Synthetic Seismic-Reflection Profiles of Rift-Related Structures

Martha O. Withjack , D. J. Drickman Pollock

AAPG Bulletin

... models, thick, constant-velocity layers represent the strata. This simplification is justifiable because the gross geometry, and not the shape...

Development of a High-Resolution Geological Framework Model for the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone: Data, Assumptions, Procedures, and Workflow

Deborah J. Waiting, David A. Ferrill, Darrell W. Sims

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... data for this project began with downloading USGS 30-meter horizontal resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from the Texas Natural Resources...

The Technology of the Joint Inversion of Conventional Well Logs for Evaluation of Double Porosity Carbonate Formations; #41942 (2016)

Elena Kazatchenko, M. Markov, A. Mousatov, E. Pervago

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... properties are described by tensors. The tensors of effective parameters have only two principal components for a vertical borehole and horizontal layers...

Hierarchical Description and Geologic Modeling of a Braided-stream Depositional System

P. E. Patterson, T. A. Jones, A. D. Donovan, J. D. Ottmann, C. J. Donofrio

AAPG Special Volumes

... deposits. Note that the nonreservoir mudstone intervals occur as horizontal layers between vertically stacked channel complexes, as well as inclined...

Modeling aquifer heterogeneity using cone penetration testing data and stochastic upscaling methods

Gregory P. Flach, Mary K. Harris, Andrew D. Smits, Frank H. Syms

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... for characterizing hydrogeologic heterogeneity using lithologic data, in G. S. Fraser and J. M. Davis, eds., Hydrogeologic models of sedimentary...

FRONTMATTER: Montana Geological Society: 1991 Guidebook to Geology and Horizontal Drilling of the Bakken Formation

William B. Hansen

Montana Geological Society

...FRONTMATTER: Montana Geological Society: 1991 Guidebook to Geology and Horizontal Drilling of the Bakken Formation William B. Hansen 1991 0 viii...

Maximizing Image Data To Minimize the Uncertainty of the Geological Model for Horizontal Well Fracturing

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ABSTRACTS AAPG HEDBERG RESEARCH CONFERENCE Carbonate Reservoir Characterization and Simulation

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Analysis of Well Interference in Delaware Basin: A Physics-Based and Data-Driven Approach

Esmail Eltahan, Shayan Tavassoli, Brian Casey, Guinevere McDaid, Emery Goodman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and calculated for the child wells to serve as the input for different machine-learning (ML) regression models. The goal of the ML models is to infer...

Mechanical and fracture stratigraphy

Stephen E. Laubach, Jon E. Olson, Michael R. Gross

AAPG Bulletin

... to horizontal drilling in western North America: Denver, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 7588.Cooke, M. L., 1997, Predicting fracture localization...

Effective flow properties of heterolithic, cross-bedded tidal sandstones: Part 1. Surface-based modeling

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

AAPG Bulletin

... by (1) data that do not sample a representative volume or (2) models that fail to capture the complex three-dimensional architecture of sandstone...

Reservoir simulations developed from an outcrop of incised valley fill strata

Karl D. Stephen, Mark Dalrymple

AAPG Bulletin

... to the horizontal well parallel to the plane of the model. For the models with single cell wells, flow rates some distance from the wells are much slower than...

Locating massive syneresis fractures in shale: An experimental study

X. Wang, L. Pan, L. Li, H. C. Lau, M. Zhang, H. Wang, and N. Cai

AAPG Bulletin

... for convenience. The models were made with the same height to form the same thickness of overburden layers, and the strike of the models was in an east...

A Semi-analytical Solution of the Induced Stress Change in a Layered Reservoir Based on the Stress Formulation

Shihao Wang, Yanbin Zhang, Ouassim Khebzegga, Bin Wang, Zhe Liu, Xian-Huan Wen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... dimension and are homogeneous in the horizontal plans. Layered formation models are widely used in reservoir simulation applications. A common example...

Chapter 25: Comparison of Production from Horizontal and Vertical Wells in the Austin Chalk, Niobrara, and Bakken Plays

James R. Stell, Charles A. Brown

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...Chapter 25: Comparison of Production from Horizontal and Vertical Wells in the Austin Chalk, Niobrara, and Bakken Plays James R. Stell, Charles...

Efficient and accurate velocity building from Gramian-constrained multiphysics reflection and transmission data

Jide Nosakare Ogunbo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of two different data sets. The Gramian constraint maintains a linear correlation between velocity models from the two different data set, bolstering...

Handling natural complexity in three-dimensional geomechanical restoration, with application to the recent evolution of the outer fold and thrust belt, deep-water Niger Delta

Pauline Durand-Riard, Chris Guzofski, Guillaume Caumon, Marc-Olivier Titeux

AAPG Bulletin

... unconformities, thin and/or pinched-out layers in the models but that cannot explicitly localize slip along horizons. To take advantage of this approach...

Abstract: Predictive Models for Tsunami and Hurricane Deposits Based on Simple Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Considerations, by B. Jaffe, B. Richmond, and G. Gelfenbaum; #90937 (1998).

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Abstract: Neural Network Interpretation of Well Log Data, by L. Zhang and M. Poulton; #90931 (1998).

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ABSTRACT: 3-D Analog Modeling of Cover Deformation Associated with Extensional Reactivation of a Variable Displacement Basement Fault; #90013 (2003)

Paul Whitehouse, Ken McClay, Tim Dooley

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.... Subsequent models incorporated more complex cover sequences. Mechanically weak layers were introduced to simulate ductile units such as shales...

Leveraging Stochastic Inversion to Increase Understanding of Drilling and Completion Hazards in the Midland Basin

Dennis Ellison, Zahary Vera, Carla Diaz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to create high-resolution property volumes models that better constrained the carbonate debris flow detecting layers as thin as 8 ft. These volumes...

Fourier and Autocorrelation Analysis of Estuarine Tidal Rhythmites, Lower Breathitt Formation (Pennsylvanian), Eastern Kentucky, USA

Ronald L. Martino, Dewey D. Sanderson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of mud-draped sandstone layers. Bioturbation is common and increases toward the top of the section. Ichnogenera include Asterosoma, Arenicolites...

Braided Fluvial to Marine Transition: The Basal Lower Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, Southern Marble Mountains, Mojave Desert, California

Christopher M. Fedo, John D. Cooper

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and the nature of its lateral terminus is uncertain. Alternating light- and dark-colored (commonly black), horizontal to slightly wavy layers, ranging...

Hydrogeology of Government Creek Basin, Dugway, Utah, with a Recommended Practical Approach to Ground-Water Management in Arid, Saline Regions of the Great Basin

Jeffrey Fitzmayer, David Larsen, David Braxton, Ed Staes

Utah Geological Association

... the contaminant transport component of site conceptual models. Additional site-specific data to be collected under the horizontal migration assessment...

Multiscale Gilbert-type delta lobe architecture and heterogeneities: The case of the Roda Sandstone Member

Allard W. Martinius

AAPG Bulletin

...) and horizontal (kh) permeability from dm-scale models of tidal structures from the Tilje Formation (Heidrun field). Thin lines are arithmetic (Karith) and harmonic...