Exploring "Sweet Spots" in the Deep Shelf, Gulf of Mexico

Selim S. Shaker, Walter W. Wornardt Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... of hydrocarbon trapping becomes at risk. This is known as reservoir breach and incompetent seal. GULF OF MEXICO SHELF, W-E CAMERON CASES This pioneer study...

Traps Associated with Paleovalleys and Interfluves in an Unconformity Bounded Sequence: Lower Cretaceous Glauconitic Member, Southern Alberta, Canada (1)

JAMES M. WOOD and JOHN C. HOPKINS

AAPG Bulletin

..., are interpreted to provide a lateral seal along the northeastern side of the pool (Figure 10). Thin-section photomicrographs (Figure 7a, b, g, h) and porosity...

Heterogeneity in siliciclastic carrier beds: Implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation

Xiaorong Luo, Liqiang Zhang, Likuan Zhang, Yuhong Lei, Jun Li, Wan Yang, Ming Cheng, Hui Shi, and Binfeng Cao

AAPG Bulletin

... and accumulation processes and shed new light on the relationship between reservoir, seal, and trap. The spectrum of exploration targets should...

Oil Generation as the Predominant Overpressure Mechanism in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China, #50357 (2010)

Xiaowen Guo, Sheng He, Keyu Liu

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... to form an effective pressure seal. The origin of overpressures in the reservoir rocks may have been generated by the overpressured fluid...

Say What We Mean and Mean What We SayŽ: The Unified Upstream Risk Model as a Force for Shared Understanding, #70110 (2011)

Mark A. Sykes, Kenneth C. Hood, Steven N. Salzman, Christopher J. Vandewater

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... used in the Unified Upstream Risk Model, for exploration opportunity evaluation, are as follows: • • • • • • • • • Trap Closure Trap Seal Reservoir...

Petroleum System Analysis of the Nicaraguan Rise and Colombia Basin: A Regional Overview from Seismic and Well Data, #10736 (2015).

Luis Carlos Carvajal, Paul Mann

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...) Potential seal rocks include gray calcareous shale, siltstone, and silty shale deposited above regional and local unconformities and as intraformational...

A Time-Slice of the Lake Eyre Basin: Towards Better Facies Models; #10806 (2015)

Gresley A. Wakelin-King, Kathryn Amos

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... for predicting reservoir, seal, and migration pathway properties. Cross-discipline collaborations across geomorphology and sedimentology can develop process...

Migration Lag - What is it and how it affects Charge Risk and Fluid Properties, #42014 (2017).

Zhiyong He

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... bed and the trap to either spill point or seal capacity. Time will again be consumed as these intermediate traps are being filled. Observation...

Historical Transformation of the Petroleum System Concept to Computerized Petroleum System Models and Linked Technologies, #42385 (2019).

K. E. Peters, L. B. Magoon, B. Wygrala,

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... (source, reservoir, seal, overburden) and processes (trap formation, generation-migration-accumulation) responsible for petroleum accumulations (Dow, 1974...

Quantifying the Risk on Reservoir Quality with Forward Stratigraphic Modelling in Frontier Areas … Orphan Basin, Canada, #42453 (2019).

Alcide Thebault, Veronique Gervais, Marie Callies, Paul Jermannaud,

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... influence and probabilities of reservoir and seal presence; • To generate quantified CRS maps in a small amount of time. QUALITY CHECK: The accuracy...

Storage Resource Estimates and Seal Evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician Units in the MRCSP Region; #80678 (2019)

Cristian R. Medina, John A. Rupp, Kevin M. Ellett, Patrick McLaughlin, Steve F. Greb, William Harrison, III, David Barnes, Christopher Waid, Brian J. Dunst

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...Storage Resource Estimates and Seal Evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician Units in the MRCSP Region; #80678 (2019) Cristian R. Medina, John A. Rupp...

Resources Then and Now

Burney J. Le Boeuf

Pacific Section of AAPG

.... Considerably more of the two species of fur seals that inhabited the California coastline, the northern fur seal and the Guadalupe fur seal, were killed...

Palaeogeography and its Impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia

J. Bradshaw, J. Sayers, M. Bradshaw, R. Kneale, C. Ford, L. Spencer, M. Lisk

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., reservoir and seal facies. Three different examples, at play, basin, and province scales are described: at the play scale, palaeogeography helps explain...

Central Sumatra Prospect Evaluation, Structural and Stratigraphic Fluid Barriers and Hydrodynamic Systems as Indicated by Wireline Formation Pressures

Richard R. Terres, Soejanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... should be identical. If they are not, then a new pool is delineated and some type of seal, either stratigraphic or structural, exists between the two...

Retrofit Gas Lift System, Unconventional Method to Maximize Hydrocarbon Recovery

Afif, Djabaruddin, Kurniawan Purwoko, Eko Andriyanto, Sylvia Yusim

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Separated from gas injection valve with 510 ft pup join.  The Gas Injection Valve is a variable opening valve which has an elastomeric seal as well...

Hydrocarbon Migration and Trapping in Unconventional Plays, #10968 (2017).

Zhiyong He, Daniel Xia

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... the displacement pressure (Pd) of the seal. Higher Pd means higher retained saturation, as well as higher reservoir pressure. This is a generalized...

Seals: The Role of Geomechanics

Gary D. Couples

AAPG Special Volumes

... seal behavior. Adler, P. M., C. G. Jacquin, and J. F. Thovert, 1992, The formation factor of reconstructed porous media: Water Resources Research, v...

Sedimentation, Diagenesis and Porosity Evolution of Carbonate Sands in the Black Lake Field of Central Louisiana

J. L. Harbour, R. L. Mathis

Special Publications of SEPM

.... Deposition of thick overlying shales, along with updip lagoonal muds, apparently formed a diagenetic seal in the Black Lake Field. This seal prevented...

A Comparison of Hydrocarbon Plays in the Bass, Gippsland, Otway and Taranaki Basins

J. K. Davidson, K. C. Morrison

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and quality, and source rock than they are on seal effectiveness and degree of exploration. The latest Eocene-earliest Oligocene com• pression...

Seismic Attributes: Leveraging Seismic Data for Reservoir Characterization: Fracture Identification and Prediction to understand seal integrity in the unconventional Eagle Ford Shale reservoir, South Texas, USA.

Hector Bello, Gervasio Barzola, Kit Clemons

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Seismic Attributes: Leveraging Seismic Data for Reservoir Characterization: Fracture Identification and Prediction to understand seal integrity...

Gas Resource Quantification — A Supply-Side Approach

B. J. Katz, W. R. Almon, C. Atallah, Martin Schoell, Yongchun Tang

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... generation kinetics (e.g., Arneth and Matzigkeit, 1985). In this study "gold seal" pyrolysis is utilized and the kinetics of gas generation are derived...

Enhanced Availability & Reliability of MMF Turbine Gas Compressor Using Chemical Soaking Method at Mike-Mike Flow Station PT PHE ONWJ

Mochamad Jalal Abdul Goni, Irvan Sopandi Yusup, Muchamad Agus Setiawan, Deni Danial, Wirdan Arifin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., the compressor was soaked using chemical Paraffin & Asphaltene Dissolver, with the following stages (Figure 4 &5): 1. Deisolation. 2. Reconnect hose of seal...

Success Criteria for Oil and Gas Exploration in Naturally Fractured Basement Reservoir, a Case Study in Indonesia

Faisal Siddiq, Yudha Risnandar Sinulingga, Arii Ardjuna, Sumaryana, Irvan Taufik Sutanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...; Critically Stressed Condition; Direct Proximity to HC Kitchen; Thickness of Seal Rock with overpressure seal overlying the basement reservoir...

Fault-seal Analysis in the Temana Field, Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia

Shutaro Hasegawa, Rasoul Sorkhabi, Shoji Iwanaga, Naofumi Sakuyama, Othman Ali Mahmud

AAPG Special Volumes

...Fault-seal Analysis in the Temana Field, Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia Shutaro Hasegawa, Rasoul Sorkhabi, Shoji Iwanaga, Naofumi Sakuyama, Othman Ali...

Abstract: Pre-Tertiary Fractured Reservoirs in the Western Bohai Bay Basin, PR China, by C. Wu; #90937 (1998).

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