Description of Natural Fracture Systems for Quantitative Use in Petroleum Geology (1)

J. H. HOWARD and RICHARD C. NOLEN-HOEKSEMA

AAPG Bulletin

... porosities and permeabilities for domains and to develop their respective density and distribution functions. Finally, estimates from domains can...

Kerogen Density Revisited„Lessons From the Duvernay Shale

Artur Stankiewicz, Natalya Ionkina, Bill Motherwell, Barry Bennett, Oniel Wint, Maria Mastalerz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... closely reflect the maturity of actual fluids being produced in the subject area. The rocks studied vary from 2 to10% in total organic carbon (TOC) content...

Abstract: Potential Reservoirs for Geologic Sequestration in the East Continent Rift Basin, by Drahovzal, James A. and David C. Harris; #90031 (2004)

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ABSTRACT: Multi-frequency Dielectrics Response Interpretation in Carbonate Rocks Using New Modeling Parameters, by Zhang, Tianhua; Zhao, Weishu; Akbar, Mahmood; #90141 (2012)

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Global Deep Siliciclastic Reservoirs: Distribution Patterns and Geological Features

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Evaluating Seal Capacity of Caprocks and Intraformational Barriers for the Geosequestration of CO2

R. F. Daniel, J. G. Kaldi

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a trapped fluid commences to leak through a seal rock. Seal rocks are effective due to very fine pore and pore-throat sizes that result in low porosities...

Porosity trends in the Skagerrak Formation, Central Graben, United Kingdom Continental Shelf: The role of compaction and pore pressure history

Neil T. Grant, Alexander J. Middleton, and Stuart Archer

AAPG Bulletin

... of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf [UKCS]) show a marked degradation with depth, but the porosities are significantly higher than in similarly deeply...

Future Oil and Gas Possibilities in Michigan Basin: Region 8

Garland D. Ells

AAPG Special Volumes

...) of sedimentary rock. About 36,800 cu mi (153,350 cu km) of this volume is considered potentially productive. The consolidated rocks filling the basin...

Sequence architecture, depositional systems, and controls on development of lacustrine basin fills in part of the Erlian basin, northeast China

Lin Changsong, Kenneth Eriksson, Li Sitian, Wan Yongxian, Ren Jianye, Zhang Yanmei

AAPG Bulletin

... level rises. Densities: mudstone = 2.72; sandstone = 2.66; water = 1.0; mantle = 3.33. Surface porosities and compaction coefficients: mudstone = 0.51...

Experimental Study of the Compaction of Phyllosilicate-Bearing Sand at Elevated Temperature and with Controlled Pore Water Pressure

E.H. Rutter, P.H. Wanten

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... has been carried out on phyllosilicate-rich siliciclastic rocks (mudstones). Compaction is expected to be produced by intracrystalline plastic...

Microfracturing in the Upper Triassic Sichuan Basin tight-gas sandstones: Tectonic, overpressure, and diagenetic origins

Lianbo Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

... that are larger than the diameter of core. Kranz (1983) reviewed the occurrence of microfractures in rocks. In contrast to large fractures...

Variations in Porosity and Permeability in the Wilcox Group of the Texas Upper Gulf Coast

E. L. Grubbs

GCAGS Transactions

..., and Compaction of Sedimentary Rocks", Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Vol. 14, No. 1. 25. Payne, T. G., op. cit., page 1723. 26. Krumbein, W. C., 1945, "Recent...

Thermal and Compaction Processes in a Young Rifted Basin Containing Evaporites: Gulf of Lions, France (1)

JEAN BURRUS and FRANCOIS AUDEBERT

AAPG Bulletin

... rocks. A two-dimensional finite-difference basin model, Temispack, simulates the sedimentation, compaction, and overpressures related to the low...

Geology of Bombay High and Adjoining Structures

Bhagwan Sahay

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... and exhibiting both primary and secondary porosities. In view of: (a) occurrence of big oil/gas fields at Bombay High and South Bassein, (b) presence of a small...

Point Load Strength of a Coarse Grained, Porphyritic, Biotite-Hornblende Granite from the Pergau Area, Kelantan Darul Naim

J. K. Raj, Ahmad Nazmi Mohd. Ali

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... (Fig. 1). Along this stretch, slope cuts expose completely to partly weathered, and unweathered, granitic rocks that are characteristically pink...

Two-Dimensional Modeling of Groundwater Flow in an Evolving Deltaic Environment

David S. Gordon, Peter B. Flemings

Special Publications of SEPM

... of these rocks is so high that the fluid velocities dwarf those present in the marine shales As a result by far the highest fluxes in the system...

Improved Shale Characterization Through Joint Elastic-Electrical Effective Medium Modeling

Kelvin Amalokwu, Kyle Spikes, Kevin Wolf

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...ffects of kerogen on the elastic properties of the shale rock. However, both clay and kerogen act to reduce the stiffness of shale rocks, and their effects...

Petrolem Exploration in Southeastern Arizona: Anatomy of an Overthrust Play

Jamie P. Robinson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... with a Tertiary intrusion along the fault zone. Seismic reflections generated within crystalline rocks are believed to be caused by textural differences...

Understanding Pore Structure of Mudrocks and Pore-Size Dependent Sorption Mechanism Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Amirsaman Rezaeyan, Timo Seemann, Pieter Bertier, Vitaliy Pipich, Leon Leu, Niko Kampman, Artem Feoktystov, Lester Barnsley, Andreas Busch

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 6.7 4.4 0.9 2500 2.65 4.296 3.5 5.4 Posidonia Shale Bossier Shale Eagle Ford Shale EFS02 18.2 *SSAs and porosities have been calculated from...

Geology of the Basin-Centered Gas Accumulation, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Stephen P. Cumella, Douglas B. Ostby

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

.... The low permeability and highly lenticular nature of the fluvial sandstones require well densities of 20-acres or greater to adequately drain...

Experimental determination of porosity and methane sorption capacity of organic-rich shales as a function of effective stress: Implications for gas storage capacity

Garri Gaus, Reinhard Fink, Alexandra Amann-Hildenbrand, Bernhard M. Krooss, and Ralf Littke

AAPG Bulletin

... in porous rocks: Implications for the generation and maintenance of pore pressure excess in the crust: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 143, no. 1–3, p. 425...

Graphical Techniques for the Analysis and Display of Logging Information: Chapter 2

John H. Doveton

AAPG Special Volumes

... of geochemical facies: AAPG Bulletin, v. 42, no. 2, p. 387-430. Archie, G. E., 1952, Classification of reservoir rocks and petrophysical considerations: AAPG...

Novel Pore Pressure Prediction Technique for Unconventional Reservoirs

David Yale, Adriana Perez, Robert Raney

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... velocities through the shale sections (Couzens-Schultz et al, 2016; Akrash et al, 2016). We have found that with good mineral fractions and porosities...

Controls on H2S Concentration and Hydrocarbon Destruction in the Eastern Smackover Trend

William J. Wade , Jeffrey S. Hanor , Roger Sassen

GCAGS Transactions

... sedimentary rocks--II. Results and geochemical significance: Organic Geochemistry, v. 12, p. 91-108. Krouse, H. R., 1977, Sulfur isotope studies...

Upper Permian as a new play model on the mid-Norwegian continental shelf: Investigated by shallow stratigraphic drilling

T. Bugge, J. E. Ringas, D. A. Leith, G. Mangerud, H. M. Weiss, T. L. Leith

AAPG Bulletin

...-Lower Triassic and is comparable to rocks of the same age exposed onshore East Greenland. These data demonstrate that the marine depositional basin...