Microthermal Observations of Some Oil Shales and Other Carbonaceous Rocks

Taisia Stadnichenko , David White

AAPG Bulletin

.... The "binder" or "groundmass" is composed of products of the more or less complete biochemical decomposition of different kinds of plant and animal matter...

Isotopic Identification of Landfill Methane

Dennis D. Coleman, Chao-Li Liu, Keith C. Hackley, Steven R. Pelphrey

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of the radiogenic isotopes, radiocarbon (14C), and tritium (3H) generally is definitive. Methane formed from the microbial decomposition of recent organic...

The Northern Gulf of Mexico - A Decade of Geochemistry

Mahlon C. Kennicutt, II

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

..., resulting in vaporization, loss of light ends, and gas condensate formation. Residual oils are characterized by reduced API gravity as well as enhanced...

Time-Domain High-Resolution Radon Transform (Geophysics Paper 4)

Michel Schonewille, Peter Aaron, Carl Notfors

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... and after moveout with primary velocity the residual curvature in the data can be described by parabolas very well. In Hampson’s method the data...

Abstract: Accurate Conversion between Offset Image Gathers and Angle Image Gathers, by Jianming Sheng and Chengbin Peng; #90105 (2010)

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How Depositional Environment, Diagenesis, and Thermal Maturity Affect the Evolution and Significance of Organic and Mineral Pore Systems in Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs: Current Understanding and Future Research

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Abstracts: Predicting Original Gas in Place and Optimizing Productivity by Isotope Geochemistry of Shale Gas; #90173 (2015)

Yongchun Tang and Daniel Xia

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..., residual oil in shale may convert to gas; water may involve in the conversion. Products from different chemical processes make the isotope composition...

Parallel Salt and Methane Generation, Possible Paradigm Shifts for Salt Generation in Deep Sea Processes; #51392 (2017)

Zoltan Unger, David LeClair

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... has been attributed to residual seawater evaporation. The newly discovered processes of parallel salt and methane generation suggests that this may...

Degradation of compressional fold belts: Deep-water Niger Delta

Pivi Heini, Richard J. Davies

AAPG Bulletin

... is 12.5 m (41 ft) in both inline and cross-line direction. For the conversion of two-way traveltime (TWT) to depth, we used a velocity of seawater...

Using Core Data, Digital Rocks, and Source Rock Kinetics to Reduce Hydrocarbon Storage Uncertainty in Unconventional Reservoirs: Application to South Texas Organic Rich Mudstones

Jon Capsan, Jorge Sanchez-Ramirez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... hydrocarbon storage in organic rich mudrocks has proven challenging for many reasons, including but not limited to the uncertainties in porosity estimation...

Meter-scale lithofacies cycle and controls on variations in oil saturation, Wolfcamp A, Delaware and Midland Basins

Tongwei Zhang, Qilong Fu, Xun Sun, Paul C. Hackley, Lucy Tingwei Ko, and Deyong Shao

AAPG Bulletin

... pyrolysis analysis, and residual gas analysis from rock crushing. Oil saturation index (OSI) (the amount of free oil normalized by TOC; OSI = S1...

Applications of 3-D Seismic on Morrow Channel Sandstones, Second Wind and Jace Fields, Cheyenne and Kiowa Counties, Colorado

Mark P. Germinario, Sherrie R. Cronin, John R. Suydam

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Tnline Finite Difference Migration Crossline Finite Difference Migration UPRC-Supplied Dephase Filter Applied 2 Passes Surface Consistent Residual...

The Evolution of the South China Sea Basin in the MesozoicCenozoic and Its Significance for Oil and Gas Exploration: A Review and Overview

Fengli Yang, Dengliang Gao, Zhuan Sun, Zuyi Zhou, Zhe Wu, Qianyu Li

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Gong et al., 2001; Zhou et al., 2005a). At this time, intense volcanic activity occurred along the residual oceanic crust and continental margin...

An engineering toolkit to estimate the CO2 storage potential of the western Eromanga Basin, Australia

Tim Stephens, Mavise Beattie, Jeremy Iwanec, Peter Stephenson, Barry Bradshaw, Tom Bernecker

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... and vertical storage efficiency, estimation of CO2 fluid properties at reservoir temperature and pressure, and project development parameters such as well...

Mineralogy and Water Chemistry of the Burnt Zone from a Wet Combustion Pilot in Alberta

B.J. Tilley, W.D. Gunter

CSPG Bulletin

... decomposition de l'illite et de la kaolinite par des reactions de la forme suivante: illite + 4H+ + 2SO=4 + 6H2O = alunite + 3H4SiO4 Les eaux...

Characterizing a weathering profile over serpentinite in the Senaling area, Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus

John Kuna Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... staining then occurs with decomposition (to clay minerals) of most antigorite and chrysotile grains (Stage 3) and ending with formation of a brown...

HEAVY OIL OCCURRENCES OF THE CACTUS LAKE AREA SASKATCHEWAN

Daniel Ducharme and David L. Murray

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... that the Residual Zone resulted from the decomposition of Madison (Lodgepole) beds during the post-Mississippian erosional interval citing as evidence...

Quantification and characterization of hydrocarbon-filled porosity in oil-rich shales using integrated thermal extraction, pyrolysis, and solvent extraction

Kyle E. Gorynski, Mark H. Tobey, Daniel A. Enriquez, Thomas M. Smagala, Jill L. Dreger, and Richard E. Newhart

AAPG Bulletin

..., and J. Espitalie, 1977, Étude par spectrométrie de masse de la décomposition thermique de roches sédimentaires contenant de la matière organique de...

Workflow for Zoeppritz AVO Inversion to Estimate Seismic Anisotropy, Geomechanical Properties and TOC of Shale: Case Study of Avalon Shale, Delaware Basin, #42416 (2019).

Un Young Lim, Nurul Kabir, Richard L. Gibson Jr.,

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... Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas ([email protected]) Abstract Reliable estimation of geomechanical properties (i.e. Young's modulus...

Abstract: Differential Deformed Salt-Related Tectonics of the Kuqa Foreland Fold-Thrust Belt, Tarim Basin, Northwest China; #90063 (2007)

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Structural Insights on the Offshore Northern Tunisia Margin and the Petroleum System Implications

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Abstract: Seismic Characterization of Statoils Leismer Heavy Oil Reservoir; #90172 (2014)

Rainer Tonn

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... heterogeneities. 3m 0m -3m Figure 2: Devonian MS L Depth Figure 3: S imulated Average Residual Depth Figure 4: P -velocity field within the Reservoir...

Bringing Sanity to Risk and Uncertainty: Charge of the Geoscientist; #120027 (2009)

John Ritter

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... of a potential project, most notably in the exploratory/scoping phase, the estimation of Risk is commonly the focus of the geoscientist. Most certainly...

The Hayfield Sandstone Play: The Characterisation of a Mesoproterozoic Sourced, Proterozoic Sandstone Reservoired, Tight Oil and Gas Play in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin

Carl Altmann, Brenton Richards, Alexander Coté, Cassandra Bein, Elizabeth Baruch-Jurado, Les Jenkinson

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... selected for example only. with an arithmetic average of 51.6% PV. Laboratory measured residual oil saturation is generally below 20%–30% PV...

Sediments: PART 1

O. K. Emery, Elazar Uchupi

AAPG Special Volumes

... and decomposition of the woody fibers (Bloom, 1964; Kaye and Barghoorn, 1964). The content of calcium carbonate in the fine-grained sediments of salt marshes...