Fine-Scale Lamination/Bedding, An Important Factor in Unconventional Reservoirs Hydrocarbon Productivity

Carlos Molinares-Blanco, D. Becerra-Rondon, H. Galvis-Portilla, D. Duarte

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... three main reasons: 1) More laminae within brittle intervals may act as weak planes that help to reduce the effective minimum horizontal stress. 2...

Abstract: At 68 Wilmington Still Has Life: New Technology Revitalizes The Old Field, by D. D. Clarke and C. C. Phillips; #90923 (1999)

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Influence of Depositional Facies on Hydrocarbon Production in the Tensleep Sandstone, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming: A Working Hypothesis

Sarah Andrews, Lindi S. Higgins

Wyoming Geological Association

... tabular layers with strongly directional permeability in the eolian section. Tensleep reservoir characteristics may be interpreted from resistivity, density...

Alternative workflow for three-dimensional basin modeling in areas of structural complexity: Case study from the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia

Román Eugenio González, Carlos Orlando Suárez, Iván Camilo Higuera, and Luis Ernesto Rojas

AAPG Bulletin

... models, and we demonstrate their validity with an example in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia. This hydrocarbon province located in the northern...

Recent Advances in Steamflood Technology

K. C. Hong

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reservoirs, advances in insulation technology, horizontal well methods, and two-phase fluid injection profiling. Significant process improvements...

Diagnosing Fracture Stimulation Effectiveness: A Case Study of the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Lab (MSEEL)

Rob Bohn, Sergei Parsegov

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Lab (MSEEL) consortium provides a unique opportunity to develop fracture models and analyze the effectiveness...

Mechanism of Microseismic Generation During Hydraulic Fracturing - With Evidence From HFTS 2 Observations

Yunhui Tan, Jiehao Wang, Peggy Rijken, Zhishuai Zhang, Zijun Fang, Ruiting Wu, Ivan Lim Chen Ning, Xinghui Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the child well can propagate over 3000 feet into the depleted low stress zone. 2. By comparing microseismic and horizontal fiber LF-DAS strain data, we...

Is Our Carbonate Reservoir Fractured or Not?; #41484 (2014)

Patrick Corbett

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... of geological and engineering models. All models are wrong – but the one both disciplines agree with is probably useful. Selected References Aguilera, R...

Fluvial and Fluvio-lacustrine Facies and Depositional Environments of the Maastrichtian to Paleocene North Horn Formation, Price Canyon, Utah

Torben Olsen

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... mainly of mudstone interbedded with thin sandstone sheets and carbonate layers deposited in a shallow lacustrine environment parallel to the front...

Modeling Heterogeneities: A Quantitative Analysis of Two Slope Channel Systems: Laguna Amarga, Cerro Toro Formation, Chile and Canyon San Fernando, Rosario Formation, Mexico; #51599 (2019)

Dugmar Isabel Mendez Fermin, Benjamin Charles Kneller

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... sets of these systems, conceptual 3D geologic models were created and compared using the observed facies distributions. Petrophysical data of analogues...

Paleocave architectures and controlling processes of the Ordovician carbonate paleokarst systems in western and central Tarim Basin, northwestern China

Changsong Lin, Haijun Yang, Jianfa Han, Jingyan Liu, Zhenzhong Cai, Hao Li, and Manli Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

..., cave-level or fault-cave complexes, fractured layers with fractured pores or cavities, and densely spaced small cavity layers. The paleokarst cave...

A test of analog-based tools for quantitative prediction of large-scale fluvial architecture

Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney, John A. Howell, Andreas Rittersbacher, Fabrizio Felletti, and William D. McCaffrey

AAPG Bulletin

... variogram ranges predicted by the curves in Figure 8 refer to spherical and exponential models for vertical and horizontal directions, respectively...

Novel forward seismic modeling using the integration of Schmidt hammer and LiDAR: Example McKittrick Canyon Permian Reef Trail outcrop, Guadalupe National Park, Texas

Zhuobo Wang, John Pigott, Chenxi Xu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the interfaces between units on both vertical and horizontal extensions, which implies the depositional environment to change along the slope...

Salt tectonics on the Angolan margin, synsedimentary deformation processes

Xavier Fort, Jean-Pierre Brun, Francois Chauvel

AAPG Bulletin

... Seismic data from the Angolan margin and laboratory experiments on brittle-ductile models are used to study thin-skinned deformation above the salt...

Sedimentary Evolution and Reservoir Prospective of Bashkirian-Moscovian Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Deposits in the Loppa High (Norwegian Barents Sea), #50504 (2011)

Matteo Di Lucia, Jhosnella Sayago, Maria Mutti, Axum Cotti, Kjetil Broberg, Andrea Sitta

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... content. Eight Lithofacies Associations (LAs) have been then identified, and have provided the basis to define depositional facies models that reflect...

Seismic Anisotropy Modeling from Well Log in Talang Akar Formation, South Sumatra, Indonesia; #41360 (2014)

Thariq Guntoro, Intan Andriani Putri1, and Dwa Desa Warnana

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... for transversely isotropic models with vertical and horizontal axis of symmetry: Geophysics, v. 62, p. 713-722. Shou-Hua, Dong, and Tao Wen-Peng, 2008, Test...

How Plate-forming Processes Explain Structure and Shortening in Fold-thrust Belts, #41523 (2015).

Frederic Mouthereau

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... of horizontal shortening accumulated since the initiation of deformation, to the original, undeformed length of pre‐collisional stratigraphic markers. Errors...

Textual heterogeneity in massive sandstones from the Grès d'Annot and Numidian Flysch: Implications for depositional processes

Urval S. Patel,, Dorrik A.V. Stow, Andy Gardiner, Jim Buckman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that operate in high concentration near-bed layers, which develop at the base of concentrated, turbulent flows, and active fluidization processes...

Brine Mixing: an Additional Mechanism for Formation of Basin Evaporites

Omer B. Raup

AAPG Bulletin

... to the previously recognized mechanisms of direct evaporative crystallization and crystallization by temperature changes. A modification of present geologic models...

Lower Frontier Formation, Southwestern Wyoming: Depositional Controls on Sandstone Compositions and on Diagenesis

Robert D. Winn Jr., Maureen E. Smithwick

Wyoming Geological Association

... in horizontal stratification and in hummocky cross-bedding; the sandstones and siltstones alternate with mudstone. The fluvial sandstones are richer...

Seismic Facies and Sedimentology of Terrigenous Pleistocene Deposits in Northwest and Central Gulf of Mexico: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

Charles J. Stuart , Charles A. Caughey

AAPG Special Volumes

... horizontal layers, and merge downdip tangentially into beds that dip gently basinward. The distal parts are also affected to a variable extent by salt...

Evaluating Hydrocarbon-in-Place and Recovery Factor in a Hybrid Petroleum System: Case of Bakken and Three Forks in North Dakota

S. Amin Gherabati, John R. Browning, Frank Male, Scott Hamlin, Katie Smye, Mark Walsh, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Guinevere McDaid, Casee R. Lemons

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... models and used that knowledge to estimate recovery factor of the horizontal wells. Production depletes the Middle Bakken, creating a pressure difference...

Platform-to-basin Facies Evolution: The Carbonates of Late Proterozoic (Vendian) Gourma (West Africa)

J. Bertrand-Sarfati, A. Moussine-Pouchkine

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... micritic layers. The laminae show vertical and horizontal cracks, and in places desiccation breccia occur (Fig. 6a). Vertically, the succession...

Pressure prediction using converted shear waves from OBN data: A rock physics approach

Prajnajyoti Mazumdar, Kevin Searles, Bjorn Olofsson, James Gaiser, Terence Krishnasami

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... as noise and data on horizontal components are not considered during P-wave processing projects. We revisit the PS waves with the intention to understand...

Gravity Anomalies and Passive Continental Margins, Canada and Norway

L. W. Sobczak

CSPG Special Publications

.... Horizontal gradients in this area are small and about 2.5 mgal/km as compared to a very steep gradient of 8.2 mgal/km for the Scotian margin. Figure...