High Pressure Shales and their Depositional Facies, Southern Louisiana Cenozoic: NOTES

Ervin G. Otvos, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sands in sections with pressure-related drilling problems, seemed to point to the sealing and overpressure-retaining capacity of shales (see also...

AAPG Foundation 2002 Grants-in-Aid Projects Abstracts; #90001 (2002).

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ABSTRACT Coupled Fluid-Mechanical Models of Large Scale Delta Instability, #90123 (2011)

Steven Ings, Christopher Beaumont

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... must be given to the dynamic relationship between sedimentation, fluid overpressure generation, shale mobilization and flow, and overburden deformation...

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

Xinjing Li and Zhongjian Qiu

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... Evidence for Fluid Overpressure  during Hydrocarbon Generation Left: Calcite‐lined shear zone and slip surface in  dipping beds on flank of large...

Characteristics of Tight Gas Reservoir in the Upper Triassic Sichuan Basin, Western China; #10876 (2016)

Qi Li

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.... Tensional microfractures related to overpressure formed in the Middle-Late Cretaceous. The existence of overpressure reduced effective stress...

Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality of Lengdong Area, Qaidam Basin, China; #41934 (2016)

Jie He, Hua Wang, Detian Yan

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... on reservoir quality Overpressure Figure 16 The relationship between surface porosity and carbonate cement content Figure 17 The relationship between...

Reservoir Quality in Salt-Encased Microbial-Dominated Carbonates from the Late Neoproterozoic Ara Group, South-Oman Salt Basin; #11149 (2018)

Stephan Becker, Jörg Smodej, Lars Reuning, Peter A. Kukla

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..., J.L. Urai, and J. Schöenherr, 2011, Distribution and mechanisms of overpressure generation and deflation in the Late Neoproterozoic to Early...

Heart Mountain — Blocks in a Giant Volcanic Rock Glacier

John K. Sales

Wyoming Geological Association

... instantaneous complete collapse. The latter is favored because it enhances the role of fluid overpressure. One line of reasoning suggests...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Re-Evaluating Depositional Models for Shelf Shales

Janok P. Bhattacharya, James A. MacEachern

GCAGS Transactions

.... Prodelta hyperpycnites form leaner, gas-prone source rocks, prone to the generation of overpressure, versus more slowly deposited, organic-rich...

ABSTRACT: Insights on the generation, preservation, and producibility of hydrocarbons in structurally complex reservoirs: case study from the southern Appalachian Fold-Thrust Belt, southeastern USA

Jack C. Pashin

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... fracture networks in the shale during duplex formation. Complex structure and pockets of hydrocarbon overpressure have made wells difficult to control while...

Working Under Pressure

Paul Wood

GEO ExPro Magazine

... rigorous approach to subsurface pressure mapping. Between 1994 and 2001 he started up and ran GeoPOP, the Geosciences Project into OverPressure which...

Oil and Gas Accumulations of the Offshore Barrow and Exmouth Sub-Basins - Trends in Hydrocarbon Habitat

M. L. Zaunbrecher

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., drilling and pressure data. 5 All documented zones of overpressure occur within the hydrocarbon-generative window (see Figs 3, 4 & 5). The Biggada...

ABSTRACT: Tectonic Framework and Gas-Filled Structures of the Bearpaw Mountains, North-Central Montana

D.W. Baker, E.H. Johnson

Montana Geological Society

... accumulated on the uplifted dome. The best explanation for blocks of strata gliding down slopes less than 3 degrees is the overpressure...

Hydrocarbon Potential of the Basin Floor Fan Complex —A Comparative Study between the Offshore Bengal Basin and the Rakhine Basin, Myanmar

Abdus Samad Azad, Zabir Hossain, Michael Whibley

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... In the Rakhine Basin, seven (7) wells were drilled during the same period, with most abandoned because of the drilling hazard related to overpressure...

Petroleum Systems of the Northern Malay Basin

Mazlan Madon, Jiu-Shan Yang, Peter Abolins, Redzuan Abu Hassan, Azmi M. Yakzan, Saiful Bahari Zainal

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

.... This distribution may be biased by the depth of well penetrations in the basin centre due to the onset of overpressure. Oil occurs in faulted traps along the Western...

Abstract: Sedimentation in the inner Cornwallis Estuary, Minas Basin, Nova Scotia: implications for contaminant accumulation

G. Yeo, E. Bishop, A. Dickinson, R. Faas

Atlantic Geology

..., 167 plane or rippled, silty beds are interbedded with water-saturated clays deposited at slack water. Overpressure conditions resulting from the ebb...

Abstract: Discovery and Development of Jonah Field, Wyoming - A New TCF Gas Field in the Green River Basin

John W. Robinson

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Lance. Pressure gradients in the field range from 0.55 to 0.59 psi/ft. Overpressure in the field results from continuous upward migration...

Can a seal fail

David Rajmon

GEO ExPro Magazine

... or fluid overpressure. So, all that is needed to hold the entire hydrocarbon accumulation is a single layer of pore throats. Once a hydrocarbon column...

Well Log Analysis Concepts in Clastic and Argillaceous US Gulf Coast Sediments

Walter H. Fertl

GCAGS Transactions

... and formation evaluation studies, including detailed stratigraphic correlations, clay diagenesis, source rock potential, cation exchange capacity, overpressure...

Abstract: Exploration for Deep Miocene Reservoirs in South Louisiana: The Story of the Etouffee Discovery, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Tom Fletcher

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... to excellent production rates, especially for reservoirs below 18000 feet. Early onset of overpressure and high bottomhole pressures (17000 psi) have helped...

ABSTRACT: North American Shale Gas Resources, Reserves, and Production: A Geological and Geochemical PErspective

John B. Curtis

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... "families", detection of seals and overpressure, and provide evidence of migrated thermogenic gas accumulations. In shale gas plays, where the source...

Abstract: Shale Tectonics in the Northern Port Isabel Fold Belt Trend, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Rion H. Camerlo, David Meyer, and Robert E. Meltz

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... in that it is not caused by overpressure, as is assumed of most diapiric shales. The trend has economic hydrocarbon accumulations in traps created by the ductile...

Facies Analysis of the Lower DR Sands, Based on Core and Wireline Log Interpretation, Attaka Field

Diana Rosary, Edy Sunardi, Yuniyanto, Adhe Krisna

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... for unraveling those particular problems. A recent study is focused on the Lower DR Sand Overpressure Sequence, at depths of 10050 – 10130 feet (TVD...

Abstract: Depositional Environment, Stratigraphy, and Petrophysical and Reservoir Characteristics of the Haynesville and Bossier Shale-Gas Plays of East Texas and Northwest Louisiana

Ursula Hammes and Ray Eastwood

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... overpressure and high temperature, steep decline rates, EURs estimated at 3 to 7 Bcfg per completion in each formation, and total play resources...

Abstract: Natural Gas Accumulation Processes of Tight Sandstone Reservoirs in Shixi Block, Eastern Margin of Ordos Basin, China

Chao Liu, Xu Wang, Beilei Sun, Fuhui Qi

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... overpressure (33.09-71.71 MPa). According to burial history and thermal history simulations, two main stages of hydrocarbon accumulation in the Shihezi...