Different scales of salt–sediment interaction during passive diapirism

Mark G. Rowan and Katherine A. Giles

AAPG Bulletin

..., or top-discordant. Minibasin fill may form a single minibasin tectonostratigraphic succession or have one or more switches between different minibasin...

A Quantitative Geologic Approach to Prediction of Petroleum Resources

R. W. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Product of S M defines how efficiently source and migration systems in given rock volume exploited available trap capacity. See Figure 2...

Introduction

R. W. Jones

Pacific Section of AAPG

... Formations must be mapped in as much detail as surface outcrops and subsurface control permit. There are enough uncertainties in trap and reservoir definition...

Tectonics and Sedimentation in Extensional Rifts: Implications for Petroleum Systems

Ian Davison, John R. Underhill

AAPG Special Volumes

... prospectivity. Rift tectonics exert the most important control on sedimentation and trap formation, and subsidence rate controls the geometry and facies...

Generation and Expulsion from Middle Eocene Source in the South Makassar Basin, Indonesia

Dedi Ariyono, Julie Kupecz, Ian Sayers, Chrisna Tanos, Argha Hilman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., timing of expulsion and areas of migration focus. Other important observations regarding trap timing, containment and biogenic gas will then be made...

Using Noble Gases to Identify the Relationship Between Deformational Features and the Pathways of Geological Fluid Flow

Search and Discovery.com

The Future Oil Discovery Potential of the Mackenzie/Beaufort Province, by Zhuoheng Chen, Kirk Osadetz, James Dixon, Giles Morrell, and J.R. Dietrich, #10133 (2007).

Search and Discovery.com

Fault Seal Integrity in the Timor Sea Area: Prediction of Trap Failure Using Well-Constrained Stress Tensors and Fault Surfaces Interpreted from 3D Seismic

D. A. Castillo, D. J. Bishop, M. de Ruig

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., remains intact or unbroken. Assuming hydrocarbon source and migration pathways are present, successful charge and fill of fault traps would likely...

Modeling Fluid Flow Along Listric Growth Faults in the Eugene Island Block 330 Field, Gulf of Mexico, by D. Coehlo, L. Alexander, F-D. Cipriani, L. Cathles, S. Roberts, and J. Nunn; #90986 (1994).

Search and Discovery.com

Enhancing SAR Seep Interpretation with Broadband Seismic: A Case Study from the Timor Trough

Rowan Edwards, Marcus Sanderson, Pedro Martinez Duran, Gregor Duval, Mike King

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... with tie lines linking key structures. plenty of migration pathways in the form of thrust faults. Previous work has identified deep extensional faults...

ABSTRACT: Fill'er Up, Tony ... and Check the Oil: Petroleum Migration into Pay Sands at the Mars Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, by M. W. Titus, A. S. Kornacki, and M. J. Mahaffie; #90941 (1997).

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: AI Enhanced Reservoir Evaluation -Supporting the Goal of Net Zero Via Carbon Capture and Storage; #91204 (2023)

Luis Gomez, Ryan Williams

Search and Discovery.com

... the structure’s fault patterns in more detail than ever before. This can be crucial for any CCS project for defining risks associated to trap fill...

Capillary Pressure And Effective Stress: Potential Controls on Hydrocarbon Distribution and Migration in Eugene Island Block 330, by P. B. Flemings, S. J. Haggerty, and R. N. Anderson; #90986 (1994).

Search and Discovery.com

Ventura Basin Oil Generation, Timing, Migration, and Entrapment; #11333 (2020)

Stuart Gordon

Search and Discovery.com

... to fill, so mainly early-formed stratigraphic or fault-related pools were present. Fetch areas and migration shadows have controlled oil field size...

Methods Used, and Experience Gained, in Exploration for New Oil and Gas Fields in Highly Explored (Mature) Areas

Michel T. Halbouty

AAPG Bulletin

... to originate from within the reservoir beds in the trap. There are differences of opinion among geologists concerning the question of how far petroleum...

Calcite vein system and its importance in tracing paleowater flow and hydrocarbon migration in the Ordovician carbonates of the Tazhong area, Tarim Basin, China

Lianqi Jia, Chunfang Cai, Zhenliang Wang, Hongxia Li, Lijing Liu, Qingyong Luo, and Lei Jiang

AAPG Bulletin

...-bearing fluid inclusions in the C2 and C3 calcites and (2) well-documented hydrocarbon migration and mixing. This is an ideal case showing how spatial...

Geostatistical Models of Secondary Oil Migration Within Heterogeneous Carrier Beds: A Theoretical Example

Lee Rhea , Mark Person , Ghislain de Marsily , Emmanuel Ledoux , Alain Galli

AAPG Bulletin

..., Migration from source to trap, in R. K. Merrill, ed., Source and migration processes and evaluation techniques: AAPG Treatise of Petroleum Geology...

A new approach of relating petroleum system and play development to basin evolution: An application to the conjugate margin Gabon coastal and Almada-Camamu basins

Suzanne E. Beglinger, Maarten P. Corver, Harry Doust, Sierd Cloetingh, Allison Kennedy Thurmond

AAPG Bulletin

... is to examine the petroleum systems in the basins: What are the differences and similarities regarding source rock development, migration pathways, trap type...

The Petroleum System: Chapter 1: Part I. Introduction

Leslie B. Magoon, Wallace G. Dow

AAPG Special Volumes

..., seal rock, and overburden rock, and the processes include trap formation and the generation-migration-accumulation of petroleum. All essential elements...

3-D Seismic Fault-Plane Images from Offshore Myanmar, Gulf of Thailand, and Lake Maracaibo: Insight into Regional Stresses and Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways; #40892 (2012)

John D. Pigott and Non Prapasanobon

Search and Discovery.com

... and reactivated during the Eocene yield the migration pathways and structural traps (ibid). – The oil migration is related to the PostCretaceous faults...

Vertical anomaly clusters: Evidence for vertical gas migration across multilayered sealing sequences

Martino Foschi, Joseph A. Cartwright, and Frank J. Peel

AAPG Bulletin

..., and S. C. Harrison, 2002, Hydrocarbon systems analysis of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Delineation of hydrocarbon migration pathways using seeps...

How to Constrain 3-D Fault Continuity and Linkage Using Reflection Seismic Data: A Geomechanical Approach

Laurent Maerten, David D. Pollard, and Ridvan Karpuz

AAPG Bulletin

... or by increasing the tortuosity of flow pathways, whether the faults act as seals or conduits; therefore, understanding fault linkage geometry should...

General Model for Delivery of Asphaltenes to Tar Mats; #40740 (2011)

Harry W. Mueller, III

Search and Discovery.com

...; evolution during fill of the trap; timing and evolution of spill from the first trap updip from the source; and dynamic evolution of the path of migration...

The Smackover-Norphlet Petroleum System, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Oil Fields, Oil Shows, and Dry Holes

Theodore J. Godo

GCAGS Journal

... of 0.9 is the minimal level of maturity needed for oil migration to effectively fill a trap to an economic amount. Smaller “fetch areas” can also limit...

Abstract: Reservoir Connectivity Analysis: Understanding of Fluid Distribution within Productive Intervals in Tabu and Tapis Fields, Malay Basin (Paper 39)

Mohd Rohani Elias, Bill James, Peter Vrolijk, Rod Myers

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... traps can control contacts in certain fill history scenarios. Examples interpreted at Tabu and Tapis include perched oil in gas caps and down-dip movement...