Passive versus active salt diapirism

Mark G. Rowan, and Katherine A. Giles

AAPG Bulletin

... by examining the limitations and ambiguity inherent in published definitions and the contradictory or confusing usage of the terms, arguing for a common...

Integrated and improved direct hydrocarbon indicators: A step forward in petroleum risk discrimination

P. W. Monigle, T. S. Hedayati, and F. J. Goulding

AAPG Bulletin

... to the current format has been limited by access to heritage seismic data sets. Examples of context attributes in the database include reservoir depth...

Practical and efficient three-dimensional structural restoration using an adaptation of the GeoChron model

Peter J. Lovely, Stanislas N. Jayr, and Donald A. Medwedeff

AAPG Bulletin

..., the complete stratigraphy is restored using a transformation constrained only by the datum horizon. Scaling the vertical “T” axis to depth in a manner...

Structure of the Tokai segment from the integrated high-resolution seismic imaging: A case study from the eastern Nankai Trough

Andrzej Grszczyk, Rafael Almeida, Romain Brossier, Ludovic Mtivier

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... before - provided that the velocity model is accurate. The resulting images in the depth-domain provide detailed and complementary information about...

In-Depth Experimental Investigation of Shale Physical and Transport Properties

H. Aljamaan, K. Alnoaimi, A.R. Kovscek

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...In-Depth Experimental Investigation of Shale Physical and Transport Properties H. Aljamaan, K. Alnoaimi, A.R. Kovscek 1 URTeC 1582146 In-Depth...

Toward in Situ Monitoring of Active Submarine Volcanoes: A Progress Report

F.K. Wyatt, J.A. Orcutt, G. Sasagawa, H. Staudigel, P. Zimmer

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... understanding of the behavior of active submarine volcanoes is still in its infancy when compared to the depth of knowledge acquired on subaerially...

A Multi-Scale Framework for Digital Core Analysis of Gas Shale at Millimeter Scales

Jingsheng Ma, Gary Couples, Zeyun Jiang, Rink van Dijke

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... instrument can achieve and the size of the field view it can take on a sample. For example, micro-X-Ray Tomography (XRT) is ideal for imaging a sample...

Ungani Oil Field, Canning Basin - Evaluation of a Dolomite Reservoir

David Long, Lionel Esteban, Amy Millar, Anne Forbes, Stuart Weston, Martin Kennedy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., 2018 Western Australian Basins Symposium (WABS) Copyright © 2019 by Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) Figure 2: Ungani field depth...

De-Risk Drilling Highly Unstable Overburden Section of Deep Water Prospects in the Madura-Flores Sub-Basin: An Application of Basin-Scale Overpressure Modelling From 3D Numerical Simulation of Sediment Compaction and Formation Water Flow

Nicolas Bianchi, Toshiya Miyazaki, Haruhiko Arisaka

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... tomography methods in assessing the impacts on the pressure regime of events that could be below seismic resolution, especially the up-dip transfer...

Impact of Pore Connectivity and Topology on Gas Productivity in Barnett and Haynesville Shale Plays

Davud Davudov, Rouzbeh Ghanbarnezhad Moghanloo, Bin Yuan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to measured LPP porosity and MICP. A series of mesh sizes were used to sift through several sample sizes from the same depth interval. Particle sizes...

High-resolution seismic reservoir monitoring with multitask and transfer learning

Ahmed M. Ahmed, Ilya Tsvankin, Yanhua Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... at a depth of 140 m. A subset of 12,000 samples covering the time interval from zero to 10 years was used to train the P-wave velocity prediction...

From Chaos to Caves … An Evolution of Seismic Karst Interpretation at the Vorwata Field

Riangguna Eloni, M.R. Husni Sahidu, Ilham Panggeleng, Christopher S. Birt, Ted Manning

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Transverse Isotropy (VTI) anisotropic tomographic velocity updates. The anisotropic depth migration has improved the image through the rapidly varying...

Revealing the subsalt in Garden Banks with a sparsely-shot TPS OBN and FWI

Michael Merritt, Guido Baeten, Vishram Rambaran, Karen Godfrey, Kevin Bianchini, Tara Brothers, Frederic Chelminski, Alex Hao, Huawei Gao, Yingxue Su, Zhiyuan Wei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and in select locations, subsalt images generally remain quite poor due to limited reflection aperture for tomography, as well as limited diving wave depth...

Ensemble Learning: A Robust Paradigm for Data-Driven Modeling in Unconventional Reservoirs

Jared Schuetter, Srikanta Mishra, Luan Lin, Divya Chandramohan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...), architecture (lateral length, depth and angle), and completion (stages, fluid and proppant amount and concentration, operator code). Since...

An Empirical Correlation to Predict Relative Permeability in Fractured Reservoirs Considering the Stress State and the Capillary Number

Kelly Díez, Alejandro Restrepo, Alirio Ocampo, Jonny Patiño, Juan Rayo, Diego Ayala, Luis Rueda

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The correlation presented allows for a more practical and representative inclusion of the stress state and velocity effects in the relative...

Experimental Evaluation of Huff and Puff EOR Mechanisms in Unconventional Rock

Shehab Alzobaidi, Pavel Kortunov, Shreerang Chhatre, Amy Chen, Kyle Guice, Kyle Baier, Mathew Messner, Josh Leiphart, Laura Laverick, Robert Longoria, John Valenza, Steven Meier, Jennifer Rainey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a direct experimental observation of Huff and Puff on intact core plugs, there are key limitations. It is important to note that the objective...

Reservoir Characterisation Challenges in Pre-Salt Brazilian Carbonates, #51083 (2015).

Patrick W.M. Corbett

Search and Discovery.com

.... Corbett, P.W.M., S. Geiger-Boschung, L. Borges, M. Garayev, J.G. Gonzalez, and C. Valdez, 2010, Limitations in the numerical well test modelling...

2017 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition

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Lithofacies and Cyclicity of the Yates Formation, Permian Basin: Implications for Reservoir Heterogeneity (1)

J. M. BORER and P. M. HARRIS

AAPG Bulletin

...), some ambiguity remains due to inherent limitations of the two methods. Fischer Plots Fischer plots (Figure 27) are used to evaluate changes...

Stratal Geometry, Cycle Hierarchy, and Dynamic Facies Associations Within Shelf-Margin and Slope Strata of Upper San Andres High-Frequency Sequences G12 and G13, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

Mark D. Sonnenfeld

West Texas Geological Society

... system tract boundaries, but are systems tracts even the ideal units for distilling detailed facies models? To appreciate the limitations of seismic...

Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian Formations of the Northern Great Plains, And their Regional Connections

J. G. C. M. Fuller, J. W. Porter

CSPG Bulletin

... documentation, stratigraphical resolving power and wide currency. Cambrian deposits, mainly sandstones and shales, reach a thickness of about 1,800 feet...

Hydrodynamics of Bivalve Shell Entrainment and Transport

Amalia M. Olivera , William L. Wood

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... velocity (0.675 m/s) because of equipment limitations. Entrainment velocities were measured for each shell using a 15 m long recirculating flume, equipped...

Early Marine Lithification and Hardground Development on A Miocene Ramp (Maiella, Italy): Key Surfaces to Track Changes in Trophic Resources in Nontropical Carbonate Settings

Maria Mutti, Daniel Bernoulli

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... lithofacies as paleolatitude indicators: problems and limitations: Sedimentary Geology, v. 60, p. 333-346. CRESCENTI, U., CROSTELLA, A., DONZELLI, G...

Three-Dimensional Distribution of Lithofacies, Bounding Surfaces, Porosity, and Permeability in a Fluvial Sandstone--Gypsy Sandstone of Northern Oklahoma

J. D. Doyle , M. L. Sweet

AAPG Bulletin

... and permeability pathways, barriers, and baffles. Moreover, an understanding of the limitations of subsurface data to specifying the distribution of those features...

Use of Seismic-Derived Velocities for Stratigraphic Exploration on Land: Seismic Porosity and Direct Gas Detection: Chapter 4

Norman S. Neidell, J. H. Beard, Ernest E. Cook

AAPG Special Volumes

... and in color. Colors are keyed to velocity estimates. End_Page 50------------------------- (91 m) thick and is at a depth of some 12,000 ft (3,658 m...