The battle between Frankenstein and Gilligan and the Law of Increasing Reservoir Complexification: What matters in three-dimensional reservoir characterization modeling?

D. K. Larue

AAPG Bulletin

... of volumes of hydrocarbons in place, creation of maps of hydrocarbon pore volume, and the source for flow-simulation studies (Fontaine et al., 1998; Euler...

Pore structure of sediments from Green Canyon 955 determined by mercury intrusion

Hugh Daigle, Yi Fang, Stephen C. Phillips, and Peter B. Flemings

AAPG Bulletin

... is a solid, its presence restricts the ability of fluids to move through the pore system, which has implications for reservoir-scale fluid flow on geologic...

Organization, flow impact and modeling of natural fracture networks in a karstified carbonate bitumen reservoir: an example in the Grosmont Formation of the Athabasca Saleski leases, Alberta, Canada

Ghislain de Joussineau, Kent R. Barrett, Mauro Alessandroni, Thierry Le Maux

CSPG Bulletin

...Organization, flow impact and modeling of natural fracture networks in a karstified carbonate bitumen reservoir: an example in the Grosmont Formation...

Logging and Interpretation Techniques for the B-Field, Offshore Northwest Java

R. E. Crumb, P. Berger

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and hydrocarbon bearing sands. As Figure 4 shows, conventional log analysis for Well A below 2975 ft. indicates water saturations higher than 70 percent...

Results of Deep Drilling, Elk Hills Field Kern County, California

Maurice D. Fishburn

Pacific Section of AAPG

... hydrocarbon potential in the deeper sections of the southern San Joaquin Valley. Additional deep drilling will be required in the area to fully...

Three-dimensional modeling of a shoreface-shelf parasequence reservoir analog: Part 2. Geologic controls on fluid flow and hydrocarbon recovery

Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Richard P. Sech

AAPG Bulletin

...Three-dimensional modeling of a shoreface-shelf parasequence reservoir analog: Part 2. Geologic controls on fluid flow and hydrocarbon recovery...

Oil-Base Micro-Resistivity Borehole Image Log Applications in Deep-Water Exploration

Mitch D. Pavlovic

GCAGS Transactions

.... Mollison, R., Schon, J.S., Fanini, O., Kriegshauser, B. Myer, W.H., and Gupta, P.K., 1999, A model for hydrocarbon saturation determination from...

Flow Units for Reservoir Characterization: Part 6. Geological Methods

W. J. Ebanks Jr., M. H. Scheihing, C. D. Atkinson

AAPG Special Volumes

...Flow Units for Reservoir Characterization: Part 6. Geological Methods W. J. Ebanks Jr., M. H. Scheihing, C. D. Atkinson 1992 282 285 ME 10...

Fractured shale-gas systems

John B. Curtis

AAPG Bulletin

... trapping mechanisms, seals of variable lithology, and relatively short hydrocarbon migration distances. Shale gas may be stored as free gas...

Application of Saturation Height Model in Case of Depletion in Paleo Times; #42516 (2020)

Jan van der Wal

Search and Discovery.com

... that explain the concept, 2) the required equations broken down in easy steps, and 3) the (petrophysical) workflow to obtain the input variables required...

Deviations from Classical Diffusion Behavior: A Systematic Investigation of Possible Controls on Abnormal Reservoir Signatures

Bin Yuan, Christopher R. Clarkson, Zhenzihao Zhang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Impact of gas production (different critical gas saturations) on flow-regime ID using the conventional log-log plots applied to the oil phase. (a) Oil...

Studies of United Kingdom Continental Shelf fields after a decade of production: How does production data affect the estimation of subsurface uncertainty?

Pete Smith

AAPG Bulletin

... dynamic uncertainties (e.g., residual saturations, coning) increase. It should not therefore be a surprise that these dynamic issues become more relevant...

Comprehensive Laboratory Evaluation of Reservoir Rock Properties on Drill Cuttings Using High Frequency NMR Spectroscopy

Ashish Mathur, Safdar Ali, W.D. VonGonten, Mansoor Ali, Chad Belanger, Rahul Kumar, Israel Andrade, Saul Lopez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., and flow capacity. The high cost of acquiring cores can be challenging for oil producers when oil prices are low. Cuttings are readily available in both...

Zohar-Kidod-Haqanaim Fields--Israel Eastern Mediterranean Basin

Y. Gilboa, H. Fligelman, B. Derin

AAPG Special Volumes

... and gas prospects of Kurnub Group (Lower Cretaceous) in southern Israel: AAPG, v. 50 (11). Aharoni, E., 1969, Hydrocarbon prospects of the west side...

Quantifying Permeability-Controlled Low-Dip, Low-Rate, Oil (Secondary) Migration, by O. Sylta; #90986 (1994).

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ABSTRACT: A Composite Model for Assessing Subsurface Transport of Oily Wastes: Verification and Site Application, by S. Panday, Y. S. Wu, P. S. Huyakorn, S. C. Wade, and Z. A. Saleem; #91019 (1996)

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Transient-pooled Natural Gas Systems: Moving Beyond the Continuous-type Gas Illusion, by Steven Schamel; #90042 (2005)

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Quantification of Magneto-Electrotelluric Exploration Results

S. J. Pirson

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... the porosities, can be estimated in each potential reservoir. Hence, the reservoir formation, oil and/or gas saturations, as well as the water saturation, can...

Beyond Single-Well Productivity: Integrating Geological Data and Economic Metrics for Estimating Quality and Quantity of Remaining Inventory in the Montney Play, Western Canada

Henry Galvis, Trevor Rix, Dane Gregoris, Cayley Krynowsky

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... influenced by hydrocarbon mix and localized rock quality. At current commodity prices, condensate-rich accumulations in both BC and Alberta tend to generate...

Temperatures of Quartz Cementation in Jurassic Sandstones from the Norwegian Continental Shelf--Evidence from Fluid Inclusions

Olav Walderhaug

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...), this suggests that quartz cementation has continued up to the present. Unless high hydrocarbon saturations were reached very recently in the studied...

Estimating Recovery by Quantifying Mobile Oil and Geochemically Allocating Production in Source Rock Reservoirs

Jennifer Adams, Matt Flannery, Tim Ruble, Mark A. McCaffrey, Elizabeth Krukowski, Daniel Kolodziejczyk, Héctor Vilar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with reservoir characterization and in-reservoir P/T monitoring. There are several long-standing challenges in the characterization of UR fluid flow: (i...

A New Pressure Transient Testing Method for Gas Condensate Wells

W. Jatmiko

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... saturation distributions are estimated from the sandface saturation and the two-phase flow radius using a quadratic equation. The pseudopressure...

An Integrated Approach for Optimizing Vertical Wolfbone Wells in the Delaware Basin

Malcolm E. Yates, Anoop Sharma, Tarik Itibrout, Lance Smith, Kelvin Fisher, Randy Brown, Les Honeyman, Bradley Bates

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... which would provide the best fracture coverage and optimize the number of stages. The flow-channel fracturing (FCF) technique, which provides a novel...

Abstract: Wireline Geochemical Log Analysis of Thin Bed Reservoirs Gulf of Mexico

R. V. Everett

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... or beds of sandstone and shale. Core plugs usually indicate the sandstone lenses have low water saturations, high resistivity and good porosity. Associated...

Secondary Natural Gas Recovery in Mature Fluvial Sandstone Reservoirs, Frio Formation, Agua Dulce Field, South Texas

William A. Ambrose , Raymond A. Levey , Jose M. Vidal , Mark A. Sippel , James R. Ballard , David M. Coover, Jr. , Walter E. Bloxsom

GCAGS Transactions

... Formation of the Texas Gulf Coast basin--depositional systems, structural framework, and hydrocarbon origin, migration, distribution, and exploration...