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 their possible factors in sea-floor stability and climate change. Unlike phase equilibrium properties of hydrates, little information is available...

Capillary fluid dynamics within unconventional rocks investigated by scanning electron microscopy

Shawn Zhang, Lyn Canter, and Mark Sonnenfeld

AAPG Bulletin

... compositions and a large spectrum of molecules with different diameters and polarities. When investigated using high-resolution field-emission scanning...

Abstract: Estimating Energy Balance for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations: Lessons Learned from Basel; #90187 (2014)

David W. Eaton and Neda Boroumand

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... was stopped after 6 days, following the occurrence of a widely felt moment magnitude (Mw) 3.4 event. Suspension of the stimulation program was undertaken...

Nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray microtomography pore-scale analysis of oil recovery in mixed-porosity carbonates

Hubert King, Michael Sansone, John Dunsmuir, Nicole Callen, Pavel Kortunov, Ye Xu, Antonio Buono, Bo Gao, and James Kralik

AAPG Bulletin

... that microporosity values agree with those obtained by optical (total pore system) analysis. Second, the use of xenon gas to tag the native oil phase for XMT imaging...

Challenges in Understanding Channel Levee Development

William D. McCaffrey, Gareth Keevil, Ian Kane, and Bret Dixon

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... magnitude, magnitude with allocyclic overprint Flow tuning Or “first bend as a filter”: Straub et al. 2007 Leeds experimental work also suggests...

Spectral Decomposition for 3-D Geomodeling, by Brad C. Wallet; #41408 (2014).

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The evolution of pore-scale fluid-saturation in low-permeability sandstone reservoirs

Keith W. Shanley and Robert M. Cluff

AAPG Bulletin

... nonwetting-phase saturation (e.g., Land, 1971; Stegemeier, 1977; Byrnes et al., 2009), it is clear that the degree of hysteresis and the magnitude...

Growth Dynamics of Neoproterozoic Calcimicrobial Reefs, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Canada

Elizabeth C. Turner, Noel P. James, Guy M. Narbonne

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... grainstone. REEF FACIES Reef Core Calcimicrobes (Turner et al. 1993) constructed a spectrum of centimeter-scale reef-framework elements comprising...

Abstract: Fault Activation During Hydraulic Fracturing; #90172 (2014)

S. C. Maxwell, M. Jones, R. Parker, S. Leaney, M. Mack, D. Dorval, D. D'Amico, J. Logel, E. Anderson, K. Hammermaster

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.... Investigation of the frequency-magnitude characteristics during the pumping phase were consistent with other hydraulic fracture results, although...

Factors Governing Climate Change on Geologic Time Scales

Eric J. Barron, George T. Moore

Special Publications of SEPM

... A primary problem is to identify the principle causes of climatic change which occur over the spectrum of time scales represented in Earth history. The simple...

A New Insight of Hydrocarbon Potential in Stratigraphic Trap in the Keutapang Formation, North Sumatra Basin

Argya Hastubrata Basundara, Andi Mardianza, Humbang Purba, Ricky Andrian Tampubolon, Shidqi Anugrah Diria, Dedi Retno Haryanto, Herman Darman, Junita Trivanty

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... capabilities in subsurface imaging. RGB blend helps show the presence of lithology variation by assigned each magnitude using specific color and intensity...

Experimental Investigation of Cyclic CO2 Injection and Storage in Unconventional Reservoirs Under Reservoir Conditions

Amirsaman Rezaeyan, Kelvin Humphrey-Kugbega, Son Tran, Adnan Younis, Chengyao Song, Amin Ghanizadeh, Hamidreza Hamdi, Christopher R. Clarkson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and condensate) production (Alfarge et al., 2020). The HnP process, which is often commenced after a period of primary production phase (Hamdi et al...

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...

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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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...