Geometric Constraints Derived from the Law of Conservation of Volume and Applied to Evolutionary Models for Detachment Folding: Geologic Note: (1)

CLINTON D. A. DAHLSTROM

AAPG Bulletin

... previously, each fold shape carries with it an explicit statement of the height to and depth to the bounding detachment surfaces. Calculations...

Prediction of Fluid Compositional Heterogeneities in Fields Using Local Grid Refinement: Example from the Jurassic of Northern Kuwait

Frederic Monnier, Pierre-Yves Chenet, Jean-Marie Laigle, Francois Lorant, Sylvie Pegaz-Fiornet, Awatif Al-Khamiss

AAPG Special Volumes

... in northern Kuwait provides useful guidelines to predict API gravities, gas-oil ratio, and oil-water contact depth estimates in new prospects. Agelas, L., I...

Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 2Poroelastoplasticity and coupled overpressures

Maria A. Nikolinakou, Gang Luo, Michael R. Hudec, Peter B. Flemings

AAPG Bulletin

... approaches are divided into one- and two-way coupling, with the latter further subdivided into explicit and implicit schemes.The full coupling...

Quantitative evaluation of synsedimentary fault opening and sealing properties using hydrocarbon connection probability assessment

Likuan Zhang, Xiaorong Luo, Qianjin Liao, Wan Yang, Guy Vasseur, Changhua Yu, Junqing Su, Shuqin Yuan, Dunqing Xiao, Zhaoming Wang

AAPG Bulletin

... indicating cumulative fault opening and closing cycles for migration over geological time. A method of quantitative assessment of 3-D fault opening...

Abstract: Object Based Modeling and Stochastic Simulation of Fluvial Reservoirs Geometry, by C. A. Poletto, W. L. Lanzarini, and G. Tavares; #90933 (1998).

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Hydrogeologic Regimes of Sandstone Diagenesis: Part 1. Concepts and Principles

William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 1097-1106. Burst, J. F., 1969, Diagenesis of Gulf Coast clayey sediments and its possible relation to petroleum migration...

Rift-Initiated Permian to Early Cretaceous Subsidence of the Sverdrup Basin

R. A. Stephenson, A. F. Embry, S. M. Nakiboglu, M. A. Hastaoglu

CSPG Special Publications

... sediment thickness versus time curves for a number of basin locations, and commented on the degree and form of the subsidence that could be accounted...

Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Effect on Clay Swelling in Stimulated Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Mahdi Haddad, Alireza Sanaei, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a well-established poroelastic cohesive zone model integrated with a wellbore model and an implicit intersection model. Subsequently, we developed...

Alluvial Fans and their Natural Distinction from Rivers Based on Morphology, Hydraulic Processes, Sedimentary Processes, and Facies Assemblages: REPLY

Terence C. Blair , John G. McPherson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... article. McCarthy and Cadle begin by calling our definition of alluvial fans "implicit." We, to the contrary, are at a loss to know how we could have...

Identifying Ordered Strata: Evidence, Methods, and Meaning

Peter M. Burgess

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... into cycles are examples of order. Qualitative interpretations of order often demonstrate little more than an implicit assumption of order. This paper...

Summary of the AAPGSPESEG Hedberg Research Conference on Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates

Susan Agar, Sebastian Geiger, Philippe Leonide, Juliette Lamarche, Giovanni Bertotti, Olivier Gosselin, Gary Hampson, Matt Jackson, Gareth Jones, Jeroen Kenter, Stephan Matthai, Joyce Neilson, Laura Pyrak-Nolte, Fiona Whitaker

AAPG Bulletin

... tipping points during the evolution of carbonate reservoirs during burial that can be linked to fluid migration histories. Discussions extended...

AAPG Methods in Exploration No.12, Chapter 3: Risk Analysis of Exploration Prospects

Pete Rose

AAPG Special Volumes

...).   Figure 11  Area versus depth plot.   End page 23 ----------------   Generation of the Prospect-reserves Distribution...

Mobile Shale in the Niger Delta: Characteristics, Structure, and Evolution

Richard W. Wiener, Michael G. Mann, Michael Terry Angelich, Joseph B. Molyneux

AAPG Special Volumes

..., whose mobility can change over time depending on the migration of pore fluids.In the Niger Delta, the rich two- and three-dimensional (2-D and 3-D...

Grain size and mineral variability of glacial marine sediments

John T. Andrews, Wendy J. Roth, Anne E. Jennings

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... be expected between sample depth increments, but an implicit assumption is that the sample properties do not vary across the width of the core...

Forward Modeling to Improve Seismic Acquisition Design

Paula A.C. Barbosa, Jose A. Jaramillo, Jose H. Olaya

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... of Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM). RECOMMENDATIONS A more realistic model approach to subsurface imaging; and the illumination study of the target...

Combined-Flow Processes and Sedimentary Structures on the Shoreface of the Wave-Dominated Grande-Riviere-de-la-Baleine Delta

Philip R. Hill, Samuel Meule, Hugues Longuepee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... 3-D ripples should be preserved at the measurement site (10 m water depth) during the waning phase of storms. Hummocky cross-stratified beds (Fig. 4...

Abstract: Modeling Matrix-related Heterogeneities in Carbonates with Non Process-based Geostatistical Methods: Real and Synthetic Examples, by Philippe Ruelland, Florent Lallier, Henk Kombrink, and Sophie Prat; #120034 (2012)

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A Decoupled Model for Compositional Multiphase Flow in Porous Media and Multiphysics Approaches for Two-Phase Flow, #120063 (2012)

R. Helmig, Y. Cao1, B. Faigle, B. Flemisch, M. Wolff

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... of the local conservation of total fluid volume. The implementation of the derived formulations into a finite volume method with an implicit pressure...

Anticipating and Resolving Ethical Conflicts in Petroleum Exploration and Production, by Peter R. Rose; #90040 (2005)

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Modeling and Simulation of Production from Commingled Shale Gas Reservoirs

Benmadi Milad, Faruk Civan, Deepak Devegowda, Richard F. Sigal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pressure. Coupling the gas material balance and backpressure equation for implicit radial model for each layer, they show that these layers could...

A comparative study of reservoir modeling techniques and their impact on predicted performance of fluvial-dominated deltaic reservoirs

Peter E. K. Deveugle, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Jonathan Stewart, Martyn D. Clough, Thaddeus Ehighebolo, Michael E. Farrell, Craig S. Calvert, James K. Miller

AAPG Bulletin

... model) is more dependent on the quality and quantity of conditioning data and on the interpreted geologic scenario(s) implicit in the models than...

Combining high resolution modelling and one-way wave field extrapolation migration to image beneath a complex overburden: A case study from Porcupine Basin, Ireland

Partha Pratim Mandal, Weidi Koh, Julien Bluteau, David Laws, Jennifer Greenhalgh

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., Weidi Koh, Julien Bluteau, David Laws & Jennifer Greenhalgh PGS IN TRODUCTION C A SE STUDY A RE A Pre-stack depth migration has achieved widespread...

Permeability and acoustic velocity controlling factors determined from x-ray tomography images of carbonate rocks

Nathaly L. Archilha, Roseane M. Missagia, Cathy Hollis, Marco A. R. de Ceia, Samuel A. McDonald, Irineu A. Lima Neto, David S. Eastwood, and Peter Lee

AAPG Bulletin

... interpretation is still a challenge. In particular, amplitude versus offset classification systems developed for clastic rocks, which are dominated...

Estimation of kerogen porosity in source rocks as a function of thermal transformation: Example from the Mowry Shale in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming

Christopher J. Modica, Scott G. Lapierre

AAPG Bulletin

... located. In addition, this approach will only be applicable in areas where a simple function of maturity versus burial depth is valid (implying...

Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 1. Damage fracturing

Seth Busetti, Kyran Mish, Ze'ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

...:10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00190-5.Simulia, 2010a, Abaqus explicit user's manual, version 6.7: Providence, Rhode Island, Dassault Systemes.Simulia, 2010b...