Côte dIvoire: Completing the Jigsaw

Matthew Tyrrell, Ibrahima Diaby, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-dip by late-stage faults, which are either inversion-derived or late transform movement faults, providing a fault-seal. Many exploration wells have...

Memorial: Karl Arleth (1898-1985)

Karl H. Arleth, Karl F. Arleth

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... intrigued Karl. It was located at Seal Beach, California, where Shell had most of the acreage under continuous drilling option and had drilled the'Shell 1...

Inappropriate Separation of Risk and Uncertainty in Probabilistic Assessments, #70074 (2010)

Charles D. Norman

Search and Discovery.com

... Copyright © 2009 GeoKnowledge Impact of communication Seal succeeds Two channels with independent seal risks Communication A B OWC Communication OWC...

Exploration Risk Assessment Using Forward Stratigraphic Modelling: Flemish Pass Basin, NL, Canada; #41883 (2016)

E. Le Guerroué, J. Pitz1, P. Jermannaud, P.-V. Chenet, E. Gillis, J. Carter, I. Atkinson, D. McCallum, R. Wright

Search and Discovery.com

... of quantifying the reservoir, seal and source rock presence and effectiveness. A comprehensive stratigraphic / paleoenvironment interpretation...

Review of Geological Storage Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Victoria

C. M. Gibson-Poole, S. Edwards, R. P. Langford, B. Vakarelov

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... potential for CO2 geological storage. This basin has an extensive sedimentary fill with numerous reservoir and seal horizons, with mature hydrocarbon fields...

Predicting rock strength variability across stratigraphic interfaces in caprock lithologies at depth: Correlation between outcrop and subsurface

Elizabeth S. Petrie, Tamara N. Jeppson, James P. Evans

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

..., especially in fine-grained, low-permeability lithologies. These discontinuities commonly form a part of seal bypass systems, which can lead...

Hydrocarbon Columns, Buoyancy Pressures, and Seal Efficiency: Comparisons of Oil and Gas Accumulations in California and the Rocky Mountain Area (1)

Donald L. Zieglar

AAPG Bulletin

...Hydrocarbon Columns, Buoyancy Pressures, and Seal Efficiency: Comparisons of Oil and Gas Accumulations in California and the Rocky Mountain Area (1...

Sedimentology and Petrophysical Character of Cretaceous Marine Shale Sequences Foreland Basins: Seismic Response of Seals Horizons, by Wm. C. Dawson, W.R. Almon, E. Rietsch, F.G. Ethridge, S.J. Sutton, and B. Casteblanco-Torres, #40089 (2003).

Search and Discovery.com

Reservoir vs. Seal Pressure Gradients: Calculations and Pitfalls; #41298 (2014)

Selim Simon Shaker

Search and Discovery.com

...Reservoir vs. Seal Pressure Gradients: Calculations and Pitfalls; #41298 (2014) Selim Simon Shaker Reservoir vs. Seal Pressure Gradients...

Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomite reservoir facies: An overview

Graham R. Davies, Langhorne B. Smith Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

...). Volcanic ash layers also occur in the Middle Ordovician basal Trenton Formation of upstate New York, locally forming an upper seal for HTD emplacement...

Interpretation of Footwall (Lowside) Fault Traps Sealed by Reverse Faults and Convergent Wrench Faults

T. P. Harding, A. C. Tuminas

AAPG Bulletin

... of the footwall block as a consequence of block-edge folding, fault drag, and shortening transverse to fault strike. Effective fault seal and longitudinal...

Sealing and Non-Sealing Faults Along a Major Wrench Trend in the Kakap Area, West Natuna Basin

Mu'adz Chalik

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... produced more than 27.2 MMBO and 30.3 BCFG since 1995. Study of fault plane profiles shows that faults seal the accumulation of hydrocarbons in these fields...

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

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

Wyoming Geological Association

.... Furthermore, each microfacies has characteristic seal and seismic properties. These microfacies, in order of seal capacity as measured by mercury...

Structural Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Los Angeles Basin, California: Chapter 3: PART 2

Thomas L. Wright

AAPG Special Volumes

... minerals: Pacific Section, SEPM, p. 65-96. Bowes, G. H., 1943, Seal Beach oil field: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 118, p. 325-328...

Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) Waulsortian Reefs in the Seal Area of North-Central Alberta

G. R. Davies, D. E. Edwards, P. Flach

CSPG Special Publications

...Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) Waulsortian Reefs in the Seal Area of North-Central Alberta G. R. Davies, D. E. Edwards, P. Flach 1988 643 648...

Future Exploration in Musi Area, South Sumatra: Looking for New Oil in an Old Area

Yustina Imaluqman Dahlan, Yusnita Yunus

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to constrain the depositional model for potential source, reservoir and seal rocks in each sequence. At least three cycles of the Baturaja carbonate...

Cretaceous Stratigraphic Play Fairways and Risk Assessment in the Browse Basin: Implications for CO2 Storage; #80513 (2016)

Nadege Rollet, Steve T. Abbott, Megan E. Lech, David Caust, Rowan Romeyn, Karen Romine, Jane Blevin, Kamal Khider, Chris Nicholson, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Richard F. Kempton, Eric Tenthorey, Jennifer Totterdell, Victor Nguyen, Liuqi Wang, Ron Hackney

Search and Discovery.com

... with Oil Inclusions (GOI) techniques were used to assess the seal integrity. Contemporary stress field indicators suggest that the basin is most likely...

Finding By-Passed Oil in a Mature Field by Reprocessing and Reinterpreting Existing 3-D Seismic; A Case Study of Petapahan Field, Sumatera, Indonesia

Subambang Anggoro, Ibnu Arif, Yuli Iswanto, William F. Mallett III, Budy Subiyanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... identified new faults across the field that were previously hidden in the noise of the old processed data. Fault seal analysis was completed...

State of Stress in the Timor Sea Area, Based on Deep Wellbore Observations and Frictional Failure Criteria: Application to Fault-Trap Integrity

David A. Castillo, Richard R. Hillis, Keven Asquith, Mike Fischer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... have been used to better understand the mechanisms responsible for fault seal failure in the Timor Sea area. Details of the three-dimensional stress...

Exploring For Shallow Hydrocarbon Reservoirs In Ancient Sedimentary Basins

Chester A. Wallace, David C. Jacobs

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... high-pressure brine and hydrocarbons break confining seals to forcefully intrude overlying semi-consolidated sediment in seal-bypass systems, dynamic...

Geologically Based Pore Pressure Modeling: Reconciling Pressure vs. Depth Plots with Mud Weight Equivalent vs. Depth Plots

S. Shaker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... compartmentalization, fluid contacts and to evaluate seal integrity. The standard conversion method of calculating the pounds-per-gallon (PPG) from the actual...

Pore Pressure Prediction Geology and Modeling Assessment

Selim S. Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

...: American Association of Drilling Engineers Paper AADE–07–NTCE–51, 8 p. Shaker, S. S., 2012, Reservoir vs. seal pressure gradients: Perception and pitfalls...

Examples of Fault Architecture and Clay Gouging in Neogene Clastics of the Miri Area, Sarawak

Franz L. Kessler, John Jong

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... above, the greater Miri area offers many particularly well exposed fault outcrops. But why should one spend resources studying fault seal and retention...

Lithologic Criteria for Oil Potential of Upper Devonian Rocks in South of Orenburg Region

V. K. Baranov, A. G. Galimov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... it is 1-10 m thick. Mendym clays are the seal in the South Buzuluk depression and in Rybkin field of the Vostochno-Orenburg high. In those areas where...

Capillary Pressure: Part 5. Laboratory Methods

Charles L. Vavra, John G. Kaldi, Robert M. Sneider

AAPG Special Volumes

... quality -- Pay versus nonpay -- Expected fluid saturations -- Seal capacity (thickness of hydrocarbon column a seal can hold before it leaks) -- Depth...