Shallow Gas in the Milk River Formation: The First Western Canadian Gas Discovery

Kelly Young, Paul Gagnon, James Lee, Brian McKinstry, Rich Wade

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... exhibit low effective porosities and very poor lateral permeabilities. The laminated fine-grained sandstones have relatively good porosities...

Antelope shale (Monterey Formation), Buena Vista Hills field: Advanced reservoir characterization to evaluate CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery

Scott L. Montgomery, Michael F. Morea

AAPG Bulletin

..., the very high porosities seen in these rocks, ranging from 30 to as high as 50%, pose difficulties for compensated neutron log readings, which consistently...

Ways of Deciphering Compacted Sediments

Brewster Baldwin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 34-47. ATHY, L. F., 1930, Density, porosity, and compaction of sedimentary rocks: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 14, p. 1-24. BEALL, A. O...

Results of Exploration, Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Western Australia

I. Willis

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Tertiary succession is conventionally considered to comprise two major series of sedimentary rocks separated by a late Middle Jurassic unconformity...

Abstract: Facies and porosity distribution of the Gays River Formation, southside Antigonish Harbour

Conor Doyle

Atlantic Geology

... a natural stratigraphic trap, and underlain by shales of the Horton Group, which are good source rocks. The rocks can be separated into four different...

Carbonate Pore Types of the Wahoo Formation, Lisburne Reservoir, Prudhoe Bay Field, North Slope, Alaska - Abstract

John G. Kaldi, David L. Boyer, David A. Budd

Alaska Geological Society

... into a) microporosity with limestone grains and b) microporosity within limestone matrix. A characteristic of these microporous rocks is their high porosities...

Integrated Geological and Engineering Characterization of an Upper Permian, Carbonate Reservoir, South Cowden Unit, Ector County, Texas — A Work in Progress: Abstract

M. G. Gerard, J. V. Johnson, S. C. Snow, C. D. Caldwell

Tulsa Geological Society

... delineate four zones within the 150 foot reservoir interval. Rocks composing these zones are extensively dolomitized and display a complex color...

Red Wing Creek Field--Cosmic Impact Structure: ABSTRACT

Elmer S. Parson, Gordon W. Henderson, Louis J. Conti

AAPG Bulletin

... are missing over the center of the structure. Replacing these are rocks of Mississippian age which have undergone intensive deformation in an uplifted...

Burial Diagenesis in Carbonate Rocks: ABSTRACT

P. A. Scholle, R. B. Halley

AAPG Bulletin

...Burial Diagenesis in Carbonate Rocks: ABSTRACT P. A. Scholle, R. B. Halley 1983 546 546 67 3. (March) Burial diagenesis, those changes in rock...

Carbonate Pore System Characterization and Porosity Prediction Using Multi-Scale Data

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Sandstone Porosity Loss--A "Big Picture" View of the Importance of Compaction

Paul D. Lundegard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the method arises mainly from uncertainty in initial sandstone porosities, and the amount of local grain dissolution during burial. Data...

Basin Modeling of the Upper Jurassic Petroleum Systems (Tithonian and Oxfordian) in the Akalan-Chilam Area of the Campeche Sound in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Salvador Ortuno Arzate, Cuauhtemoc Romero Moguel, Marcelino Moreno Lopez, Marco Flores Flores

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Cretaceous breccias (Figure 37), and Cenozoic sandstones adjacent to the source rocks. Proper evaluation explains the densities (API) and compositional...

COMBINING GEOSTATISTICS AND MULTI-ATTRIBUTE TRANSFORMS: A CHANNEL SAND CASE STUDY, BLACKFOOT OILFIELD (ALBERTA)

B. Russell, D. Hampson, T. Todorov and L. Lines

Journal of Petroleum Geology

...-perfect physical model. For example, if cokriging is applied to the problem of tying seismic structure to picked well depths, the implied velocities...

Diagenesis of Oceanic Carbonate Sediments: A Review of the Dsdp Perspective

Robert E. Garrison

Special Publications of SEPM

... the physical properties of the sediments and rocks covered has Thus it re in some instances to separate the effects of drilling disturb ances from...

Tertiary Thrust Systems and Fluid Flow beneath the Beaufort Coastal Plain (1002 Area), Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, U.S.A.

Christopher J. Potter, John A. Grow, William J. Perry, Thomas E. Moore, Paul B. O'Sullivan, Jeffrey D. Phillips, Richard W. Saltus

AAPG Special Volumes

... are composed of rocks having densities averaging more than 2.7 g/cm3 (Saltus et al., 1999). Seismic velocities derived during the reprocessing...

Characterizing the Near Surface with VSP and Well Logs

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... of well logs, five porous zones were identified and their porosities range from 0.34 to 0.58. The respective P-wave velocities of clean sandstone...

Applying Rock Physic Models for Optimized Pore Pressure Prediction

Joel K. Loeffler, Sam Green, Jakob Heller, Lev Vernik

GCAGS Transactions

... and ønk are the porosities of the kerogen and non-kerogen phase, and ρk and ρnk are the solid grain densities of the kerogen and non-kerogen phase...

Petroleum Geology of the Bakken Formation Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

Fred F. Meissner

AAPG Special Volumes

... (compared to the total sedimentary section) its organic-rich shales are documented source rocks. The generation/migration scheme postulated...

Dispersal of Fine Sediments from River to Shelf: Process and Product

Bentley, Samuel J., Sr.

GCAGS Transactions

... much more sediment mass than can buoyant plumes of suspended sediment, and can move at velocities on the order of cm s-1, such benthic sediment flows...

Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska: Reservoir Characterization Study - Abstract

Rocky Reifenstuhl

Alaska Geological Society

.... A summary of the P&P data from the basin margin cores include porosities of 1.1 to 11.7 percent (average about 4 percent) and permeabilities of 0.001...

Abstract: Carbonate Rocks within the Siliciclastic Sequences of the Wilmington Oil Field, Los Angeles County, California, by B. H. Berman and J. C. Pinkerton; #90992 (1993).

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Using 3-D Property Models to Optimize Infill Drilling in from East Texas Tight Gas Play, #40490 (2010)

Terngu Utim, Celine E. Caithamer, Omar Minhaj

Search and Discovery.com

... porosities (3 - 18%); the product of multiple regimes of diagenesis. Since discovery in 1968, it’s been through periods of intense development...

Coupled stratigraphic and petroleum system modeling: Examples from the Ordos Basin, China

Keyu Liu, Jianliang Liu, and Xiu Huang

AAPG Bulletin

..., with porosities ranging from 2% to 8% and permeabilities generally less than 1 md (Shuai et al., 2013). Source rocks are primarily developed in C2b...

Petroleum Geology of the Bakken Formation Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

FRED F. MEISSNER

Montana Geological Society

... petroleum source-rocks (Dow, 1974; Williams, 1974) and are believed to have generated the tremendously large volumes of oil found...

Petroleum Geology of the Bakken Formation Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana*

Fred F. Meissner

Montana Geological Society

...-rich shales in the Bakken have been documented as excellent petroleum source-rocks (Dow, 1974; Williams, 1974) and are believed...