FAST: A New Technique for Geomechanical Assessment of the Risk of Reactivation-related Breach of Fault Seals

Scott D. Mildren, Richard R. Hillis, Paul J. Lyon, Jeremy J. Meyer, David N. Dewhurst, Peter J. Boult

AAPG Special Volumes

... is the increase in pore pressure required to reduce the effective normal stress to the value that would cause slip on a cohesionless fault (Figure 2...

Abstract: Complex Method of Prediction and Estimation of Abnormal Pressure, by V. A. Serebryakov; #91017 (1992).

Search and Discovery.com

Modeling the Unconventional Way: A Novel Midland Basin Case Study on How to Simulate Reservoir Models Without Altering Stimulated Fracture Geometries

C. Lance Reynolds, David Brannan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... demonstrate pore pressures more closely approximated by hydrostatic gradient, as one would expect. This generates a laying effect of pressure, which...

Nature of Black Water Occurrence, Northern Green River Basin

George F. Pete Dana, John Ward Smith

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... in oil shale rather than cavities created from secondary crystallization. The aquifer is pressurized by overburden rather than gas or hydrostatic...

Burke Ranch Field, Natrona County, Wyoming

Richard P. Swirczynski

Wyoming Geological Association

... and the bottom hole hydrostatic pressure was 3500 psi. The No. 2 Unit was drilled to a total depth of 8356 feet into the Tensleep formation and plugged back...

Hydrocarbon accumulation processes in the Dabei tight-gas reservoirs, Kuqa Subbasin, Tarim Basin, northwest China

Xiaowen Guo, Keyu Liu, Chengzao Jia, Yan Song, Mengjun Zhao, Qingong Zhuo, and Xuesong Lu

AAPG Bulletin

... with apparent overpressure development at 5 Ma (Figure 14). The first stage (12–5 Ma) was a phase of normal hydrostatic pressure for the reservoir...

Use of Pore Pressure Modeling to Constrain Seismic Velocities

Search and Discovery.com

Laboratory Investigation of Wall Creek Formation Performance on Combined Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage within the Residual Oil Zone Fairways of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Ying Yu, Tao Bai, Richie Ness, Luke Fritz, Zunsheng Jiao, Jonathan Fred McLaughlin, Scott Quillinan, Nick Jones

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... similar dimensions of around 5.184 cm in length and 3.735 cm in diameter. The normal hydrostatic pressure gradient of 0.433 psi/ft was chosen...

Experimental Compaction of Ooids Under Deep-burial Diagenetic Temperatures and Pressures

Ajit Bhattacharyya , Gerald M. Friedman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...--not the conditions we wished to achieve. Maintenance of pressure on the pore fluid may have modified the uniaxial stress applied, but the hydrostatic...

Basin Modelling in the Mahakam Delta Based on the Integrated 2D Model TEMISPACK

Jean Burrus, Etienne Brosse, Ghislain Choppin de Janvry, Yves Grosjean, Jean-Louis Oudin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the layers using normal compaction curves. 'Normal' means that neither undercompaction nor mineral diagenesis are considered. The mechanical...

Broadband Data from Flat Streamers: Considerations for Acquisition and Processing

Phil Fontona, Edward Hager

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... emission response we consider the bubble in providing the low-frequencies which are reduced as the hydrostatic pressure increases. The source ghost...

A geologic deconstruction of one of the world's largest natural accumulations of CO2, Moxa arch, southwestern Wyoming

Thomas P. Becker, Ranie Lynds

AAPG Bulletin

...):Thus, the maximum column height (Hmax) that can be held by a seal iswhere Pex is fluid pressure that exceeds normal hydrostatic pressures...

Application of Simultaneous Inversion and Geomechanical Facies in the Characterization of an Unconventional Play, #41940 (2016).

S.A. Cuervo, H. Malcotti

Search and Discovery.com

... of elastic properties away from well control. The stress regime in the study area has two distinct environments, the normal pore pressure interval, covering...

Gas-show Pattern at Mcmullin Ranch Field, Sacramento Valley, California

Raymond L. Knight

AAPG Bulletin

... for Blewett and Tracy reservoirs are essentially normal. Deeper zones have gradients in excess of hydrostatic (Fig. 4). DEVELOPMENT DRILLING Drilling...

Great Salt Plains, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma—Geology, Brines, and Hourglass-Selenite Crystals

Kenneth S. Johnson

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... sand, silt, clay, and gravel that overlie Permian bedrock). Once in the overburden, brine continues moving upward due to hydrostatic pressure...

STRUCTURALLY RELATED MIGRATION OF HYDROCARBONS IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN BASIN OF EASTERN OHIO

Greg Mason, NGO Development Corp., Granville Rd., Newark, OH

Ohio Geological Society

... for compaction and is a large factor in primary migration. The hydrostatic pressure gradient is a large factor in secondary migration...

Formation pressure modeling using offshore seismic data

Weilai Pei, Lei Han, Chunyuan Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the V μ Pp = Po − (Po − Ph ) ( ) + Pcorr Vn (1) Where Vn indicates normal compaction trend, Po indicates overburden pressure, μ indicates Eaton index...

Interaction of Reaction, Mass Transport, and Rock Deformation During Diagenesis: Mathematical Modeling of Intergranular Pressure Solution, Stylolites, and Differential Compaction/Cementation

Thomas Dewers, Peter J. Ortoleva

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 355-389. Powley, D. E., 1985, Pressure, normal and abnormal: Lecture Notes, "Techniques of Petroleum Exploration II": AAPG School, South Padre Island...

Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 2. Propagation of a hydraulic fracture

Seth Busetti, Kyran Mish, Peter Hennings, Ze'ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... loading (p1), relaxation of horizontal stresses as in a normal faulting environment (p2), and increasing fracture internal pressure (or pore pressure...

In situ stress in the Peace River Arch area, Western Canada

J. S. Bell, R. E. McCallum

CSPG Bulletin

... to the formation pore pressure (the hydrostatic gradient is 9.81 Table 1. Magnitudes of SHmin measured and estimated in 41 wells in the Peace River Arch area...

Produced water disposal injection in the southern San Joaquin Valley: No evidence of groundwater quality effects due to upward leakage

Preston D. Jordan, and Janice Gillespie

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... storage injections typically occur at a pressure above hydrostatic, even approaching the fracturing gradient, to maximize injection well utility...

Sub-Capillary Pressure Equilibrium Reservoirs: Their Formation and Effect on Oil and Gas Production

Monty Hoffman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in the western Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions are not in pressure equilibrium. They are hydrodynamic and underpressured, not hydrostatic and normal...

ABSTRACT: Devonian Shale Gas Resource Assessment, Illinois Basin

Robert M. Cluff, Suzanne G. Cluff, Catherine M. Murphy

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...-by-foot through each well, assuming normal hydrostatic pressures and assuming the shale is gas saturated at reservoir conditions. The values thus...

Discovery and Development of Sawtelle Oil Field: ABSTRACT

S. Eschner, M. K. Scribner

AAPG Bulletin

... distributed en echelon along the northerly margin of the Los Angeles basin. Wells at Sawtelle confirm that the normal stratigraphic section has been...

Hydrodynamic Model for Pervasive Biogenic Gas Trapped in Low Permeability Sands - Western Plains of North America, by Rakhit, Kaush and David Hume; #90030(2004)

Search and Discovery.com