The use of FWI in coal exploration

Mehdi Asgharzadeh, Maryam Bahri, Milovan Urosevic

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... free surface conditions to the surface of the models and perfectly matched layers (PMLs) absorbing boundary conditions (Komatitsch and Martin, 2007...

High-precision seismic imaging for complex deep structures in the hydrocarbon exploration using a coherent-stacking-based least-squares migration

Jidong Yang, Jianping Huang, Tengfei Lin, Zhenchun Li, and Liang Chen

AAPG Bulletin

.... Each shot is recorded by 501 receivers, and the time duration is 8 s with a 1-ms sample interval. The shallow horizontal layers produce hyperbolic...

Simulation of Multiple-Stage Fracturing in Quasibrittle Shale Formations Using Pore Pressure Cohesive Zone Model

Mahdi Haddad, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... by natural mechanisms alone; it requires technologies such as hydraulic fracturing in multiple stages along a horizontal wellbore. Developing numerical...

A Geomechanical Analysis of Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Containment

Amirhossein Kamali, Ahmad Ghassemi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... problem complexity, usually a numerical model is needed to analyze height growth from the payzone into bounding layers. Aside from finite element models...

A coupled geomechanical reservoir simulation analysis of carbon dioxide storage in a saline aquifer in the Ohio River Valley

Somayeh Goodarzi, Antonin Settari, Mark Zoback, David Keith

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... including initial non-zero values of shear stresses in principal directions, all models in this study are aligned along the horizontal principal stress...

Integrated 3D seismic and petrophysical workflow to predict elastic and geomechanical properties in the Wolfcamp Formation: A case study from the Midland Basin, Texas

Reinaldo Sabbagh, Shuvajit Bhattacharya

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... workflow from vertical and horizontal wells (from the US Department of Energy-funded Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 1, HFTS-1) in the Midland Basin, United...

Toward a quantitative definition of mechanical units: New techniques and results from an outcropping deep-water turbidite succession (Tanqua-Karoo Basin, South Africa)

G. Bertotti, N. Hardebol, J. K. Taal-van Koppen, S. M. Luthi

AAPG Bulletin

... the definition of mechanical units, i.e., (groups of) layers displaying homogeneous fracture patterns, is difficult and typically conducted...

Three-Dimensional Modeling Of Complex Geological Structures: New Development Tools For Creating 3-D Volumes: Chapter 19

Raphael Mayoraz, Carol E. Mann, Aurele Parriaux

AAPG Special Volumes

... models, in this case porosity, are represented between the structural boundaries of all seven layers, with layers 1, 3, and 6 representing shale units...

Understanding Heterogeneous Carbonate Gas Reservoirs from Horizontal and Vertical Wells, Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation, Central Sichuan Basin, China

Bing Xie, Da-Li Wang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Understanding Heterogeneous Carbonate Gas Reservoirs from Horizontal and Vertical Wells, Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation, Central Sichuan Basin...

Abstract: Workflows for Sweet Spots Identification in Shale Plays Using Seismic Inversion and Well Logs; #90187 (2014)

Yexin Liu

Search and Discovery.com

... A., 1997, P-wave reflection coefficients for transversely isotropic models with vertical and horizontal axis of symmetry, Geophysics, 62, 713-...

Benchmarking and Calibration of 3D Geomechanical Models; #42113 (2017)

Rene Alcalde, Ewerton Araujo

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...Benchmarking and Calibration of 3D Geomechanical Models; #42113 (2017) Rene Alcalde, Ewerton Araujo Benchmarking and Calibration of 3D Geomechanical...

Predicting Stress and Fracture Orientations with Geomechanical Reservoir Models - Lessons Learned from a Case Study, by A. Frischbutter and A. Henk, #40596 (2010).

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Viscoplastic Deformation of Shale Gas Reservoir Rocks and its Relation to the In-Situ Stress Variations Observed in a Well from Barnett Shale; #41181 (2013)

Hiroki Sone and Mark Zoback

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...-rich layers • Horizontal Stress Differences (SHmax-Shmin) is relatively small in these clay-/organic-rich layers 16 Independentfrom Field...

Integrated Reservoir Description and Flow Performance Evaluation: Glenn Pool Field — Self Unit Study

Asnul Bahar, Leslie Thompson, Mohan Kelkar

Tulsa Geological Society

... was constructed which honors the geological, geophysical, and engineering data using geostatistical (stochastic) as well as the deterministic models...

ABSTRACT: Geostatistical Shale Models for a Deltaic Reservoir Analog: From 3D GPR Data to 3D Flow Modeling; #90013 (2003)

HONGMEI LI, CHRISTOPHER D. WHITE

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...ABSTRACT: Geostatistical Shale Models for a Deltaic Reservoir Analog: From 3D GPR Data to 3D Flow Modeling; #90013 (2003) HONGMEI LI, CHRISTOPHER D...

Concentration-Dependent Flow Stratification In Experimental High-Density Turbidity Currents and Their Relevance To Turbidite Facies Models

Matthieu J.B. Cartigny,, Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Ernst W.M. Hansen, George Postma

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Concentration-Dependent Flow Stratification In Experimental High-Density Turbidity Currents and Their Relevance To Turbidite Facies Models Matthieu...

Microbialite and Microstratigraphy: The Origin of Encrustations in the Middle and Upper Capitan Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A.

B.L. Kirkland , J.A.D. Dickson , R.A. Wood , L.S. Land

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...° to horizontal. Botryoidal aragonite is both white and dark gray in this slab. Thin, light-gray layers of microbial micrite separate some botryoids...

Sequence Stratigraphy of Walloons-Springbok Sections: Different or Significantly Different?

Iain Rodger, Mark Reilly, Zsolt Hamerli, Phil Hayes, Suzanne Hurter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... this challenging geology is important because different correlations impact the vertical and horizontal propagation of pressure in groundwater and reservoir models...

Abstract: Living 2D Reservoir Models; #90286 (2017)

Troy Thompson

Search and Discovery.com

... techniques to high-angle and horizontal wells. Aramco has designed a new workflow to enable Reservoir Modelers to update 2D structural models in real...

Fault Growth and Strain Localization in a Multilayer Brittle-Ductile System, Halten Terrace, mid-Norway; #40452 (2009)

Nicola Marsh; Jonathan Imber; and Robert E. Holdsworth

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.... Bollinger, and E. Burov, 2003, Influence of viscous layers on the growth of normal faults; insights from experimental and numerical models: Journal...

Visco-Acoustic Full-Waveform Inversion: A Case Study to Resolve High-Resolution Shallow Channel Absorption, Offshore Indonesia

Jun Wang, Yonghe Guo, Putri Supriandini, Kelik Moersidin, Rahmad Hidayat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... absorption from the gas accumulation cause complex velocity and absorption variations in the overburden. Both the velocity and quality factor (Q) models need...

Extended Abstract: Quick-Look Technique for Quantifying Shale Distribution Types using Total Porosity versus Shale Volume Crossplots

James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, Gregory J. Ferguson

GCAGS Transactions

... focused on two-component models (either laminar-dispersed [Fig. 3] or laminar-structural [Fig. 4]), assuming the third component is entirely absent, and we...

Formation Evaluation Based on Anisotropy Derived Logging Curve Normalization in Shale Gas Horizontal Wells of China

Hai Jie Zhang, Jun Wei Pu, Ling Song Qin, Tong Tong Luo, He Fa Yao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... as an example, the three horizontal well trajectories of the platform are mainly located in the Long111 to Long112 layers, and the distance is very close...

Orthorhombic Imaging for Orthogonal Wide Azimuth Surveys in Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico; #30391 (2014)

Yang He, Adam Gersztenkorn, Sherry Yang, Bin Wang

Search and Discovery.com

... layering of sediments with a scale that is smaller than the predominant wavelength. The axis of symmetry is perpendicular to the layers and thus assumes...

Sedimentary Record of the Early-Middle Jurassic Inception of the Gulf of Mexico in Tlaxiaco Basin, #11313 (2020).

Alberto Osmar Vite del Angel, J. Rueda-Gaxiola,

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..." layers (Gastón-Venegas et al., 2009) in San Luis Potosi, the Huayacocotla Formation (Carrillo Bravo, 1965) in Hidalgo, the "La Boca" Aloformation (Rueda...