Geochemical Characterization of Natural Gas: A Physical Multivariable Approach and its Applications in Maturity and Migration Estimates

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The Ames Impact Crater

Bruce N. Carpenter and Rick Carlson

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... pressure (BHP) of 4,055 psi, and a hydrostatic pressure of 4,181 psi. Surface flowing pressure was 1,200 psi through a 16/64-in. choke. More than 320...

Repurposing Oil and Gas Wells to Produce Electricity Using the Greenloop Closed-Loop Geothermal Technology

Glenn Golla, Iwan Chandra, Kevin McCarthy, Joseph Scherer, Hollis Chin, Robert Klenner

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The downbore closed-loop heat exchanger only extracts heat and not mass from the resource, thereby conserving water and maintaining pressure...

Integration of Geologic Model and Reservoir Simulation, Popeye Field, Green Canyon 116

Beth Yuvancic-Strickland, Eric Kuhl, Tin-Wai Lee, Benjamin Seldon, Peter B. Flemings, Turgay Ertekin

GCAGS Transactions

... of a regional growth fault (Fig. 3). The RM and RN reservoirs are bounded on the west by a normal fault that dips to the southwest. Smaller faults...

Exploration for Reservoir Quality Rock Bodies by Mapping and Simulation of Potentiometric Surface Anomalies

J. Toth, K. Rakhit

CSPG Bulletin

... permeability variation. Water Resources Research, v. 3, no. 2, p. 623-634. Horner, D.R. 1951. Pressure build-up in wells. Proceedings of the Third World...

Basin-Scale Rock Physics Study and Stochastic AVO Modelling for the Deep Water Kutei Basin (East Kalimantan … Indonesia)

Gabriela Carrasquero, Alessandro Amato del Monte, Fabio Luoni, Paolo Battini, Gilbert Del Molino, Fabri Ikhlas Gumulya, Dedy Sulistiyo Purnomo, Nasif Khifni

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the analysis and quality control of the well-log elastic properties distribution, the identification of six litho-fluid classes (normal pressure shales, brine...

Normal Faulting in the Indianhead Creek Area, Alberta

Thomas A. Birnie

CSPG Bulletin

... period of normal faulting. The sudden increase in pressure of the downward movement of the normal faulting would produce a sympathetic movement...

Effects of Porous Properties of Rock on Near-Wellbore Hydraulic Fracture Complexity

Yongcun Feng, K. E. Gray

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pressure and porous properties of rock can significantly affect hydraulic fracture propagation, especially in the near-wellbore regions. The model...

Predicting and Updating Geopressure 1,000 Feet Ahead of the Bit at the Wellsite

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The Effect of Rock Flowage on the Kerogen of Oil Shale

Francis M. Van Tuyl , Chester O. Blackburn

AAPG Bulletin

... to the possibility of oil being generated from oil shale as a result of pressure. The apparatus adopted was a slight modification of that employed...

Visualization-Based Volume Interpretation Leads to Robust Identification of Stratigraphic Features of Deep Marine System

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Shore normal cross-section, showing grain-size distribution with depth.

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Horizontal Detachments, Planes of Weaknesses and Layer-Parallel Shortening in Shale: Potential Impact on Unconventional Shale Development, #41653 (2015).

Jean-Yves Chatellier

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... the Golata Shale that displace normal faults and create pathways for oil from the Exshaw Shale. Diagenesis associated with pressure solution and slickensides...

High-Performance Water-Based Mud Using Nanoparticles for Shale Reservoirs

Chang Min Jung, Rui Zhang, Martin Chenevert, Mukul Sharma

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... cakes should be developed. Shale has extremely low permeability and a very small pore throat size, so normal mud cakes fail to stop or even reduce...

Occurrence and Detection of Abnormal Pressures from Geological and Drilling Data, North Sumatra Basin

A. Aziz, L. H. Bolt

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... place in a normal manner. Figure 5. Isopach Map Between 215°F Isotherm and 290°F Isotherm Occurrence of Abnormal Pressure Zone Lateral and Vertical...

Baseline characterization of the CO2SINK geological storage site at Ketzin, Germany

Andrea Frster, Ben Norden, Kim Zinck-Jrgensen, Peter Frykman, Johannes Kulenkampff, Erik Spangenberg, Jrg Erzinger, Martin Zimmer, Jrgen Kopp, Gnter Borm, Chris Juhlin, Calin-Gabriel Cosma, Suzanne Hurter

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...-controlled pressure vessel, with hydrostatic confining pressure pconf acting on a perfluoroalkoxy jacket around the rock sample. Confining pressure and pore...

Shallow Oil & Gas Fields of the Texas Panhandle and Hugoton

Henry Rogatz

Panhandle (Texas) Geological Society

... significance other than it is the point at which the gas pressure and the hydrostatic head are equalized. Apparently the hydrostatic head is stationary...

Groundwater Flow, Late Cementation, and Petroleum Accumulation in the Permian Lyons Sandstone, Denver Basin

Ming-Kuo Lee , Craig M. Bethke

AAPG Bulletin

... surface in our calculations is held at a constant temperature of 10°C and atmospheric pressure. The sides of the basin remain at hydrostatic pressure...

Development and Evaluation of Multiphase Closure Models used in the Simulation of Unconventional Wellbore Dynamics

Travis Mitchell, Bryce Hill, Mahshid Firouzi, Christopher Leonardi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and extraction of methane from coal seams, the hydrostatic pressure in the reservoir must first be reduced. This is typically achieved...

Oil and Gas in Reservoirs with Subnormal Pressures

Parke A. Dickey , Wayne C. Cox

AAPG Bulletin

... the pressure in the reservoir to normal. The evidence in this paper, notably the contrast between Leafland and Gilby fields, suggests that some shales...

Production Analysis and Forecasting of Vaca Muerta Shale in Argentina: Case History-Based Approach

Leonardo Maschio, S. Maria, F. Herrero

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...o exclude sandstone and sandy horizons in selected intervals for pore pressure prediction. With increasing depth, normal shale/mudstone com...

Geodetic Baselines Across the Gulf of California Using the Global Positioning System: Chapter 24: Part IV. Satellite Geodesy

T. H. Dixon, D. M. Tralli, G. Blewitt, J. P. Dauphin

AAPG Special Volumes

... water vapor in hydrostatic equilibrium) and the "wet" delay (due to tropospheric water vapor not in hydrostatic equilibrium) must be determined...

Characterization of deformation bands associated with normal and reverse stress states in the Navajo Sandstone, Utah

John G. Solum, J. P. Brandenburg, Stephen J. Naruk, Olga V. Kostenko, Scott J. Wilkins, Richard A. Schultz

AAPG Bulletin

... density of 2.4 g/cm3, and a hydrostatic fluid pressure, the effective vertical stress (1 at Big Hole and 3 at Buckskin Gulch) would be approximately 28...

Reservoir Pressure Mapping from Well-Test Data: An Eagle Ford Example

J. Kalinec, B. S. Hart

GCAGS Transactions

...Reservoir Pressure Mapping from Well-Test Data: An Eagle Ford Example J. Kalinec, B. S. Hart 2021 149 155 Vol. 71 (2021) Reservoir-pressure data...

Structural evaluation of column-height controls at a toe-thrust discovery, deep-water Niger Delta

Olga V. Kostenko, Steve J. Naruk, Willem Hack, Manuel Poupon, Hans-Jurg Meyer, Miguel Mora-Glukstad, Charles Anowai, Margaret Mordi

AAPG Bulletin

... cutoffs.We use dipmeter, seismic, stratigraphic, and fluid pressure data to construct an integrated geometrically and kinematically balanced cross section...