Improving Field Development Decisions in the Vaca Muerta Shale Formation by Efficient Integration of Data, AI, and Physics

Hector Klie, Arturo Klie, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jorge Monteagudo, Alejandro Primera, Maria Quesada

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that automatically integrates the gathering of reservoir and production data with fast forecasting AI models. We created a data platform that regularly extracts...

Structure of the Northern Margin of the Green River Basin, Wyoming

John K. Sales

Wyoming Geological Association

...) is nearly horizontal and indeed may even locally dip away from the root zone. Similar configurations have been suggested by Berg (1961) and Berg...

A Coupled Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Model Considering Multiple Bedding Layers

Jizhou Tang, Kan Wu, Lihua Zuo, Christine Ehlig-Economides

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...A Coupled Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Model Considering Multiple Bedding Layers Jizhou Tang, Kan Wu, Lihua Zuo, Christine Ehlig...

Horizontal Well Performance Prediction Early in the Life of the Wolfcamp Oil Resources Play in the Midland Basin

Tom Dean, Valery Shchelokov, Ray Wydrinski, Tim Reed, Mickey Friedrich

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the existing horizontal producers. Figure 1: This block diagram models the distributions of gravity and debris flows and the organic rich basin plain...

Impact on Hydrocarbon Retention of Sedimentary Fracturing and Faulting around Salt Sheets in the Gulf Coast

S. Cao , I. Lerche , J. J. O'Brien

GCAGS Transactions

... and Lerche (1987), appropriate for salt domes, by transforming the radial and vertical coordinates to vertical and horizontal coordinates respectively. Because...

Some Techniques in Experimental Sedimentology

J. R. L. Allen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of flow on models made from Plaster of Paris. Some of the techniques have been successfully applied in field studies. ALLEN, J. R. L., 1966, Flow...

Interplay of downbuilding and gliding in salt-bearing rifted margins: Insights from analogue modeling and natural case studies

Pablo Granado, Pablo Santolaria, and Josep Anton Muñoz

AAPG Bulletin

... synkinematic sequences constitute layers. However, Mb1s in models 2 and 3 are markedly different, with both forming turtle structures (Figure 5B, C...

No Drilling Surprises Process and the value of the real time update, a case history in Camisea/Peru

M. Frydman, J. Palacio, D. Lee, G. Pidcock, R. Delgado, J.P. Cassanelli

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... pressure (Pp), minimum horizontal stress (sh), maximum horizontal stress (sH), vertical stress (sv), and the direction of horizontal stress axes...

An Accurate and Efficient Fracture Propagation Model Auto-calibration Workflow for Unconventional Reservoirs

Chuxi Liu, Kan Wu, Jianfa Wu, Cheng Chang, Xuefeng Yang, Yiwen Gong, Edward Zhao, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... landing layers ranges from 29.8 gigaPascal (GPa) to 31.5 GPa. The poison’s ratio is consistently about 0.25~0.26. The horizontal URTeC 3720957 5...

Sedimentologic and Physical Oceanographic Evidence of a Shelf Edge Counter Current Off Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone

David W. McGrail

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... horizontal strata of early Paleozoic arkosic sandstones and shales intercalated with extrusive volcanics (Haughton, 1963). In the southern portion of the area...

Deltaic Environments of Deposition

J. M. Coleman, D. B. Prior

AAPG Special Volumes

... cyclothem patterns and their paleoenvironmental significance: in M. L. Broussard, ed., Deltas, models for exploration: Houston Geol. Soc., p. 427-449...

Tectonic Characteristics and Evolution Models of the East China Sea and its Environs

Li Yinhuai

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...Tectonic Characteristics and Evolution Models of the East China Sea and its Environs Li Yinhuai 1990 143 150 In this paper a comprehensive analysis...

Abstract: Influence of Rock Alteration in Carbonates by CO2 Injection, on Reservoir and Geomechanical Integrity of a Carbon Capture and Storage Unit; #91209 (2025)

Syed A. Islam

Search and Discovery.com

... which are divided into sixty-two layers. Porosity is 20% or higher and permeability ranges from 15 to 600 mD. Top thirty-two layers have a higher...

Animal–Substrate Interactions in an Early Miocene Wave-Dominated Tropical Delta: Delineating Environmental Stresses and Depositional Dynamics (Tacata Field, Eastern Venezuela)

Luis A. Buatois, Nubia Santiago, Kaolu Parra, Ron Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... some ichnotaxa that typically do not occur in brackish-water settings, such as Chondrites and Phycosiphon. Preservation of very thin storm layers...

Frequency-dependent reflection characteristics of single thin layer and waveform inversion

Zhengyang Kuai, Danping Cao, Chao Jin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... interference effect usually shows similar characteristics to the reflection response of a single interface. But in fact, due to the tuning effect of thin layers...

ABSTRACT: Variation of Quaternary Stratigraphic Pattern along an Incised Valley Fill Revealed by Very High Resolution Seismic Profiling : The Paleo-Charente River (French Atlantic Coast); #90013 (2003)

NICOLAS WEBER, ERIC CHAUMILLON, MICHEL TESSON

Search and Discovery.com

... Hydrographic Office (SHOM). From these data, digital elevation models were developed. A vibracore cruise was conduced to collect core samples where...

Variation of Quaternary Stratigraphic Pattern along an Incised Valley-fill Revealed by Very High Resolution Seismic Profiling: The Paleo-Charente River (French Atlantic Coast), by Nicolas Weber, Eric Chaumillon, and Michel Tesson, #30021 (2004).

Search and Discovery.com

The Coral Reef of Nijar, Messinian (Uppermost Miocene), Almeria Province, S. E. Spain

Cristino J. Dabrio, Mateu Esteban, Jose M. Martin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... conglomerate layers of turbidite origin. This change is obvious 1 km southeast of Nijar (Fig. 6A). There is a marked, gradual increase in the amount...

CO2 Plume Imaging with Accelerated Deep Learning-based Data Assimilation Using Distributed Pressure and Temperature Measurements at the Illinois Basin-Decatur Carbon Sequestration Project

Takuto Sakai, Masahiro Nagao, Chin Hsiang Chan, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... to the complex physics with multi-component non-isothermal simulation and high dimensionality of large-scale reservoir models. We address this challenge...

A three-dimensional kinematic model for the deformation above an active diapir

Hongwei Yin, Richard H. Groshong Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... on field examples, the models are (1) circular in map view; (2) offset by radially distributed normal faults; (3) faulted or smooth at the top of the salt...

Field Trip B3: Geology and Volcanology of the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, Southern Nova Scotia

Dan Kontak, Jaroslav Dostal, John Greenough

Atlantic Geoscience Society Special Publications

..., referred to as the Disseminated Zone (DZ), with #50-70% amygdules arranged in either a random pattern or horizontal vesicle-rich layers. In the latter case...

Using a Metamodel-Based Approach for Optimization of Stimulated Rock Volume Geometry, Hydrocarbon Production, and Related Field Development Costs

Hamid Pourpak, Johannes Will, S. Eckardt, Nicolas Mottet

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... models were then generated which represent the influence of the variation of operational parameters on fracture network geometry and hydrocarbon...

Feasibility of Moment Tensor Inversion From a Single Borehole Data Using Artificial Neural Networks; #42212 (2018)

Oleg Ovcharenko, Jubran Akram, Daniel Peter

Search and Discovery.com

... evaluation. We also investigate the effect of number of hidden layers and choice of optimization algorithm on the accuracy of inverted results. Our results...

Cemented-Back Monobore Reduces Well Cost and Fracturing Time in the Wolfcamp

Dj Snyder, Omar Elizondo, Angela Ibara, Mark Anderson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., 2014). The focus of this paper is on the Wolfcamp Shale, which is made up of several different layers of organic rich shales, intermingled...

Basic Wrench Tectonics

Ronald E. Wilcox , T. P. Harding , D. R. Seely

AAPG Bulletin

... to models with plastic film layers is the rapidity of folding after slow deformation begins. In the extreme case of the plastic sheet directly on the clay...