Seismic Facies Mapping --- Getting More Geology into Your Play

Rob Kirk

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... uses all polygons constructed, along with well logs for that sequence. Automated facies maps start with RMS and maximum amplitude maps of the sequence...

Explosion Seismology Studies of Active and Passive Continental Margins: Resources, Comparative Structure, and Eustatic Changes in Sea Level

B. Keller , B. T. R. Lewis , C. Meeder , C. Helsley , R. P. Meyer

AAPG Special Volumes

... between active and passive margins, especially in the mantle paths. Active margins show clear mantle arrivals across the trench whose velocities...

Sedimentation-erosion Cycles of Single Tidal Periods on Long Island Sound Beaches

Ervin G. Otvos, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... MILLER, R. L., 1958, A study on the relation between dynamics and sediment pattern in the zone of shoaling wave, breaker and foreshore: Eclogae Geol...

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

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... survey coverage in relation to the wells drilled and the oil reserves booked (Figure 1-2). This demonstrates very nicely that 3-D seismic can indeed...

Distribution of Clay Minerals on Belize Shelf

Martha R. Scott

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Therefore, the ordinary concepts of the relation between particle size and settling velocity cannot be applied to clay minerals. Indeed, the reverse...

3D model-building technique by fusing near surface and deep structure and its applications

Luo Kaiyun, Yang Jian, Ma Lan, Men Zhe, Long Bo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... model is obtained by pre-stack time migration, the face for stitching the two velocity models can be found by the velocity difference between the two...

Challenging Paradigms in an Unconventional Development Block: Case Study of Enhancing Development Areas within the Vaca Muerta Formation in the Oil Window

Karina Anis, Ana Marlats, Sergio Cuervo, Sahil Malhotra, María Fernanda Alvarez Castillo, Daniel Sotelo, Hernan Reijenstein, Amalia Rosemblat, Rodrigo Escobar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... southeast to northwest, knowns as Quintuco- Vaca Muerta System (figure 3), with average thickness of 700 meters, that was extensively defined by numerous...

Exploration-Scale Predrill Reservoir-Quality Prediction Strategies for Gulf of Mexico Basin Sandstones and Carbonates

Brown, Alton A.

GCAGS Transactions

... successful models are based on quartz cementation in quartzose sandstone. The burial diagenetic models available for predicting average carbonate...

Cleats Analysis and CBM potential of The Barito Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Search and Discovery.com

Extended Abstract: Combining Rock Physics Templates with Seismic Inversion to Characterize the Hydrocarbon Reservoir beneath the Kanywataba Prospect, Semliki Basin

Justin Jordan Pidho, John Mary Kiberu, Denis Okello, Anthony O'biale Ayaa

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

.... The process was to block an impedance log from the well in between two interpreted horizons so that it could be smoothened to match the seismic frequency...

Time-Dependent Hydrodynamic Models of Turbidity Currents Analyzed with Data from the Grand Banks and Orleansville Events

A. D. Kirwan Jr., L. J. Doyle, W. D. Bowles, G. R. Brooks

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... be generated on slopes of less than 1° and accelerate within minutes to a maximum velocity of between 20 and 25 m/sec. BRITTER, R. E., AND LINDEN, P. F...

Morphological and Stratigraphical Signature of Floods In A Braided Gravel-Bed River Revealed From Flume Experiments

W. I. Van De Lageweg, W. M. Van Dijk, M. G. Kleinhans

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Quantification of the relation between surface morphodynamics and subsurface sedimentological product in sandy braided rivers: Sedimentology, v. 60, p...

Rational Analysis of Future Rate of Natural Gas Production

Martin A. Elliott , C. G. Von Fredersdorff

AAPG Special Volumes

... of a reasonable range of assumptions depends upon the judgment of the individual. But once this selection has been made, the limits of the relation between rate...

Upper Flow Regime Bed Forms in Turbidites of the Hatch Formation, Devonian of New York State

Roger G. Walker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...), A series of broad, symmetrical undulations, between 40 and 60 cm in wavelength and 2 to 4 cm in amplitude, are exposed on the upper surface of a turbidite...

Distribution and Significance of Coarse Biogenic and Clastic Deposits on the Texas Inner Shelf (1)

Robert A. Morton , Charles D. Winker

GCAGS Transactions

...) rock fragments show similar trends outlining ancestral Rio Grande, Brazos-Colorado, and Trinity deltas; a patchy, arcuate trend between Pass Cavallo...

Oceanography of Mississippi Delta Sedimentary Environments

P. C. Scruton

AAPG Bulletin

.... In the diurnal, or daily, type of tide the average retardation in time between successive high waters or successive low waters is 50 minutes...

Well Log and Seismic Character of Tertiary Terumbu Carbonate, South China Sea, Indonesia

J. Andrew May , Daryl R. Eyles

AAPG Bulletin

..., Surabaya, Indonesia. Eyles, D. R., and J. A. May, 1984, Porosity mapping using seismic interval velocities, Natuna L-structure: Indonesian Petroleum...

Continental-slope instability triggered by seepage: An experimental approach

Carolina H. Boffo, Tiago A. de Oliveira, Daniel Bayer da Silva, Rafael Manica, Ana Luiza de O. Borges

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... apparatus with slope angles varying between 15 and 30° to test this concept. Hydraulic gradients, aquifer outflow velocities, and triggered collapses induced...

Abstract: Determination of Surface Relaxivity from NMR T2 Measurements, by Ayham Ashkar, Quentin J. Fisher, and Carlos A. Grattoni; #90105 (2010)

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Abstract: Structural Analysis of a Fractured basement Reservoir, Central Yemen The relation between fracture generations and hydrocarbon migration; #90271 (2016)

R. Veeningen, B. Grasemann, K.Decker, A.H.N. Rice, D. Schneider

Search and Discovery.com

... Abstract: Structural Analysis of a Fractured basement Reservoir, Central Yemen The relation between fracture generations and hydrocarbon migration...

Influence of Organic Matter in Soils on Radar-Wave Reflection: Sedimentological Implications

Remke L. van Dam,, Elmer H. van den Berg, Sytze van Heteren, C. Kasse, Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Koos Groen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... at a depth of about 1.5 m in trench I (Fig. 4B), cause occasional mismatches between peaks in organic-matter content and r. Table 4. Average textural...

Occurrence of Alkali Metals in Some Gulf of Mexico Sediments

Charles W. Welby

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that there is less concentration of cesium in relation to the potassium in these materials than in the others. There is no definite correlation between...

Stratigraphic Traps in a Valley Fill, Western Nebraska

J. C. Harms

AAPG Bulletin

.... at the base and average about 11,500 ft./sec. The occurrence of higher velocities in the lower, more silty and shaly part of the section is somewhat...

Crustal Structure of Queen Elizabeth Islands and Polar Continental Margin, Canada: Evolution of Arctic Ocean Basin

L. W. Sobczak, J. R. Weber

AAPG Special Volumes

... are approximately 120 km in width and between 150 and 300 km in length, have amplitudes greater than 100 mgal and regional horizontal gradients as large...

Deep Channels in Turbidite-Bearing Formations

Roger G. Walker

AAPG Bulletin

... current probably are those without "traction carpets." There is no proved direct relation between size and velocity of turbidity currents. More important...