A Multi-Domain Approach to Completion and Stimulation Design in the Marcellus Shale

Courtney MacDonald, James Brewer, Mahmut D. Cakici, David Rampton, Karan Dick, Abhijit Mookerjee, Brian D. Clark, Utpal Ganguly

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that even the most accurate measurements capture the rocks’ true physical response to stimulation. Due to microcracks, laminations between horizontal layers...

The Evaluation of Limited Height Growth Fracture Effectiveness in Sanga-Sanga Coalbed Methane Field

Ibrahim Kunto Baskoro, Debby Halinda, Wahju Wibowo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... water-filled sand layers due to unfavorable stress contrast. As the result, the well produces excessive water without able to create pressure drawdown...

Gas Bubble and Expansion Crack Origin of "Molar-Tooth" Calcite Structures in the Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Western Montana

George Furniss, John F. Rittel, Don Winston

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 3C, 6F-I). Horizontal Ribbons Horizontal ribbons range from less than 250 m to 1 cm thick and are concordantly bounded by sedimentary layers (Fig. 3A...

Abstract: Controls of the Geometry and Evolution of Salt Diapirs in Experimental Models and Natural Examples; #90285 (2016)

Shankar Mitra, Pierre Karam

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...Abstract: Controls of the Geometry and Evolution of Salt Diapirs in Experimental Models and Natural Examples; #90285 (2016) Shankar Mitra, Pierre...

Optimizing Vertical and Lateral Spacing of Horizontal Wells in Permian Basin Stacked Bench Developments

Do Shin, Drew Popovich

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with a single horizontal well. These findings agree with the experiments and models reviewed in the theory section. When a large contrast exists between...

Concavity Orientations of Bivalve Shells in Estuarine and Nearshore Shelf Sediments, Georgia

Armando Salazar-Jimenez , Robert W. Frey, James D. Howard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... bioturbation, physical processes mainly govern shell configurations. Horizontal concave-down valves predominate in large- and small-scale crossbedded sands...

Joint physics-based and data-driven time-lapse seismic inversion: Mitigating data scarcity

Yanhua Liu, Shihang Feng, Ilya Tsvankin, David Alumbaugh, Youzuo Lin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-driven ML inversion (called “InvNet-VelSat”). The developed data-generation algorithm simulates high-quality velocity and saturation training models...

Deep compressed learning for 3D seismic inversion

Maayan Gelboim, Amir Adler, Yen Sun, Mauricio Araya-Polo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... × depth), with variable thickness velocity layers, including random salt geometries in 40% of the models. All models were generated using the Gempy...

A new age interpretation for the Meluhu Formation in Toronipa peninsula, the southeast arm of Sulawesi, Indonesia

Achmad Fahruddin, Rakhmat Fakhruddin, Muhammad Firdaus, Hanif Mersil Saleh

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...-grained sandstones Planar cross-bedding Low-angle planar crossbedding Massive with occasional horizontal laminations. Laminated mudstone, siltstone...

Applying deep learning for identifying bioturbation from core photographs

Eric Timmer, Calla Knudson, and Murray Gingras

AAPG Bulletin

... possible applications for automatically extracting biogenic or physical sedimentary structure data from core photographs. Models built using this approach...

The Study on 3D Geomechanical Modeling Improves Horizontal Well Drilling Performance in Tight Oil Reservoir

Yong Wang, Haijun Luan, Chuanyi Tang, Dong Zhao, Wei Zhou, Dan Zhou, Liming Lian, Lei Zeng, Bo Yu, Bo Dong, Xiao Yang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., 10 geomechanical characteristic models have been established for the method, including vertical stress, maximum horizontal principal stress...

Abstract: An Overview of Seismic Fracture Prediction, by Enru Liu, Rishi Bansal, Xin Zhan, Alex Martinez, and Chris Harris; #120034 (2012)

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Fault Shadow Issues and Resolution in Model and Real Data

Andrew J. Davidoff, Ika Ratna Novianti

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Study An extremely simple model was used to create the synthetic traces (Figure 1). The model is composed of horizontal horizons cut by a 60° normal...

A Groundwater Flow Model of the Texas Central Coast Constructed from a Detailed Site Conceptual Model

Steven C. Young, Trevor Budge, Neil Deeds, Van Kelley, Paul Knox, Ernie Baker, Geoff Saunders, John Waugh

GCAGS Transactions

... pumping tests to develop algorithms for horizontal hydraulic conductivity, vertical hydraulic conductivity, and specific storage. The locations...

Abstract: Preserving Geologic Heterogeneity in Reservoir Simulation Models, by D. Stern and A. G. Dawson; #90933 (1998).

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Three-dimensional kinematic modeling of reversible fault and fold development

Natacha Gibergues, Muriel Thibaut, Jean-Pierre Gratier

AAPG Bulletin

... into several units (i.e., blocks) separated by faults and subdivided into layers of constant thickness in the initial state.Fault locations are known...

A 3-D Fracture Model of the Kuyumba Oil Field (Eastern Siberia) Reflecting the Clay and Bed Thickness-related Fracture-density Variations of its Dolomite Reservoir

L. Mattioni, A. Chauveau, O. Fonta, V. Ryabchenko, E. Sokolov, R. Mukhametzyanov, S. Shlionkin, V. Zereninov, I. Bobb

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 2002, An integrated workflow to account for multi-scale fractures in reservoir simulation models: Implementation and benefits: Society of Petroleum...

Combining Mapped Microseismic Activity and Fracture Modeling to Estimate the Propped Dimensions of Hydraulic Fractures; #120184 (2015)

Robert Downie, Joël Le Calvez, Michael Williams

Search and Discovery.com

... of the microseismic data reveals that hydraulically induced fracture systems in both vertical and horizontal wells are influenced by a variety...

Memoir 71, Chapter 24: Characterization and Estimation of Permeability Correlation Structure from Performance Data

Mohammed Y. Al-Qahtani and Iraj Ershaghi

AAPG Special Volumes

... length on the system effective permeability and recovery factors of 2-D (two-dimensional) cross-sectional reservoir models under waterflood...

Formation Evaluation in Thin Bed Reservoirs, A Case Study from the Kutei Basin, Indonesia

C. Majesta, D. Cook, P.Cardola, D. Kurniawan, I. Buldani, G. Aquillina, F. Prasetia

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...) are characterized by thin bed layers, made up of clastic rock sequences with dominant lithology sandstone inter-bedded with shale, siltstone and organic...

Sedimentology of an Upper Paleozoic River, Wave and Tide Influenced Delta System in Southern Morocco

Richard G. Vos

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... flooding and results in the dominance of horizontal lamination (Andrews and van derLingen, 1969). Stacked bed-sets with basal shelly layers record successive...

A Carbonate Dilaform, Brooking Springs, Canning Basin, WA

Brian W. Logan, David J. Frances, Maritsa Economo

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-horizontal cavity floors (and layers of early cavity-filling deposits) are tilted into attitudes that steepen towards the advancing 'face...

A comparison of plug-derived and probe-derived permeability in cross-bedded sandstones of the Virgelle Member, Alberta, Canada: The influence of flow directions on probe permeametry

Rudi Meyer, Federico F. Krause

AAPG Bulletin

... magnitudes. Horizontal and vertical plug and probe flow tests were carried out on fine- to medium-grained, three-dimensional (3-D) cross-bedded sandstones...

When do faults in sedimentary basins leak? Stress and deformation in sedimentary basins; examples from the North Sea and Haltenbanken, offshore Norway

Knut Bjrlykke, Kaare Heg, Jan Inge Faleide, Jens Jahren

AAPG Bulletin

... of glacial deformation in the Quaternary sediments overlying these oil fields. It has been proposed that very large horizontal stresses, inferred to be related...

Stress Fields, A Key to Oil Migration

Jean du Rouchet

AAPG Bulletin

... of oil seems to involve two processes: (1) lateral transfer, by channeling into the more coarsely microporous layers of the source rocks, from the oil...