Geomechanical Modeling of Flowback Scenarios to Establish Best Practices in the Midland Basin Horizontal Program

Kurt Wilson, Ibraheem Ahmed, Kirk MacIvor

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with the potential for damage to the proppant pack and near-wellbore region resulting from an aggressive drawdown strategy. To understand the potential...

Expression of the Colorado Mineral Belt in Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation Source Rock Maturity Data from the Denver Basin

David J. Thul, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... for regional trends in a fashion similar to that used byTainter (1984). Tainter’s work used stacked regional maps of maturity, source potential...

Investigation of the Corbula Bed of Central Texas as the Product of Catastrophic Tsunami Deposition

Roger Sigler, Heather Fell, Breanda L. Kirkland, C. Van Wingerden

GCAGS Journal

..., 1971; Yagishita and Taira, 1989; Rust and Gibling, 1990). The only outlier, with smaller wave heights, is the study by Hand (1974) who used...

Contribution of Salinas River Sand to the Beaches of Monterey Bay, California, During the 1978 Flood Period: Fourier Grain-Shape Analysis

Ross A. Clark , Robert H. Osborne

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... following an episode of high stream discharge. Conventional textural and petrographic analyses also were used to aid in the interpretation of potential local...

Abstract: Circum-Arctic Petroleum Systems: Where Is the Potential and What Are the Risks?; #90310 (2017)

Oliver J. Ralph

Search and Discovery.com

.... Used in conjunction with geochemical data and regional analogues, this geodynamic framework allows the likely deposition extent and age of potential...

Electrical Dehydration and Desalting of Crude Oils

Roy N. Lucas

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... respectively. If, as in some cases, crude oil is used directly as a fuel, the sodium may come from the original connate brine, or may be introduced from...

Palynostratigraphy, Lithostratigraphy and Thermal Maturity of the Lower Triassic Toad and Grayling, and Montney Formations of Western Canada, and Comparisons with Coeval Rocks of the Sverdrup Basin, Nunavut

J. Utting, R.B. MacNaughton, J.P. Zonneveld, K.M. Fallas

CSPG Bulletin

... a potential for the generation of liquid hydrocarbons. At one locality in southeast Yukon within the deformation belt the thermal maturity is high, suggesting...

Worldwide Examples of Low Resistivity Pay

Robert M. Sneider

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... porosity logs (density, neutron, or sonic logs). The Archie and Waxman-Smits equations (Figure 5) are the preferred petrophysical models for pay...

Geochemical characterization of natural gas: A physical multivariable approach and its applications in maturity and migration estimates: Discussion

Alton Brown

AAPG Bulletin

... be incorporated into a corrected methane overpressure (P*), which can be used with equation 1 to calculate the diffusivity ratio required for gas...

Elastic Dislocation Modelling of Fractures in the Carboniferous Limestone: East Midlans, UK; #10225 (2010)

Peter Boult, Brett Freeman, and Graham Yielding

Search and Discovery.com

.... ED theory, widely used by seismologists and geologists to predict surface deformation following earthquakes (Okada 1992, Stein et al. 1988), has been...

Development of a Methodology for the Location of New Producer Wells from the Computational Modeling based on Streamline Simulation, by Olga Patricia Rueda, Miguel Jose Bernal, Elkin Rodolfo Santafe1, #40697 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

Salt diapir-influenced, shallow-marine sediment dispersal patterns: Insights from outcrop analogs

Jennifer L. Aschoff, Katherine A. Giles

AAPG Bulletin

...: Scientific American, v. 263, no. 4, p. 7884.Apak, S. N., and H. T. Moors, 1996, Basin development and petroleum exploration potential of the Lennis area...

Heterostegina Zone Carbonates, Southeastern Louisiana-Offshore Mississippi: Petrography, Seismic Stratigraphy, Hydrocarbon Potential

Paul R. Krutak , Philip Beron, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

...Heterostegina Zone Carbonates, Southeastern Louisiana-Offshore Mississippi: Petrography, Seismic Stratigraphy, Hydrocarbon Potential Paul R. Krutak...

BURIAL HISTORY AND SOURCE-ROCK CHARACTERISTICS OF MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN STRATA, BLACK WARRIOR BASIN, ALABAMA

Richard E. Carroll, Jack C. Pashin, Ralph L Kugler

Alabama Geological Society

..., and other localities within the Black Warrior basin were investigated. Three general parameters were used to evaluate the hydrocarbon generation potential...

Offshore Petroleum Exploration in East Asia - An Overview

Allen G. Hatley

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... are rapidly and efficiently explored and developed. A combination of attractive geological prospects, political stability and large potential regional...

Surface Casing Perforation, A Promising and Reliable Solution for Producing Marginal Reserves of Shallow Reservoir Layer in Shallow Gas Prone Tunu Field

Ronggo Wiyono Sakuro Putro, Bramarandhito Sayogyo, Gitani Tsalitsah Dahnil, Sandy Warsito

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be used to check if there’s any potential channeling (in form of noise) along cemented interval. All the perforated interval produces quite significant...

Flowback Strategy Optimization for Permian Unconventional Bone Spring Sands and Wolfcamp Wells

Xueying Xie, Samuel U. Amadi, Courtney S.W. Leiker, Shunhua Liu, Erik A. Kinzler, Mei Han, Maria G. Melendez Castillo, Santiago P. Rivera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... time functions are commonly used: 1. Linear superposition time 𝑡; = ∑; =>1 $# <$#$% $& 1 𝑡 − 𝑡=<1...

Identification of Point Bar Reservoirs Within Units of the Fall River Formation Through Comprehensive Electric Log Interpretation; Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Alvin L. Schultz, Walter W. Coppinger

Wyoming Geological Association

... obtained only from density log values. A more accurate value can be obtained if all clay indicators are used in a complex set of Sw equations...

Fracture Characterization Based on Attenuation Estimation From Seismic Reflection Data Using Well-Log-Based Localized Spectral Correction

Fangyu Li, Tao Zhao, Tengfei Lin, Kurt J. Marfurt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ignores the interference from reflectivity anomalies. For unconventional reservoirs, the spectrum of the reflected wave may be affected by the presence...

Direct Detection of Oil and Gas with the “Petroflex” Electrical Survey

Don L. Mount

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... is observed in terms of the potential difference it produces between two probe electrodes. The current is developed by a special 300-volt generator...

Direct Detection of Oil and Gas with the “Petroflex” Electrical Survey

Don L. Mount

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... of the potential difference it produces between two probe electrodes. The current is developed by a special 300-volt generator and commutator system...

FRONTMATTER: Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... Cooper and F.J. Davey Volume 6 Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Ocean Basins—Beaufort Sea...

Characteristics and Suitability of Sematan-Lundu and Sungai Suai-Kuala Niah Silica Sand, Sarawak, for Glass-Making

Kamar Shah Ariffn, Rusya Azrina Yahaya, Azmi Hj. Eki

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the potential application of silica sand extracted from Sematan-Lundu and Sungai Suai-Kuala Niah areas, to be used as raw material in glass-making...

Integrated reservoir characterization of low resistivity thin beds using three-dimensional modeling for natural gas exploration

Lim Yen Jun, Lo Shyh Zung

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., petrophysical data conditioning, rock physics cross validation, and three-dimensional static modeling is used to provide clearer insight on the natural gas play...

Seven Pillars in Cost Effectiveness for Sustaining the Life of Mature Fields: an Example from Mahakam Block

Henricus Herwin, John Anis, Eko Yudhi Purwanto, Weni Satya Dharma

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... production comes from mature fields. In Indonesia, the proportion is estimated to be even higher. This situation exhibits the significant potential...