Seabed Minerals

Henk Kombrink, Ronny Setså

GEO ExPro Magazine

... a well-balanced view to a polarised debate worry about the ecosystems down at the seafloor,” says biologist Annemiek Vink from the Bundesanstalt für...

Subsurface imaging with near field hydrophone data of OBN acquisition

Lei Runchen, Chen Haolin, Xu Zhaohong, Wei Xiubo, Liu Zhao, Luo Minxue

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... was attenuated on the passive near-field data. From the processing results, it can be seen that the effect is good, and the event below the seafloor...

An Economic Perspective and Reservoir Characteristics of Gas Hydrate with Case Studies Karama Block, Makassar Strait

Mohammad Gunadhi Rahmadi, Muhammad Alfian, Agus Guntara, Alfian Usman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Pertamina UTC © IPA, 2015 – 39th Annual Convention Proceedings, 2015 2. Source rocks from 3.5–5.0 km under seafloor, probably generating oil today 3...

Extended Abstract: Kinematics of Regional Salt Flow in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Xavier Fort, Jean-Pierre Brun

GCAGS Transactions

...) using two types of data (Fig. 1): (i) shelf-break migration and (ii) seafloor deformation in the slope domain. For the purpose of the present paper...

Abstract: Active Hydrocarbon Seepages in the Offshore Part of the St. Lawrence Paleozoic Platform Pictured by Geophysical, Geochemical and Submarine Observations; #90171 (2013)

N. Pinet, M. Duchesne, D. Lavoie, and A. Bolduc

Search and Discovery.com

.... Lawrence Platform underlies most of the up to 350 m deep, relatively flat Laurentian channel seafloor (Pinet et al., 2008a). Figure 1: Multibeam...

Abstract: Investigating Extreme Marine Environments through the NEPTUNE Canada Cabled Ocean Observatory; #90172 (2014)

Christopher R Barnes, Mairi M. R. Best, Fern Johnson, Benoit Pirenne

Search and Discovery.com

... vehicles as they collect data from the ocean surface to within the seafloor. Instruments are interactive—scientists can instruct them to respond to events...

Geologic Controls on the Occurrence of Gas Hydrates in the Indian Continental Margin: Results of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP) Expedition 01

Timothy S. Collett, M. Riedel, J. Cochran, R. Boswell, P. Kumar, A. Sathe, and NGHP Expedition 01 Scientific Party

Search and Discovery.com

... • decreasing reservoir quality Massive GH seafloor mound – Gulf of Mexico • decreasing confidence in resource estimates • increasing technical...

Identification of New Seismic Evidence Regarding Gas Hydrate Occurrence and Gas Migration Pathways Offshore Uruguay, by Juan Tomasini, Héctor de Santa Ana, and Arthur H. Johnson, #80116 (2010)

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Petroleum Plays in Upper Cenozoic Strata in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada; #10300 (2011)

James Dietrich, Zhuoheng Chen, Gillian Chi, Jim Dixon, Kezhen Hu, Dave McNeil

Search and Discovery.com

... to paleo-seafloor highs above Lower Tertiary fold structures. The Shallow Bay Sequence includes fluvial and marine sediments deposited in a deeply...

The Hudson Bay Intracratonic Basin in Northern Canada: New Hydrocarbon System Data for an Oil-Prospective Frontier, #10431 (2012)

Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Mathieu Duchesne, Esther Asselin, Kezhen Hu, Jim Dietrich, Shunxin Zhang, Julito Reyes, Barry Kohn, Paul Budkewitsch, Rudolf Bertrand, Derek Armstrong, Michelle Nicolas

Search and Discovery.com

... active h d E id for ti hydrocarbon b systems Smoking gun for hydrocarbon generation ? High resolution seafloor maps Iceberg scour g Pockmarks...

The Paleozoic Hudson Bay Basin in Northern Canada: New Insights Into Hydrocarbon Potential of the Last North-America Conventional Frontier Basin, #10817 (2015).

Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Jim Dietrich, Zhuoheng Chen

Search and Discovery.com

... and seismic-reflection profiles. The likelihood of active petroleum system has also been recently supported by recognition of pockmarks on the seafloor...

ABSTRACT: A Whirlwind Tour of Shell Seismic Technologies Employed in the NCMA Basin

Analiese Ferreira, Nwenna Crooks-Smith, Faria Badhal, Michael Koop, Paul El Khoury, Henning Kuehl, Ahmad Zamanian, Satyakee Sen, Jorge De La Torre Guzman, Tom Merrifield, Oriol Falivene, Neal Auchter, Patricio Desjardins, Pedram Zarian, Marianne Vissinga, Olga Rodina, Austin Boles, John Martin

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... for the shallow depths and small offsets. 2) Varying seafloor depth and surface related multiples with very short to long periods. 3) Overburden shallow...

ABSTRACT: Reservoir Depositional Element (RDE) Mapping: Adding detail to the regional picture

Tracy Gunness, Martin Wells

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

...: www.the gstt.org Email: [email protected] instability triggers MTDs, which shape the seafloor topography and control the spatial and temporal...

Deep-water Basins of the Bering Sea–Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential - Abstract

Alan K. Cooper, Michael S. Marlow

Alaska Geological Society

... (Cenozoic?) or rejuvenated crust that probably formed there either by seafloor-spreading or by basaltic flooding of older oceanic crust. The hydrocarbon...

More Evidence of the Time of Devonian Oil Migration

A. J. Goodman

CSPG Bulletin

.... The sea water gradually coagulates this material which then settles on the seafloor in the Gulf of Paria and elsewhere. From the tankers loading...

An Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Seepage in Australia’s Timor Sea (Yampi Shelf) Using Integrated Remote Sensing Technologies

Geoffrey W. O’Brien, Paul Quaife, Shawn Burns, Michael Morse, John Lee

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... coherency, or the presence of a very prominent amplitude anomaly at the seafloor. SAR anomalies are located ~10 km inboard from the intense WaSi...

Abstract: Regional bedrock geology of the Baffin Island Shelf

B. MacLean, G. L. Williams

Atlantic Geology

... source rocks by seafloor sampling and exploratory drilling results indicate that conditions favourable for the generation of hydrocarbons have existed...

Paleogene Yucatan back-arc basin in the northern Caribbean: Ridge and fracture zone geometry in oceanic crust, depth-to-Moho, and Cenozoic sedimentary fill

Juan Pablo Ramos, Paul Mann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) of the oceanic crust of the Yucatan basin based on the depth of seafloor along the basin (Fig. 3a). As an additional constraint on the age...

Petroleum Geology of Chukchi Sea - Abstract

Kirk W. Sherwood

Alaska Geological Society

... to foreland folding and extend to the seafloor in most areas. These faults may have disrupted pre-existing accumulations and form a risk to petroleum...

Davis Strait: Structure and Evolution as Obtained from a Systematic Geophysical Survey

S. P. Srivastava, B. MacLean, R. F. Macnab, H. R. Jackson

CSPG Special Publications

... show the presence of reflectors resembling oceanic-type acoustic basement. Magnetic anomalies correlatable with seafloor spreading anomalies...

Abstract: Insights on Prospectivity of Disputed Zones, South China Sea

Janice M. Christ, William G Dickson, James W Granath

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

..., which often grow to the seafloor. The synrift section offers the best chance of sandstone reservoirs, sealed by post-rift deepwater mudstones. Gravity...

Abstract: Holocene Dispersal of Yukon River Sediments in the Bering Sea and Implications for Interpretation of Ancient Epicontinental Shelf Sediments

C. Hans Nelson

Alaska Geological Society

... currents that have reworked the shallow seafloor of Norton Sound (≤20 m deep) and have carried the finer grained resuspended sediment northward from...

An Observation on Strike Slip Movement in the Criner Hills, Love County, Oklahoma

Richard H. Remmer

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... seafloor. Therefore it is reasonable to expect that Oil Creek Sand contours would be more closely spaced on the steep flank of the paleo high...

The Role of Stratigraphic Architecture in Resource Distribution: An Example from the Niobrara Formation of the Denver-Julesburg Basin

William R. Drake, Sarah J. Hawkins, Scott G. Lapierre

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The distal carbonate ramp setting of the Niobrara Formation of the Western Interior Seaway offers insight into how depositional processes and seafloor...

Revisiting the Brazilian Equatorial Margin with FWI and its impact on interpretation in an exploratory frontier

Diego Costa, Edmarley Ramos, Giuseppe Loconte, Filipe Rudrigues, Olivier Brachet

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... deposits, and shale-dominated thrust systems. Both surveys present near-seafloor complexity, including irregular seafloor morphology due to canyons...