Coal Resources of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin [Abstract]

Smith, G.G., Cameron, A.R.

CSPG Bulletin

... deposits are widespread and have diverse characteristics with regard to their composition, properties, degree of maturation (rank) and geological...

Natural Fractures in Resource-Play Shales

John Lorenz and Scott Cooper

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.../maturation history all factor into the equation that determines the intensity and type of fractures that developed in resource-play shale formations...

"Oil Exploration Opportunities and Risks on the North West Shelf of Australia [Abstract]"

Meehan, P.J.

CSPG Bulletin

... constructed for several offshore areas on the North West Shelf. These are used to assess the opportunities and risks for source beds, maturation, reservoir...

ABSTRACT: Geohazard Prediction in Deepwater Wells: When the Reservoir Becomes the Enemy

Alan R. Huffman

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... where diagenetic processes and hydrocarbon maturation are dominant (unloaded environments), and where chemical compaction takes over from...

ABSTRACT: Microscopic Properties of Organic Matter Related to Variations in Source Rock Facies

S.C. Teerman, R.J. Hwang, P. Sundararaman, M. Schoell

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

.... The section is immature to marginally mature; therefore, variability in organic matter quality is not related to thermal maturation. Objectives...

ABSTRACT: Reflectance Cross-Plot Analysis of Graptolites from the Anchi-Metamorphic Region of Northern Maine, U.S.A

Mary Ann L. Malinconico

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... al., 1989) early in its use as a maturation indicator in pre-Devonian marine rocks. In the model ofithe ideal graptolite completely flattened...

ABSTRACT: Reservoir Quality of Lower Jurassic Muddy Sandstone Reservoirs, Western Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada: An SEM Study, by A. N. Chowdhury; #91043 (2011)

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ABSTRACT: Carboniferous Clastic-Wedge Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Foreland Basin Evolution: Black Warrior Basin, Alabama and Mississippi, by Robert A. Hines; #91043 (2011)

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ABSTRACT: Geochemical characterization of an oil seep from the Bagua Basin, north-central Peru

Thomas Gentzis

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... fraction obtained by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) and other characteristic ratios indicate the high level of thermal maturation...

ABSTRACT: Custom kinetics and composition of a global set of lacustrine and marine oil shales: Influence on petroleum generation characteristics

Henrik I. Petersen, Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed, Anders Mathiesen

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... histories were used for modeling kerogen conversion. The modeling shows that the oil shales decompose at different rates during maturation. Only limited...

ABSTRACT: Diagenetic Study of Upper Member of the Smackover Formation (Upper Jurassic), Columbia County, Arkansas, by Karl F. Kalbacher and Austin A. Sartin; #91043 (2011)

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ABSTRACT: Geology and Petroleum Resources of Venezuela, by H. Douglas Klemme; #91043 (2011)

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ABSTRACT: Coalbed methane potential of carboniferous coal basins from onshore and offshore Nova Scotia and geochemistry of waters associated with coal beds

P. K. Mukhopadhyay

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... properties and the porosity/permeability of various coal seams do not always depend on the coal composition. They mainly depend on the maturation...

ABSTRACT: Stratification of Oils in Columbus Basin, Offshore Trinidad, by L. M. Ross and R. L. Ames; #91043 (2011)

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Abstract: Diagenesis and Porosity Reduction during Burial of Upper Miocene Sandstones, Jerneh-3 Well, Malay Basin

Mazlan b. Hj. Madon

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... have occurred simultaneously within the adjacent shales, namely: (1) the transformation of smectite to illite, and (2) the maturation of kerogen...

ABSTRACT: Hydrocarbon Migration in Mackenzie Delta Sediments, by Lloyd R. Snowdon; #91043 (2011)

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Abstract: Paleoceanography and its implication for the Nova Scotia margin hydrocarbon exploration

Luba Jansa

Atlantic Geology

..., trap, and maturation history, are of minimal value. Exploration of the North Atlantic ocean basin has documented that sedimentary basins developed...

ABSTRACT: Radiolarians as Paleoenvironmental Indices for Exploration, by Richard E. Casey, Carl O. Nelson, and Amy L. Weinheimer; #91038 (2010)

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ABSTRACT: Guarumen-Carora, New Frontiers in Search for Hydrocarbons, by Nestor A. Chigne; #91038 (2010)

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Abstract: Petroleum Migration in the Malay Basin … Our Current Understanding (Paper 1)

S. Creaney, P. S. Koch, K. W. Rudolph

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

.... Future work will concentrate on refining source rock definition, structural and maturation timing, drainage analysis at time of migration...

ABSTRACT: Pre-Mississippian Hydrocarbon Potential of Illinois Basin, by Harold G. Davis; #91038 (2010)

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ABSTRACT: Oil Generating Characteristics of Monterey Formation in Santa Maria Basin, California, by Wallace G. Dow, Daniel M. Jarvie, and M. Arif Yukler; #91038 (2010)

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Abstract: Simulation and Modeling of the Hydrocarbon Generation Migration-Mixing Processes in Louisiana Sedimentary Basins

Ronald K. Zimmerman , Ying Shi

GCAGS Transactions

... of maturation, expulsion, and migration are important factors in providing potential solution(s) to the problem. The purpose of this paper...

ABSTRACT: Tectonic History, Basin Evaluation, and Petroleum Geology of Upper Jurassic Facies of South Iraq, by M. W. Ibrahim; #91038 (2010)

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Abstract: Relationship of Structural Timing and Hydrocarbon Migration in the Malay Basin (Paper 11)

Mohd Tahir Ismail

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... of Malaysia (GSM) 397 oil maturation. In the northeast portion of the basin structuring occurred when the primary source rocks were in the gas...