Petrophysical Properties of Shale From Different Source Rocks in the Middle East

Moustafa Dernaika, Joel Walls, Safouh Koronfol, Osama Al Jallad, Gary Sinclair

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the Middle East, and potential comparisons with shale plays in North America and worldwide. Introduction Hydrocarbon exploration from Source Rocks...

Petroleum charge and entrapment along active faults: Study of the accumulation mechanism of the Qinhuangdao 29 oil field on the slope of the Shijiutuo uplift, Bohai Sea

Qi Wang, Huayao Zou, Fang Hao, Xinhuai Zhou, Changyu Teng, Zhongheng Sun, Shang Xu, Jinqiang Tian, and Liuxi Guo

AAPG Bulletin

... accumulation. Our research reveals that lithologic traps in the Es3 stratum may still have great potential for exploration along the slope of the Shijiutuo...

Sediment Types and Formative Processes: Chapter 5: PART 1. LATE QUATENARY CARBONATE SEDIMENTS OF YUCATAN SHELF, MEXICO

Brian W. Logan, James L. Harding, Wayne M. Ahr, Joseph D. Williams, Robert G. Snead

AAPG Special Volumes

... used as the basis for classification into sediment-type categories. The quantity of material less than 62 µ in size ranges from 35 to 99 percent...

Influence of fault rock foliation on fault zone permeability: The case of deeply buried arkosic sandstones (Gres d'Annot, southeastern France)

Thibault Cavailhes, Jean-Pierre Sizun, Pierre Labaume, Alain Chauvet, Martine Buatier, Roger Soliva, Leila Mezri, Delphine Charpentier, Henri Leclere, Anna Trave, Claude Gout

AAPG Bulletin

...., 2007). With the exception of some works that document a potential capillarity effect of cataclastic deformation bands (Sigda and Wilson, 2003...

Chapter One: Introduction to AAPG Memoir 42/SEG Investigations in Geophysics, No. 9, 7th Ed.

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... significant piece of information used in the identification of reservoir reflections. Numerous figures in this book illustrate the pairing of top and base...

Atlas of Australian and New Zealand Hydrocarbon Seals: Worldwide Analogs for Cap Rocks and Intraformational Barriers in Clastic Depositional Settings

Richard Ric Daniel, John Kaldi

AAPG Special Volumes

... as analogs in the prediction of seal capacity. This atlas can be used as a component of integrated methodologies to evaluate seal potential for prospect...

Chapter 4: Mineralogic Analysis of the Middle Bakken Member, Parshall Field Area, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Becky L. Kowalski, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... (within wave base and tidal influence) to deep neritic. Analysis of the quantitative mineralogy shows that there is a relationship between mineralogy...

Long-Range Petroleum Migration in the Illinois Basin (1)

CRAIG M. BETHKE , JACKIE D. REED , and DONALD F. OLTZ

AAPG Bulletin

..., Petroleum source rock potential of the Upper Ordovician Maquoketa Group, west central Illinois (abs.), in V. M. Goldschmidt Conference Program...

Oxygen Isotope Record of Ice-Volume History: 100 Million Years of Glacio-Eustatic Sea-Level Fluctuation

R. K. Matthews

AAPG Special Volumes

... temperature Quantitative data concerning abundance of various taxa in core-top samples can be used to write regression equations for sea-surface...

Use of Volume-Based 3-D Seismic Attribute Analysis to Characterize Physical-Property Distribution: A Case Study to Delineate Sedimentologic Heterogeneity at the Appleton Field, Southwestern Alabama, U.S.A.

Juliana M. Tebo, Bruce S. Hart

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Memoir 13, p. 725-735. Kalkomey, C.T., 1997, Potential risks when using seismic attributes as predictors of reservoir properties: The Leading Edge, v. 16...

CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS 75TH ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION; - Abstracts, #90225 (2015).

Search and Discovery.com

Statistical and Geological Evaluation of Oil and Gas Production from the J Sandstone, Denver Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming

John D. Pruitt

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., 1973, there was undiscovered reserve potential of approximately 134 MM equivalent bbls r e maining in the relatively mature areas of the Denver basin...

Trace Fossils from a Middle Cambrian Deltaic Sequence, North Spain

Iain C. Legg

Special Publications of SEPM

... cross stratifica parallel laminations abundant small scale wave and current ripples bimodal paleocurrents and mudcracks indicating exposure all suggest...

References

AAPG Special Volumes

... of potential sealing faults on borehole images, in G. Jones, Q. J. Fisher, and R. J. Knipe, eds., Faulting, fault sealing and fluid flow...

Kerogen Characterisation and Petroleum Potential of the Late Cretaceous Sediments, Chad (Bornu) Basin, Northeastern Nigeria

Adebanji Kayode Adegoke, Wan Hasiah Abdullah, Babangida M. Sarki Yandoka, M. B. Abubakar

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... (1988) and Hunt (1991) proposed that H/C ratio of 0.8 – 0.9 can be used as the cut-offlimit for liquid hydrocarbon potential in terrigenous sequences...

Hydrocarbon occurrences in the western Anatolian (Aegean) grabens, Turkey: Is there a working petroleum system?

N. Bozkurt Ciftci, R. Ozgur Temel, Y. Haluk Iztan

AAPG Bulletin

... potential: Geology, v. 23, p. 6972.Dewey, J. F., 1988, Extensional collapse of orogens: Tectonics, v. 7, p. 11231139.Dewey, J. F., and A. M. C. Sengor...

ANN Method, A New Approach to Find Potential Bypass Zones in Mature Semberah Field, East Kalimantan

Gunna Satria H. Kusumah, Robhy C. Permana, Ridha S. Riadi, Yoseph R. Apranda

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... (ten), oil zone as 20 (twenty) and wet sand as 30 (thirty). To ensure the model can predict the most potential zones, the data set used for training...

Facies Distribution and Impact on Petroleum Migration in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

Tusar R. Sahoo, K. F. Kroeger, G. Thrasher, S. Munday, H. Mingard, N. Cozens, M. Hill

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the petroleum potential of the basin. This study has used seismic facies analysis to identify these elements. 2D PetroMod modelling has then been used...

Sequence Stratigraphy as Predictive Tool in Lower Goru Fairway, Lower and Middle Indus Platform, Pakistan; #10404 (2012)

Nadeem Ahmad, Paul Fink, Simon Sturrock, Tariq Mahmood, and Muhammad Ibrahim

Search and Discovery.com

..., significant potential remains untapped due to a limited understanding of the distribution of reservoir quality sands and a lack of understanding...

Integrated Basin Analysis and Geomechanics Study of Lower Baong Shale for Preliminary Shale Gas Prospectivity in the North Sumatra Basin

Fatrial Bahesti, Eddy A. Subroto, Nanang A. Manaf, Wuryadi Sadirsan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is important to understand how the potential of the shale reservoir to produce reserves when stimulation is carried out. Geochemical laboratory analysis is used...

Propellant Stimulation Technique Provides Alternate Productivity Enhancement with Cost Reduction Benefits in Development of A Marginal Reservoir at Minas Field

Arsyad A. Siregar, Bambang Poernomo, Doug Finley, D. K. Nath

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that is significantly less in cost than previous treatments has been successfully used to enhance X-sand productivity. This new method employs...

The St. Clair River Delta: Sedimentary Characteristics and Depositional Environments

J. M. Pezzetta

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and standard deviation also show high correlations with wind speed (hence, wind-induced currents and wave action) for the fine (silt-clay) sediments...

Reconstructing paleosinuosity and sedimentary mass balance in the Upper Triassic Shinarump paleoriver in Utah and Arizona, U.S.A.

Robert Hayes, Peter DeCelles

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by monocrystalline quartz and exhibits low spatial variation in composition, ranging from 85.4% to 99.8% total quartz. Paleocurrent measurements are used...

Chapter Two: The South Viking Graben: Overview of Upper Jurassic Rift Geometry, Biostratigraphy, and Extent of Brae Play Submarine Fan Systems

Colin C. Turner, Bryan T. Cronin, Leslie A. Riley, Stefano Patruno, William T. L. R. Reid, Silvan Hoth, Dirk Knaust, Simon Allerton, Mark A. Jones, Christopher A.-L. Jackson

AAPG Special Volumes

... across the graben, and a 3-D image of the “Base Cretaceous” are used to illustrate the main structural features. On its western side, the top...

Depositional Environment Model of Main Jurassic Sand in Ubadari Field, Eastern Indonesia

Riedo Waren

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... across both wells, several facies changes are defined from Ubadari-1 to Ubadari-2 well location, leading to potential lateral reservoir heterogeneity...