Combining seismic reservoir characterization workflows with basin modeling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Mississippi Canyon area

Wisam H. AlKawai, Tapan Mukerji, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

.... The resulting trend is steeper when compared with the other velocity–porosity model of shale used above the depth of the transformation. We used...

Seismic Characterisation of Unconventional Plays in North America

Lee Bell, Mary Edrich, Alvaro Chaveste

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... youngest Int ermediate depth I age Deepest I o ldest * M ixed shale & chalk play **Mixed shale & limestone play *** Mixed shale & tight...

3D Multiscale Imaging of the Distribution of Pores, Organic Matter and Oil in Place in Vaca Muerta Shale Samples

Silvano Sommacal, Andrew Fogden, Benjamin Young, William Noel, Alessio Arena, Leonardo Salazar, Tobias Gerwig, Qianhao Cheng, Andrew Kingston, Denis Marchal, Ana Maria Perez Mazas, Claudio Hugo Naides, Guillermina Kohler, Marcelo Cagnolatti

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... scanned after solvent cleaning and drying, followed by a second scan after full saturation of their connected pore space with the X-ray dense liquid...

Problems Related to Clay Minerals in Reservoir Sandstones: Chapter 17

Edward D. Pittman

AAPG Special Volumes

.... PROBLEMS RELATED TO CLAY MINERALS Gamma Ray Log The gamma ray log responds to radioactivity from potassium, uranium, and thorium. Clay minerals...

Using Machine Learning and Data Analytics to Improve Type Curve Generation and Optimize Field Development Planning in Argentina's Vaca Muerta Formation

David Delgado, Charles Kosa, Peter Zannitto

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... were examined, such as average porosity, water saturation, total organic content, bulk density, gamma ray, compressional sonic, true vertical depth...

Relative Reactivity of Skeletal Carbonates During Dissolution: Implications For Diagenesis

Lynn M. Walter

Special Publications of SEPM

... by Thorstcn\cn and Plumnlcr (1977). RELATIVE REACTIVITY OF SKELETAL CARBONATES lated to the molar Mg:Ca ratio in the solution. The following equation...

Improved Density Log Lithology Identification Using a Borehole-Compensated Photoelectric Factor

G. L. Moake, W. E. Schultz

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Figure 1b illustrates the density pad, which houses a Cs-137 gamma ray source and two detectors, positioned flush against a smooth formation wall...

AAPG/SEG International Conference and Exhibition; - Abstracts, #90255 (2017).

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Seismic Data Obtained Using .50-Caliber Machine Gun as High-Resolution Seismic Source

Michael D. Seeber , Don Steeples

AAPG Bulletin

...) in Bourbon County, Kansas, at a depth of 622 ft (190 m). The reservoir, which has a flat base and an irregular top, may represent a superposition...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Geomechanics, Microseismicity, and Geochemistry Relationships in Unconventional Resource Shales

Roger M. Slatt, Younane Abousleiman, Paul Philp, Jean D. Amorocho, Carlos Cabarcas

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...). This cyclicity can occur at a variety of stratigraphic scales which constitute predicable alternations of high- and low-gamma ray response...

THE JUDITH RIVER FORMATION BENEATH THE FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION A PROVEN HIGH PLAINS GAS RESERVOIR

Lawrence M. Monson

Montana Geological Society

... by McCrae and Swenson (1968). Figure 2 is their isopach map of the total sand in the Judith River Formation in eastern Montana. Note the linear trends...

Stratigraphic Modeling and Interpretation--Geophysical Principles and Techniques: Section 3. Stratigraphic Models from Seismic Data

Norman S. Neidell, Elio Poggiagliolmi

AAPG Special Volumes

... or more depending on depth of burial, regional velocity variation with depth, and specific characteristics of the effective seismic wavelet. This value...

High Resolution Diffraction Imaging of Small Scale Fractures in Shale and Carbonate Reservoirs

Alexander M. Popovici, Ioan Sturzu, Tijmen J. Moser

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... part of this paper without the written consent of URTeC is prohibited. Summary Current research in the field of seismic depth imaging has identified...

Quantifying CretaceousCenozoic exhumation in the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia, using sonic transit time data: Implications for conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon prospectivity

David R. Tassone, Simon P. Holford, Ian R. Duddy, Paul F. Green, Richard R. Hillis

AAPG Bulletin

.... 183287.Japsen, P., T. Muckerji, and G. Mavko, 2007, Constraints on velocity-depth trends from physics models: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 55, p...

Fullband imaging

Zhengmin Zhang, Jiwei Jia, Geping Fu, Hao Zhang, David Chow, Barry Hung, Ian Anstey, Wai Leong Lai

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., iterations may be needed in updating Q fields and velocity consecutively; here we depict a linear approach for the sake of simplicity. Noise 3D...

Reconstruction of 3-D Pore Space Using Multiple-Point Statistics Based on a 2-D Training Image

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Tight Sand Water Saturation Calculations: What do They Really Mean? by Mike Mullen

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Tight Sand Water Saturation Calculations: What do They Really Mean? by Mike Mullen; #90042 (2005)

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Continental Margins of the Eastern Gulf of Alaska and Boundaries of Tectonic Plates: Convergent Margins

Roland Von Huene , George G. Shor Jr. , John Wageman

AAPG Special Volumes

... range of distance are evidence that it is a discrete layer with a sharp interface, rather than representing a continuous increase of velocity with depth...

Integrated Surface-Downhole Acquisition Geometries … The Way to Higher Detailed Reservoir Investigation

A.A. Tabakov, K.V. Baranov

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... be implemented on arrival times at the downhole device delivering lateral velocity model variations which can be used for depth imaging. The acquisition...

Estimation of Suspended Sediment Concentrations during Deposition of Turbiditic Structureless Sandstones of the Middle Permian Brushy Canyon Formation, South New Mexico, #50681 (2012)

Kannipa Motanated, Michael M Tice

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... will likely settle differently in y y concentrated suspension • Zircon and K-feldspar are abundant in core samples • X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XRF...

Marine Sediments North of Scripps Submarine Canyon, La Jolla, California

C. Stanley Wimberley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with depth of water, represented by the following equation: Mud Percentage = 1.74 (Depth in fathoms) -1.93. A sharp change in mud percentage is found...

Simultaneous waveform inversion of seismic-while-drilling data for P-wave velocity, density, and source parameters

Jinji Li, Scott Keating, Nasser Kazemi, Roman Shor, Kristopher A. Innanen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-velocity zones such as salt bodies and move away from low-velocity zones such as overpressure regions. The non-uniform ray path coverage introduces shadow...

Occurrence of Strained Quartz in the Siliceous Frustules of Cultured Freshwater Diatoms

Jay M. Gregg , Susan T. Goldstein , Lester J. Walters, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 1977 Vol. 47 No. 4. (December), X-ray diffraction studies of cultured siliceous diatoms indicate that poorly ordered strained quartz is the major...

Rock Typing in Eagle Ford, Barnett, and Woodford Formations

Ishank Gupta, Chandra S. Rai, Carl H. Sondergeld, Deepak Devegowda

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... depth points. Out of these 3 wells, only gamma ray and resistivity logs were available for 2 wells. Thus, gamma ray and resistivity logs were used...