Rethinking Regional Reconnaissance

Carlos Fernandex

GEO ExPro Magazine

... are considered to comprise the largest shale gas resource outside the US and are often compared to the Eagle Ford play in Texas, where horizontal drilling...

ABSTRACT: Micro-Textural Analyses of Fine-Grained Sediments and the Roles that Advective Sediment Transport and Suspension Settling Processes Play in the Deposition of Fine-Grained Organic Carbon-Rich Sediments. OR Just How Shaky are the Current Depositi

Joe Macquaker

Search and Discovery.com

... Carbon-Rich Sediments. OR Just How Shaky are the Current Depositional Models that Seek to Explain the Origin of Source Rocks / Shale Gas Reservoirs...

Quantifying the Impact of Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Heterogeneities on Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs through Integrated Flow Simulation Experiments, #120049 (2012)

Peter J.R. Fitch, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Cédric M. John

Search and Discovery.com

... wells and / or to incorporate deviated and horizontal wells is expected to increase the potential for vertical flow within the models. The relative...

Natural Fractures in Folded Sandstones of the Tensleep Formation, Wyoming

John C. Lorenz, Scott P. Cooper

AAPG Special Volumes

..., hinge-normal F1 extension fracture set typically formed in response to horizontal stress prior to and during the early stages of folding, but may...

Unsteady-state diffusion modeling of gas in coal matrix for horizontal well production

Jian-Chun Guo, Ren-Shi Nie, and Yong-Lu Jia

AAPG Bulletin

... for unsteady-state diffusion between horizontal and vertical well models and the differences for horizontal well production between unsteady-state...

Auto-identification and Real-time Warning Method of Multiple Type Events During Multistage Horizontal Well Fracturing

Mingze Zhao, Yue Li, Yuyang Liu, Bin Yuan, Siwei Meng, Wei Zhang, He Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Auto-identification and Real-time Warning Method of Multiple Type Events During Multistage Horizontal Well Fracturing Mingze Zhao, Yue Li, Yuyang Liu...

Full-elastic AVA extraction using acoustic FWI

Michael Warner, John Armitage, Adrian Umpleby, Nikhil Shah, Henry Debens, Fabio Mancini

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...; densities are derived from p-wave velocities following Gardner’s law. The models each contain three, low-velocity, p-wave layers, 100 meters...

Natural fractures in shale: A review and new observations

Julia F. W. Gale, Stephen E. Laubach, Jon E. Olson, Peter Eichhubl, and András Fall

AAPG Bulletin

.... A. Wattenbarger, 2011, Triple-porosity models: One step further towards capturing fractured reservoirs heterogeneity, SPE/DGS Saudi Arabian Technical Session, Paper...

An Integrated Geophysical Analysis of Crustal Structure in the Wichita Uplift Region of Southern Oklahoma

Amanda Rondot Buckey

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... be metasediments are present adjacent to the Proterozoic basin at the southern end of the model. Dense mafic layers extending to a depth of 15 km form...

Pore pressure prediction while drilling: Three-dimensional earth model in the Gulf of Mexico

Fausto Mosca, Obren Djordjevic, Thomas Hantschel, Jim McCarthy, Ana Krueger, Dave Phelps, Tayo Akintokunbo, Thorsten Joppen, Klaas Koster, Michael Schupbach, Kenneth Hampshire, and Andy MacGregor

AAPG Bulletin

... in basin modeling, such as the coupling of stress and pressure and the implementation of models for mineral diagenesis and rock failure, have...

Permian Passive Margin Submarine Fan Complex, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Possible Model to Gulf of Mexico

A. H. Bouma , H. de V. Wickens

GCAGS Transactions

..., this area can provide important elements that will be useful for the development of models of deep-water sands in the northern margin of the Gulf...

Abstracts: Use of Image Logs in Differentiating Point Bar and Tidal Bar Deposits in the Leismer Area: Implications for SAGD Reservoir Definition in the Athabasca Oilsands; #90173 (2015)

Howard Brekke, Andrew Couch

Search and Discovery.com

... have minimal effects on steam chamber production, due to the limited lateral extent of the mud layers. Conversely, lateral accretion IHS, associated...

Improved TOC and Lithology Prediction for Wolfcamp Shales Using AVO Attribute Analysis

Jaewook Lee, Un Young Lim, David Lumley

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (10-30%) values. Second, we design two-layer models with a carbonate layer, overlying the modeled Wolfcamp shale layers. We determine the seismic...

Abstract: Case Study: Integration of Static and Dynamic Data to Improve Geomodels in a Complex Fractured Carbonate Reservoir, by Alex Assaf and Richard Steel; #120034 (2012)

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Internal Kinematics of Salt Diapirs

C. J. Talbot , M. P. A. Jackson

AAPG Bulletin

... between horizontal fluid layers (Chandrasekhar, 1961; Ramberg, 1981; Turcotte and Schubert, 1982). Two horizontal plane layers of fluid of different...

Upscaling Fault Flow Properties for Evaluation of Cross-Fault Flow, #41390 (2014)

Alton A. Brown, Russell K. Davies

Search and Discovery.com

..., with layers of more pure clay smear alternating with fault rock (?) layers with smaller clasts of sandstone protolith (Figure 9). Models address the effects...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling - Abstracts

AAPG Special Volumes

... higher horizontal resolution than typical 3-D models can tolerate, and is amenable to limited input data sets (e.g., one map and few wells). Basin models...

Natural Fractures in the New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin, and Their Importance for Shale-Gas Production, #80120 (2010)

Julia F.W. Gale, Stephen E. Laubach, Lucas J. Fidler

Search and Discovery.com

... stress must be determined on a site‐specific basis. The World Stress Map database suggests a swing in the maximum horizontal stress direction from ENE...

Understanding Wolfcamp Well Performance „ A Workflow to Describe the Relationship between Well Spacing and EUR

Jared Pettegrew, Jiale Qiu, Lang Zhan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 660 ft. Matrix Pressure, psi, 5 months Figure 8: Illustrative example of sector model geometry The models consisted of 14 layers from the top...

Optimization Method for Fracture-Network Design Under Transient and Pseudosteady Condition Using UFD Technique and Deep Learning Approach

Junlei Wang, Yunsheng Wei, Yuewei Pan, Wei Yu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-rock-volume (SRV) in unconventional shale and tight reservoirs is generated by horizontal well completion contacted with complex fracture network...

Seismic HC Reservoir Prediction: A (Critical) Review on the Determination of Lithological Parameters from Seismic Data

Burkhard Buttkus

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... in vertical and horizontal resolution, which is the prerequisite for reservoir prediction. The num ber of recording channels is steadily increasing, both...

Chapter 13: Development Geology in Eolian Reservoirs

L. F. Krystinik

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... reservoirs can be more efficiently exploited through more appropriate drilling patterns and more representative depletion/EOR models. It is important to note...

Multi-Bench, Multi-Well Interference in Unconventional Reservoir: Field Observations and Numerical Studies in the Texas Delaware Basin

Hamid Behzadi, Yongduk Shin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the observation section. The upscaled models used in this analysis have 200-300 vertical layers with a total cell count of 3.5 to 8.5 million cells. The typical...

Organic-rich Marcellus Shale lithofacies modeling and distribution pattern analysis in the Appalachian Basin

Guochang Wang, Timothy R. Carr

AAPG Bulletin

... models of the Marcellus Shale constrained with sufficient data may be helpful for designing the trajectory of horizontal wells and placement of hydraulic...

Styles of Continental Rifting: Results from Dynamic Models of Lithospheric Extension

Jean Braun, Christopher Beaumont

CSPG Special Publications

... the high horizontal gradients in the deformation field (Fig. 7a, b) necessary for net subsidence of the rift axis. Models 1 to 4 illustrate...