Prospect risk, pot odds, and efficient drill or no-drill decision making: What the exploration business can learn from high-stakes poker

Frank J. Peel

AAPG Bulletin

... on incomplete knowledge. Decisions may be deferred, seeking more constraint on the risk estimate; this delay can be counterproductive. An alternative...

3-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Data Collection and Analysis Using Eye-safe Laser (LIDAR) Technology, J. Bellian, D. Jennette, C. Kerans, J. Gibeaut, J. Andrews, B. Yssldyk, D. Larue Search and Discovery Article #20009 (2002)

Search and Discovery.com

A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR 3-D FLEXURAL-SLIP RESTORATION, P.A. Griffiths et. al., #40038

Search and Discovery.com

Glacial-Eustatic Control of Virgilian Cyclothems in North-Central Texas: ABSTRACT

Darwin R. Boardman II, John M. Malinky

AAPG Bulletin

... and waning of glaciers in the southern hemisphere (Gondwana). During the transgressive phase, deltas were drowned, forming estuaries, and the oxygen-minimum...

Modeling Tidal Bedding In Distributary-Mouth Bars

Nicoletta Leonardi, Tao Sun, Sergio Fagherazzi

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... at different instants of the tidal cycle. Here, xmin and xmiax are the minimum and maximum longitudinal coordinates where net deposition reaches a zero...

Achieving Effective Fractures Within High-Permeability Soft Formations

R. P. Marcinew, B. H. Brady, S. A. Burynuik, R. E. Cooper, C. D. Harding

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... length than normally encountered. Therefore, increasing the fracture length beyond a minimum to bypass damage offers essentially no improvement...

Application of Geology in Computing Depletion of Producing Properties

Thomas C. Hiestand

AAPG Bulletin

... are stated, stage by stage, in three amounts: maximum, probable, and minimum. Accordingly these estimates are not wieldy in accounting for depletion...

Managing trade-offs between conflicting goals through a portfolio visualization process

Stephen M. Rasey

AAPG Bulletin

... wi maximum allowed variance (risk); Capexi,y wi maximum Capexy by year y; oil, gas reservesi,y wi is minimum oil, gas reservesy by year y; oil...

The Oil Fields of Russia: Chapter 12 - Generation of Steam

Arthur Beeby Thompson

Other Technical

... adopted. Expansion of Steam . Steam Traps or Separators. l\ . General description. - Boiler-houses.-Site to be carefully chosen-Minimum...

Utilization of Gas Turbines for Power Generation in Petroleum Production Operations

A. S. Wahyosudibyo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...). Minimum number for required experienced personnel. Flexible site selection. Responsive to load change. Suitable for base load operation. Flexible...

Hydraulic fracturing and wellbore completion of coalbed methane wells in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Implications for water and gas production

Lourdes B. Colmenares, Mark D. Zoback

AAPG Bulletin

... seams of 372 wells. These data reveal that because S3 switches between the minimum horizontal stress and the overburden at different locations, both...

Seismic Refraction Studies in Gulf of California

Richard P. Phillips

AAPG Special Volumes

...). In general, a sound field is created, usually by an explosion, and the minimum time required for this sound pulse to travel from one point to another...

Relationship of Gas-Oil Fields to Gravity Anomalies in the Cis-Carpathians

R. S. Seyfullin, G. Ye. Boyko, I. L. Berezovskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... attention to the association of oil fields with the regional Carpathian gravity minimum, which consists of the Ploetin and particularly the Carpathian...

Nuclear-Explosion Petroleum-Stimulation Projects, United States and USSR

Maurice J. Terman

AAPG Bulletin

.... A minimum net-pay thickness of about 60 m (200 ft) was suggested by Atkinson and Johansen (1964) for economically feasible nuclear methods. Figure 12...

Geostatistical Simulation and Numerical Upscaling, to Model Ground-Water Flow in a Sandy-Gravel, Braided River, Aquifer Analogue

Fabrizio Felletti, Riccardo Bersezio, Mauro Giudici

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: Orlando, Florida, Academic Press, 440 p. De Marsily, G., Delay, F., Goncalves, P.R.J., Teles, V., and Violette, S., 2005, Dealing with spatial...

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

... microtomography scanner using time-delay integration for elimination of ring artefacts in the reconstructed image: Nuclear Instruments and Methods...

The Economic and Risk Analysis of Oil Field Development in Timor Gap-Zone of Cooperation Area A

Hery Syahrir, Widjajono Partowidagdo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the Area. The economic indicator evaluated is minimum reserve sizes. Risk analysis, by varying the influencing parameters, such as costs, prices...

Quantitative Assessment of Induced Seismicity from Hydrocarbon Production and Produced Water Disposal in Azle Area, North Texas

Jaeyoung Park, Rongqiang Chen, Akhil Datta-Gupta, Suvrat Lele, Timothy Tyrrell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the fault. This delay changes the timing of the peak frictional energy, implying that the earthquakes in the basement were induced by poro-elastic effect...

New Approach in Developing Minimum Facility Platform (MFP) Through Standardization Design in Medco E&P Offshore

Yasin Cahyono, Era Islami

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...New Approach in Developing Minimum Facility Platform (MFP) Through Standardization Design in Medco E&P Offshore Yasin Cahyono, Era Islami This paper...

Geophysical-Geologic Study of Northern Amadeus Trough, Australia

A. J. Froelich , E. A. Krieg

AAPG Bulletin

... and Shelley, 1966). The axis defined by the deepest part of the magnetic basement is collinear with the greatest negative Bouguer anomaly. The gravity minimum...

Three-dimensional petroleum systems modeling of the Mensa and Thunder Horse intraslope basins, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico: A case study

Paul Weimer, Veit Matt, Renaud Bouroullec, James Adson, Todd G. Lapinski, Aaron A. van den Berg, and John G. Roesink

AAPG Bulletin

... the areal extent of the approximate fetch areas at a given time. The maximum (max) and minimum (min) maturity locations (triangles) are shown after...

Virginia City Cole Surface/Bore-Hole Microseismic Monitor Program

Joe Teff, David Langton, Tanner Womack, Bill Greenlees, Jarret Borell, Eli Menendez, Paul Dial

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with the objective of measuring the background noise, determining suitability of various configurations, and estimating the minimum detection threshold...

Diving wave tomography: Velocity modelling using first arrival traveltime

Amatul Syafi Abdul Basit, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Arulini Permalu

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... is one of the way to compute the gradient of cost function so that it descent to minimum point. Commonly known as gradient-based search method...

A Fracture-Based Approach for Modeling Production in Stress-Sensitive Coals, Surat Basin, Australia

Seth Busetti, Sameer Ganpule, Julio Sabogal Polania, Pedro Paris

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ~50 psi delay prior to permeability decline. Res permeabili (or transmi ity issibility) alter ration curves (Fig. 7) capab of achievin a satisfacto...

Optimization of Surfactant Flooding in Tight Oil Reservoirs

Mohammad Lotfollahi, Mohammad Reza Beygi, Ali Abouie, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Mary F. Wheeler, David A. DiCarlo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to be better than other candidates due to its lower minimum miscibility pressure (Yu et al. 2015). CO2 in the fracture diffuses into the matrix, swells...