Comparison between the Different Approaches of Secondary and Tertiary Hydrocarbon Migration Modeling in Basin Simulators

Sylvie Pegaz-Fiornet, Bernard Carpentier, Anthony Michel, Sylvie Wolf

AAPG Special Volumes

... of resolution, and the type of results obtained. The Darcy approach involves not only buoyancy, capillary pressures, and pressure gradient, but also transient...

Limits to the sealing capacity of rock salt: A case study of the infra-Cambrian Ara Salt from the South Oman salt basin

Johannes Schoenherr, Janos L. Urai, Peter A. Kukla, Ralf Littke, Zsolt Schleder, Jean-Michel Larroque, Mark J. Newall, Nadia Al-Abry, Hisham A. Al-Siyabi, Zuwena Rawahi

AAPG Bulletin

... Harweel and greater Birba area. The plot shows two different pressure populations: one at near-hydrostatic pressures, with a mean pore-pressure coefficient...

Feasibility Study of Underbalanced Drilling Fluid Design in Depleted Reservoir: Case Study Field X, Indonesia

Irfan Hariz, Bonar Tua Halomoan Marbun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... dry air, natural gas, mist, foam, gasified water or oil, nitrogen, or any other drilling fluid that can ensure wellbore hydrostatic pressure stays...

Diagenesis of Gulf Coast Clayey Sediments and Its Possible Relation to Petroleum Migration

John F. Burst

AAPG Bulletin

... in the diagenetic continuum at which the bonding and hydrostatic pressure energies holding water within the clay lattices no longer are able to withstand...

Fracture Modeling for Cap Rock Integrity and Completion Evaluation in Produced Water Re-injection Wells

Suat Bagci

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... injection system design. Effect of Reservoir Pressure The reservoir pressure estimation was based on pressure test measurements and hydrostatic fluid column...

Prediction of multiple origin overpressure in deep fold-thrust belt: A case study of Kuqa subbasin, Tarim Basin, northwestern China

Changyu Fan, Gang Wang, Zhenliang Wang, Xiaojie Han, Jie Chen, Kuaile Zhang, and Baoshou Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... parameters, we determined the NCTs at which the fluid pressure was hydrostatic and obtained the compacting factor (c) using equation 1. Compared...

Seismic Evidence for Widespread Possible Gas Hydrate Horizons on Continental Slopes and Rises

Thomas H. Shipley, Mark H. Houston, Richard T. Buffler, F. Jeanne Shaub, Kenneth J. McMillen, John W. Ladd, J. Lamar Worzel

AAPG Bulletin

... depth with the increasing water depth. This is predicted from the pressure-temperature relations (Fig. 1), where increasing hydrostatic pressure...

Gas-Hydrate Horizons Detected in Seismic-Profiler Data from the Western North Atlantic

Brian E. Tucholke , George M. Bryan , John I. Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

... if we assume a hydrostatic pressure gradient of 0.1 atm/m below sea level and some thermal gradient in the sediment. Although there is considerable...

Thermal maximum and overpressure of the Wolfcamp formation in the Delaware Basin of Texas and New Mexico through age and temperature of beef calcite veins

Alex M. Washburn, Paul J. Sylvester, Zsófia Poros, and Kathryn E. Snell

AAPG Bulletin

... of hydrostatic pressure, or the pressure resulting from a column of water equivalent to the depth of consideration. Overpressure is commonly observed in organic...

Key Challenges in Mature Field Development … Case Study from Tanjung, Indonesia

Satrio Wibowo, Lia Wisanti, Abraham Ryan, Ninik Purwatiningsih, Jaka Sondang, R. Agung Wardhana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is activated by pressure and temperature applied to the proppant pack. After the fracture is closed, closure pressure and hydrostatic pressure...

Thermo-Chronological Approach to Reservoir Diagenesis in the Offshore Angola Basin: a Fluid Inclusion, {40}Ar-{39}Ar and K-Ar Investigation (1)

F. WALGENWITZ , M. PAGEL , A. MEYER , H. MALUSKI , and P. MONIE

AAPG Bulletin

..., the minimum trapping pressure can be estimated from the {40}Ar-{39}Ar data, the burial during the early Miocene, and the assumption of a hydrostatic gradient...

Compartmentalization of the Overpressured Interval in the Anadarko Basin

Zuhair Al-Shaieb, Jim Puckette, Phebe Deyhim

Kansas Geological Society

.... They are recognized most easily on pressure-depth profiles (PDP's) by their departure from the normal hydrostatic gradient. The Anadarko Basin provides an excellent...

Estimation of a Minimum Depth of Burial for a Pennsylvanian Underclay

A. G. Altschaeffl , W. Harrison

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of burial amounting to about 5000 feet the effective overburden pressure is equal to the weight of the overlying material reduced by hydrostatic uplift...

ABSTRACT: Genesis of South Pennine Ore Field, Derbyshire, England, by David G. Quirk; #91038 (2010)

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Fluid/Rock Interactions in Porous Carbonate Rocks: An Integrated Mechanical, Ultrasonic and Micro-Structural Study

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Small-Scale Sandstone Injectites Surrounding Oil-Filled Reservoirs – Examples From the North Falkland Basin, South Atlantic and West of Shetland, UKCS

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Numerical Simulation of Temperature Changes Caused by CO2 Injection in Geological Reservoirs

A. Kopp, A. Ebigbo, A. Bielinski, H. Class, R. Helmig

AAPG Special Volumes

... = 0.5 and a pressure of pCO2 = 91.0 bar, which is higher than the hydrostatic pressure (see Figure 7).FIGURE 6. Simulated leakage scenario.FIGURE 7...

HYDRODYNAMIC TRAPPING IN MISSION CANYON RESERVOIRS: ELKHORN RANCH FIELD, NORTH DAKOTA

WILLIAM D. DeMIS

Williston Basin Symposium

... column is 150 ft/mi, while the observed tilt is one-sixth of that gradient. This discrepancy may result from the field not having reached...

Vertical Source in Oil and Gas Accumulation: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

James H. Gardner

AAPG Bulletin

... hydrostatic head, all indicate ready movement of liquids under excess of pressure. More pressure finds more permeability through either tight fractures...

The Origin of Canada Hill „ A Result of Strike-Slip Deformation and Hydraulically Powered Uplift at the Pleistocene/Holocene Border?

Franz L. Kessler, John Jong

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... gradient of 0.9 psi/foot, lateral pressure above the 360 psi equilibrium pressure would have prompted the clay core to move. It is noted that all...

2-D Basin Modeling of Secondary Petroleum Migration in the Sakala Timur PSC, Indonesia

Alwyn Vear, Duncan Macgregor

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to reconstruct pressure and temperature histories, fluid flows, petroleum generation and explusion. In the study presented here, a Temispack study...

Petroleum Origin and Accumulation in Basin Evolution--A Quantitative Model

D. H. Welte, M. A. Yukler

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the temperature gradient on top of an abnormally high pressure medium and a sharp decrease in the temperature gradient on top of an abnormally low pressure...

Salt Diapirism: Importance of Temperature, and Energy Source of Emplacement

William Carruthers Gussow

AAPG Special Volumes

... salt is heated above 400°F (205°C), it becomes soft and plastic and flows indefinitely with a pressure gradient of about 33-100 kg/cm2 (460-1,400 psi...

Water Encroachment in Bartlesville Sand Pools of Northeastern Oklahoma and Its Bearing on East Texas Recovery Problem

D. R. Snow

AAPG Bulletin

... in the hole very quickly; if it does not, the reason is either a lack of porosity or a lack of hydrostatic pressure ecause of being in an isolated...

Production Modeling for Velocity String Applications in Unconventional Wells

Suat Bagci, Tina Chang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... diameters. They observed that the critical gas velocity corresponding to the minimum pressure gradient was larger for the smallest pipe diameter...