Good Hope Field: St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Michelle K. Gullett

New Orleans Geological Society

..., T12S-R8E, T.D. 11,179. Oldest Zone Penetrated: Marg. ascensionensis (Lower Miocene) & salt PRODUCTIVE INTERVAL: 25 Sands: 3,300 ("V" Sand) - Top Miocene...

Section Three: Exploitation Drilling Phase

New Orleans Geological Society

... is to be assigned responsibility for development drilling of accumulations associated with diapiric salt and/or clay features. Although there are some...

Peat Balls In Late-holocene Sediments of Essex, England

J. Trevor Greensmith, E. Vivian Tucker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...,' defined as 'rounded masses of peat-rich clayey silt' and up to 0.5 m in size, are preserved in ancient creeks cut in an intertidal-salt marsh succession...

Oil and Gas Reservoirs at Great Depths in Sub-Salt Sediments of Peri-Cratonal Basins

Yu. A. Ivanov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Oil and Gas Reservoirs at Great Depths in Sub-Salt Sediments of Peri-Cratonal Basins Yu. A. Ivanov 1985 433 435 Vol. 22 (1985) No. 9. (September...

Extended Abstract: Structural Styles and Regional Play Types in the Mexican Offshore from New Seismic Data

Cian O’Reilly, James Keay, Alex Fick, Alex Birch Hawkins, Dario Chisari, Jason Kegel, Brad Torry

GCAGS Transactions

... oceanic spreading and then transition to a passive margin. Thick Middle Jurassic salt deposited in rift basins began to move by the Late Jurassic. A stable...

Exploration for Pools of Sulfur-Free Hydrocarbons in Southwest of North Caspian Depression

D. M. Murzagaliyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... sediments here were deposited on a shallow-water shelf on a background of biohermal formation. The flanks of the arch are expressed on the sub-salt sediments...

Engineering and Geological Constaints of Intraslope Basins and Submarine Canyons of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

William R. Bryant , Jia Yuh Liu , Joe Ponthier

GCAGS Transactions

... by halokinesis of allochthonous salt. Bathymetric charts of the continental slope of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (Bryant et al., 1990; NOAA 1990; Bouma...

Pine Prairie Field Post 3-D Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Bradley R. Broekstra, Michael White

New Orleans Geological Society

... the piercement salt stock. Well histories and documentation from this era are sketchy. The first documented discovery well was completed in 1941 by C. I...

Baltic-Dniester Zone of Uncompensated Downwarps

R. G. Garetskiy, V. S. Konishchev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... a carbonate swell. The basin is filled by a basal anhydrite and also anhydrite swells on the flanks of the basin, and then by Stassfurt salt and an upper...

Stratigraphy and Regional Implications of the Argonaut Energy No.1 Federal, Millard County, Utah

Gary C. Mitchell

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... on the flanks of the salt structure (Fig. 2), thus the salt structure was a topographic high while the volcanics were restricted to the topographic lows...

Land and Leasing in the Salt Anticline Area of the Paradox Basin

Clinton C. Putnam

Four Corners Geological Society

... for lease acquisition on many of the salt anticlines, especially on the flanks of these structures. Flank acreage on the Uncompahgre Uplift, and the San...

Evolution of the Cretaceous Astrid thrust belt in the ultradeep-water Lower Congo Basin, Gabon

Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec, David C. Jennette, Richard E. Kilby

AAPG Bulletin

... of the Louisa salt diapir shown in Figure 9b. The earliest stage, 800, depicts a passive salt diapir (Figure 11a). Stratal cutoffs on its flanks suggest...

Origin of Surface Structures at Yates Field: Relation to Deep Structure, Salt Tectonics, and Fluid Migration

Gregory R. Wessel

West Texas Geological Society

...Origin of Surface Structures at Yates Field: Relation to Deep Structure, Salt Tectonics, and Fluid Migration Gregory R. Wessel 1992 5 14 Vol. 31...

Interdomal Sediment Ponding: A New Lower Hackberry Play?

Donn S. LeVie, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... that these Lower Hackberry sands have pinched out up along the flanks of the old salt feature. Another example of the possible presence...

Salt tectonics along a strike-slip fault system in the sub-Alpine chains of southeastern France, from the Triassic to the Oligocene

Samuel Brooke-Barnett, Rodney Graham, Lidia Lonergan, and Lajos Adam Csicsek

AAPG Bulletin

... geometries on the flanks of salt structures, and local thickness or facies variations around preexisting salt structures, which are now welded out...

Deep-water reservoir distribution on a salt-influenced slope, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

C. R. Rodriguez, C. A.-L. Jackson, R. E. Bell, A. Rotevatn, and M. Francis

AAPG Bulletin

... relief caused (1) channel system deflection and diversion around salt-cored highs, (2) channel system uplift and rotation on the flanks of rising salt...

Sugarland Field, Fort Bend County, Texas

Fred E. Grinstead

Houston Geological Society

.... Their refraction fans missed the dome and the acreage was released. The presence of the salt dome finally was determined by torsion balance work by H. C...

Abstract: Early Paleogene Isolation of the Gulf of Mexico from the World's Oceans: From Hypothesis to Theory

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The Sulphur Dome, Louisiana

P. K. Kelley

AAPG Special Volumes

...The Sulphur Dome, Louisiana P. K. Kelley 1926 452 469 SP 1: Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields The sulphur salt dome in Louisiana is a typical Gulf...

A Subsurface Structural Model for Natural Subsidence Patterns in South Louisiana

Bryan P. Stephens

GCAGS Transactions

.... Areas where the Lower Tertiary section is above the “regional” on the flanks of the diapirs have experienced relative uplift due to salt inflation...

Developments in Four Corners-Intermountain Area in 1967

Robert P. Kunkel , Douglas L. Reese , David W. Elias

AAPG Bulletin

.... This decline was greatest in northern New Mexico. Oil discoveries in Utah's Uinta basin and in northeastern Arizona, and a gas discovery in the Salt...

Sendji Field--People's Republic of Congo, Congo Basin

S. Baudouy, C. Legorjus

AAPG Special Volumes

... BASIN TYPE: Passive Margin RESERVOIR ROCK TYPE: Sandstone and Dolomite RESERVOIR ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION: Nearshore Marine TRAP DESCRIPTION: Salt...

Paleomagnetic Dating of Sulfide Mineralization and Cap-Rock Formation in Gulf Coast Salt Domes

Wulf A. Gose, J. Richard Kyle

Special Publications of SEPM

... dome top of the salt mass comes within about 81 m At circular outline and extends Dome south and mining and oil is produced from its flanks...

Pathways of Migration of Oil and Gas in the South Mississippi Salt Basin

Robert Evans

GCAGS Transactions

...Pathways of Migration of Oil and Gas in the South Mississippi Salt Basin Robert Evans 1987 Vol. 37 (1987), The South Mississippi Salt Basin is one...

Evolution of Salt-Detached Systems at Various Stages of Rifting: Insights from Fully Coupled Geodynamic and Surface Process Modeling

Xuesong Ding, Tim Dooley, Lorena Moscardelli, Mike Hudec, Sascha Brune , and Kai Li

GCAGS Transactions

...Evolution of Salt-Detached Systems at Various Stages of Rifting: Insights from Fully Coupled Geodynamic and Surface Process Modeling Xuesong Ding...