Compaction of Sediments

J. Marvin Weller

AAPG Bulletin

... initial porosities. By testing, estimating, and comparing the kinds of rocks in different stratigraphic sections it would be possible to employ...

Gulf Coast Logging

Gunnar J. Teilmann, Robert E. Murphy

New Orleans Geological Society

... compaction of sediments in young rocks and cycle skipping due to attenuation of the acoustic signal. For these reasons, the acoustic log is generally...

Petrology and Petrophysics of the Lance Formation (Upper Cretaceous), American Hunter, Old Road Unit 1, Sublette County, Wyoming

J. C. Webb, S. G. Cluff, C. M. Murphy, A. P. Byrnes

AAPG Special Volumes

... permeability. Core-measured in-situ porosities range from 4 to 13%. In-situ Klinkenberg permeabilities range from 0.001 to 2.66 md. Irreducible water...

Geostatistical Simulation of Reservoir Porosity Distribution from 3-D, 3-C Seismic Reflection and Core Data in the Lower Nisku Formation at Joffre Field, Alberta

Raul Cabrera-Garzon, John F. Arestad, Kadri Dagdelen, Thomas L. Davis

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Nolen-Hoeksema, 1994, Estimation of seimic velocities at ultrasonic frequencies in partially saturated rocks: Geophysics, v. 59, no. 2, p. 252-258...

Physical and Chemical Properties of Ellenburger Rocks, Llano County, Texas

Samuel S. Goldich , E. Bruce Parmelee

AAPG Bulletin

.... FOOTNOTE 19. H. R. Brankstone, W. G. Gealy, and W. O. Smith, "Improved Technique for Determination of Densities and Porosities," Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petr...

Porosity Examples from IAB Field, Coke County, Texas: ABSTRACT

C. J. George

AAPG Bulletin

... porosity, both in grain carbonate rocks, (3) secondary leached grain and moldic porosity in grain carbonate rocks, created during a drop in sea level...

Deriving Elastic and Petrophysical Properties From Small Sample Volumes Using Digital Rock Analysis

Vegar Ravlo, Pål-Eric Øren, Cathrine Ringstad

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... It is also difficult to interpret and evaluate the pore scale, micro-mechanical, behavior of shale rocks. The elastic properties of a shale rock are mainly...

ABSTRACT: The Influence of Physical and Chemical Parameters on Organic Maturation- Application to the Shei Point Group in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

D.N. Skibo, F. Goodarzi, K.R. Stewart, A.F. Embry

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... Canada , D.N. SKI'BO' F. GOODARZI' , K.R. STEWART' and A. F. EMBRY' Porosity, the volumetric measure of the intersticies in sedimentary rocks...

Abstract: Implementation of Classical and Advanced Geophysical Techniques to Evaluate the Gas Potentialities in West Abu Dhabi, UAE; #91204 (2023)

M. Alqaydi, M.A. Alaraby, H. Al Marzooqi, A.D. Alharthi, Muhammad Zeeshan Baig

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... Hanifa. The hot color on each property indicates higher values, consequentially the selection of the sweet spots based on densities and porosities should...

Geopressures and Hydrodynamics in the Gulf Basin Tertiary

Calvin A. Parker

New Orleans Geological Society

... (overpressures) in Teritiary/Quaternary rocks. These geopressures appear to rise stratigraphically in a basinward direction coincident with the regional...

The Baturaja Formation of the Sunda Sub-Basin Area: Abstract

Robert Larue

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... porosities. The preferential solution effect of ground water within the porous reefal framework has caused dissolution of the aragonite skeletons...

Exploring Sub-Basement Traps in the Upper Magdalena Valley of Colombia

C.E. Macellari, J. Amaral, J.F. Salel, M. Osorio

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... remain trapped in structures presently located beneath overthrusted basement rocks. Several attempts in the past were unsuccessful in testing this play...

A double double-porosity model for wave propagation in patchy-saturated tight sandstone with fabric heterogeneity

Jing Ba, Mengqiu Guo, Wenhao Xu, Fengyuan Sun, Lin Zhang, Wei Cheng

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... In natural reservoir rocks, fabric heterogeneity can further induce heterogeneous geometrical distribution of immiscible multi-phase fluid mixture...

Practical Synergies for Increasing Domestic Oil Production and Geological Sequestration of Anthropogenic CO2: An Example from the Michigan Basin

G. Michael Grammer, David A. Barnes, William B. Harrison III, Anthony E. Sandomierski, Robert G. Mannes

AAPG Special Volumes

... explain why rocks with equal porosity can have significantly different velocities. The most prominent velocity contrasts at equal porosities...

Compaction and its Effect on Local Structure: Part V. Porosity, Permeability, Compaction

L. F. Athy

AAPG Special Volumes

..., cleavage, and mineral metamorphism. Until the last few years scant mention has been made of compaction of relatively flat-lying sedimentary rocks...

Interstitial Water Composition and Geochemistry of Deep Gulf Coast Shales and Sandstones

Gene W. Schmidt

AAPG Bulletin

... centimeters. The porosities were computed from the densities by use of a plot relating rock porosity and dry-bulk density, and a constant grain density...

Wettability, Oil and Rock Characterization of the Most Important Unconventional Liquid Reservoirs in the United States and the Impact on Oil Recovery

J. O. Alvarez, D. S. Schechter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... because fluids cannot flow through these rocks. Thus, restoration of wettability, the cornerstone of all wettability assessment methods is a difficult...

Effects of Texture and Composition on Mechanical Behavior of Experimentally Deformed Carbonate Rocks

R. H. H. Hugman, III , Melvin Friedman

AAPG Bulletin

... porosity and ultimate strength would be expected because most of the rocks have similar low porosities. Dolomite and microcrystalline carbonate...

Influence of Porosity and Facies of Baturaja Carbonate to the Seismic Wave Velocity: Case Study of Tambun Field West Java

Jarot Setyowiyoto, Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, Ariffin Samsuri, Bambang Widjanarko, Thurisina

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in particular at medium porosity. For examples, carbonate rock with porosities of 21% can have velocities between 3840 m/s and 4300 m/s. This could be caused...

3-D Seismic Prospecting for Entrada Sandstone Reservoirs on the Southeastern Flank of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico

David J. Massé, R. Randy Ray

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... velocities at various bins in the 3-D data and were used to convert the time structure map at the top of the Entrada to depth. The resulting seismic...

Genesis of Carbonate Reservoir Facies: ABSTRACT

Lloyd C. Pray, Philip W. Choquette

AAPG Bulletin

...Genesis of Carbonate Reservoir Facies: ABSTRACT Lloyd C. Pray, Philip W. Choquette 1966 632 632 50 3. (March) Carbonate rocks with porosity...

Integration of Outcrop and Modern Analogs in Reservoir Modeling: Overview with Examples from the Bahamas

G. Michael Grammer, Paul M. Mitch Harris, Gregor P. Eberli

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Velocity differences at equal porosities can be more than 2500 m/s, particularly at higher porosities. For example, rocks with porosities of 39% can...

Petroleum geology of Carboniferous volcanic weathered crust in northern Xinjiang, China

Lianhua Hou, Chun Yang, Fan Yang, Xia Lou, Yanzhao Wei

CSPG Bulletin

... Xinjiang, where Carboniferous volcanic rocks covered an area of 378×103 km2 dominated by intermediate-basic rocks of low porosity. At the end...

Sussex Sandstone Production, Triangle U Field Campbell County, Wyoming

George G. Anderman

Wyoming Geological Association

..., Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Montana Group and equivalent rocks, Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 776, 37...

Hydrocarbon Accumulations In and Around Basalts in the Cenozoic of Northeast Bohai Bay Basin, China

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