A New Model for Pressure Transient Analysis of Fractured Horizontal Wells in Shale Gas Reservoirs With Continuum and Discrete Fracture Networks

Zhiming Chen, X W. Liao, H Zhang, Wei Yu, X D. Shen, Xiaoqing Shang, J L. Zhang, Hongyang Chu, Qingling Liu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... conductivity, and LFsD is the fracture-segment length in hydraulicfracture system. 4 Solution Methodology A semi-analytical method is used to solve the well...

Time-domain extended-source full-waveform inversion for acoustic vertically transversely isotropic media: Theory and numerical validation

Gaoshan Guo, Stephane Operto, Hossein S. Aghamiry

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... by fitting the measured scattered data (the data residuals) in a least-squares sense. Then they are used to approximate the missing scattered wavefield...

Transport and Fate Modeling at a Gasoline Fueling Facility: Tools to Demonstrate Natural Attenuation of Benzene

Robin D. Jenkins

Utah Geological Association

... mechanisms in the subsurface, such as adsorption/desorption, advection/dispersion, diffusion, and microbial degradation. Computer models were used to solve...

Paleohydrology and Paleomorphology of a Carboniferous, Meandering, Fluvial Sandstone

Thomas W. Gardner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in a flow diagram (Fig. 8), which arranges the numerous empirical equations (Table 2) into three distinct approaches. One frequently used approach attempts...

Origin of Fracture Porosity--Example from Altamont Field, Utah

Wayne Narr , John B. Currie

AAPG Bulletin

... burial and lithification followed by uplift and erosional unloading, we can determine the magnitude of Sx and Sy in equations 5 and 6 as functions...

Integrating Poroelastic Effects of Wastewater Injection and Rupture Dynamics to Understand Induced Seismicity

Dawid Szafranski, Benchun Duan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... regions in United States, such as Oklahoma and Texas. However, many techniques that are used to evaluate whether a particular earthquake is induced...

Assessing Risk Retention Strategies for Environmental Project Management

Evan K. Paleologos, Charles D. Fletcher

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of managing RF divided by the number of projects contributing to the fund, and i is the same interest rate used previously. Combining equations (7), (10...

Integrated Interpretation of an Iron-Rich Sediment, Jansz-Io Field, Northwest Shelf, Australia (Paper C3)

G. R. Heavysege, A. Mills

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... and later applied to derive continuous Swirr profiles from NMR logs in the uncored sections of the key wells based on analytical empirical functions...

Developing a Versatile Method for Rock Physics Modeling in a Carbonate Reservoir by Integrating Rock Mechanic Laboratory Results, Petrophysical Analysis and Computational Rock Physics: A Case Study from The Kais Formation in the Salawati Basin

Al Hafeez, Ananto Wibisono, Rochmad, Khairil Iqbal, Agus Guntoro, Gianita Octavia

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... step   After the equation to model the P-wave velocity (Vp) was obtained, we then used algorithms to get the value of aspect ratio. Aspect ratio...

Abstract: Estimation of the Vp/Vs Ratio Using Zero-Offset VSP Data; #90254 (2016)

Mohammad Altayeb, Carlos Planchart, Salman Alkhater

Search and Discovery.com

... ABSTRACT The uses of three-component zero-offset vertical seismic profile (VSP) data have often been limited to the compressional P-wave data due...

Paleostress and Slip Recovery from Complex Faults Geometry Using Mechanical Interactions: Application to Fracture Prediction, #40439 (2009)

Frantz Maerten and Laurent Maerten

Search and Discovery.com

..., it is then possible to compute anywhere within the 3D elastic field, the strain, stress and displacement. Particularly, the stress field can be used to predict...

Accurate Estimation of Tubular Fluid Flow Friction Loss During Liquid-supercritical CO2 Fracturing and Transportation

Xiaojiang Li, Gensheng Li, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Wei Yu, Haizhu Wang, Qingling Liu, Hongyuan Zhang, Zhiming Chen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be solved analytically. The finite volume method (FVM) is used to solve the flow and energy equations simultaneously for its versatile discretization...

Fractured Continuum Approach to Stochastic Permeability Modeling

S. A. McKenna, P. C. Reeves

AAPG Special Volumes

... to a single-phase flow model. A parallel computer platform coupled with a unique groundwater flow code is used to efficiently solve steady-state pressure...

Rapid Simulation Accounting For Well Interference in Unconventional Reservoirs Using Fast Marching Method

Atsushi Iino, Hye Young Jung, Tsubasa Onishi, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Method (FMM). While the FMM-based simulation has shown great potential for single well problems, application to multi-well problems with well-interference...

Bayesian joint inversion of controlled source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric data to infer presence of a freshwater aquifer offshore New Jersey

Daniel Blatter, Kerry Key, Anandaroop Ray, Chloe Gustaffson, Rob Evans

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...., and Rawlinson, N., 2012. Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B2...

Using ANN Prediction in Carbonate Reservoir Properties: Implications for Large-Scale Reservoir Correlation

Abdallah Abdelkarim, John Humphrey

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and 256 neurons were used, dropout regularization was applied after each dense layer to prevent overfitting. Arch-II included 1024, 512, 256, and 128...

Complex Electrical Conductivity of Mudrocks and Source-Rock Formations Containing Disseminated Pyrite

Siddharth Misra, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Dean Homan, John Rasmus,

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...ons in terms of two scalar functions (Hansen potentials). A Green’s function solution of Maxwell’s equations was constructed with the Hansen potenti...

Fractured Basement Reservoir Characterization for Fracture Distribution, Porosity and Permeability Prediction; #41106 (2012)

Marie Lefranc, Sherif Farag, Laurent Souche, and Agnes Dubois

Search and Discovery.com

...) and discrete fracture network modeling (DFN). The main objectives of this workflow are to identify the potential flow contributing fractures and to reduce...

AVO Response for Gas Sands of the Monserrate Formation, Upper Magdalena Valley of Colombia

C.J. Dueñas, M. G. de Freitas, A. Mantilla

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... used Han’s Pand S-wave velocity-porosity equations for water saturated measurements made @ 10 MPa of confining pressure, to account for the depth...

Extended Abstract: Quick-Look Technique for Quantifying Shale Distribution Types using Total Porosity versus Shale Volume Crossplots

James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, Gregory J. Ferguson

GCAGS Transactions

... with the dispersed-required field, or the structural-required field, as both apply and in this case would yield exactly the same results; we used the equations...

Gulf Coast Logging

Gunnar J. Teilmann, Robert E. Murphy

New Orleans Geological Society

.... Deviation angle and associated hole conditions are frequently such that conventional wireline tools cannot be used. Specially designed equipment has become...

Seamless processing new and legacy data for high-quality imaging in shallow water, offshore Myanmar

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Old Electrical Log Interpretation [Pre-1958], Chapter 9: Salt Mud Surveys - Laterologs and Microlaterologs

Hilchie, D.W.

AAPG Special Volumes

... in empirical studies then:Equation 9-5 or the nomograph based on this equation, Figure 9-4, can be used to solve for water saturation if Rw, Rmf, Rxo...

Anisotropic PP and PSv Prestack Depth Migration of 4C (OBC) Seismic Data, Offshore Trinidad

Tony Johns

Search and Discovery.com

... is first examined to assess its potential impact on the radial rotated P-S signal. The shear-wave splitting analysis revealed a principal angle...

Anisotropic PP and PSv Prestack Depth Migration of 4C (OBC) Seismic Data, Offshore Trinidad

Tony Johns

Search and Discovery.com

... is first examined to assess its potential impact on the radial rotated P-S signal. The shear-wave splitting analysis revealed a principal angle...