The Sequence Stratigraphy of the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Reservoir at Wafra Field, Partitioned Neutral Zone, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait: Key to Reservoir Modeling and Assessment

Dennis W. Dull, Raymond A. Garber, W. Scott Meddaugh

AAPG Special Volumes

... 2. Stratigraphic column for the PNZ showing the five producing reservoirs of Wafra field.FIGURE 3. Structure map on top of high-frequency sequence...

Applying Thick-skinned Tectonic Models to the Apennine Thrust Belt of ItalyLimitations and Implications

R. W. H. Butler, S. Mazzoli, S. Corrado, M. De Donatis, D. Di Bucci, R. Gambini, G. Naso, C. Nicolai, D. Scrocca, P. Shiner, V. Zucconi

AAPG Special Volumes

...., 1991). The mlange zone along the detachment forms an effective seal. Thus, the structure of the top Apulian surface is of critical importance...

Petrophysical Properties of Matrix Blocks of a Heterogeneous Dolostone Reservoir - the Upper Devonian Grosmont Formation, Alberta, Canada

Ping Luo,, Hans G. Machel, Jerry Shaw

CSPG Bulletin

...), porosity and permeability, the Grosmont lithologies can be grouped into five types of differing reservoir rock quality: seal beds, nonreservoir rocks, poor...

Digital Outcrop Models of Carbonate Platform and Ramp Systems: Analogs for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, by Jeroen Kenter, Mitch Harris, and Aurélien Pierre, #40351 (2008).

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Hydromechanical modeling of critically stressed and faulted reservoirs

Xing Zhang, Nick Koutsabeloulis, Kes Heffer

AAPG Bulletin

... that a single fault may have been both a conduit and a seal at different times in its history (Evans et al., 1997; Ngwenya et al., 2000) because...

Insights on fracture and karst cavern origin and diagenesis from core observations at Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan

Ted Playton, Evan Earnest, Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez, Assem Bibolova, Dana Tolessin, Ilyas Tussupbayev, and Bagdat Toleubay

AAPG Bulletin

... became restricted and plugged with a thick evaporite succession in the middle Permian (Kungurian), which later served as the regional top seal...

North Cowden Field, Ector County, Texas

Sam C. Giesey , Frank F. Fulk

AAPG Bulletin

... the Southern Crude Oil Purchasing Company that cable-tool drilling from the surface to the top of the limestone was less efficient than rotary drilling. Owing...

Maximizing Wireline Coring Efficiency in Upper Mannville Coals in South Central Alberta

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... in gas content throughout the seam(s). 2. Core Quality: The core, or cored intervals, must remain intact in order to make meaningful observations...

Mechanism and continuity of gypsum smears in the East Qiulitage anticline, Kuqa foreland basin, China

Tong Wu, Xiaofei Fu, Haixue Wang, Mingxu Lu, Lingdong Meng, and Lei Gong

AAPG Bulletin

... the continuity of sheared gypsum smears, which are continuous where the gypsum smear factor is 3.5–4 or less. Faults seal when smears are continuous...

Megaflaps adjacent to salt diapirs

Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Thomas E. Hearon IV, and J. Carl Fiduk

AAPG Bulletin

... a megaflap are usually convergent, and the lower boundary is typically concordant with the top salt. The upper boundary ranges between a prominent...

Thermal Property Measurements of Methane Hydrate Using a Transient Plane Source Technique

Robert P. Warzinski, Eilis J. Rosenbaum, Ronald J. Lynn, David W. Shaw

AAPG Special Volumes

... and to compact the hydrate sample, if required, by pressing on the cup assembly top. Reducing the free space in the HTMD makes small changes...

Uses and Abuses of the Brittleness Index With Application to Hydraulic Stimulation

Jorg V. Herwanger, Scott D. Mildren

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., failure can further be differentiated into shear failure and tensile failure of either the intact rock matrix or along pre-existing planes of weakness...

Fast and Economic Gas Isotherm Measurements Using Small Shale Samples; #40646 (2010)

Mihai A. Vasilache

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... SCAL, Inc. SPECIAL CORE ANALYSIS LABORATORIES, INC. [email protected] Midland, Texas (432) 561-5406 1 Shale is Source, Seal and Lately … Reservoir...

Frequency, distribution, and mechanisms of evaporite karst drilling hazards in the western Delaware Basin: Learnings from historical high-density exploration in Culberson County, Texas

Andrew Roark

AAPG Bulletin

... to west for the same reasons as the Castile halite beds. Due to dissolution, intact Salado outcrops do not exist, though some patchy insoluble residue...

Upper Permian Carbonate Buildups and Associated Lithofacies, Western Hubei-Eastern Sichuan Provinces, China (1)

LIU HUAIBO , J. KEITH RIGBY , LI GUISEN , XIA KEDONG , and LIU LINGSHAN

AAPG Bulletin

.... Measured sections across the reef complex show the following relationships from bottom to top, and from east to west (Figure 9). (1) Basin facies rocks...

Eustasy Recording Potential of an Isolated Devonian to Pennsylvanian Carbonate Platform in a Foreland Basin Setting (Tengiz, Pricaspian Basin, Kazakhstan) (abstract); Paleozoic Carbonates in Foreland Basin Settings: Northern Pricaspian Basin (Kazakhstan) and Cantabrian Zone (Spain), by J.A.M. Kenter and P.M. Harris, #20047 (2008)

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Resume on Sedimentation in Gulf Coast Region of Texas and Louisiana: ABSTRACT

L. W. Storm

AAPG Bulletin

..., and manner of accumulation of present-day deposits along the coast are described along with those of Recent and Pleistocene time still largely intact...

Coupled Geomechanics-Transient Fluid Flow Model to Predict Intact Zone Failure Mechanism and Sand Production: Case Study in Field X

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Generation, Migration, Accumulation, and Dissipation of Oil in Northern Iraq: Middle East

H. V. Dunnington

AAPG Special Volumes

... seal-capable sediments; 2. the timely imposition of heavy and increasing depositional loads on the source sediments, and the progressive marginward...

Oil Reservoirs in Grainstone Aprons Around Bryozoan Mounds, Upper Harrodsburg Limestone, Mississippian, Illinois Basin

Hutch Jobe , Arthur Saller

AAPG Bulletin

.... R., D. E. Edwards, and P. Flach, 1989, Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) Waulsortian reefs in the Seal area of north-central Alberta, in H. H. J...

Advanced Geochemical Analysis of Volatiles Present in Drill Cuttings to Drive Decisions from Single Well Completions to Acreage/Basin Assessments: Examples from the Permian, STACK, and SCOOP

Michael Smith, Christopher Smith

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on the submitted samples to not be so traumatized that the fluid inclusions are no longer intact. This issue of traumatization is increasingly becoming...

The Value of a Complete Picture: The Role of the Permian Basin in Local and Global Deep-Marine Resource Development

Michael H. Gardner

West Texas Geological Society

... The Permian Basin contains a remarkably intact sedimentary record of basin evolution. Resource rich, the pursuit has generated a robust subsurface...

Modification of Underwater Surface Sediment Layers by Sea Mussels (Mytilus Edulis): NOTE

Robert L. McMaster

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to the grains was such that the top one inch of sediment constituted a flexible mat of tightly-bound, heterogeneous particles and could be peeled off intact...

Disaggregation of Quartzites: RESEARCH-METHOD PAPER

Christopher A. Suczek

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... ), and wash away any fine silt and clay with running water. A second, coarser sieve (-1 to -2 ) used on top of the fine sieve protects the latter...

Abstract: Mass Transport Deposit (MTD) in the Paleogene Submarine Fan of the Crocker Formation in Sabah, Malaysia; #90236 (2015)

Felix Tongkul

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... thickness of about 180 m and comprise of chaotic blocks and slabs of sandstone and shale sequence 20-30m wide and 10-50m long stacked on top of each...