Predicting Waterflood Behavior by Simulating Earth Models with No or Limited Dynamic Data: From Model Ranking to Simulating a Billion-Cell Model

Joseph Hovadik, David Larue

AAPG Special Volumes

... (1996). The method is used to solve the eikonal equation that describes the traveltime of a propagating front:where t(x, y, z) is the traveltime, and v...

PTTC Network News - Vol. 7, No.4 - 2001

Karl Lang

PTTC

..., have been used to describe them, but the phrase "PUMPers" illustrates the essence of their activities. Theirs is not an office job. As the effort kicks...

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

... on the potential of infill targets. Data Well logs from about 250 wells were used. Core interpretations form studies and reports were also used (Davies et al...

Molluscan live-dead fidelity of a storm-dominated shallow-marine setting and its implications

Madhura Bhattacherjee, Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Bidisha Som, Ammu S. Sankar, Satyaki Mazumder

PALAIOS

... et al. 2000). Marine molluscan assemblages were used for a large number of LD fidelity studies because of their high preservation potential...

Ascendancy of Continuous Profiles of Grain-Size Distribution for Depositional Environment Studies; #41441 (2014)

Gamal R. Gaafar, M. Mehmet Altunbay, Adriaan Bal, Norfazlina B. Anuar

Search and Discovery.com

... present a methodology and examples where NMR derived grain-size distributions are used to infer depositional environment. In contrast to spot-core...

Estimating Real-time Pore Pressure at the Bit via Machine-learning

Matthew Reilly, Gareth Taylor, Orlando De Jesus, Muhlis Unaldi, John Thurmond, Mike Party, Koda Chovanetz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... data used while drilling the well (ROP, WOB, inclination, stand pipe pressure, Tops etc.) that are not included as terms in the equations developed...

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Water and Solute Transport Mechanisms in Organic-Rich Carbonate Mudrocks; #42019 (2017)

Anton Padin

Search and Discovery.com

... of the ambiguously defined membrane efficiency term, and (3) the chemical potential gradient is the reason for the low-salinity brine entering the high...

Deep neural networks for 1D impedance inversion

Vladimir Puzyrev, Anton Egorov, Anastasia Pirogova, Chris Elders, Claus Otto

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... Key words: deep learning, neural networks, seismic wave, impedance inversion. INTRODUCTION Deep learning algorithms have shown great potential...

Southwest Pacific Seamounts Revealed by Satellite Altimetry

Peter J. Hill, Nicholas Baudry

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. ABSTRACT GEOS-3/SEASAT radar altimeter images were used to detect major uncharted seamounts in the southwest...

Optimization of Placement of Hydraulic Fracture Stages in Horizontal Wells Drilled in Shale Gas Reservoirs

Xiaodan Ma, Tatyana Plaksina, Eduardo Gildin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... constraints of the step lengths and stability of the algorithm have to be chosen carefully. In the DSPSA algorithm used to solve this problem...

Seismic tomographic cross-sections of the Bowser Basin in northwest British Columbia, Canada

David B. Snyder, Brian J. Roberts

CSPG Bulletin

... speeds appearing above this line are due to smoothing and are also inherited from the large cell size used to produce the starting model. Wave speeds vary...

Cenozoic Evolution of Carbonate Shelf and Ramp Habitats: Insights from Paleoceanography, #50663 (2012)

Pamela Hallock, Luis Pomar

Search and Discovery.com

... Cenozoic LBF are widely used to interpret paleoenvironments 10 cm Coral-Algal Reefs 1 cm 10 m ~3 m Coral morphologies also vary predictably...

Understanding the Reservoir Architecture of Lower Fars Formation in North Kuwait through Seismic Reservoir Characterization; #51531 (2018)

Mohamed Hafez Abdul Razak, Jarrah Al-Jenaie, Hesham Moubarak

Search and Discovery.com

... Company, Ahmadi, Kuwait ([email protected]) Abstract The objective was to decipher the hydrocarbon potential of upper Miocene sandstone reservoirs...

Tool Descriptions

Richard H. Merkel

AAPG Special Volumes

...Tool Descriptions Richard H. Merkel 1979 7 24 CN 14: Well Log Formation Evaluation Spontaneous Potential There are naturally occurring potentials...

Extended Abstract: Mathematical Model of Energy Storage in Gas Hydrate and its Flow in Pipeline Systems

Oluwatoyin Akinsete, Sunday Isehunwa

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... industry and also provided a foundation on which most of the current theoretical work has relied. In 1960s hydrate was discovered to be a potential source...

Rift-Initiated Permian to Early Cretaceous Subsidence of the Sverdrup Basin

R. A. Stephenson, A. F. Embry, S. M. Nakiboglu, M. A. Hastaoglu

CSPG Special Publications

.... Powell, T. G. 1978. An assessment of the hydrocarbon source rock potential of the Canadian Arctic Islands. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 78-12...

Process Framework for Describing the Morphologic and Stratigraphic Evolution of Deltaic Depositional Systems

William E. Galloway

Houston Geological Society

..., and COLEMAN, J.M., 1973, Variations in morphology of major river deltas as functions of ocean wave and river discharge regimes: Am. Assoc. Petroleum...

THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE AS A GUIDE TO THE MATURATION AND TYPING OF ORGANIC MATTER IN THE NORTH SEA

R. A. McTavish

Journal of Petroleum Geology

... was abandoned there in geochemical studies. However, early empirical study of North Sea ESR data indicated that, in relation to functions that linked...

Using Seismic Data for Characterization of Vaca Muerta Shale With Reduced Uncertainty

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Preliminary Testing of a Low Cost, Low Gas, Three Phase Meter for Minas Well Testing

Jack Marrelli, James Allison

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... such as described in industry standards such as API 14.3 and ISO 5167. Figure 3 indicates the equations used and the process whereby the data generated by Starcut...

Modeling geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide in a deep saline carbonate reservoir with TOUGH2–ChemPlugin, a new tool for reactive transport modeling

Tina L. Roberts-Ashby, Peter M. Berger, Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Ram Kumar, and Madalyn Blondes

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... are also not fed back into the transport equations handled by the TOUGH2 code; this is a potential starting point for future work. Results from...

Relationship of Porosity and Permeability to Various Parameters Derived from Mercury Injection-Capillary Pressure Curves for Sandstone (1)

EDWARD D. PITTMAN

AAPG Bulletin

... developed in this paper are an improvement over the approach used by Berg because these equations do not require estimation of grain size. The pore...

Completion Design Evolution for Saltwater Disposal Injection Wells in the Bakken Play

Darren D. Schmidt, Jeffrey W. Bader, Ashleigh Day, Mark Bohrer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... A mathematical model is developed by combining the two equations and using an iterative solution to solve for injection rate relative to friction...

Prediction and Analysis of Geomechanical Properties using Deep Learning: A Permian Basin Case Study

Fatick Nath, Karina Murillo, Sarker Monojit Asish, Deepak Ganta, Valeria Limon, Edgardo Aguirre, Gabriel Aguirre, Happy R. Debi, Jose L. Perez, Cesar Netro, Flavio Borjas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., the following three statistical parameters were used as measures: R2, root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE) of Equations 1- 3...

Experimental Study of the Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids in Porous Media at Atmospheric and Elevated Pressures

Teresa Regueira, Diego R. Sandoval, Erling H. Stenby, Wei Yan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to model the capillary pressure. The set of equations to solve is as follows, , , ln = ( , − ln − + , ) =0 (1) where T is the temperature, f...