Uncertainty Quantification and Ranking for Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Well-Pair Placement in the McMurray Oil Sands, Canada

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Fault Risk Assessment Using Quantitative Structural Geology Techniques

Nathan Eichelberger, William B. Hawkins

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to define fault locations and geometry to reduce risk when planning horizontal wells. Unconventional plays in the past decade focus on basins characterized...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Geomechanics, Microseismicity, and Geochemistry Relationships in Unconventional Resource Shales

Roger M. Slatt, Younane Abousleiman, Paul Philp, Jean D. Amorocho, Carlos Cabarcas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... A suggested horizontal landing zone is the brittle strata within a brittle-ductile couplet. It is hypothesized that when hydraulically fractured, both brittle...

Evaluating the STACK and SCOOP Rock and Petroleum System History: Combined Rock Volatiles and Petrophysics Data of Cored Wells Across the Anadarko

M. P. Smith, A. Leavitt, O. Djordjevic, J. Sinclair, R. Brito, C. M. Smith, P. S. Gordon, T. M. Smith, J. Hustedt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., and production in the STACK and SCOOP plays of the Anadarko basin took cores to inform their understanding and to calibrate petrophysical models...

Deep learning velocity model building using an ensemble regression approach

Stuart Farris, Guillaume Barnier, Robert Clapp

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... datasets that contain complex salt, the ability of our deep learning ensemble approach to find sufficient starting models for FWI using only 4-8Hz band...

Permeability of methane hydrate-bearing sandy silts in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (Green Canyon Block 955)

Yi Fang, Peter B. Flemings, Hugh Daigle, Stephen C. Phillips, and Josh O’Connell

AAPG Bulletin

... are also higher than predicted by current conceptual relative permeability models where hydrate fills the pores or coats the grains of the sediments...

Low-Resistivity, Low-Contrast Productive Sands

Robert M. BOB Sneider, John T. Kulha

New Orleans Geological Society

... electric log 1942 - Archie's models 1947 - Induction log Archie's Equations F = Ro/Rw or F = Cw/Co Plot of Co versus Cw gives a straight line of slope I...

Impacts of Recharge Estimation on Groundwater Modeling for Arid Basins

Janelle R. Huffman Henry, Joe C. Yelderman, Jr., Jeff Arnold

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... be determined solely by calibrating numerical models because it is so small that other simulation errors overwhelm reasonable differences. However, the location...

The Reality of the 3-D World

Jack G. Elam

West Texas Geological Society

... of basins rifts is misleading. This has resulted from the use of planar models, which suggests that extension in all directions (dilation) is mechanically...

Mechanism for Emplacement of Piercement Diapirs

Richard S. Bishop

AAPG Bulletin

... but not horizontal growth; thick overburden results in horizontal expansion before vertical growth. Hence overburden thickness is important because...

Heat Flow and Hydrocarbon Generation in the Transylvanian Basin, Romania

Constantin Cranganu, David Deming

AAPG Bulletin

..., Petrol si gaze, v. 38, p. 294-300. Cranganu, C., 1993, Geodynamic implications of the horizontal movements on Transylvanian basin subsidence (abs...

Using Laramide Structures of the Wyoming Foreland to Teach Plate Tectonic Concepts at any Level - A Summary and Ideas for the New Millennium

Gretchen L. Hurley

Wyoming Geological Association

..., and shear) can be easily presented using paper, cardboard, or wooden block models they can make themselves. Very simple models of rock layers using...

Unlocking Lithium Potential from Oilfield Brines: A Deep Learning-Driven Resource Assessment

Rajkanwar Singh, Saaksshi Jilhewar, Audrey Der, Ryan Mercer, Vikram Jayaram

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... models for lithium concentration in URTeC 4261542 2 produced waters. This approach supports rapid, large-scale resource screening and guides more...

Accelerating Development Optimization in the Bakken Using an Integrated Fracture Diagnostic Pilot

Yueming Liang, Holger Meier, Karthik Srinivasan, Hussain Tahir, Alberto Ortega, Kelvin Amalokwu, James Friedrich, Joy Okpala, Kendal Decker, Matthew Brown, Tim Benish, Haylee Crozier, Peeyush Bhargava, Prasad Sumant, James Reavis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fracturing and reservoir simulation models for future completion optimization. Fiber monitoring during stimulation revealed that Bakken completion design...

Structure of Extensionally Rifted Crust Beneath the Western Ross Sea and Iselin Bank, Antarctica, from Sonobuoy Seismic Data

A. K. Cooper, F. J. Davey, G. R. Cochrane

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... o b u o y stations at w h i c h ray-tracing models were c o m p u t e d . Length of profile corresponds with horizontal extent of m o d e l . Velocity...

Integrated reservoir characterization of enhanced oil recovery targets in mature basins: An example from the Tar Springs Formation, Rock Hill field, Illinois Basin, United States

Timothy C. Henderson, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Cliff T. Johnston, and Thomas A. Everett

AAPG Bulletin

...: AAPG Memoir 51, p. 29–55. Dalrymple, R. W., 2010, Tidal depositional systems, in James, N. P., and R. W. Dalrymple, eds., Facies models 4: St. John...

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND DIAGENESIS OF OFFSHORE SAND RIDGES, FRONTIER FORMATION, SPEARHEAD RANCH FIELD, WYOMING

Robert D. Winn Jr., Sharon A. Stonecipher, Michele G. Bishop

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... separated by mudstone layers. Stratification in the sandstones consists of horizontal layering, low-angle (hummocky) cross sets, high-angle cross sets...

Sequence Stratigraphy of Miocene Tide-Influenced Sandstones in the Minas Field, Sumatra, Indonesia

Brian J. Willis, Faizil Fitris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., 2001, Lowstand deltas in the Frontier Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: implications for sequence stratigraphic models: American Association...

Laurentian Fan: Morphology, Sediments, Processes, and Growth Pattern

Dorrik A. V. Stow

AAPG Bulletin

.... FAN MODELS Submarine fans are widespread base-of-slope sediment accumulations that have particular horizontal and vertical facies associations...

Hydrology of the Navajo Aquifer in Southwestern Utah and Northwestern Arizona, Including Computer Simulation of Ground-Water Flow and Water-Level Declines That Could be Caused by Proposed Withdrawals

Victor M. Heilweil, Geoffrey W. Freethey

Utah Geological Association

... the possibility of east-to-west flow across the Sevier fault. The results of three alternative models showed that flow probably does not occur across...

Detailed Core Interpretation Allows a New Perspective on Tensleep Sandstone Correlations at Teapot Dome Field, NATRONA CO., Wyoming

Mark Milliken

Wyoming Geological Association

... fine grain layers through capillary action during periods of high groundwater (Yin, 2005). This process results in horizontal permeability...

Deep-Reading Technologies

Kim Gunn Maver, Colin Hulme, Mark McCallum, Ajay Nalonnil

GEO ExPro Magazine

... in multiple individual wells to image the interwell space can significantly enhance both vertical resolution and horizontal subsurface coverage. Cross-well...

Métodos de Conversión Tiempo-Profundidad: Analisis y Discusión de Resultados en un Modelo Estructuralmente Complejo [PAPER IN SPANISH] Methods of Time-Depth Conversion: Analysis and Discussion of Results in a Complex Structural Models

Juan Carlos Vega D., Andres Mora

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... of Time-Depth Conversion: Analysis and Discussion of Results in a Complex Structural Models Juan Carlos Vega D., Andres Mora Métodos De Conversión Tiempo...

A simultaneous denoising and event picking approach using supervised machine learning

Salman Abbasi, Motaz Alfarraj, Dmitry Borisov, Vikram Jayaram, Iftekhar Alam, Bakhtawer Sarosh

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in western Canada (Eaton et al., 2014). The continuous multi-stage hydraulic fracturing downhole microseismic data was acquired from two horizontal...

Utilizing Hybrid Array to Distinguish between Hydraulically Connected (Wet) And Stress Induced (Dry) Microseismic Events

N. Verkhovtseva, B. Bagherian, T. Mukhtarov

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of certain layers. Fracture dimensions can be underestimated in this case. Having an additional tool, such as downhole tiltmeters, that can confirm...