The importance of the degree of cataclasis in shear bands for fluid flow in porous sandstone, Provence, France

Gregory Ballas, Roger Soliva, Jean-Pierre Sizun, Antonio Benedicto, Thibault Cavailhes, Suzanne Raynaud

AAPG Bulletin

...-Pierre Sizun, Antonio Benedicto, Thibault Cavailhes, Suzanne Raynaud 2012 2167 2186 96 11 Determination of the membrane seal capacity of deformation...

An Approach to Exploration for Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, with Examples from the Austin Chalk

M. Friedman, D.V. Wiltschko

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... stratigraphy, and 5.) inferences concerning oil maturation, migration and trap and seal formation, in order to outline a generic approach...

Exploration of the North Madura Platform, Offshore East Java, Indonesia

Rachmat Mudjiono, Gadjah Eko Pireno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... wells. Most of these wells tested structural features and/or reefal buildups in the top of the Kujung Formation (Figure 2). Three of the Cities wells...

Stochastic leakage estimates from a carbon storage reservoir using NRAP-Open-IAM

Siraj Moopen, P. V. Suryanarayana, Joseph Jephson, Hong Chan

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... intact and still provided hydraulic seal and protection for the casing. Crow, et al. investigated a well in a CO2 producing reservoir. It had also...

Basin Analysis Points to New Plays in the Arctic Islands

Search and Discovery.com

... where salt or anhydrite have acted as a seal. A hydrocarbon play can be envisaged on eastern Bathurst Island and adjacent water bodies. In this area...

Reassessing the Petroleum Prospectivity of the Offshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia; #10461 (2012)

A. Jones, J. Kennard, C. Nicholson, N. Rollet, D. Mantle, E. Grosjean, C. Boreham, D. Jorgensen, D. Robertson, G. Bernardel, J. Greinert, R. Kempton, L. Langhi, Y. Zhang, L. Hall, R. Hackney, S. Johnston, P. Petkovic, T. Bernecker, and M. Bradshaw

Search and Discovery.com

... producing top seal bypass. The modeling found that several key structural factors controlled the distribution of these permeable fault segments during...

Historical and emerging super basins of Southeast Asia

Emeliana Rice-Oxley and Azli Abu-Bakar

AAPG Bulletin

... by subsequent legacy wells, Lang Lebah-1 (LL-1) and LL-1RDR (Figure 11). The top seal was also thought incapable of holding any commercial...

Field-Scale Numerical Modelling for Compaction, Subsidence and Stability Analysis of the Faults and Reservoir Caprock for the Entire Life of South Senoro Field

Ahmadreza Younessi, Romi Sagita, Reynaldi Mikhael Chrislianto, Krishna Pratama Laya, Ricky Helbet

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is free at the sides. The bottom of the model is fixed for all displacement degrees of freedom, and the top is a free surface with no external loads...

Defining the geomechanical operating limits for subsurface CO2 storage

Simon Holford, Mojtaba Rajabi, Scott Mildren, Rosalind King, Adam Bailey

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... of an intact seal, whereas other methods risk the reactivation of a pre-existing fault, the orientation of which is specified by the dot in the 3D Mohr...

ABSTRACT: Application of Etching and SEM in Botanical Analysis of Coal

T.A. Moore

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... of the matrix. Samples examined by SEM were selected from epoxy-impregnated intact blocks of coal (approximately 3 x 3 x 5 cm in size) that had been...

Dude, Wheres My Gun? A near-surface geophysics case-study

Tim Dean, Alex Costall, Nichole Sik, John Blylevens, Andrew Pethick, Dominic Howman

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., but Frequency domain EM was the most useful. From our results we are confident that the second gun position has survived largely intact and discussions...

Petrophysical properties of the Green Canyon Block 955 hydrate reservoir inferred from reconstituted sediments: Implications for hydrate formation and production

Yi Fang, Peter B. Flemings, Hugh Daigle, Stephen C. Phillips, P. Kevin Meazell, and Kehua You

AAPG Bulletin

... porosity have a permeability of 11.8 md (1.18 × 10−14 m2), which is similar to the intrinsic permeabilities measured in intact cores from hydrate reservoirs...

Abstract: Study of Individual Soil Organic Horizons cannot Predict the Elevated Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration Observed in Warmer Climate Boreal Forests

Frances A. Podrebarac, Jérôme Laganière, Sharon Billings, Kate Edwards, Susan Ziegler

Atlantic Geology

... three parallel incubations experiment with (a) intact organic profiles, (b) isolated organic horizons of the same soil, and (c) profiles rebuilt from...

ABSTRACT: Outcrops of Intact Lower Carboniferous Carbonate Platforms in Asturias (Northern Spain) as Analogues of Coeval Reservoirs in the Subsurface of the Pricaspian Basin (Kazakstan, Russia), by J. A. M. Kenter, G. L. Bracco Garther, J. C. M. De Coo, and J. R. Bahamonde; #91021 (2010)

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Locating massive syneresis fractures in shale: An experimental study

X. Wang, L. Pan, L. Li, H. C. Lau, M. Zhang, H. Wang, and N. Cai

AAPG Bulletin

..., and the strata on top and bottom of the fractures were intact. The Top Balder surface and the undeformed tier boundary can be recognized as two moderate-dipping...

Insights Into the Dolomitization Process and Porosity Modification in Sucrosic Dolostones, Avon Park Formation (Middle Eocene), East-Central Florida, U.S.A.

Robert G. Maliva, David A. Budd, Edward A. Clayton, Thomas M. Missimer, J. A. D. Dickson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., p. 239–255. Wiltschko, D.V., and Morse, J.W., 2001, Crystallization pressure versus “crack seal” as the mechanism for banded veins: Geology, v. 29, p...

Integrated Reservoir Study for Successful CO2 Storage Planning: An Alberta Case Study of Depleted Gas Pools, Current and Future Readiness

Alex M.D. Renaud, Bruce J. Hancock

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pools for millions of years, the overlying cap rock is intact, continues to seal the reservoir, and therefore does not pose a significant risk to CO2...

Deformation Microstructures and Diagenesis in Sandstone Adjacent to an Extensional Fault: Implications for the Flow and Entrapment of Hydrocarbons

S. J. Hippler

AAPG Bulletin

... rock directly adjacent to the fault is in many cases necessary to seal a fault. The impermeable rock is commonly a shaly top seal that is either...

A Drinking-Straw Mini-Corer for Sediments: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Dennis M. Lavoie , Roy J. Baerwald , Matthew H. Hulbert , and Richard H. Bennett

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Such a sample must be handled carefully during the procedure if it is to remain intact Following a suggestion by one of our spouses (Linda Hulbert...

Field-Based Training: Luxury or Necessity?

Gary Nichols, Simon Baker

GEO ExPro Magazine

... is 6m. (From Nautilus course N320: Prospect, Trap and Fault Seal Analysis: Mapping Key Uncertainties, Miri, Malaysia.) dimensional structures...

Lower Tertiary Discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater: Capitalizing on Success

Ken Beeney, Greg Kelleher

GCAGS Transactions

... and significant structural relief of 1000-3000 ft allowing for large oil columns. Their structural history also provides significant seal capacity due...

Secondary porosity generation in sandstones constrained by the fault movement, fluid flow, and mudstone–sandstone interactions, offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Huan Li, Hongtao Zhu, Xiaofeng Du, and Xianghua Yang

AAPG Bulletin

... of fault movement, seal, and fluid flow. Mudstones at shallow, moderate, and deep depths have different capacities in providing organic acids/CO2...

Extended Abstract: Analyses and Interpretations of a Conventional Core from Central Louisiana, which Contains Deposits Resulting from the Effects of the Chicxulub Impact

Gary L. Kinsland, Kody Shellhouse, Eric Muchiri, Forrest Frederick

GCAGS Transactions

... from Paleogene shale/Cretaceous chalk contact depths encountered in other wells in the area. They did not recognize that the top of the chalk has one...

South Atlantic Rifting and Some General Principles for Rift Exploration on Continental Margins, #10675 (2014).

Ian Davison, Eoin O. Beirne

Search and Discovery.com

... contain large basement boulders (2–3 m) and reach up to 2 km in thickness. They scatter seismic energy and the top of the fan is often mispicked as the top...

Geological Controls on Pore Geometry of Upper Kharaib Reservoir, Offshore Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

Jun-Ichi Saotome, Toshiaki Shibasaki, Tsuyoshi Shikama, Ken-Ichi Kawaguchi

Special Publications of SEPM

... 80 kilometers Fig 1 A structural contour on top of the northwest of Abu Dhabi upper Kharaib reservoir defined as the Thamama II reservoir shows...