Overview of the Structure and Associated Petroleum Prospectivity of the Taranaki Fault, New Zealand

V. Stagpoole, R. Funnell, A. Nicol

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... indication of the timing of petroleum expulsion in relation to trap formation along the fault. Studies are underway on the reservoir and seal facies as part...

The Origins of Abnormal Fluid Pressures

Norman E. Smith, H. George Thomas

Houston Geological Society

... the technique to provide an estimation of fracture gradients and penetration rates. The accuracy of the interpretation varies with the age and lithology...

Faulting Associated with Deep-Seated Salt Domes in the Northeast Portion of the Mississippi Salt Basin

Dudley J. Hughes

GCAGS Transactions

... do not. By comparing a gravity anomaly lacking subsurface well control with a nearby anomaly which has good well control, an estimation...

The Structure of Volcanic Geothermal Systems

Robert F. Heming

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... 263-284. Fournier, R. O. and Rowe, J. J., 1966, Estimation of underground temperatures from the silica content of water from hot springs and wet-steam...

Pressure in Miocene Carbonate Exploration Targets

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Swarbrick, Anthony Mallon, Stephen O'Connor

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as the opportunity for hydraulic seal failure in traps. These are pressures that are significantly above the normal (hydrostatic) pressure gradient. All...

Banyu Urip Field Development - Results of Drilling 32 Wells

Fikril Hakiki, Frank Musgrove, Peter Varnai, Albertus Ditya, Dessy Sapardina

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the main part of reservoir reaches almost 27% or 2 p.u higher than the early well’s average porosity (Figure 7). This lower average porosity estimation...

Why Look in Deepwater When Elephants Prefer the Shallows? The Biliton Basin Revisited

Chris Atkinson, Mike Renolds, Alan Clarke, Sonny Sampurno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the transgressive phase is the deposition of the regional seal. This seal is most effective in the Sunda and Asri basins where it is not offset...

An Integrated Subsurface Geological and Engineering Study of Meyal Field, Potwar Plateau, Pakistan; #20151 (2012)

Syed Tariq Hasany and Umair Saleem

Search and Discovery.com

... of oils varies in geological time and space. Seal Rocks Kuldana Formation The Kuldana Formation is mainly composed of multi-colored shale (red, reddish...

Timing and Processes of Fracture Formation in Tight-Gas Sandstone Reservoirs Using Fluid Inclusions

Andras Fall, Peter Eichhubl, Stephen E. Laubach

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-seal), trapping fluid inclusions during fracture opening and thus record the temperature, pressure and fluid composition history during fracture...

Exploring for Deep Gas in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf and Deepwater Using Gas Chimney Processing

David Connolly, Fred Aminzadeh

GCAGS Transactions

... seal characteristics and how to constrain charge and seal uncertainty for hydrocarbon exploration and prospect ranking. Use of chimney cubes...

Subsurface Fluid Compartments, by D. E. Powley, #60008 (2006).

Search and Discovery.com

Chemical Kinetic Model of Hydrocarbon Generation, Expulsion, and Destruction Applied to the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela

Jerry J. Sweeney , Robert L. Braun , Alan K. Burnham , Suhas Talukdar , Carlos Vallejos

AAPG Bulletin

... with a mean activation energy in the 50 kcal/mol range for all species (Braun et al., 1992). Limitations in the data preclude any conclusion that different...

Annotated Bibliography of Utah Tar Sand Deposits (OFR-503)

J. Wallace Gwynn, Francis V. Hanson

Utah Geological Survey

... to their Sunnyside tar sand deposit investigations. Sunnyside tar sands project 1990 mining studies – alternate cases I and II; 1989 geologic resource estimation...

The Trap: Chapter 13: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

AAPG Special Volumes

... carrier bed) and reservoir, there is considerable confusion in the literature as to precise meanings. Section 1. The Seal The basic necessity...

Fault zone processes and fluid history in Austin Chalk, southwest Texas

David A. Ferrill, Mark A. Evans, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, Daniel Lehrmann, Kirk D. H. Gulliver, and Zach Sickmann

AAPG Bulletin

... associated with steep fault segments host calcite veins. Crack–seal textures in fault zone veins record repeated reactivation of refracted fault profiles...

Browse Basin 2014 Marine Survey - Investigating Containment for Potential Late Cretaceous CO2 Storage Plays, #80511 (2016).

Chris Nicholson, Rowan Romeyn, Megan Lech, Steve T. Abbott, George Bernardel, Andrew Carroll, David Caust, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Ron Hackney, Floyd Howard, Rachel Melrose, Scott Nichol, Lynda Radke, Nadege Rollet, Justy Siwabessy, Janice Trafford

Search and Discovery.com

... that may suggest the presence of deep plumbing systems which could compromise seal integrity. Prior to the survey, 2D and 3D seismic data were used...

Well Performance Optimization With Electric Submersible Pump Using Production Software

August J.P., Ridwan Kiay Demak

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... which is expected. INTRODUCTION A typical submersible pumping unit consists of an electric motor, a seal section, an intake section, a multistage...

North Monroeville Field, Monroe County, Alabama

Gregory J. Zerrahn, Michael T. Roberts

GCAGS Transactions

.../resolution limitations. Figure 7B is a north-south arbitrary seismic line extracted from the merged 3D surveys for Monroeville and North Monroeville...

Petroleum Plays of the Bohai Basin, China: Expanding Exploration Concepts in a Mature Basin

Colin Murray, Eugene J. Murray, Changlin Wu

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... mainly in the west of the Bohai Basin and may act as a local hydrocarbon seal, preventing migration into shallower reservoirs. These volcanics also...

Petroleum Systems along the Fold Belt Associated to the Marañon-Oriente-Putumayo (MOP) Foreland Basins

Robert Marksteiner, Antenor M. Alemán

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... reservoirs (Vivian Formation and Mi and M2 sandstones) was through faulting. However, reservoir/seal pair quality is controlled by depositional facies...

New Insights into the Deep-Water Otway Basin - Part 3. Petroleum System Modelling

Oliver Schenk, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Dianne S. Edwards, Christopher J. Boreham, Tekena West, Alexander Karvelas

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... of the basin and primarily on their thick Lower Cretaceous depocentres. The limitations of legacy seismic datasets resulted in a high degree...

A Predictive Model of Reservoir Continuity in Fluvial Sandstone Bodies of a Lacustrine Deltaic System, Colton Formation, Utah

Thomas H. Morris, Dean R. Richmond

Utah Geological Association

... and flow characteristics; methodology, limitations and assessment, in Maill, A. D., ed., Fluvial sedimentology: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists...

De-Risk Drilling Highly Unstable Overburden Section of Deep Water Prospects in the Madura-Flores Sub-Basin: An Application of Basin-Scale Overpressure Modelling From 3D Numerical Simulation of Sediment Compaction and Formation Water Flow

Nicolas Bianchi, Toshiya Miyazaki, Haruhiko Arisaka

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and associated limitations, and a discussion in terms of overpressure occurrence and implications for wellbore stability modelling and petroleum...

Mid-Max Field, a Piece of the Siluro-Devonian Exploration Puzzle

Eduardo Gonzales, David J. Entzminger, William L. Basham

West Texas Geological Society

... the trap development for Mid-Max Field Show the seismic definition and limitations on mapping pre-Woodford structures Explain the anomalous oil...

New Exploration - Old Wells

John A. Masters

Wyoming Geological Association

... on updip fresh water for a seal, but he can't decide from resistivity where the seal stops and the gas begins, or whether there is any gas at all...