Wolfberry and Wolfbone Resource Assessment: Outcrop and Core to Geocellular Models and Economic Outlooks

Bill Fairhurst, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Robin Dommisse, Scott Hamlin, Dave Carr, Ray Eastwood, Amin Gherabati, Frank Male, John Browning, Gurcan Gulen, Victor Del Carpio Neyra, Emilian Vankov, Inessa Yurchenko

West Texas Geological Society

... to the over 10,000 horizontal wells targeting these horizons to date. These Geo/Reservoir 3D models are compared statistically to economic outcomes using...

Effect of Regional Strain on Fault Patterns Produced by Doming: Experimental and Analytical Study: ABSTRACT

Martha O. Withjack, Cynthia Scheiner

AAPG Bulletin

... a simultaneously applied, regional horizontal strain. The models show that without regional strain, randomly oriented normal faults develop...

ABSTRACT: Rift Basin Evolution and the Generation of Low-angle Detachment Faults in Analogue Models, by A. P. Gartrell; #91021 (2010)

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New models for determining thermal maturity and hydrocarbon potential in Marcellus Shale

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Using PetrelTM to Improve the Efficiency of Building Static Geological Models, Yamin Li, Ron Martin, Li Fan, Keith Owen, and Andrew Acock, #90093 (2009)

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Part D: Salt Stock Structure

DONALD H. KUPFER

New Orleans Geological Society

..., with about 2 to 5 percent anhydrite concentrated mainly in the dark layers. The salt flowed laterally out of the original beds and into pillows (Fig...

Deep neural networks for 1D impedance inversion

Vladimir Puzyrev, Anton Egorov, Anastasia Pirogova, Chris Elders, Claus Otto

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... thicknesses of the layers require training datasets larger than the employed set of 10240 velocity models in order to achieve high accuracy. While...

The Utility of Continual Reservoir Description: An Example from Bindley Field, Western Kansas

Reed A. Johnson , David A. Budd

AAPG Bulletin

... dolostone layers. This stratigraphic zonation results in multiple, vertically segregated, horizontal flow units. Reservoir-quality rock is specific...

The influence of mechanically weak layers in controlling fault kinematics and graben configurations: Examples from analog experiments and the Norwegian continental margin

Roy H. Gabrielsen, Heleen Zalmstra, Dimitrios Sokoutis, Ernst Willingshofer, Jan Inge Faleide, and Hanna Lima Braut

AAPG Bulletin

... on a flat, horizontal table surface (Figure 1A). The colored layers of sieved quartz sand had a grain size of 100–300 μm, density of 1510 kgm−3 (3329...

Comparison of Three Facies Modeling Methods Applied to a Submarine Fan Deposits

Fikri Yunus, Lothar Schulte

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is to apply the three facies modeling techniques to a turbidite system. All three models are based on the same conceptual model that is derived from...

Seismic velocity detrending and well calibration workflow

Gastón Bejarano Gerke

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to borehole data in the process of building velocity models for depth conversion purposes is presented and discussed. Introduction Building velocity...

Abstracts: Locating Microseismicity in Three-Dimensionally Heterogeneous Reservoirs; #90173 (2015)

Adam M. Baig, Ted Urbancic, Margaret Seibel, Vladimir Shumila

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... the geological layers are dipping. For events further away, a horizontal model was used as this was deemed more representative of the fact...

Modeling Floodplain Deposits; #50628 (2012)

Irina Overeem, James Syvitski, and Albert Kettner

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... preserves stratigraphy by event, allowing for preservation of information of depositional layers of variable thickness and composition. We present...

Abstract: Total Organic Carbon Content Prediction From Well Logs via Artificial Neural Network Models;

Yunlai Yang, Zhenzhu Wan, Pan Luo, Abid Bhullar

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...Abstract: Total Organic Carbon Content Prediction From Well Logs via Artificial Neural Network Models; Yunlai Yang, Zhenzhu Wan, Pan Luo, Abid...

Modeling Gas Injection into Shale Oil Reservoirs in the Sanish

Cuiyu Dong, B. Todd Hoffman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is increased for the entire 10 layers. All these hydraulic fractures are in transverse direction with the path of the horizontal wells. However...

Petroleum Potential of the Jamaican Wagwater Trough: New Insight Obtained from 3-D Basin Modeling, #10261 (2010)

Thomas P. Ward, John D. Pigott

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... tectonic subsidence and subaerial exposure. Two rifting heat flow models were used to bracket the uncertainty of the present heat flow of the basin (0.96...

Estimation of detachment depths and displacements from the area–depth markers of contractional growth structures: Testing the “inverse line” concept

Sam Rivas-Dorado

AAPG Bulletin

... and displacement of a structure. The validity of this concept was tested through a series of case studies and fault-propagation fold models. Case studies...

Characterization of Sub-Log Scale Variability in Mudstones and the Effects of Variable Sampling Scales on High Resolution Models; Examples From Bone Spring Formation, West Texas

Austin Morrell, Santhosh Narasimhan, Harry Rowe, Pukar Mainali

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... stability models and shows that breakouts in both vertical and horizontal wells were underestimated using strength profile from standard sonic resolution...

A Unique Freshwater Carbonate from the Upper Devonian Catskill Magnafacies of New York State

Robert V. Demicco, John S. Bridge, Kelly C. Cloyd

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... mudstone layers traceable for a few tens of centimeters. Laminae are commonly disrupted by vertical and horizontal cracks and tubes. The largest vertical...

Abstract: Characterization of Deltaic Rocks for Numerical Reservoir Simulation Purposes, by F. C. J. Mijnssen, K. J. Weber, and A. W. Martinius; #91004 (1991)

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ABSTRACT: Characteristics and Evolutional Models of Karst Reservoirs of Lower Ordovician Carbonate Rocks in Lunnan Area of Tarim Basin China, by Jiayu Gu; #90913(2000).

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ABSTRACT: The Mechanics Of A Growing Critical Taper: New Insights From High Resolution Video-Laser Scans And In-Situ Stress Measurements In Analogue Models; #90011 (2002)

D. A. Nieuwland, M. Saher

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... Models; #90011 (2002) D. A. Nieuwland, M. Saher AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90011©2002 AAPG Hedberg Conference, May 14-18, 2002, Palermo...

Seismic Models of a Shelf-margin Depositional Sequence: Upper San Andres Formation, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

Jan Stafleu , Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and lateral facies transitions are represented by horizontal velocity gradients. These models End_Page 496------------------------ resolve the stratal...

Control of Syn-Contractional Sedimentation of Kendeng Fold Thrust Belt: New Perspective Analogue to Evaluate Risk Associated with Trap Formation

Iqbal Fardiansyah, Agung Budiman, M. Nurwahyudi Yulianto, Riswa Galena, Carolus Prasetyadi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... APPARATUS Analogue models were constructed using a 48 X 24 cm open-topped metal rig with two glass sidewalls and low friction base. Horizontal compression...

Abstract: Tomography of a Velocity Modeland Location of Microseismic Events with P, Sv and Sh Waves; #90224 (2015)

Malgorzata Chmiel and Thomas Bardainne

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... set from hydraulic fracturing monitoring, recorded by 15 three components sensors. Additionally, we derived a 1D, 10 layers velocity model from a VSP...