Quantification of Conceptual and Parametric Uncertainties in Fractured Reservoir Models

Paul R. La Pointe, Aaron Fox

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and deformation zone tracesSimulate each modelUse Oda (1985) and Morland (1974) algorithms to calculate the effective principal permeability and effective elastic...

Spatial and vertical patterns of peak temperature in the Delaware Basin from Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material

Telemachos A. Manos and Nicholas D. Perez

AAPG Bulletin

... and are scattered at different energies (Ember et al., 2017). Emitted photons can have the same energy as the incident light (Rayleigh elastic scattering...

Use of a computational fault-extraction process with calibrations to characterize a fractured basement reservoir, Yufutsu, Japan

Tetsuya Tamagawa, Kazuhiko Tezuka, Noriyoshi Tsuchiya

AAPG Bulletin

... of distinct lineation with strong magnitudes of the calibrated seismic attributes. It suggests that the calibrated estimate becomes a criterion to judge...

Sediment Transport Model For the Eocene Escanilla Sediment-Routing System: Implications For the Uniqueness of Sequence Stratigraphic Architectures

John J. Armitage,, Philip A. Allen, Peter M. Burgess, Gary J. Hampson, Alexander C. Whittaker, Robert A. Duller, Nikolas A. Michael

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) is the spatial distribution of subsidence, qw (m2 yr–1) is the water flux, and α (m yr–1) is the precipitation rate. The constants κ, c, and n...

Reflections on Geostatistics and Stochastic Modeling

D. E. Myers

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the sense that both filter out constants because both are based on first-order differences. In contrast, higher order generalized functions are based...

Quantifying Total Apparent Hydraulic Fracture Conductivity and Its Significant Degradation from Systematic Bottom-Hole Pressure Measurements in Permian Wells

Lang Zhan, Adenike Tokan-Lawal, Phillip Fair, Robert Dombrowski, Xin Liu, Veronica Almarza, Alejandro Girardi, Zhen Li, Robert Li, Martin Pilko, Noah Joost

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to decline about 44% in 69 days. Note that fracture porosity and fracture compressibility were assumed constants in the above calculation. These assumptions...

The Effects of Entrainment on the Hydraulic Equivalence Relationships of Light and Heavy Minerals in Sands

Rudy L. Slingerland

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of application of drag forces will vary with the grain shape and relative magnitudes of viscous to inertial forces. From Fig. 1a, the resolved submerged weight...

Spatial Patterns of Sediment Accumulation on a Holocene Carbonate Tidal Flat, Northwest Andros Island, Bahamas

Eugene C. Rankey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are constants, and x = patch area, we can quantify the relations between exceedance probability and patch area. Figure 5A illustrates data for all subfacies...

Estimating Thermal Conductivity in Sedimentary Basins Using Lithologic Data and Geophysical Well Logs (1)

FREDERIC BRIGAUD , DAVID S. CHAPMAN , and SYLVIE LE DOUARAN

AAPG Bulletin

... bottom hole temperature (BHT) data: Geophysics, v. 49, p. 453-466. Clark, S. P., Jr., ed., 1966, Handbook of physical constants: GSA Memoir 97, 587 p...

Geometry of the Hanging Wall Above a System of Listric Normal Faults--A Numerical Solution

Renato M. Darros de Matos

AAPG Bulletin

... be represented by a listric fault geometry described by EQUATION (1) where the constants m and n fully define the geometry of the main listric fault...

An experimental study of the secondary deformation produced by oblique-slip normal faulting

Roy W. Schlische, Martha Oliver Withjack, Gloria Eisenstadt

AAPG Bulletin

... of physical constants: Geological Society of America Memoir 97, p. 223-289. Higgins, R. I., and L. B. Harris, 1997, The effects of cover composition...

Alternative workflow for three-dimensional basin modeling in areas of structural complexity: Case study from the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia

Román Eugenio González, Carlos Orlando Suárez, Iván Camilo Higuera, and Luis Ernesto Rojas

AAPG Bulletin

..., C., 1995, Heat flow of the earth, in Ahrens, T. J., ed., Global earth physics. A handbook of physical constants: Washington, DC, American Geophysical...

Effects of Porosity Models on Thermal History in Geohistory Models, #41392 (2014)

Alton A. Brown

Search and Discovery.com

... of supersaturation and A and B are two empirical constants. Supersaturation in the burial environment can be related to the effective stress using the following...

Challenges in Modelling of Hydraulic Fracturing in Low-Permeability Coal Seams with Complex Cleat Networks and Stress Regimes

Mohammad Ali Aghighi, Raymond Johnson Jr., Chris Leonardi

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... - Skin effect - Stress concentration Rock behaviour - Elastic, plastic, poroelastic, viscoelastic etc. - Numerical method (FEM, BEM, XFEM, Mesh free...

The Role of Subaqueous Debris Flow in Generating Turbidity Currents

Monty A. Hampton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... shear stress is either positive or negative, depending on the relative magnitudes of y sin and i. At the depth y0 where y sin = |i| s=0 and no shear...

A Stochastic Anisotropic Coal Permeability Model Using Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry, MIP and Stress-Strain Measurements

Syed Shabbar Raza, Victor Rudolph, Tom Rufford, Zhongwei Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) porosity (ϕ), 2) Elastic features, such as, Modulus of Elasticity (E), Poisson’s ratio (ν), cleat and/or matrix compressibility (c) and 3) Swelling...

Deltaic Models of Clastic Sedimentation

New Orleans Geological Society

... they deposit sands much farther downdip than the interdeltaic environment, and they are the sites of maximum rates of elastic deposition. Source...

A Releasing Solitary Overstep Model for the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Wealdian) Soria Strike-Slip Basin (Northern Spain)

Michel Guiraud, Michel Seguret

Special Publications of SEPM

... pressive from or stress All the mathematical models stress the are derived of elastic deformation already an displacement along microtectonic...

Folding-related Fracture Pattern and Physical Properties of Rocks in the Chaudrons Ramp-related Anticline (Corbires, France)

Stefano Tavani, Laurent Louis, Christine Souque, Philippe Robion, Francesco Salvini, Dominique Frizon de Lamotte

AAPG Special Volumes

... Surveys, v. 5, p. 3782.Hrouda, F., P. Zdenek, and J. Wohlgemuth, 1993, Development of magnetic and elastic anisotropies in slates during progressive...

Factors Influencing the Early Stages of the Compaction of Clays and Sands--Review

Robert H. Meade

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the magnitudes of the effects represented in them. Although two different terms, porosity and water content, represent the pore volumes of sands...

New Insights on Near-Wellbore Fracture Characteristics from High-Resolution Distributed Strain Sensing Measurements

Yongzan Liu, Ge Jin, Kan Wu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Linear-Elastic Geomechanics. On the basis of quasi-static linear elasticity, the momentum conservation equation is written as   σ + b g = 0...

Validating Conductive Fracture Imaging With Cross-well Strain and Permanent Fiber Optic Flow Profiling

Scott Taylor, Anton Reshetnikov, Anna Nazarova

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a high-resolution sonic scanner acoustic scanning platform accurately measures elastic properties axially, radially, and azimuthally to support...

Origin of Reservoir Fractures in Little Knife Field, North Dakota

W. Narr , Robert C. Burruss

AAPG Bulletin

.... 6319-6341. Friedman, M., and J. M. Logan, 1970, Influence of residual elastic strain on the orientation of experimental fractures in three quartzose...

Distribution and Generation of the Overpressure System, Eastern Delaware Basin, Western Texas and Southern New Mexico

Ming Luo , Mark R. Baker , David V. LeMone

AAPG Bulletin

... of Mexico basin: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 790, p. 132-155. Warpinski, N. R., 1986, Elastic and viscoelastic model of the stress history...

Regional Fractures II: Fracturing of Mesaverde Reservoirs in the Piceance Basin, Colorado (1)

JOHN C. LORENZ and SHARON J. FINLEY

AAPG Bulletin

..., M., 1972, Residual elastic strain in rocks: Tectonophysics, v. 15, p. 297-330. Gallagher, J. J., M. Friedman, J. Handin, and G. M. Sowers, 1974...