Fault Facies Modeling: Applications in Various Sedimentary and Fault System Configurations

Muhammad Fachri, Jan Tveranger, Nestor Cardozo and Sylvie Schueller

Search and Discovery.com

... as an input in stochastic modeling of the fault facies. The fault facies volumetric proportion and spatial distribution in the resulting models can...

Investigating Layer Parallel Diagenetic Shortening Using Field Data, Thin Section Analysis, and Analog Models; #41419 (2014)

Nicole Pierson, Caroline M. Burberry

Search and Discovery.com

...., 2004, The significance of penetrative strain in the restoration of shortened layers—insights from sand models and the Spanish Pyrenees, in McClay...

Testing the basin-centered gas accumulation model using fluid inclusion observations: Southern Piceance Basin, Colorado

Andras Fall, Peter Eichhubl, Stephen P. Cumella, Robert J. Bodnar, Stephen E. Laubach, Stephen P. Becker

AAPG Bulletin

... contrasts with that of other models of low-permeability gas reservoirs in which gas migrates by buoyant drive and accumulates in conventional traps...

Geomodeling in a Development Play…An Example from the Bakken Shale

Brad Melton, Maria Kelley, Neil Fishman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and horizontal wells was used to update pre-existing petrophysical and geological models. This data integration process allows us to better understand...

Abstracts: Improved Near-surface Velocity Models from 2D Waveform Tomography of Vibroseis First-arrival Data; #90173 (2015)

Brendan R. Smithyman and Ronald M. Clowes

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...Abstracts: Improved Near-surface Velocity Models from 2D Waveform Tomography of Vibroseis First-arrival Data; #90173 (2015) Brendan R. Smithyman...

Eagle Ford Shale Variability: Sedimentologic Influences on Source and Reservoir Character in an Unconventional Resource Unit

William C. Dawson, William R. Almon

GCAGS Transactions

... movements. Hence, differences in detrital silt content, horizontal fabric preservation and microfracture distribution can account for considerable...

The modeling and simulation of Scholte wave propagation at fluid-solid interface

Zhiliang Wang, Rong Huang, Guojie Song

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... layers are the solid medium, and the fluid-solid interface is the ocean bottom, understanding the rock property of the seabed is helpful for processing...

Decollement Faulting in the Northwest Portion of the Denver Basin

Ken Kittleson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... to horizontal exaggeration, indicate that the high-angle reverse faults displayed in Figures 6 and 7 are a product of a decollement movement of the upper...

Timing of Faults and Extension Fractures in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Northeastern Mexico

Hooker, John N., Marrett, Randall A., and Laubach, Stephen E.

GCAGS Transactions

... and models of soft-sediment deformation, in M.E. Jones and R.M.F. Preston, eds., Deformation of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Geological Society...

Ichnologic Signatures of Hyperpycnal Flow Deposits in Cretaceous River-dominated Deltas, Austral Basin, Southern Argentina

Luis Alberto Buatois, Luis Lucas Saccavino, Carlos Zavala

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 21192162.Bhattacharya, J. P., 2006, Deltas, in H. Posamentier and R. G. Walker, eds., Facies models revisited: SEPM Special Publication 84, p...

Analysis of fault damage zones using three-dimensional seismic coherence in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Zonghu Liao, Hui Liu, Brett M. Carpenter, Kurt J. Marfurt, and Ze’ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

.... Botter, C., N. Cardozo, D. Qu, J. Tveranger, and D. Kolyukhin, 2017, Seismic characterization of fault facies models: Interpretation, v. 5, no. 4...

Using the Relationship Between Geochemical and Pressure Data to Elucidate Produced Oil Sources and Movement in the Subsurface

Sarah Compton, Kirsten Baier, Jason Brand, Jessica Barhaugh, Faye Liu, Scott Stinson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... despite similar completion methods, perhaps relating to different structural settings. The Wilson project used cuttings from a horizontal well...

Acadian transpression and the exhumation of the sillimanite-bearing Passagassawakeag terrane along the Liberty-Orrington Fault, coastal Maine

Heather Short

Atlantic Geology

... foliation with a strike o f 040° to 070° defined by alternating layers o f light and dark minerals, and fold axes that are horizontal to nearhorizontal...

Permeability Anisotropy in Microsucrosic Dolomites

Perry O. Roehl

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

..., Dunham, and R.L. Ethington, eds., Concepts and Models of Dolomitization, Soc. Econ. Paleontologists and Mineralologists, Special Publ. 28, p. 11–30...

Use of Chemical Gas Tracers Reveals Details of the Cleanup of an Unconventional Gas Well in the Vaca Muerta Formation

Joaquín Ramirez, Daniel Garcia, Daniela Ceccon, Carlos Ferlaza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Abstract In a multi-fractured horizontal well that navigates an unconventional formation such as the shale, whether in the oil or gas window...

Delaware Basin Leonard Reservoir Characterization, New Mexico and Texas

Sarah Rittenhouse, Yamin Li, Kate Hughston-Kennedy, Joanna Fritz, Jess Pritchard, Lauren Cassel, Valentina Baum, Sarah Liem, Tom Mooney

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be more reflective of values from stimulated horizontal wells. Both fracture sets, J1 and J2 are cemented with mostly calcite, which occludes most...

Improved geostatistical models of inclined heterolithic strata for McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

Mehran M. Hassanpour, Michael J. Pyrcz, Clayton V. Deutsch

AAPG Bulletin

...Improved geostatistical models of inclined heterolithic strata for McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada Mehran M. Hassanpour, Michael J. Pyrcz...

Tertiary Lacustrine Sediments from Sentinel Butte, North Dakota and the Sedimentary Record of Ectogenic Meromixis

Bruce W. Boyer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... mostly of greenish-gray zeolitic mudstone interbedded with relatively thin layers of dolomite, limestone, and chalcedony. The dolomite layers...

Depositional Patterns Across Syndepositional Normal Faults, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Ajibola O. Owoyemi, Brian J. Willis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sequence stratigraphic models for deltaic systems suggest that deep incision can be related uniquely to relative sea-level lowstands and bypass of sediment...

Integrated Reservoir Characterization of a Carbonate Ramp Reservoir, South Dagger Draw Field, New Mexico: Seismic Data Are Only Part of the Story

Scott W. Tinker, Donald H. Caldwell, Denise M. Cox, Laura C. Zahm, Lis Brinton

AAPG Special Volumes

... Paper 24752, p. 913926.Behrens, R. A., M. K. Macleod, and T. T. Tran, 1996, Incorporating seismic attribute maps in 3-D reservoir models: SPE Paper...

Stochastic surface-based modeling of turbidite lobes

Michael J. Pyrcz, Octavian Catuneanu, Clayton V. Deutsch

AAPG Bulletin

... such as porosity and permeability are constrained by the resulting geometric models. This approach is applied in a geostatistical workflow to better...

Seismic Velocity Dispersion and the Petrophysical Properties of Porous Media

Search and Discovery.com

... was based on Lee (2002) and the well logs from Mallik gas hydrate research wells. Figure 3: From top to bottom: velocity dispersion models of the layers...

Chapter 23: Oligocene–Miocene Carbonates of the Perla Field, Offshore Venezuela: Depositional Model and Facies Architecture

Luis Pomar, Mateu Esteban, Wenceslao Martinez, Diana Espino, Veronica Castillo de Ott, Laszlo Benkovics, Teresa Castro Leyva

AAPG Special Volumes

... areas: General trends and facies models, in E. Franseen, M. Esteban, W. C. Ward, and J. M. Rouchy, eds., Models for carbonate stratigraphy from...

The Effects of Sea-Level Fluctuations on Prograding Shorelines and Estuarine Valley-Fill Sequences in the Glauconitic Member, Medicine River Field and Adjacent Areas

R. S. Strobl

CSPG Special Publications

... is recognized within some interbeds as evidenced by disturbed laminae and horizontal burrows. Local shell layers, 1 to 5 cm thick, are minor sedimentary...

What Will it Take to Bring a Renaissance to Gulf of Suez Exploration: Has the Time Arrived to Try Some Unconventional Source Rock Plays?; #11153 (2018)

John Dolson

Search and Discovery.com

... of the characteristics required for successful unconventional exploration, with brittle layers interspersed with high quality, mature source rocks...