Abstract: Upper Miocene and Pliocene Gas and Oil Plays in the Macuspana Basin, Southeastern Mexico

William A. Ambrose, Khaled Fouad, Rebecca Jones, Mark Holtz, Shinichi Sakurai, Edgar Guevara, Javier Meneses-Rocha, Leonardo Aguilera, Lino Miranda, Roberto Rojas, José Morales, José Berlanga, Suhas C. Talukdar, and Tim Wawrzyniec

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... as both four-way and three-way structural- stratigraphic combinations. Reservoir seal is provided by a 100- to 300-m lower Pliocene transgressive...

Abstract: The Bakken Play of Montana and North Dakota

Julie A. LeFever

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... to the south. A bottom seal is formed by the impermeable Three Forks Formation and the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation forms the top seal. A well...

Abstract: Caspian Night. The South Caspian Basin Petroleum Systems: Original Concepts and Modifications Based on New Information

Michael A. Abrams, Neil Piggott, and Ger van Graas

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... in lower South Caspian Region. End_Page 13--------------- pore pressure, good seal capacity and a greater chance to contain hydrocarbons. Poorly...

Abstract: The Double Edged Sword: The Impact of the Interaction between Salt and Sediment on Sub-salt Exploration Risk in Deepwater from Mahogany to Jack

Selim Shaker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... the salt and, conversely, enhancing it above the salt. The negligible permeability of salt creates a perfect seal. The salt’s ductile nature...

Tidal Inlet Reservoirs of the Triassic Halfway Formation, Wembley Region, Alberta

James E. Barclay, Dale A. Leckie

CSPG Special Publications

...) Stratigraphic trapping mechanism for the Halfway Formation. The upper seal is formed by the overlying Charlie Lake evaporites and redbeds. The lower...

Abstract: Geomorphic Exploration Used in Discovery of Trap Spring Oil Field, Nye County, Nevada, by Norman H. Foster; #90964 (1978).

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: Source Rock Reservoirs are a Unique Petroleum System

Kenneth E. Williams

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...) have the traditional components of source, seal, reservoir, trap, and timing that must be evaluated and that must be favorable for a hydrocarbon...

Abstract: Cretaceous Delta Offers Promise in Deep Water Taranaki Basin Bidding Round

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a condensed section of the so rt that commonly is an excellent regional seal. This regional seal overlies rocks interpreted to be coal measu res from well...

Abstract: Pressure's On Vic/Tas Branch Enjoys Dr John Kaldi's PESA Australian Lecturer Visit

Jorg Bein, Tom Bernecker

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of stresses in the Earth's crust and the impl ications this has not only on well stabi lity, but also 011 fault-seal integrity. It came as no surprise...

Reservoirs of the Valanginian Sediments of the Northeast Caucasus

K. I. Smol’yaninova, T. A. Danilenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... open fractures. These rocks are overlain by dolomitized limestones with anhydrite beds, which act as a seal. See Fig. 1. Figure 1. Lithologic...

Role of Faults in the Formation and Destruction of Oil-Gas Pools of the Sangachaly-More - Devannyy-More - Bulla Island Field

I. R. Reykhman, G. M. Guseynov, Sh. Ye. Alimuradov, Nabil Rezak, N. Yu. Mekhtiyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... are water-bearing. The southeast flanks of the structures contain no oil or gas. It has been assumed that the main longitudinal fault was a seal...

New Directions in Procedures for Exploring for Oil and Gas Pools in Traps of the Lithostratigraphic Type

A. G. Aleksin, V. N. Andreyev, G. I. Alekseyev, M. I. Zaydel’son, I. M. Mikhaylov, L. I. Mityakhina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... on monoclines the possibility for the existence of pools depends only on the relationship of frictional force (capillary barrier) at the reservoir-seal boundary...

Geologic Features of the Devonian Inter-Salt Productive Complex in Zones Along Faults in the Pripyat Downwarp

K. V. Fomkin, N. V. Susal’nikova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of inter-salt sediments along faults. 1-Limestone, 2-dolomite, 3-clastic rocks, 4-salt, a-fault seal, b-flow of fluids from inter-salt into sub-salt...

Abstract: Improved Hydrocarbon Prospectivity and New Play Concepts in Inboard Block SB-301, Sabah

Charlie Lee, C. Grant, F. Oprinsen, N. Mat Fiah, P. George, S. M. Tan, K. L Wong

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... success rate in the Inboard area has routinely been attributed to two main factors: the lack of hydrocarbon charge and a lack of seal. However...

Abstract: The Study of Overpressures in NW Borneo (Poster 2)

Yong Boon Teck

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... been breached. In this case the formation pressure is greater than the seal strength of the overlying seal thus fracturing it. In contrast, prospects...

Characteristics of Beds of Orenburg Gas Condensate Field

M. A. Politykina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... This unit is present over the entire area of the field and is practically impermeable. Consequently, it can serve as a seal for the second reservoir...

Effect of Lower Anhydrites on Degree of Filling of Reef Buildups by Hydrocarbons in West Uzbekistan

V. D. Il’in, V. P. Stroganov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... by the hypsometry of the base of the salt unit. The unit of lower anhydrites is not a seal and does not isolate pools in the limestones and the reefs...

Method of Exploration for Stratigraphic Oil and Gas Traps in the Katangliysko-Lun Region of North Sakhalin

I. E. Nikolayev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... 800-900 m thick. It is a regional seal. The sediments of the Dagy Formation (middle Miocene age) beneath the discordance contain very good reservoir...

Stratigraphic Oil Pools in the Clastic Devonian of the Kuybyshev Region

G. A. Yaroslavtsev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... were then deposited and act as a seal for a stratigraphic trap in stratum D-II. The Kynov beds were in turn eroded at the beginning of Sargayev time...

On the Junction of the Tastin High with the Surrounding Depressions of the South of Kazakhstan

B. D. Ageyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... sediments, into contact with Devonian sandstones and conglomerates, which do not have a good seal. The faults themselves do not act as seals. Therefore...

The Permian Lyons Sandstone, Central Denver Basin: An Emerging CCS Reservoir

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Christopher C. Matson, Rashed Alzahrani, Melia Eaton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., the Lyons is approximately 120 feet thick. The overlying seal for the Lyons is the Lykins Formation Blaine anhydrite, and Falcon and Forelle...

Geological Conditions of Formation of Nitrogen Gas Caps of Oil Fields of the Upper Kama Depression

M. M. Bogdanov, P. N. Konev, Ye. N. Shkutnik

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... These dissolved gases are 80-90% nitrogen, 1.5-2.5% methane, and 0.1-1.5% heavy hydrocarbons. The seal for the gas-bearing beds of the Middle...

Position of Reservoirs and Gas Seals in the Section of the Middle-Upper Paleozoic

A. B. Li, G. P. Filip’yev, Kh. Kh. Paragul’gov, M. A. Chimbulatov, R. S. Shakhabayev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... fields. There is only one regional seal, the halogen-clastic unit of the Lower Permian. Other seals are present only in zones; these are halogens...

Some Hydrogeological Factors in the Distribution of Possible Zones of Oil-Gas Accumulation in the Central Part of the Siberian Platform

O. A. Baboshina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... and carbonate sediments, and the seal is a thick salt unit of the Lower and Middle Cambrian. A less widespread seal of evaporites and clays in the middle Moty...

Assessment of the Oil-Gas Prospects of the Cis-Kopetdag Downwarp

R. I. Bykov, V. L. Shuster, M. A. Ashirmamedov, I. M. Stasenkov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... carbonates and carbonates with significant admixed clay, marls, siltstones. The thickness of the Kimmeridgean-Tithonian seal on the platform border...