Horizontal Well Evaluation to Determine Geological Facies, Mechanical Properties, and Natural Fracture Changes Using Slim Through-the-Bit Dipole Sonic and Oil-Based Microimaging Tools

Edgar Velez, Elia Haddad, Firas Al Shaikh, Ghada Barbour, Kyle Barrie

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., it can be only used to a limited extent in understanding and predicting lateral position, assuming wells are steered in a layer cake model...

Resolving Production Trends in Shale Reservoirs„An Eagle Ford Case Study from Localized Reservoir Characterization to Basin Understanding

Katharine Moncada, Keith Atwood, Rapahael Altman, Raj Malpani, Shirley Indriati, Richard Clayton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... layer cake model was created. The average matrix permeability (kmatrix) and hydrocarbon porosity was obtained from the petrophysical model...

Integrated stochastic workflow for optimum well spacing with data analytics, pilots, geomechanical-reservoir modeling, and economic analysis

Richard Cao, Chaohui Chen, Ruijian Li, Tuba Firincioglu, Chet Ozgen, Tyler Croft, Prateek Kathel, Alejandro Girardi, Nitin Chowdhury

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... time, stochastic studies with hundreds of simulation runs are performed on a layer cake reservoir model to investigate the impacts of production...

Potential Field Data Guided Seismic Forward Modelling of Basement Structures: A Case Study from Offshore Nile Delta Basin

Said Hanafy, Shastri L. Nimmagadda, Sharaf Eldin Mahmoud

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of cross-sections obtained from unreliable seismically derived depth data. The analysis of errors observed in the seismic data due to younger layer-cake...

Numerical Analysis of Condensate Banking and Development Optimization in the Deep Formation of the Permian Basin

Jichao Han, Sunil Lakshminarayanan, Jiasen Tan, Evan Jones, Venkateswaran Sriram Pudugramam, Han (Jake) Li, John A Ballmer, Daniel A Schlichting, Vivek Muralidharan, Shunhua Liu, Xueying Xie

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... meeting the project requirements. The 3D geological model, illustrated in Fig. 5, adopts a layer-cake structure with a flat geostructure. To ensure...

Evaluation of the Steamflood Potential of the Rindu Reservoirs in the Duri Field

Agus Sulistyo, S. J. Gross, L. J. Lederhos

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that conventional "layer cake" model with homogeneous layers would not be sufficient to reflect the verticil and areal variations in the Rindu reservoir properties...

OHIO REFLECTIONS: STRUCTURES DISPLAYED ON SEISMIC IN OHIO

Eric W. Brown, Edco Producing, Inc., Mt. Gilead, OhioRichard Kissel, Columbia Natural Resources, Charleston, West Virginia

Ohio Geological Society

.... Most explorationists would describe the subsurface of Ohio as relatively subtle "layer-cake" geology...

Less Common Reservoir Types

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

...) distinguished between progradational and transgressive shelf systems. The former consists of typically low energy muddy sediments in layer-cake sheets...

Abstract: Detailed Architecture of a Basin-Floor Sheet-Like Deposit: Neoproterozoic Upper Kaza Group, British Columbia, Canada; #90063 (2007)

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The Unusual Carbonate Reservoir of the Dutch Lower Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic)—Learning Points for Similar Epeiric Dolomites

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A Rational Theory for Barrier-Lagoon Development

George F. Oertel, J. Chris Krafi, Michael S. Kearney, H. J. Woo

Special Publications of SEPM

... changes pography directly conflict with the paradigms of classic basin infill ing models that would produce layer cake stratigraphic se are quences 84...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Analysis in the Characterization of a Giant Carbonate Field, Onshore Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Peter Melville, Omar Al Jeelani, Saeed Al Menhali, Jürgen Grötsch

AAPG Special Volumes

... detailed geologic model has been built for the field with 11.5 million cells at a 1-ft (0.3048-m) vertical increment and 175-m cell size. The layer...

GEO 2006, 7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, March 27-29, 2006, Manama, Bahrain, #90051 (2006)

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The East Georges Bank Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia: An Undrilled Basin with Significant Oil and Gas Potential, #10299 (2011)

Tako Koning,

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... depths from 14,100’ – 21,900’ RESULTS OF DRILLING IN GEORGES BANK (USA SIDE) • West Georges Bank Basin is a minimally deformed basin (“layer cake...

The Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Gippsland Basin: Results from 2D Section Balancing and 3D Structural Modelling

M. R. Power, K. C. Hill, N. Hoffman, T. Bernecker, M. Norvick

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... depth converted for structural modelling purposes. Layer-cake depth conversion of the interpretation was done using average interval velocities...

Application of gravity and magnetic techniques to model the geometry of the northern margin of the Onion Creek salt diapir, Paradox Basin, Utah

Julia M. Astromovich, Mark R. Baker, Diane I. Doser, William Houston

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... for each scenario. A) The shale detachment model where a weak shale layer acted as the detachment surface to create the observed surface folding. B...

Three-dimensional modeling of a shoreface-shelf parasequence reservoir analog: Part 1. Surface-based modeling to capture high-resolution facies architecture

Richard P. Sech, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson

AAPG Bulletin

... layer-cake reservoirs, with facies boundaries assumed to be parallel to the flooding surfaces that bound the parasequence (e.g., Weber and Van Geuns...

Introducing a New Workflow to Improve Water Production Forecasts for Unconventional Reservoirs

Mei Han, Xueying Xie, Shunhua Liu, Jiasen Tan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Figure 3. Type Well 2 oil rate (left) and water cut (right) vs. normalized time compared to analogs in Field 2. A single-stage layer-cake model is created...

Report of Sub-Committee on Tectonics: RESEARCH

Philip B. King

AAPG Bulletin

... with the basement if possible, to bring out differences between successive "layers" in "layer-cake geology," or differences between important...

Ensemble Based Workflow for Robust History Matching and Forecasting of Hydraulic Fractured Wells

Kaustubh Shrivastava, Niven Shumaker, Vinil Kumar Reddy Mukku, Priyavrat Shukla, Brandon Tang, Jose Rojas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., and pore pressure. The model is a layer-cake based on vertical well data and overlooks structural variations and dipping beds. This assumption...

Quantifying the Induced Stresses During Stacked, Multi-Stage, Multi-Well Completions, to Define Stimulation Sequencing and Optimize Pad Productivity

Roberto Suarez-Rivera, Egor Dontsov, Bradley Abell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in material properties were constructed for this project, at the owner’s request in this paper we use a layer cake model representation with the actual...

High-resolution Measurements of Elasticity at Core Scale. Improving Mechanical Earth Model Calibration at the Vaca Muerta Formation.

Anton Padin, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Alain Lejay, Hamid Pourpak, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Atef Onaisi, Gregory Boitnott, Laurent Louis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reservoirs usually rely on simplified, log-based, layer-cake geomechanical models. In such models, vertical heterogeneities are upscaled to a few...

Facies and Stratigraphic Controls on Velocity Anomalies in The North Madura Platform, Offshore East Java Basin

Fithra Harris Darmawan, Shakila Bt Mustaffa, Aditya Kusuma Wijaya, M Nauvall Juliansyah, Geovani Kaeng

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... such a velocity model through Petronas Carigali Halliburton © IPA, 2019 – 43rd Annual Convention Proceedings, 2019 stacking velocity analysis, layer-cake...

West Ekofisk Field--Norway Central Graben, North Sea

Michel D'Heur

AAPG Special Volumes

... by recrystallization in the aquifer reservoir. In other words, the West Ekofisk reservoir is of layer-cake type in that it consists of more porous...

West Ekofisk Field, Norway, Central Graben, North Sea (1)

MICHEL D'HEUR

AAPG Bulletin

..., the West Ekofisk reservoir is of layer-cake type in that it consists of more porous and less porous beds, depending on variations of sedimentary...