Entrapment of Petroleum Under Hydrodynamic Conditions

M. King Hubbert

AAPG Bulletin

... jointly by regions of higher potential and impermeable barriers. Oil and gas migration occurs through a normally water-saturated environment...

Representative Input Parameters for Geostatistical Simulation

M. J. Pyrcz, E. Gringarten, P. Frykman, C. V. Deutsch

AAPG Special Volumes

..., it makes the methodological choices even more important. Every numerical model has implicit (hidden from the modeler and beyond their control) or explicit...

Impact of Parent Well Depletion on Stress Changes and Infill Well Completion in Multiple Layers in Permian Basin

Anusarn Sangnimnuan, Jiawei Li, Kan Wu, Stephen A. Holditch

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... method and first-order accuracy, while spatial discretization consists of implicit and explicit methods based on Gaussian linearization method. Details...

Plate Tectonics, Seafloor Spreading, and Continental Drift: an Introduction

Peter J. Wyllie

AAPG Special Volumes

... (1858) seems to have been the first of several works in the 1800s in which continental drift is explicit or implicit. Continental drift certainly...

An Efficient Model to Simulate Reservoir Stimulation and induced Microseismic Events on 3D Discrete Fracture Network for Unconventional Reservoirs

Matthieu Delorme, Jean-Marc Daniel, Chakib Kada-Kloucha, Nina Khvoenkova, Sylvie Schueller, Christine Souque

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... an explicit discretization of the fractures and the matrix. Such simulations require a lot of time and are not always possible for complex geometries...

Seismic Stratigraphy of a Neogene Piggyback Basin, Argentina (1)

JAMES A. BEER , RICHARD W. ALLMENDINGER , DANIEL E. FIGUEROA , and TERESA E. JORDAN

AAPG Bulletin

... decollement of the thrust belt is deeper (15-18 km) than the depth penetration of the Iglesia seismic data and thus could not have been imaged...

Geological Impact of Sediment Transporting Events on the Washington Continental Shelf

Nancy B. Kachel, J. Dungan Smith

CSPG Special Publications

... thickness of sediment bed affected by a transport event (equal to the maximum depth of the sum of the erosion plus the depth exposed by the migration...

Modeling Well Interference and Optimal Well Spacing in Unconventional Reservoirs Using Fast Marching Method

Jixiang Huang, Feyisayo Olalotti-Lawal, Michael J. King, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the 3-D diffusivity equation to a 1-D form which can be solved analytically for pressure and rate response. This method allows us not only to compute...

Stratigraphic Simulation of Sedimentary Basins: Concepts and Calibration (1)

DAVID T. LAWRENCE , MARK DOYLE , and THOMAS AIGNER

AAPG Bulletin

... boundaries, depth and location of nearshore marine sands, intervals of sediment bypass into deep water, shelf margin positions, and paleobathymetry...

North American Stratigraphic Code1: North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature

AAPG Bulletin

... in their support. SCOPE The North American Stratigraphic Code seeks to describe explicit practices for classifying and naming all formally defined...

NORTH AMERICAN STRATIGRAPHIC CODE1

AAPG Bulletin

... Stratigraphic Code seeks to describe explicit practices for classifying and naming all formally defined geologic units. Stratigraphic procedures...

Modeling Waves and Circulation in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

Richard P. Signell, Jeffrey H. List

GCAGS Transactions

... a depth-averaged finite-difference model of circulation in Lake Pontchartrain and showed that the transport response to local wind is downwind...

Geochronologic Scales

W. B. Harland

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and magnetic reversals); (3) similarity of signature or pattern of events; (4) speed of propagation (biological migration and dispersal), volcanic ejecta, sea...

Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in Cretaceous Pelagic Limestones: Potential Stratigraphic and Petroleum Exploration Tool

Peter A. Scholle , Michael A. Arthur

AAPG Bulletin

...). Implicit and necessary in the initial interpretations in many such studies is the assumption that the overall isotopic composition of ocean water has...

Disequilibrium compaction as the cause for CretaceousPaleogene overpressures in the Danish North Sea

Ole Valdemar Vejbaek

AAPG Bulletin

... clayey sediments and its possible relation to petroleum migration: AAPG Bulletin, v. 53, p. 7393.Carslaw, H. S., and J. C. Jaeger, 1959, Conduction...

Case of Study: Applying Data Analytics to Reveal Most Important Parameters Impacting Well Production Performance in Vaca Muerta Unconventional Formation

Alejandro Lerza, Juan Jose Fernandez, Ana Marlats, Diego Gallart

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to the target variable is to build bivariate plots, between the target versus the explanatory variables and look for trends. The limitation...

Textural and Diagenetic Controlson Sandstone Permeability

Christopher M. Prince

GCAGS Transactions

... and 2.1 (Krumbein and Monk, 1943; Shepherd, 1989). Implicit in this relationship is that grain size also defines the average size of the effective pore...

Compositional Variation Study for Improving Recovery in Gas-Condensate Reservoirs

Hai X. Vo, Roland N. Horne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... frequently as exploration is now targeted at greater depth and hence higher pressure and temperature. The higher temperature and pressure lead to a higher...

Residual Transport Model in Correlation with Sedimentary Dynamics over an Elongate Tidal Sandbar in the Gironde Estuary (Southwestern France)

Cyril Mallet , Helene L. Howa , Thierry Garlan , Aldo Sottolichio , Pierre Le Hir

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... solves the depth-averaged shallow-water equations following an alternated direction implicit (ADI) method. The governing equations are simplified...

Supercritical Flow in Density Currents

Bryce M. Hand

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... configurations in depth-velocity-size diagrams: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v. 41, p. 903-915. STANLEY, D. J., 1970, Flyschoid sedimentation on the outer Atlantic...

Hydrodynamics of the Hunton Group Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle, Pt. 1

Paul E. Blubaugh Jr.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... movement caused by force imbalances is termed hydrodynamics. An implicit assumption within this investigation is that flow of formation water affects...

Rudimentary European Petroleum Geology, in a Context of the Advance of General Geology: Chapter 2

Edgar Wesley Owen

AAPG Special Volumes

... the fundamental basis for classification was implicit in the work. His was a philosophy of common sense, and the one on which the science of geology eventually came...

Contrasting facies patterns between river-dominated and symmetrical wave-dominated delta deposits

Brian J. Willis, Tao Sun, R. Bruce Ainsworth

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... at the shoreline, distributary-channel avulsions and lateral migration of river flows across the subaqueous delta top produced heterogeneities in both...

Cement Sequence Stratigraphy in Carbonates: PERSPECTIVE

C.J.R. Braithwaite

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... offers insight into the pathways of hydrocarbon or ore fluid migration. AMTHOR, J.E. AND FRIEDMAN, G.M., 1992, Early-to-Late-diagenetic...

Optimizing MFHW Completion and Fracturing in Shale Formations Utilizing High Frequency ESP Real Time Data

Lawrence Camilleri, Dennis McEwen, Alexey Rusakov, Dave Weishoff, Russ Akers, Josh Lachner, Troy Kisner

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the completion design such as cluster spacing and weight of proppant. Due to the depth of the wells (~11,000 ft TVD), high water cuts (greater than 50...