Experimental Assessment of Elastic Properties and Minimum Horizontal Stress in the Haynesville Shale-Gas Formation

Clotilde Chen Valdés, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... observed that the isotropic model estimates lower magnitudes of the minimum horizontal stress. It is also noted that the three models converge...

Four Storm-event Beds and the Tropical Cyclones that Produced them: A Numerical Hindcast

Timothy R. Keen , Rudy L. Slingerland

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and lower boundary layers overlap, resulting in vertically uniform along-shelf flow. BOUMA, A.H., BERRYHILL, H.L., KNEBEL, H.J., AND BRENNER, R.I....

Artificial Neural Network Based Facies Modeling for Multi-Layer Injection Fall-off Transient Analysis

Arvind Kumar, Saunil Rajput, Poorna Venkata Sai Teja Nukala, Tety Benedicta Wydiabhakti, Eduardo Antonio Trevisan, Keka Ojha

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to perform rock typing and facies models by generating the hydraulic flow units and derive the reservoir quality (RQ). Multiple layers of reservoir...

Section 1.2 Seismic Stratigraphy: High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Profiles

A. H. Bouma, C. E. Stelting, and M. H. Feeley

AAPG Special Volumes

...) reflectors, s--(semi) transparent reflectors, c--chaotic reflectors, o--onlapping sequence, gf--growth fault. Horizontal bars underneath B denote coverage...

High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Profiles

A. H. Bouma, C. E. Stelting, and M. H. Feeley

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the higher frequency systems and may result in near-horizontal line patterns. Because of the different recorder speeds used for each system...

Facies Architecture, Paleoenvironment, and Reservoir Quality of the Mid-Cretaceous Wara Member, Arabian Gulf, Offshore Saudi Arabia

Homoud AlAnzi, Hamza Tourqui

AAPG Special Volumes

... these environments were identified, depositional models were constructed for each of the seven layers of the Wara Member to honor the changes in relative...

Natural Fractures and Strain Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Beer Mug Anticline

Scott P. Cooper

AAPG Special Volumes

... as a stiff strut within the ductile shaley sequence, provide strong evidence that the maximum compressive stress was in the horizontal plane...

Field Pilots of Unconventional Shale EOR in the Permian Basin

Xiaochun “Jacob” Jin, Michael Pavia, Michael Samuel, Subhash Shah, Rixing Zhang, James Thompson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... depleted fractured vertical well (used crosslinked guarbased fracturing fluid, at about 9,000 ft) and one depleting fractured horizontal well (used...

Estimating subsurface geostatistical parameters from surface-based GPR reflection data using a deep-learning approach

Yu Liu, James Irving, Klaus Holliger

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of autocorrelations obtained from synthetic GPR images for a comprehensive range of stochastic subsurface models. An important aspect of the training process...

Non-Linearity in Decline Behavior of Unconventional Wells

James R. Gilman, Sepehr Fadaei

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with horizontal wells and multi-stage hydraulic fractures. This paper focuses on tight oil systems. There are many instances where idealized plots...

Geometric, Thermal and Isostatic Consequences of Detachments in Continental Lithosphere Extension and Basin Formation

N. J. Kusznir, G. D. Karner, S. Egan

CSPG Special Publications

.... Although fault reactivation implies a simple shear process, existing models for crustal extension are based on extension by pure shear. We therefore...

Salt tectonics driven by sediment progradation: Part IMechanics and kinematics

Bruno C. Vendeville

AAPG Bulletin

... initially comprised a thin source layer (black) overlain by a thin horizontal overburden (three lowermost layers). The deposition of the first wedge...

Subaqueous Sand-Flow Cross Strata

Ralph E. Hunter

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... lenticular in horizontal sections). Flume experiments suggest that each cross stratum is produced by one in a series of intermittent sand flows...

A Pore Scale Study of Slickwater Systems in Shale Reservoirs: Implications for Frac-Water Distribution and Produced Water Salinity

Yinan Hu, Deepak Devegowda, Alberto Striolo, Anh Phan, Tuan A. Ho, Faruk Civan, Richard Sigal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pore models. The first model containing only carbon is intended to mimic the nature of highly mature kerogen. The second model helps understanding...

The Morro Vermelho hypogenic karst system (Brazil): Stratigraphy, fractures, and flow in a carbonate strike-slip fault zone with implications for carbonate reservoirs

Giovanni Bertotti, Philippe Audra, Augusto Auler, Francisco Hilario Bezerra, Stephan de Hoop, Cayo Pontes, Rahul Prabhakaran, and Rebeca Lima

AAPG Bulletin

.... With progressive displacement, the deep strike-slip fault propagated upward causing the development of an anticline pop-up, steepening sedimentary layers...

DHEM at Las Cruces, Spain - successes and failures

Gavin R. Selfe

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and various conductive layers and half-spaces, the DHEM results could be explained by the known sulphides. In the case of a fourth hole, off-hole anomalies...

Chapter 38: Architecture of a Deep-water Levee Avulsion, Silla Ojo Mesa, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile

Ciarán J. O’Byrne, Brad E. Prather, Zoltan Sylvester, Carlos Pirmez, Brent Couzens, Ru Smith, Mark D. Barton, Gary S. Steffens, Jeremy Willson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and R. D. Flood, 1997, Amazon submarine fan drilling: A big step forward for deep-sea fan models: Geoscience Canada, v. 24, p. 13–24. O’Byrne, C. J...

AAPG Eastern Section Meeting, September 8-10, 1991, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, - Abstracts, #91005 (1991).

Search and Discovery.com

Geological Controls on Reservoir Properties and Production Potential of Lower Paleozoic Shale Gas Plays in Sichuan Basin; #10560 (2013)

Xinjing Li and Zhongjian Qiu

Search and Discovery.com

... the unique self-contained reservoir in situ with advances in horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. It has evolved through several tectonic...

Origin of the Raised Rim in the Kashagan Buildup, Kazakhstan: A Hypothesis for Diagenesis Associated With Fractures and Burial Compaction; #20365 (2016)

Joel F. Collins, Gareth D. Jones, Jackson Haffener, Sony R. Mohammad, Marat Nauryzgaliyev, Roza Nursaidova

Search and Discovery.com

... the facies in the interior. Numerical models of compaction are consistent with formation of the elevated margin by differential compaction during burial...

Controls of Shapes and Evolution of Salt Diapirs: Experimental Studies

Shankar Mitra, Pierre Karam

GCAGS Transactions

...Controls of Shapes and Evolution of Salt Diapirs: Experimental Studies Shankar Mitra, Pierre Karam 2015 281 292 Vol. 65 (2015) Experimental models...

Deposition and taphonomy of the Hound Island Late Triassic vertebrate fauna: Fossil preservation within subaqueous gravity flows

Thomas L. Adams

PALAIOS

.... Fossils occur within a 13-m-thick succession of interbedded calcareous shale and volcaniclastic-rich bioclastic limestone. The limestone layers...

Machine learning classification of Austin Chalk chemofacies from high-resolution x-ray fluorescence core characterization

Toti E. Larson, Robert G. Loucks, J. Evan Sivil, Kelly E. Hattori, and Christopher K. Zahm

AAPG Bulletin

... reservoir that extends across Texas and Louisiana. It is composed of interbedded layers of marly chalks to calcareous-siliciclastic mudrocks that vary...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 14: 3-D Coupled Basin Reaction, Transport, and Mechanics Modeling: Applications to Fracture, Fault, and Salt Tectonic Regimes

Tuncay, K., A. Park, P. Ortoleva

AAPG Special Volumes

... subjected to bending (Friedman, 1976). The existence of fractures in near-horizontal layers has been attributed to unloading (Currie and Nwachukwu, 1974...

Fully Integrated Dynamic Reservoir and Well Simulation Model: Blacktip Gas Field Case Study

Ryosuke Yokote, Mohammad Albarzanji, Yohan Suhardiman, Andrew Tran, Erni Dharma Putra, Nelson Jose Rodriguez Gonzalez

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... reservoir models, e.g. a cylindrical reservoir of 150 m in radius with five layers (Hu et al. 2007). This simplified approach satisfied requirements...