Stratigraphy and sedimentology of shoreface and fluvial conglomerates: insights from the Cardium Formation in NW Alberta and adjacent British Columbia

Bruce S. Hart, A. Guy Plint

CSPG Bulletin

... a wave-dominated shoreface and beachface. This environment is dominated by broadly horizontal stratification with horizontal facies heterogeneity...

Abstract: Numerical Modeling of Shear-wave Splitting and Azimuthal Velocity Analysis in Fractured Media; #90172 (2014)

Zimin Zhang, Don C. Lawton, Robert R. Stewart

Search and Discovery.com

... presents the processing and interpretation of seismic modeling data of the earth models for a fractured layer, based on well logs associated with potash...

Strike Oriented, Swath Seismic and Its Potential Application to Exploration and Development in the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt

William F. Robinson IV

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... between the swath lines for a given reflector are, in general, proportional to the dip of the bed. For example, reflections from a horizontal surface would...

A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Mohammed Kurdi, Hamid Roshan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... To efficiently develop these reservoirs, oil and gas operators drill and complete horizontal wells within the target shale to maximize contact...

Integrated Natural and Hydraulic Fracture Modeling: A Permian Basin Wolfcamp Case Study

Fadila Bessa, Vinay Sahni, Shunhua Liu, Jiasen Tan, Manfred Frass, James Kessler

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., stress conditions, and rock mechanical properties. Stimulation parameters, including proppant volume and injection pressures, for one horizontal...

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs and Compartments: A Predictive Basin Modeling Approach

P. Ortoleva, J.M. Maxwell, D. Payne, W. Sibo, J. Comer

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... predictions, and to give some preliminary examples of the predictions of such a model. We conclude with comments on the future prospects for such models...

High-resolution imaging using Gaussian beam point-spread-function deconvolution

Jidong Yang, Jianping Huang, Hejun Zhu, George McMechan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-scale models in production. In this abstract, we propose an efficient method to calculate PSFs and utilize the PSF deconvolution to improve the image...

Fracture Characterization Based on Attenuation Estimation From Seismic Reflection Data Using Well-Log-Based Localized Spectral Correction

Fangyu Li, Tao Zhao, Tengfei Lin, Kurt J. Marfurt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... model is mainly dealing with one layer, and in common geophysics, we often assume the reflection coefficient only appears at the boundaries of layers...

Inter-Disciplinary Work Flow Process to Achieve Profitable Results in Delaware Basin Resource Plays; #42108 (2017)

John Polasek

Search and Discovery.com

... Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing Model Static Young’s Modulus Horizontal Stress Profile Hydraulic Stimulation Model NDU 347 TVD ft NDU 347 159.37...

Cenozoic Turbidite Systems in the Onshore Angola: Facies Analysis and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Massambala Heavy Oil Accumulation; #51673 (2020)

Martin Pereira, Estefania Tudisca, Mariano Ragazzi, Atilio Viera

Search and Discovery.com

... turbidite sandstones intercalated with less abundant thin claystone layers. The sands have very high porosities and permeabilities (Φ ~30% and K = 0.05-4.3 D...

Ichnofabrics from a Cretaceous eolian system of western Argentina: expanding the application of core ichnology to desert environments

Luis A. Buatois, Carlos Echevarría

PALAIOS

... that characterizes this ichnospecies is seen in most specimens. Palaeophycus tubularis consists of lined, horizontal burrows with a massive fill identical...

Constrained Sharp Boundary Inversion of Multi-Transient EM Data

Search and Discovery.com

... inversion are compared for a range of 1D and 3D synthet ic MTEM datasets generated from models which contain sharp resistivity contrasts...

Friction- and Inertia-Dominated Effluents In A Lacustrine, River-Dominated Deltaic Succession (Pliocene Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy)

Francesco Fidolini, Massimiliano Ghinassi

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of their variability: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 62, p. 187– 228. Clifton, H.E., 2006, A re-examination of facies models for clastic shorelines, in Posamentier...

Basin Architecture and Marcellus Resource Potential in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania

M. Soledad Velasco, Horace Snyder, Emmanuel Schnetzler, Maggie Baber

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the entire area. The structural layers derived from the 2-D models, as well as interpreted well tops from key well data, were gridded to create starting...

Facies Analysis of Regressive-Transgressive Deltaic Cycles from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Greater McArthur Basin, Australia

H.D. Johnson, D.R. Johns, S. Menpes, M. Sheridan, K.L. Bann

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...) and by a limited range of shallow-marine sandstone depositional models, which focused mainly on concepts developed from other comparable tide- and wave...

Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 2. Propagation of a hydraulic fracture

Seth Busetti, Kyran Mish, Peter Hennings, Ze'ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... and in experiments but are not explained by most models. Our approach uses finite element simulations and a numerical rheology developed in part 1...

Evaluation of Slope Development Theories

A. E. Scheidegger

CSPG Bulletin

... small that the slope becomes almost horizontal). Thus, the physico-mathematical models yield the result that a slope, if left alone, does not really...

AAPG Studies in Geology No.53 - Part 2: Case Studies

edited by John H. Shaw, Christopher D. Connors and John Suppe

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The models presented by Shaw et al. (section 2-1, this volume) show that at this stage there should be dipping growing-strata on top of horizontal crestal...

Can Moment Tensor Inversion Aid Engineering Decisions? A Delaware Basin Case Study

Mark G. Mack, Scott M. Taylor, Jamie Rich, Dan Kahn, Jeremy King, Ben Schaeffer, Anton Reshetnikov, David Langton, Brendan Elliott, Alex Biholar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... reproduction, distribution, or storage of any part of this paper without the written consent of URTeC is prohibited. Summary A 22-stage horizontal well...

Crustal and Lithospheric Structure of the CarpathianPannonian Region: A Geophysical PerspectiveRegional Geophysical Data on the CarpathianPannonian Lithosphere

L. Pospil, A. dm, J. Bimka, P. Bodlak, T. Bodoky, P. Dvnyi, H. Granser, E. Hegeds, I. Jo, A. Kendzera, L. Lenkey, M. Nemok, K. Posgay, B. Pylypyshyn, J. Sedlk, W. D. Stanley, G. Starodub, V. Szalaiov, B. ly, A. utora, G. Vrga, T. Zsros

AAPG Special Volumes

...). In addition, the horizontal extent of the conductive section is less than in the other models, but the present detailed data set requires this approximate...

High-Density Mud Suspensions and Cross-Shelf Transport: On the Mechanism of Gelling Ignition

Jochen Kämpf, Paul Myrow

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is prescribed. The resultant sediment-flux equation, which constitutes a bottom-boundary condition for use in suspended-sediment models, has important...

Geochemistry of a Modern Marine Evaporite: Bocana De Virrila, Peru

Susan L. Brantley, David A. Crerar, Nancy E. Moller, John H. Weare

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... mouth. A pronounced horizontal salinit gradient and an unusually stable pattern of laterally zoned evaporite minerals is evident in the estuary...

Effective Permeability in Tidal Heterolithic Cross-Bedded Sandstones; #50855 (2013)

Benoît Y.G. Massart, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Berit Legler, Howard D. Johnson, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Rodmar Ravnas, and Marcus Sarginson

Search and Discovery.com

... volume. Previous studies have used ‘mini-models' to calculate permeability values at appropriate length-scales in flaser-wavy-lenticular bedded...

Fracture Patterns within Mudstones on the Flanks of a Salt Dome: Syneresis or Slumping?

Morenike O. Coker, Janok P. Bhattacharya, and Kurt J. Marfurt

GCAGS Transactions

... by intercalated layers of sandstones and shale and minor layers of carbonates at the Heterostegina texana zone. Based on well log and biostratigraphic...

Recent Advances in Marine Acquisition Technology and their Application to Basins Off Shore South America

Peter Watterson, Rob Ross, Steve Whidden

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

..., that include complex geology which is challenging to illuminate and basalt layers that absorb much of the energy from conventional seismic acquisition. Modern...