Diverse fracture properties and their impact on performance in conventional and tight-gas reservoirs, Saudi Arabia: The Unayzah, South Haradh case study

Mohammed S. Ameen, Keith MacPherson, Maher I. Al-Marhoon, Zillur Rahim

AAPG Bulletin

..., p. 8694.Hooker, J. H., J. F. W. Gale, L. A. Gomez, S. E. Laubach, R. Marrett, and R. M. Reed, 2009, Aperture-size scaling variations in a low-strain...

Timing and Processes of Fracture Formation in Tight-Gas Sandstone Reservoirs Using Fluid Inclusions

Andras Fall, Peter Eichhubl, Stephen E. Laubach

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in tightly cemented rocks may enhance the permeability of the reservoir, and provide gas migration pathways during gas charge. Thus, knowledge...

Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, and Organic petrology data from the Esso Hatteras Light #1 and the Mobil State of North Carolina #3 and their effect on hydrocarbon prospectivity in coastal North Carolina

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Abstract: Transmission Imaging: Moving Source Offset VSP (MSOVSP) Case Study; #90172 (2014)

Emmanuel Bongajum, Bernd Milkereit, Douglas Schmitt

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... imaging methods which include a time-shift and a reversed-time migration based approach were implemented and assessed on synthetic and real seismic (MSOVSP...

What Causes those Annoying Stair-Step Artifacts on Coherence Volumes?; #42036 (2017)

Tengfei Lin, Kurt J. Marfurt

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... edges. The images suffer from fault shadows. Fault plane reflectors were not imaged due to the finite migration aperture of 2000 m. (c) The coherence...

Migration and Entrapment of Petroleum in Two-Fluid-Phase Systems

Dr. H. D. Windland

New Orleans Geological Society

...Migration and Entrapment of Petroleum in Two-Fluid-Phase Systems Dr. H. D. Windland 1974 58 86 Amyx, J. W., Bass, D. M., Jr., and Whiting, R. L...

Influence of Natural Fractures on Hydraulic Stimulation in Geothermal Reservoirs: Insights from Utah FORGE Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Modeling

Hafssa Tounsi, Branko Damjanac, Zorica Radakovic-Guzina, Wei Fu, Aleta Finnila, Pengju Xing, Robert Podgorney, John McLennan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... history and fluid migration. Among the DFN scenarios evaluated (permeable frictional, permeable cohesive, and impermeable cohesive), the impermeable...

Effective Reservoir Identification and Controlling Factor Analysis for Mixed Sediments in Saline Lacustrine Basin, Shizigou Area, Qiadam Basin, China; #51524 (2018)

Shenqin Zhang, Yang Yang, Guimei Li, Zhicheng Gao, Yafeng Li, Fangfang Wu, Jinlong Wu, Guo Wei, Xu Zhang, Hongjie Gong, Stefania Gerbaudo Laronga

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... density, aperture and porosity. What’s more, conductive heterogeneities (fractures and vugs) are delineated on the image using thresholds on contrast...

Volumetric effects of decompression following natural hydraulic fracturing in shale during expulsion of hydrocarbons: The case of the Baltic Basin (northern Poland)

Marek Jarosiński, Kinga Bobek, and Paweł Poprawa

AAPG Bulletin

..., the source rock expels mainly dry gas as a free phase, causing volumetric expansion due to a kerogen conversion to gas, which can drive HC migration...

Cements and In-Situ Widths of Natural Fractures, Almond Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming

Thomas L. Dunn, Bernabe Aguado, John Humphreys, Ronald C. Surdam

Wyoming Geological Association

... of the pore volume is behind pore aperture radii of 0.54 μm. Overall, these samples are petrographically typical of Almond Formation sandstones as described...

Multi-dimensional inverse scattering series internal multiple model construction via orthogonal contribution summation

Frederico Xavier de Melo, Zhiming James Wu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... a major challenge for both onshore and offshore plays across different basins. Its contamination often leads to strong artifacts in the migration...

Locating massive syneresis fractures in shale: An experimental study

X. Wang, L. Pan, L. Li, H. C. Lau, M. Zhang, H. Wang, and N. Cai

AAPG Bulletin

... 108 6 Natural fractures play an important role in the storage, migration, accumulation, and escape of hydrocarbons in shale reservoirs. They can also...

Better Exploitation of Granitic Reservoirs: Understanding the Role of Stress Regime and Fractures

Dou Lirong, Chandramani Shrivastava, Dai Chuanshu, Wang Jingchun, Nidra Hammond, Chioma Anoliefo, Da Lei, Mahamad Siddick

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in response to migration of the Benue trough. The placement of subsequent wells in the leached and fractured reservoir facies with preferred fracture...

Influence of the Lost Circulation Material Injection Method on the Fracture Plugging: A Visualization Experimental Study

Yi Feng, Gao Li, Rui Li

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... up, and the fracture aperture of this module is consistent with the scanned carbonate fracture. In the fracture plugging visualization experiment...

Understanding the Natural Fracture System in the Ultra-deep Sandstone Reservoir Using High-Definition Oil-Based Microresistivity Image Logs, Case Study from Junggar Basin

Renzhong Gan, Hao Zhang, Jing Chen, Weidong Huang, Xu Zhang, Bo Liu, Tao Zhang, Wei Wang, Guo Wei, Adaobi Elekwachi, Gamal Sultan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.../light in the inversion stand-off image. Based on calibration of the core data, it was shown that the open fractures have a larger aperture than...

An Empirical Approach to Evaluating Regional Seal Capacity and Hydrocarbon Migration Characteristics in South-Eastern Australia

G. W. O'Brien, D. Heggie, G. Lawrence, A. Williams

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...An Empirical Approach to Evaluating Regional Seal Capacity and Hydrocarbon Migration Characteristics in South-Eastern Australia G. W. O'Brien, D...

Understanding Azimuthal P-Wave Anisotropy through Multiple Vendor and Attribute Comparisons

Jamie Rich, Breanne Kennedy, Marianne Rauch-Davies

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... horizontal aperture and when only larger magnitudes of the apparent anisotropy are considered. Introduction The majority of seismic data is collected...

Migration Amplitude Recovery using Curvelets

Peyman P. Moghaddam

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Migration Amplitude Recovery using Curvelets

Peyman P. Moghaddam

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ABSTRACT: Coal petrological effects on coal relative wettability to CO2, for assessing gas storage and migration potentials for CO2 sequestration

K. Pinetown, A. Saghafi, H. Javanmard

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...ABSTRACT: Coal petrological effects on coal relative wettability to CO2, for assessing gas storage and migration potentials for CO2 sequestration K...

Supercritical CO2 and Water Injection Induced Fracturing … Application to Geological Carbon Sequestration

Blessed C.A. Amoah, Son T. Dang, Chandra S. Rai, Carl H. Sondergeld

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fracturing. SEM imaging of fractures created by ScCO2 injection revealed wider fracture aperture (~ 4 times) and intense cracking with several lose grains...

Quantification of Brittle Deformation in Burial Compaction, Frio and Mount Simon Formation Sandstones

Astrid Makowitz, Kitty L. Milliken

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the Frio grains are slightly wider (average 5 µm) than in Mount Simon grains (average measurable aperture width 4 µm). Quartz grains in the Frio...

The Kujung Formation in Kurnia-1: A Viable Fractured Reservoir Play in the South Madura Block

Trevor Magee, Craig Buchan, Jeremy Prosser

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in widespread erosion. Basin sag, traditionally associated with a slowing of the northward migration of the Australian plate in the early Oligocene...

Enhancing SAR Seep Interpretation with Broadband Seismic: A Case Study from the Timor Trough

Rowan Edwards, Marcus Sanderson, Pedro Martinez Duran, Gregor Duval, Mike King

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... synthetic aperture radar imagery and 2D seismic acquired by CGG’s Multi-client New Ventures, a seeps to seismic workflow has been developed which...

Abstract: The Benefits of S-waves and Multicomponent Data for Surface Monitoring; #90187 (2014)

en Dando, Kit Chambers, Raquel Velasco, and Stephen Wilson

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... imaging method known as moment tensor migration imaging (MTMI) to produce images of the microseismic source. In addition to resolving ambiguities...