.-H. Guerlais, C. Decalf, B. Colletta

AAPG Special Volumes

..., The role of faults in hydrocarbon migration: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 4, no. 1, p. 8194.Mueller, R. D., and W. H. Smith, 1993, Deformation...