Permeability of Clay and Shale: ABSTRACT

J. Bredehoeft

AAPG Bulletin

... fluid pressures. The permeability of "tight" geologic materials is difficult to measure; it is particularly difficult to measure in situ. Both...

Permeability of Clay and Shale: ABSTRACT

John D. Bredehoeft

AAPG Bulletin

... fluid pressures. The permeability of "tight" geologic materials is difficult to measure, particularly in situ. Both the laboratory and in-situ...

Unconventional Shale Gas-Condensate Reservoir Performance Impact of Rock, Fluid and Rock-Fluid Properties and Their Variations

Abdollah Orangi, Narayana Nagarajan, Jacob Rosenzweig

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the rock matrix. The model also includes the effects of changes in fluid saturation pressures due to pore confinement and altered fluid phase behavior...

Gravity-Driven Consolidation of Granular Slurries--Implications for Debris-Flow Deposition and Deposit Characteristics

Jon J. Major

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... pressure in debris flows, key factors enhancing mobilization. Elsewhere, pore-fluid pressures nearly sufficient to liquefy debris have been shown...

Abstract: Concentrated Marine Gas Hydrate Deposits: Laboratory Simulations Seek Explanations of their Origin and Methods of Resource Analysis, by J. S. Booth, W. J. Winters, and W. P. Dillon; #90984 (1994).

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New Development Problems and their Solution in Southern California Oil Fields

Joseph Jensen, Glenn D. Robertson

AAPG Bulletin

... and the mud fluid test. Neither of these tests is so reliable or efficient as the two methods just mentioned. The salt concentration test is made...

Comparison of Methodologies for Correcting Bottom-Hole Temperature Measurements: An Example from the East Cameron and West Cameron Federal Lease Areas in the Gulf of Mexico

Seiichi Nagihara, Cory H. Christie, Maria Richards

GCAGS Transactions

... we report findings from a study comparing some of the previously proposed BHT correction methods in obtaining geothermal gradients from BHTs. We use...

Overpressure Mechanisms in Deep Drilling in Western Offshore India, #41074 (2012)

Rajeev Ranjan Kumar, Dhiresh Govind Rao

Search and Discovery.com

... Normal pressure is pore fluid pressure that equals the hydrostatic pressure of a column of formation water extending to the surface. Overpressure is pore...

Fluid Characterization and Volumetric Assessment in the MontneyƒOne Tricky Fluid System

Aaron J. White, Wesley Feick, Nina Prefontaine, F. Brent Thomas, Juan Marin, Jared Ponto, Ronnel Apil, Carter Clarkson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... evaluation individuals. Introduction In saturated and complex multiphase reservoirs, such as the Montney formation, accurate fluid characterization...

Role of Geopressure in the Hydrocarbon and Water System

Paul H. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

... beds and into the more competent adjacent sandstone beds. However, fluid pressures in adjacent shale and sandstone beds soon reach equilibrium because...

Casing Design in Relation to Blowout Prevention and Well Control in the Cooper Basin, South Australia

K. B. English

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... hole annulus pressures between formation pore fluid pressures and formation fracture pressures should also be considered. Detailed consideration...

Recognition and Evaluation of Reservoirs from Logging Data in Sections of Southwest Yakutia

V. F. Kozyar, G. G. Ratsenko, A. I. Fionov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... acoustical (AL), density gamma-gamma (DGGL), laterolog (LL), microlaterolog (MLL), hydrodynamic log (GDL), recovery of formation fluid (RFL), core recovery...

Sampling and Examination of Well Cuttings

John M. Hills

AAPG Bulletin

... between wells. Of all the methods of obtaining information concerning rocks cut by the drill, cores are probably the most reliable. In soft...

Technological Developments for Enhancing Extra Heavy Oil Productivity in Fields of the Faja Petrolifera del Orinoco (FPO), Venezuela; #20205 (2013)

T. Villarroel and R. Hernández

Search and Discovery.com

... this first phase will reduce these pressures to facilitate the later economical implementation of steam injection methods. Phase 2 is focused on cold...

Fiber-Laden High Temperature Water-Based Fracturing Fluid: Breaking Old Paradigms and Improving Production in West Java

Hisar Limbong, Elvina Agustina, Mutiara Madyanova, Rizka Hezmela, Cesar Guimaraes

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of fluid were because it was suspected that the formation was water-sensitive, even knowing that all the wells were drilled and completed with waterbased...

Defining the Geomechanical Operating Limits for Subsurface CO2 Storage

Simon Holford, Mojtaba Rajabi, Scott Mildren, Rosalind King, Adam Bailey

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... rock stress, mechanical and elastic properties and pore-fluid pressures) to minimise deformation of reservoirs and seals represents a key...

Perf Stim/Power Perf Completion Techniques

J. Gilliat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... This fluid "slug" is pumped ahead of the nitrogen to provide the mass necessary to fracture the formation. The controlled release of this pressure...

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

... of monochromatic imaging and polychromatic dynamic tomography: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers...

Not Accounting for a Potential Water Hammer Pressure Surge in Shale Stimulation Designs Can Increase Your Over-Pressure Risk

Stan Stephenson, Joe Beisel, Brad Bull

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., the springs and masses would continue to oscillate indefinitely. However, in reality, the fluid friction in the work string and leakoff to the formation...

Crooked-Hole Problems in the Gulf Coast District

P. C. Murphy , Sidney A. Judson

AAPG Bulletin

... not been extensively used. SURVEY METHODS SHOWING AMOUNT OF DEVIATION FROM THE VERTICAL RECORDING FLUID LEVELS AND RECORDING CLINOMETERS The method...

Fluid Flow in Variable Density Ground-Water Systems: ABSTRACT

S. M. Foulks, C. W. Brown

AAPG Bulletin

... distribution in the aquifer, and (3) formation pressures. The flowing pressure gradients are both modified by and used to interpret changes in aquifer...

Underground Waste Disposal at New Johnsonville, Tennessee: ABSTRACT

C. R. Sherman

AAPG Bulletin

... surface discharge of waste fluids, together with other methods for waste disposal, an investigation of the feasibility of subsurface waste disposal...

Liquid Industrial Waste Storage by Underground Injection: ABSTRACT

L. R. Reeder

AAPG Bulletin

... should be determined for host reservoirs to help analyze and anticipate fluid movement and monitoring methods needed. With over 300 waste-injection...

Abstract: Optimization of Hydraulic Fracturing Performance in the Fractured Utica Shale of Northeastern United States

J. Paktinat, Joe Pinkhouse, and Jeff Little, Gary G. Lash, Michael A. Forgione

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... have yielded undesirable results. This could be due to several factors, including formation composition (40 percent dilemmatic), entry pressure...

Induced seismicity in Howard County V: Technical and regulatory challenges for induced seismicity and deep disposal of fluids

Alan R. Huffman, Tony Lupo, Rachel Storniolo, Andrew Keene, Jeff Zawila, Erik Hiemstra, Tianrun Chen, Elizabeth Marlow, Xinding Fang, Nick Brooks, Sheri Bowman, Nick Fleegal, Alan Ramsay

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and is associated with many of the fault structures observed in the Ellenburger (EBGR) formation (Figure 1). Grenville Thrust ~ 1.1 – 0.9 Ga Figure 1: Block diagram...