Effects of light hydrocarbons and extractable organic matter on the methane sorption capacity of shales

Qian Zhang, Reinhard Fink, Bernhard M. Krooss, Zhijun Jin, Rukai Zhu, Zhazha Hu, Garri Gaus, and Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... on its surface (Jagadisan and Heidari, 2019). Han et al. (2015) also demonstrated that oil retention in source rock is primarily controlled by organic...

Oil and Gas Fields of the Mexia and Tehuacana Fault Zones, Texas

Frederic H. Lahee

AAPG Special Volumes

... the petroleum which was discovered in the Woodbine formation in the pools of this region? Did the oil come from a source rock stratigraphically close...

GeoConvention 2014; - Abstracts, #90224 (2015).

Search and Discovery.com

Geology and Hydrocarbon Resources of the Outer Western Carpathians and Their Foreland, Czech Republic

Frank J. Picha, Zdenk Strnk, Oldich Krej

AAPG Special Volumes

... geologickeho, Praha, v. 53, p. 257272.Picha, F. J., and K. E. Peters, 1998, Biomarker oil-to-source rock correlation in the Western Carpathians...

Present Interpretations of the Structural Theory for Oil and Gas Migration and Accumulation: Part III. Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum

Alex. W. McCoy , W. Ross Keyte

AAPG Special Volumes

..., induced them to assign even greater importance to compaction as the cause of oil migration from the source bed to the reservoir rock. L. F. Athy...

Determination of the Initial Water-Oil Contact in the Clastic Reservoirs of the Devonian of Tataria

D. A. Shapiro

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the water-oil contact is found more exactly in such cases with a small sonde. In correlation it should be taken into account that in thick strata...

Tectonic History of the Sweetgrass Arch, a Key to Finding New Hydrocarbons, Montana and Alberta

Warren Shepard, Betsy Bartow

Wyoming Geological Association

... of plutonic uplifts were emplaced on the east flank, forming traps for oil then migrating updip from the Williston and Alberta basins. Oil and gas accumulated...

Geology and Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Madison Group, Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Paul G. Lillis, Richard M. Pollastro, Lawrence O. Anna

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., W.G., 1974, Application of Oil-Correlation and Source Rock Data to Exploration in Williston Basin: AAPG Bulletin, v. 58, no. 7, p. 1253–1262. Gerhard...

Chapter 4: Unconventional Gas-Oil Shale Microfabric Features Relating to Porosity, Storage, and Migration of Hydrocarbons

Neal R. O’Brien, Carol A. McRobbie, Roger M. Slatt, Elizabeth T. Baruch-Jurado

AAPG Special Volumes

... present prior to the initial expulsion of oil in the source rock and possibly represents fluid expulsion features created by increasing reservoir...

A Statistical Approach to Understanding Fluid Geochemistry Changes in Unconventional Plays

Craig D. Barrie, Catherine M. Donohue, J. Alex Zumberge

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... important for core-to-oil correlation studies their utility as viable fluid end-members for allocation is problematic. However, if we were to ignore...

Gas Fields of Lost Soldier District, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming

Allen W. Tillotson

AAPG Special Volumes

... Soldier district in south-central Wyoming contains 3 oil fields, 4 gas fields, 1 prospective gas field, and 3 anticlines with structural closures...

Hunton Group (Silurian-Devonian) and Related Strata in Oklahoma

J. Philip Shannon, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... rock exposed during the pre-Kaskaskia hiatus. The youngest units which could have acted as a source rock for the Misener are the sands in the Simpson...

Unique Resiliency of Biosurfactants in the Lab and Field with Depleting Concentration

Megan R. Pearl, Erna Kakadjian, Joshua Hancock, Hin Cheong Au Yong, Sivaram Pradhan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of a surfactant to water-wet the rock surface, displacing oil with water. Contact angle measurements typically determine the functionality of a surfactant...

Ordovician Source Rock Potential on the Broome Platform of the onshore Canning Basin in the far north of Western Australia

Jop van Hattum, Aaron Bond, Ryan Taylor-Walshe

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of a hydrocarbon-rich LGS source rock, however it was immature for oil and gas expulsion due to the shallow depth of burial. The results of Cyrene-1...

In the Deep Subsurface of the San Joaquin Valley, are the Monterey, Kreyenhagen and Moreno Formations Continuous Oil Accumulations Analogous to the Bakken Formation?; #11089 (2018)

Dave Larue, Mark Mercer, Mark Smithard

Search and Discovery.com

... and actively creating oil in the deep subsurface Isn’t all that source rock valuable? Can’t we do anything with it? And then there’s the Kreyenhagen...

Application of Integrated Core and 3-D Image Rock Physics to Characterize Niobrara Chalk Properties Including Relative Permeability With Bound Water Effect

Alan P. Byrnes, Shawn Zhang, Lyn Canter, Mark Sonnenfeld

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... spacing (e.g., every 1-ft) and to sample specific lithofacies, for routine and special core analyses, source rock geochemistry, saturate-aromatic-resin...

Spatiotemporal and stratigraphic trends in salt-water disposal practices of the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico, United States

Casee R. Lemons, Guinevere McDaid, Katie M. Smye, Juan P. Acevedo, Peter H. Hennings, D. Amy Banerji, and Bridget R. Scanlon

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of salt water coproduced with oil and gas has become a critical issue in the United States because of linkages with induced seismicity, as seen in Oklahoma...

Regional Stratigraphy and General Petroleum Geology of the U.S. Portion of the Williston Basin and Adjacent Areas

James A. Peterson, Lawrence M. MacCary

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 860, 87 p. Dow, W G., 1974, Application of oil-correlation and source-rock data . to exploration...

Petroleum Occurrence in the Uinta Basin: North America

Lewis F. Wells

AAPG Special Volumes

... organic material in nearby source rock to fill the veins from surrounding organic shales. Bradley (1931) has defined oil shales as a fine-grained...

A Regional Geologic Framework for the Athabasca Oil Sands, Northeastern Alberta, Canada

Frances J. Hein, Graham Dolby, Brent Fairgrieve

AAPG Special Volumes

... regional lithofacies analysis and stratigraphic correlation and geologic modeling for the Athabasca oil sands show that much of the preserved stratigraphy...

An overview of the petroleum system of Maracaibo Basin

Alejandro Escalona, Paul Mann

AAPG Bulletin

... and Hydrocarbon CharacteristicsThe La Luna Formation is considered a good to excellent, oil-prone source rock (Talukdar et al., 1986; Talukdar and Marcano, 1994...

Silica Diagenesis, Porosity Evolution, and Mechanical Behavior In Siliceous Mudstones, Mowry Shale (Cretaceous), Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

Kitty L. Milliken, Terrilyn Olson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 96, p. 87– 108. Nixon, R.P., 1973, Oil source beds in Cretaceous Mowry Shale of northwestern interior United...

Enhanced Oil Recovery Using High-Performance Surfactants in High-Temperature, High-Salinity, Tight Reservoirs

Lu Jin, Nidhal Badrouchi, Kai He, Chad Gilmer, Tao Jiang, Steven Smith, Xincheng Wan, Guangwei Ren, Nicholas Bosshart, James Sorensen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... interactions within the rock matrix. Core flooding tests with varying injection rates and soaking lengths (1–36 days) yielded oil recovery ranging from 55...

Does Pressure Matter? A Statistical Study

Dylan Lougheed, Reza Khaksarfard, David Anderson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Year Cum Oil 3 Year Cum Oil Oil EUR Oil EUR RSq R Df n 125 127 288 290 288 290 Table 3 – Spearman correlation results for early-time predictors...

Influence of Source Rock Type, Thermal Maturity, and Migration on Composition and Distribution of Natural Gases, Uinta Basin, Utah

Dudley D. Rice, Thomas D. Fouch, Ronald C. Johnson

Utah Geological Association

...Influence of Source Rock Type, Thermal Maturity, and Migration on Composition and Distribution of Natural Gases, Uinta Basin, Utah Dudley D. Rice...