Uncertainty Analysis in a Mature Field: Dibi Field Case Study

Djuro Novakovic, Joy Roth

AAPG Special Volumes

... and reservoir modeling The use of reservoir simulation in conventional reservoir management commonly involves a single history-matched geologic model. Sometimes...

Characteristics of Displacement Transfer Zones Associated with Thrust Faults

F.X. O'Keefe, David W. Stearns

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... a combination of field and model studies. The results of these efforts are compared and a transfer zone classification system is proposed. A transferzone...

ABSTRACT: A Quantitative Stratigraphic Model Based on Nonlinear Anisotropic Diffusion, by Imhof, Matthias; #90026 (2004)

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Integrating strike-slip tectonism with three-dimensional basin and petroleum system analysis of the Salinas Basin, California

Tess Menotti, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Kristian Meisling, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... and petroleum system model that incorporates strike-slip displacement. Seismic reflection profiles from a 3-D survey reveal four main tectonic stages...

Fast Probabilistic Forecasting of Oil Production using Monte Carlo Simulations on Data Driven Acquisition of Decline-Curve Parameter Distributions

V.B.K. Chavali, W. J. Lee

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... performed over these distributions to establish the EUR analytically with the 2-segment Arps Decline model has credible benefits of use as a time/number...

Mitigating the Risk: An Analysis of Well Integrity Regulation in Queensland Unconventional Oil and Gas Developments and Associated Assurance Activities

Tim Thomas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are comprised of a number of separate members. Figure 4 provides a lithostratigraphic representation of the Walloon Subgroup (Scott, Anderson, Crosdale...

A geometrically based method for predicting stress-induced fracture aperture and flow in discrete fracture networks

Kevin Bisdom, Giovanni Bertotti, and Hamidreza M. Nick

AAPG Bulletin

..., S. Addotto, and F. Tonon, 2010, Experimental validation of modified Barton’s model for rock fractures: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, v. 43, no. 5...

Source(s) of Produced Water in the Permian Delaware Basin, West Texas: A Geochemical Analysis

L. Taras Bryndzia, Amie M. Hows, Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat, Anton Nikitin, Ozkan Huvaz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... diffusion model predicts co-current flow of oil and water out of the shale. This may explain why oil production in the DB produces so much water...

Chapter 12: Increasing Interpreter Capability in Structurally Complex Settings through Combined Fieldwork, Interpretation, and Geocellular Modeling

John G. Solum, Stephen J. Jolley, Benjamin D. Meyer

AAPG Special Volumes

... a geological model of a faulted reservoir. Participants must create a structure contour map containing faults that honor simple rules such as conservation...

Evaluation and Optimization of EOR Huff-n-Puff Gas Injection in Vaca Muerta Shale

Rahimah Abd Karim, Roberto Aguilera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... permeability model is developed for a hydraulically fractured horizontal oil well in LVM. Multiple history-matched realizations address non...

Iconoclastic View of Mid-Triassic Stratigraphy, Umbach-Wargen Area, British Columbia

F. G. Rick Young

CSPG Bulletin

... truncation of Halfway and Doig shoreline sequences: a new model for exploration in west central Alberta (Abstract). In: Program and Abstracts, Exploration...

Hydrocarbon Favourability Mapping Using Fuzzy Integration: Western Sverdrup Basin, Canada

Zhuoheng Chen, Ashton F. Embry, Kirk G. Osadetz, Peter K. Hannigan

CSPG Bulletin

... requires precise representation for spatial analysis. In many cases, the information to be represented is possibilistic or transient in nature, and it needs...

Facies Mosaics Across the Persian Gulf and Around Antigua-Stochastic and Deterministic Products of Shallow-Water Sediment Accumulation

Bruce H. Wilkinson, Carl N. Drummond

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... surfaces. A NUMERICAL MODEL Given this lack of comprehensive data on lateral extents of ancient lithosomes, a potentially fruitful approach...

Quantifying the Influence of Three Dimensionality on Hydraulic Fracturing in Coal Seam Gas Wells

Christopher R. Leonardi, Thomas Flottmann, Vibhas J. Pandey, Raymond J. Johnson Jr.

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... rock mechanical properties and an approximate representation of the stress state. This paper demonstrates the fundamental influence of three...

A fractal model for hydrocarbon resource assessment with an application to the natural gas play of volcanic reservoirs in Songliao Basin, China

Caineng Zou, Qiulin Guo, Jinghong Wang, Hongbing Xie

CSPG Bulletin

...A fractal model for hydrocarbon resource assessment with an application to the natural gas play of volcanic reservoirs in Songliao Basin, China...

Evaluation of Cyclic Gas Injection EOR in Unconventional Reservoirs and Exit Strategies, Including Potential Storage Options Using Bakken Field as an Example Case

Abdulrahman Abdulwarith, Ahmed Kareb, Mohamed Ammar, Birol Dindoruk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... process. Accurate estimation and representation of Corey exponents in the reservoir model are essential for obtaining a reliable historical match...

Geodynamic Models of Convergent Margin Tectonics: Transition from Rifted Margin to Overthrust Belt and Consequences for Foreland-Basin Development

Glen S. Stockmal , Christopher Beaumont , Ross Boutilier

AAPG Bulletin

... Glen S. Stockmal , Christopher Beaumont , Ross Boutilier 1986 181 190 70 2. (February) A quantitative geodynamic model for overthrusting of a passive...

Fracture characterization at multiple scales using borehole images, sonic logs, and walkaround vertical seismic profile

Romain Prioul, Jeroen Jocker

AAPG Bulletin

... African tight gas field using data from a vertical well. Two studies are conducted independently using the same geological fracture data to model...

Mineralogical composition and total organic carbon quantification using x-ray fluorescence data from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in southern Texas

Ahmed Alnahwi, and Robert G. Loucks

AAPG Bulletin

... The software uses training and selection instances to find the best representation model of the data set. It also uses the testing instances...

Estimating the Line of Correlation

Norman Macleod, Peter Sadler

Special Publications of SEPM

... model and the nature of stratigraphic data in addition to providing a beuer estimate of the bivariate linear trend Reduced major axis regressions have...

Timing of Gas and Overpressure Generation in the Sable Basin Offshore Nova Scotia: Implications for Gas Migration Dynamics

Mark A. Williamson, Carolyn Smyth

CSPG Bulletin

.... 57, p. 1219-1249. Bethke, C.M. 1985. A numerical model of compaction driven ground water flow and heat transfer and its application...

Compaction in Unconventional Carbonate Reservoir Rocks and Its Effect on Well Completions and Hydraulic Fracturing

Roberto Suarez-Rivera, Evan Kias, John Degenhardt, Angelica Rios Alvarez, Rabah Mesdour, Shannon Eichmann, Anuj Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in Figure 16. The model was run in the Finite Element Analysis model COMSOL using a Mohr-Coulomb representation of the material behavior in relation...

Fast Track Reservoir Characterisation of a Subtle Paleocene Deep Marine Turbidite Field Using a Rock Physics and Seismic Modelling Led Workflow

H.J.S. Morris, R. Christensen, D. Gawith, M. Millwood-Hargrave

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reservoir model. INTRODUCTION Geophysical analysis methods and seismic attributes are built on physical phenomena, and can be modelled by certain...

Characterization of a Shallow Steamed Oil Reservoir Using Crosswell Seismology

Bjorn N. P. Paulsson, John W. Fairborn

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and the corresponding property calculated from the model. The conclusion then is that the model is a valid representation of the real earth. In our case...

Geomechanical and Flow Simulation of Hydrofracs Using High-Resolution Passive Seismic Images

Alfred Lacazette, William Dershowitz, Jan Vermilye

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is processed to remove coherent noise, make static corrections etc. similarly to standard reflection seismic processing. 3. A velocity model of the study...