Thermal Alteration

John B. Comer

Special Publications of SEPM

... compounds present in the sediment. Large accumulations of CO2, N2, and H2S as well as crude oil and natural gas are possible, however, due to selective...

Petroleum Exploration Aspects of Wrench-Fault Tectonics

J. D. Moody

AAPG Bulletin

... in the accumulation and preservation of hydrocarbons. Wrench faulting according to the postulated pattern also forms traps of four or more types...

Low-Porosity Haloes at Stylolites in the Feldspathic Upper Jurassic Ula Sandstone, Norwegian North Sea: An Integrated Petrographic and Chemical Mass-Balance Approach

Nicholas B. Harris

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Bjorkum, P.A., and Nadeau, P.H., 1996. The effect of grain-coating microquartz on preservation of reservoir porosity: American Association of Petroleum...

Oil-Gas Complexes of the West Siberian Basin

M. Ya. Rudkevich, V. A. Kornev, Ye. M. Maksimov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... by unfavorable paleo-hydrogeologic conditions, particularly the destruction of pools by bacteria or of hydrocarbons before they collected as pools...

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...

Depositional remnants, part 1: Common components of the stratigraphic record with important implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production

Randi S. Martinsen

AAPG Bulletin

... Randi S. Martinsen 2003 1869 1882 87 12 The preservation of sedimentary strata below erosion surfaces can be highly variable laterally, and commonly...

The Influence of Exhumation on Petroleum Prospectivity in the Sedimentary Basins of WA

P. F. Green, I. R. Duddy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... However, major hydrocarbon accumulations are present in many exhumed basins, e.g. Reconcavo Basin, Barents Sea, East Irish Sea Basin, Southern North Sea...

Petrologic evidence for the diagenesis of the Donovan Sand, Citronelle Field, Alabama, and implications for CO2 storage and enhanced oil recovery

George Case, Amy Weislogel, and Keith Coffindaffer

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... is useful in predicting post- injection changes in reservoir porosity and permeability. The Albian Donovan Sand member of the Rodessa Formation...

Origin, Sedimentary Features, and Significance of Low-Angle Eolian "Sand Sheet" Deposits, Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Vicinity, Colorado

Steven G. Fryberger, Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Sarah Andrews

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or zones (extending up to 1 m below the ground surface) of bioturbated sand resulting from destruction of laminae by grass root growth; (5) convex upward...

Abstract: Recognition of and Regional Controls on Syn-halokinetic Growth Stratal Patterns in Carbonate Platforms from Extensional Basins

Steven L. Dorobek

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... stratal patterns within the platforms. Recognition of syn-halokinetic stratal patterns is critical for predicting facies within these platforms, which...

Prediction of Phase State of Accumulations of Hydrocarbons Based on Geothermal Data for the Sub-Salt Jurassic Sediments of the Amu-Dar’ya Synclize

Kh. Babayev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Prediction of Phase State of Accumulations of Hydrocarbons Based on Geothermal Data for the Sub-Salt Jurassic Sediments of the Amu-Dar’ya Synclize Kh...

Question of Oil-Gas Occurrence in Marginal Part of West Verkhoyansk Region

G. N. Gordadze, V. F. Mazanov, I. P. Solomatina, Ye. A. Belova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... Vol. 29 (1995) No. 1/2. (January/February) (Geologiya Nefti i Gaza, no. 2, p. 27–30, 1994) The possibility for hydrocarbon accumulations in the Cis...

The northern Gulf of Mexico offshore super basin: Reservoirs, source rocks, seals, traps, and successes

John W. Snedden, Robert C. Cunningham, and Jon W. Virdell

AAPG Bulletin

... for widespread Chicxulub-induced slope failure: Geology, v. 41, no. 9, p. 983–986. Downey, M. W., 1984, Evaluating seals for hydrocarbon accumulations: AAPG...

COMPOSITIONAL FIDELITY OF DEATH ASSEMBLAGES FROM A CORAL REEF-ASSOCIATED TIDAL-FLAT AND SHALLOW SUBTIDAL LAGOON IN THE NORTHERN RED SEA

MARTIN ZUSCHIN, CLAUDIA EBNER

PALAIOS

..., and differences in species preservation and time averaging. Specifically, we focus on fidelity in alpha and beta diversity between living and dead...

Seismic-Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum System Modeling of the Downdip Tuscaloosa-Woodbine, LA and TX

Russell F. Dubiel, Janet K. Pitman, Douglas Steinshouer

GCAGS Transactions

... model. Predicting the controls on source-rock generation, migration history, and reservoir charging in the area required 1D and 2D hydrocarbon-flow...

A Compositional Classification For Grain Assemblages In Fine-Grained Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Kitty Milliken

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is an important first step for predicting its economic and engineering qualities. For purposes of description these three class names can be joined to modifier...

Bank Margin Environment: Chapter 9: PART 2

Robert B. Halley, Paul M. Harris, Albert C. Hine

AAPG Special Volumes

... I, Holocene sediment accumulations of the South Florida Shelf Margin: Geol. Soc. America Mem. 147, 198 p. Erwin, C. R., D. E. Eby, and V...

Geohistory Analysis and Petroleum Reservoir Characteristics of Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) Sandstones, Eastern Kopet-Dagh Basin, Northeastern Iran (1)

REZA MOUSSAVI-HARAMI and ROBERT L. BRENNER

AAPG Bulletin

... subsidence and predicting the depths to hydrocarbon-generation windows in places where well penetrati ns reach these windows. AFFECT OF KOPET-DAGH GEOHISTORY...

Abstract: Predicting Oil Charge Types and Quality in the Deepwater Offshore Lower Congo Basin, Angola, by G. A. Cole, Z. (Alan) Yu, D. Ormerod, and J. Smith; #90933 (1998).

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Chapter Sixteen: Petroleum Systems of the South Viking Graben

Chris Cornford

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and isotopic properties of four molecular weight fractions (gas, gasoline, mid, and heavy) of the major accumulations. The Upper Jurassic source rocks...

Oil Source Beds in Cretaceous Mowry Shale of Northwestern Interior United States

R. P. Nixon

AAPG Bulletin

... critical in formation of source beds within the interval, and on those factors most useful in predicting source-bed distribution and oil accumulations...

Big Questions and Challenges in Geoscience

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

... knowledge of earthquakes – how and where they occur. Nevertheless, predicting the timing of earthquakes remains a most serious problem, despite...

Recognition of Forebulge Unconformities Associated with Early Stage Foreland Basin Development: Example from the North Alpine Foreland Basin

S. L. Crampton , P. A. Allen

AAPG Bulletin

... sea level fall, and represent a distinctive assemblage of petroleum play components. Producing hydrocarbon accumulations are associated with both...

Chapter 10 - Diagenesis: Compaction

Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle, Peter A. Scholle, Juergen Schieber, Robert J. Raine

AAPG Special Volumes

... diagenesis in relation to preservation, destruction and creation of porosity, in G. V. Chilingarian, and K. H. Wolf, eds., Diagenesis: New York...

3D Seismic Facies Analysis of a Reefal Buildup: NSO 'A' Field, Offshore North Sumatra

Wayne L. Alexander, Maria R. Nellia

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... was found to occur only within the reefal facies, enabling a model to be established for predicting its distribution. In summary, less favorable...