Characterization of a Sediment Core from Potential Gas-hydrate-bearing Reservoirs in the Sagavanirktok, Prince Creek, and Schrader Bluff Formations of Alaska's North Slope: Part 2Porosity, Permeability, Grain Density, and Bulk Modulus Core Studies*

R. F. Sigal, C. Rai, C. Sondergeld, B. Spears, W. J. Ebanks Jr., W. D. Zogg, N. Emery, G. McCardle, R. Schweizer, W. G. McLeod, J. Van Eerde

AAPG Special Volumes

... the porosity and permeability. The phase II recovered sands are about an order of magnitude less permeable, and a good correlation between...

Seismic Hazard Evaluation of the Magna Tailings Impoundment

Ivan Wong, Susan Olig, Robert Green, Yoshi Moriwaki, Norm Abrahamson, Dale Baures, Walter Silva, Paul Somerville, Dick Davidson, Joergen Pilz, Bob Dunne

Utah Geological Association

... magnitude events at close distances. Each time history was modified to be compatible with the design MCE spectrum using a time domain method...

Advances in Simulation of Hydrocarbon Production From Shale Reservoirs

Masoud Alfi, Zhi Chai, Bicheng Yan, Brian C. Stimpson, Maria A. Barrufet, John Killough

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of this paper, we have provided an in-depth discussion on how rock-fluid interactions can affect the phase behavior and fluid distribution in shale...

Rapid Development of a Smart Stimulation Fluid Additive

Antonio Recio III, Kristina Henkel-Holan, Denise Benoit

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to the blends adversely impacted the magnitude of improved hydrocarbon recovery, which was attributed to premature adsorption onto the rock surface. URTeC...

Properties Upscaling in Porosity Systems with Under-resolved Features Using Image-Based Rock Physics

Shawn Shuang Zhang, Alan P. Byrnes, James J. Howard

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a limited range of widths. The range of SIG pore throat sizes can be a continuous spectrum over 2-5 orders of magnitude in a real rock. In the SIG model...

Factors Influencing Recovery from Oil and Gas Fields

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... field, why can you not produce the other 65%? As mentioned earlier, the answer to this is not simple. The magnitude of the recovery factor for an oil...

Regional Variation of Hydrocarbons in the Edwards Limestone (Cretaceous) of South Texas

Duane E. Moredock , DeWitt C. Van Siclen

GCAGS Transactions

..., and secondly in the reservoir rock in the course of bulk flow as a separate phase by density stratification within traps, small as well as large...

Opening-mode fracturing and cementation during hydrocarbon generation in shale: An example from the Barnett Shale, Delaware Basin, West Texas

Julia F. W. Gale, András Fall, Inessa A. Yurchenko, Walaa A. Ali, Stephen E. Laubach, Peter Eichhubl, and Robert J. Bodnar

AAPG Bulletin

... the barite. Vertical, en echelon segmented microfractures with apertures of ∼20 μm and heights of ∼20 mm, are partly sealed with blocky barite and cut...

Integrated Workflows for Drilling Optimization and Enhanced Production

Jakob Heller, Venkatesh Anantharamu, Andrew Lewis, Bruce Karr, Ron Bianco

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that illuminated fine-scale geology. Using the above seismic data, we have done an integrated study involving phases 1 and 2. As part of phase 1...

The Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

.... A., 1975, Possible primary migration of oil from source rock in oil phase: AAPG Bull., v. 59, pp. 337–342. Fatt, I., and W. A. Klikoff, 1959, Effect...

Tempestite Deposition

Paul M. Myrow , John B. Southard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of predepositional conditions from purely oscillatory flow to combined flow to purely unidirectional flow. The depositional phase of tempestites is also highly...

Abstract: Look Within Your Wavelet: 3-D Seismic Analysis Workflows to Investigate Subtle Stratigraphy, by Alison Henning and Gaynor Paton; #90124 (2011)

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Using 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology to Assess the Tilting and Exhumation of Continental Crustal Sections: An Example from the Sierra Mazatan Core Complex, Sonora, Mexico, by Martin Wong and Phillip Gans; #90041 (2005)

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Observing the Transport and Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils and in Groundwater Using Flow Visualization Techniques

Stephen H. Conrad, John L. Wilson, William Mason, William Peplinski

Pacific Section of AAPG

... to represent a liquid phase in soil column experiments, and polymerized into a hardened, chemically resistant plastic when the experiment is to be stopped...

TRACING BURIAL HISTORY AND SEDIMENT RECYCLING IN A SHALLOW ESTUARINE SETTING (COPANO BAY, TEXAS) USING POSTMORTEM AGES OF THE BIVALVE MULINIA LATERALIS

THOMAS D. OLSZEWSKI, DARRELL S. KAUFMAN

PALAIOS

... older deposits, resulting in a 2–3 order of magnitude increase in the amount of time averaging in the sediment column relative to surface samples...

Abstract: The use of tsunami-laid deposits to hindcast the magnitude and hazard of the event

Alan Ruffman

Atlantic Geology

...Abstract: The use of tsunami-laid deposits to hindcast the magnitude and hazard of the event Alan Ruffman 26 AGS Abstracts – 2007 Annual General...

From Bars to Valleys: The Sedimentology and Seismic Geomorphology of Fluvial to Estuarine Incised-Valley Fills of the Grand Rapids Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Iron River Field, Alberta, Canada

James R. Maynard, Howard R. Feldman, Robert Alway

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... valleys associated with the 135 and 140 sequence sets. C) Interpretation of B. Line at north end of Phase 1 is cross section shown in Figure 7. Red...

Seismic Prospecting for Gas-hydrate and Associated Free-gas Prospects in the Milne Point Area of Northern Alaska

T. L. Inks, M. W. Lee, W. F. Agena, D. J. Taylor, T. S. Collett, M. V. Zyrianova R. B. Hunter

AAPG Special Volumes

... be seen in Figures 2 and 3, the reprocessing, which included wavelet compression, interbed multiple suppression, and broadening of the frequency spectrum...

Fluid Evolution During Burial Diagenesis and Subsequent Orogenetic Uplift: The La Vid Group (Cantabrian Zone, Northern Spain)

Jochen Schneider, Ronald J. Bakker, Thilo Bechstadt, Ralf Littke

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The last cementation phase was caused by a cool and oxidizing fluid, related to tectonic activity, most probably of Alpidic age. This fluid precipitated...

Characterization of sites for geological storage of carbon dioxide

Stefan Bachu, Matthias Grobe

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... and Industrial Research Organization Publishing, p. 5258.Bluemle, J. P., J. M. Sabel, and W. Karln, 2001, Rate and magnitude of past global climate...

Extracting Meaningful Estimates of Rock Properties from 3-D Anisotropic Velocity Models Derived from Borehole Microseismic

Scott Taylor, Jeremy King, Ben Schaeffer, Todd Hibbitts, Lucas McGreaham, Khaled Ghuneim

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in order to make this measurement viable both in the current price environment and across a broader spectrum of wells. This is the first in a series...

Well Interference Testing using Fiber Optics Production Analysis

Marcel A. Grubert, Xinyang Li, Todd Bown, J. Andres Chavarria

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is scattered back to the surface. Measuring amplitude, phase shift and timing of those return signals, a distinct “map” of the fiber can be created. Since...

Sedimentological Indices of Transport Direction, Distance, and Process Intensity in Glacio-fluvial Sediments

Robert Ehrlich , David K. Davies

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... abundance of a detrital species and distance is greatly influenced by the spectrum of resistances associated with the assemblage and the variations...

Platinum and Palladium in Mafic-Ultramafic Igneous Rocks, Northwestern Alaska

T.C. Mowatt, J.C. Mowatt

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... (mafic-rich) zones as petrographic "end-members." Due to strong alteration, the nature of much of the primary mafic phase(s) is now essentially...

Technology Strategy for Shale Plays: Independents vs. Majors--An Analysis and Outlook; #70159 (2014)

Susan Smith Nash

Search and Discovery.com

... in reality cover a wide spectrum of siliciclastic and carbonate fine-grained rocks. The early shale play companies applied the horizontal drilling...