Structural Geology: Faults

Mike Shepherd

AAPG Special Volumes

... sealing.FAULT SEALEstimates can be made using Allan diagrams as to the probability that a fault will seal within a reservoir. In the first instance, fault...

The Birkhead-Hutton(!) Petroleum System of the Gidgealpa Area, Eromanga Basin, Australia

Peter J. Boult, Melanie J. Ryan, Bernd H. Michaelsen, David M. McKirdy, Peter R. Tingate, Elio Lanzilli, Meshack L. N. Kagya

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to be the main source of the oil found in the Eromanga Basin. The Triassic Arraburry Formation, the main seal to the Cooper Basin, has focussed hydrocarbon...

Diagenesis, Compaction, and Fluid Chemistry Modeling of a Sandstone Near a Pressure Seal: Lower Tuscaloosa Formation, Gulf Coast

Suzanne D. Weedman , Susan L. Brantley , Ryoji Shiraki , Simon R. Poulson

AAPG Bulletin

...Diagenesis, Compaction, and Fluid Chemistry Modeling of a Sandstone Near a Pressure Seal: Lower Tuscaloosa Formation, Gulf Coast Suzanne D. Weedman...

Seal bypass systems

Joe Cartwright, Mads Huuse, Andrew Aplin

AAPG Bulletin

...Seal bypass systems Joe Cartwright, Mads Huuse, Andrew Aplin 2007 1141 1166 91 8 We present an interpretational framework for the analysis...

PARKMAN FIELD

ERNEST G. MILLER

Williston Basin Symposium

... Marker appears an argillaceous, limestone (dolomitic) bed varying in thickness from 6 to 12 feet. This bed appears to be the bottom seal...

New Insights into the Petroleum Potential of the Onshore Otway Basin, Victoria Australia

Lucas McLean-Hodgson, Bruce McConachie

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... high risk leak potential from migrated hydrocarbons and was drilled in a zone of low seal potential. This well however, provides an excellent test...

The Role of Depositional Sequences in Creating and Controling Petroleum Systems – Basic Principles and Examples

Fred F. Meissner

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The vertical and lateral distribution of source, carrier/reservoir, and migrational-barrier/trap-seal rocks generally reflects an orderly pattern...

Vertical Pressure Distribution in the Central Nam Con Son Basin, Vietnam

Hoang Ngoc Dang, Jan Rafdal, Chris Sladen

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on a horst block and hanging wall associated with a normal fault. Local pressure cells may result from a local fault seal and different amounts...

Use of Paleogeologic and Paleohydrogeologic Reconstructions for Assessing Oil-Gas Potential

S. B. Vagin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... play includes all the Permian and the Nedzheli Formation of the Lower Triassic, this latter unit being the seal. see Fig. 1. The sediments...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

AAPG Bulletin

... of exploration can be critical in tracing hydrocarbon migration routes, interpreting hydrocarbon shows, predicting vertical and lateral seal capacity, exploiting...

The Characteristics and Prospect of Giant Oil and Gas Fields in Marine Carbonate Sequence in China, #20068 (2009)

Jin Zhijun

Search and Discovery.com

... are characterized by multiple episodes of generation and accumulation with subsequent readjustment Source Rock Reservoir Seal Overburden R...

Feasibility of Storing Carbon Dioxide on a Tectonically Active Margin: New Zealand, #80527 (2016).

B.D. Field, M.J. Lawrence, A. Nicol, D. McNamara, M.J. Arnot, F. Coyle, K.E. Higgs, B. Mountain, M. Gerstenberger, R. Daniel, M.A. Bunch, B. Barton

Search and Discovery.com

... indicate that viable reservoir-seal pairs are likely to be present. Additionally, injection of small volumes of produced water and significant natural...

Understanding the Role of the First Carrier Bed: Simple Rules of Thumb and Best Practice That Can Help Reduce Dry Hole Rate, #42422 (2019).

Zhiyong He,

Search and Discovery.com

... is > 500m in deep water marine systems or >150m in non-marine/deltaic systems. In most cases, we do not know a priori the capillary properties of the seal...

Factors controlling petroleum accumulation and leakage in overpressured reservoirs

Fang Hao, Weilin Zhu, Huayao Zou, and Pingping Li

AAPG Bulletin

... of petroleum accumulation and leakage in overpressured reservoirs. Forced top seal fracturing, frictional failure along preexisting faults...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Search and Discovery.com

Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies Variation and Petrophysical Properties in Deepwater Shales, Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, South-Central Wyoming

Almon, William R., Dawson, William C., Sutton, Sally J., Ethridge, Frank G., Castelblanco, Bellatrix

GCAGS Transactions

... a well-defined sequence stratigraphic position including transgressive, highstand, and condensed section deposits, with characteristic seal and seismic...

Calibration of Charge and Retention Models for the Gidgealpa Oilfield: Implications for Seal Potential in the Eromanga Basin

L. Johnson, M. Lisk, A. Gartrell, P. Boult

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...Calibration of Charge and Retention Models for the Gidgealpa Oilfield: Implications for Seal Potential in the Eromanga Basin L. Johnson, M. Lisk...

Naturally Underpressured Reservoirs: Applying the Compartment Concept to the Safe Disposal of Liquid Waste

Jim Puckette and Zuhair Al-Shaieb

Fort Worth Geological Society

... of geologic time. Seal longevity and integrity are evidenced by the very existence of naturally occurring subnormal pressures that did not equalize...

Concept Selection and Feasibility Study for Tangguh Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage/Enhanced Gas Recovery Project

Frans JP Silitonga, Arief Maulana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... with adequate seal capacity, and seal integrity. Scoring matrices have been constructed to rate and rank each formation and structure’s suitability. Feasibility...

Naturally Underpressured Reservoirs: Applying the Compartment Concept to the Safe Disposal of Liquid Waste, by Jim Puckette and Zuhair Al-Shaieb, #40071 (2003).

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Unravelling the Complex Structural History of the Penola Trough - Revealing the St George Fault

P. Boult, P. Lyon, B. Camac, S. Hunt, H. Zwingmann

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-structure, but not the downward propagation of the ‘late’ faults to cause seal breach, will reduce the risk for subsequent explorers in the area. Keywords...

A Model for Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Sunda Basin, West Java Sea

David C. Bushnell, Atmawan D. Temansja

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... is capped by a regional claystone seal, which has served as an effective barrier to the vertical migration and escape of hydrocarbons. All hydrocarbons...

Upper Cretaceous in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia, South America: A New Exploratory Target in an Old Mature Basin, by Mario Prince, Rafael Acevedo, Christian Sanchez, Daniel Rojas, #10296 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

High-Frequency Forced Regressions and Their Influence on Stratigraphic Trap Generation: Examples from the Paleogene in Pelotas Basin, South Brazil; #10624 (2014)

Jose Daudt, Garret Chong

Search and Discovery.com

... robust stratigraphic models, represent key components of the sequence stratigraphic framework, and may result in a powerful tool for reservoir and seal...

Early Carboniferous Battleground for the UKCS 28th Licence Round

Neil Hodgson, Richard Wrigley, Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Basin to the south, migrating laterally up-monoclinal play-fairway analysis. Combining these three play elements dip below the Zechstein salt seal. One...