Structural History of Atlantic Margin of Africa

P. Lehner , P. A. C. De Ruiter

AAPG Bulletin

... Subsidence and Sediment Thickness Plate-tectonic models indicate that regional subsidence of marginal basins begins after separation of continental blocks...

Robust joint inversion and segmentation of 4D seismic data

Juan Romero, Matteo Ravasi, Nick Luiken

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and recovers high-frequency content in the models. The layers of the baseline and monitor become much more pronounced and the 4D effect can be more easily...

Supervised Learning Applied to Rock Type Classification in Sandstone Based on Wireline Formation Pressure Data; #42539 (2020)

Jose Victor Contreras

Search and Discovery.com

... of the error on a new input (Goodfellow et al., 2016). When building a machine learning model, it is expected that simple models may generalize better...

Efficient, Low-Risk, Comprehensive Geological Characterization of Lateral Wells to Optimize Completion Performance

Dean Fratarcangeli, Tammy Alcorn, Patrick McBride, Andy Wray, Elia Haddad, Robert Laronga, Nasar Khan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the horizontal wellbore. Such DFN models are an important input to advanced 3D hydraulic fracture simulations, again to provide a more realistic...

Structural characterization of intracratonic strike-slip faults in the central Tarim Basin

Shang Deng, Huili Li, Zhongpei Zhang, Jibiao Zhang, and Xin Yang

AAPG Bulletin

... faults. The presented data sets and evolution models established in this study can be used as tools to better predict the structural attributes...

Learnings from the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site (HFTS) #1, Midland Basin, West Texas - A Geomechanics Perspective

Shugang Wang, Yunhui Tan, Anusarn Sangnimnuan, Shahzad Khan, Baosheng Liang, Peggy Rijken

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fields between fully coupled and one-way coupled models. Production rate of the fracture is 20 bpd, and the initial horizontal stress anisotropy is 300...

Gravity-driven Fold Belts on Passive Margins

Mark G. Rowan, Frank J. Peel, Bruno C. Vendeville

AAPG Special Volumes

... patterns in models of spreading-gliding nappes: Tectonics, v. 4, p. 705719.Buffler, R. T., F. J. Shaub, J. S. Watkins, and J. L. Worzel, 1979...

Automated Reservoir and Production Surveillance: A Digital Solution for Hydrocarbon Field Optimization

Arsalan Adil, Jose Silva, Sathish Sankaran

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... with injecting a physics model at particular nodes of specific hidden layers. 3. Physics-based regularization – In this class of hybrid models, physics...

Gypsum-Hydroboracite Association in the Sijes Formation (Miocene, Nw Argentina): Implications for the Genesis of Mg-Bearing Borates

Federico Orti , Ricardo N. Alonso

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... accumulated in the margins and the hydroboracite in the centers, the intermediate zones being characterized by mixed gypsum-hydroboracite layers...

Natural and Hydraulic Fracture Density Prediction and Identification of Controllers

Whitney Campbell, Joe Wicker, James Courtier

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The physical occurrence of hydraulic fractures and their interaction and relationship to preexisting natural fractures can be predicted using analytical models...

Fiber Optic Sensing-Based Production Logging Methods for Low-Rate Oil Producers

Ge Jin, Kyle Friehauf, Baishali Roy, Jesse J. Constantine, Herbert W. Swan, Kyle R. Krueger, Kevin T. Raterman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the written consent of URTeC is prohibited. Abstract Hydraulic fracturing of long horizontal wells has become a standard for development of unconventional...

Seismic data augmentation for automatic faults picking using deep learning

Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... dataset from the Gulf of Mexico. We use different areas in the field dataset as an input to generate new training data for faults picking models...

Deposition of the Tembungo Deep-Water Sands

Noor A'zim Ibrahim

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... classification of deep-water systems is based on modifications of Mitchum's (1985) model. In contrast, many of the previous submarine fan models were based...

Fracture-enhanced Porosity and Permeability Trends in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, Western North Dakota

Wayne B. Freisatz

Williston Basin Symposium

..., and fracturing, in W. B. Hansen, ed., Geology and horizontal drilling of the Bakken Formation, Montana Geological Society 1991 Guidebook [abs...

Geology of the Handil Field (East Kalimantan-Indonesia)

A. C. Verdier, T. Oki, Atik Suardy

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

..., either by development of shaly layers in bars of channel sands or by superposition of elementary sequences resulting in vertical accumulation of complete...

Architecture of Fort Union Paleovalley Conglomerates Related to Aquifer Potential in the Western Wind River Basin

Romeo M. Flores, Arthur C. Clark, C. William Keighin

Wyoming Geological Association

... of the braided-river depositional environment: Earth Science Review, v. 13, p. 1-62. Miall, A.D., 1978, Lithofacies types and vertical profile models...

Palinspastic Maps of Central Appalachians

John M. Dennison , Herbert P. Woodward

AAPG Bulletin

... shortening of 30-35 per cent in the anthracite coal fields near Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Horizontal displacement involved in Appalachian thrust faults...

Geology of the Trenton Limestone in Northwestern Ohio: Chapter 11

Lawrence H. Wickstrom, John D. Gray

AAPG Special Volumes

... Limestone has resulted in a number of zones and types of dolomite within the unit. A combination of dolomitization models involving shale dewatering...

Understanding Well Performance of Unconventional Extended Laterals in New Mexico, Delaware Basin

Mei Han, Spencer McKone, Michael Harty, Xueying Xie

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... property parameters and pressure data, which are not available in the public domain. Horizontal wellbore models were developed to investigate the effect...

Bualuang Field Geological Cellular Model- A Multipoint Geostatistics Approach For Modelling Complex Fluvial Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

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Unpacking the Uinta Basin: the next great oil play?

Joshua Sigler, Lucas Fidler, Ted Cross

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... than 1.25 million acres of the Uinta Basin (Figure 1). Recent developments in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracture stimulation have allowed...

Upper Miocene Reef Complex of the Llucmajor Area, Mallorca, Spain

Luis Pomar, William C. Ward, Darryl G. Green

Special Publications of SEPM

... behind the reef crest are characterized by horizontal layers of skeletal grainstone and packstone with coral-patch reefs and lenses of coral breccia...

Chapter Nine: Characterization of Thin-Bedded Turbidites in the North Brae Field, South Viking Graben, North Sea

Bayonle A. Omoniyi, Dorrik A. V. Stow, Andy R. Gardiner

AAPG Special Volumes

... sand). Its core-based porosities and horizontal and vertical permeabilities indicate that it possesses the most favorable reservoir properties...

Biological Pumping Upwards of the Coarse Fraction of Deep-Sea Sediments

I. N. McCave

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., SHERMAN, K. M, AND THISTLE, D., 1987, Evidence that sediment type influences the horizontal and vertical distribution of nematodes at a deep-sea...

The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?

D. K. Larue

AAPG Bulletin

... to build suites of models that are simple, and strives to address what is not known about the reservoir. Gilligan models are simplified, at least...