Delaware Basin Horizontal Wolfcamp Case History: HTI Fracture Analysis to Avoid H2S and Extraneous Water Linked to Graben Features

Scott Cook, Mike McKee, Sid Bjorlie

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Snell’s law tells us that rays will bend to spend the least amount of time possible inside the graben, so even rays non-perpendicular to the graben...

I. Relation of Structural Section to Seismic Section

Robert E. Sheriff

AAPG Special Volumes

... a reflector passes right through it. Travel paths which pass through interfaces where the velocity changes are bent according to Snell's law: sine...

III. Evidence of Faulting

Robert E. Sheriff

AAPG Special Volumes

... plane; that is, it juxtaposes different velocities. Therefore, raypaths passing through the fault plane are bent according to Snell's law by the change...

Study on Characteristic Variability of Weak Signal in High Density Seismic Acquisition; #41351 (2014)

Wujin Chen and Anchu Wu

Search and Discovery.com

... to Snell law. (2) (3) Where Rpp is the reflection coefficient, Tpp is the transmission coefficient, ρ1 is the first layer density, ρ2 is the second layer...

Angle Gathers for Gaussian Beam Depth Migration, #41593 (2015).

Samuel Gray

Search and Discovery.com

... by surface incidence or emergence angle, i.e., the angle at the source or receiver location that corresponds by Snell’s law to the subsurface incidence angle...

Combined P and S Waves Survey for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Basuki Puspoputro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the generalized forms of Snell's law still hold as far as the directions of the different waves are concerned (see Figure 1): Figure 1. Partition of energy...

Diving wave tomography: Velocity modelling using first arrival traveltime

Amatul Syafi Abdul Basit, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Arulini Permalu

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... gradient medium that isn’t always the best representation of Earth’s subsurface (Levin, 1996). As such, refraction theory governed by Snell’s Law...

Analysis of the fluvial stratigraphic response to the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, U.S.A.

Amanda Owen, Adrian J. Hartley, Trevor B. Hoey, Alena Ebinghaus, David W. Jolley, Gary S. Weissmann

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Planetary Sciences, v . 39, p . 489– 516. Middleton, G.V., 1973, Johannes Walther's Law of the Correlation of Facies: Geological Society...

Kiowa and Prowers County, Colorado

Richard S. Buchanan

Kansas Geological Society

.... Continental Oil Co. 8. Superior Oil Company Weisenberger 9. Stanolind Oil &t Gas Co. Snell III 7-20S-41W SE SW 10. Texa. Pacific Coal &t Iron...

Constraints on the Burial History of Tengiz Field From Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry

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The Next 100 Years of Global Energy: Part IV The Global Power Fuel Mix and Carbon Transition; #70271 (2017)

Mark A. Snell

Search and Discovery.com

...The Next 100 Years of Global Energy: Part IV The Global Power Fuel Mix and Carbon Transition; #70271 (2017) Mark A. Snell The Next 100 Years...

North Louisiana: Early Gas Development and History of Conservation Laws

A. A. Meyerhoff , James M. Forgotson, Sr.

AAPG Special Volumes

.... of Conservation, p. 165-210. Moosa, R. Nolan, and Saloom, Jr., Kaliste J., 1942, The oil and gas conservation movement in Louisiana: Tulane Law...

Multi-Taxa Isotopic Investigation of Paleohydrology In the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Eastern Utah, U.S.A.: Deciphering Effects Of the Nevadaplano Plateau On Regional Climate

Celina A. Suarez,, Luis A. González, Gregory A. Ludvigson, James I. Kirkland, Richard L. Cifelli, Matthew J. Kohn

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... isotope compositions of fossils: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, v. 66, p. 119– 154. Kohn, M.J., and Law, M.J., 2006, Stable isotope chemistry...

Uranium-Vanadium Deposits on the West Flank of the La Sal Mountains, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

William L. Chenoweth

Grand Junction Geological Society

...-prospector named Charles Snell came to him in the spring of 1915 with the story of a dream in which he saw a yellow circle on a block of sandstone...

Modelado Sismico Tridimensional Mediante Teoria de Rayos [PAPER IN SPANISH] Three-Dimensional Seismic Modeling Using Ray Theory

G. GarcÍa

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... Modelado Sismico Tridimensional. Haciendo uso extensivo de la Ley de Snell, se manejan las ecuaciones para trazar rayos en modelos geologicos...

A Comparison of Air Photograph and Computer Simulated Wave Refraction Patterns in the Nearshore Area, Richibucto, Canada and Jervis Bay, Australia

Edward A. Bryant

Atlantic Geology

... also assume that wave refraction obeys Snell's law, that diffraction and reflection are minimal, that wave period is a constant both in time and space...

Seismic Signature as a Porosity Indicator in Early Miocene Reefs in the Madura Strait Via AVO Inversion and Modelling

Bimal R. Banerjee

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and 30 degrees angles of incidence. The ray path of each angle started at 2440 m and from this depth all rays follow Snell's law. Fig.14, 15 & 16 show...

Developing a New Technique Through Partnering with Contractors: Reservoir Prediction Utilizing AVO Walkaway VSP Data to Calibrate Surface Seismic Gathers, a Case Study in Indonesia

Patricia L. C. Henderson, Dan Hampson, Scott Leaney, Nigel Smith, John Rice, Dave Boreham

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... was based on the stacking velocity at the well location and Snell's Law; the other was based on the computed incident angle at each offset from...

Ocean Basin Ages and Amounts of Original Sediments

Edwin L. Hamilton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Simple trigonometry and Snell's Law indicate no significant additional thickness of the whole section because of assuming a third layer, shale...

How to Make Velocity Corrections

John W. Daly

AAPG Bulletin

..., Huygen's principle, and Snell's law is the only prerequisite necessary to develop a good working knowledge of reflection-seismograph computing...

Structure Beneath Continental Shelf, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

John W. Antoine , James L. Harding

AAPG Bulletin

... from C0 and C1 using Snell's law [EQUATION] Z is then easily computed using equation 1. Fig. 12. Diagrammatic travel-time graphs...

Physical Seismic Modeling of a Near-Vertical Fault Zone; #41515 (2015)

Jessie M. Arthur, Donald C. Lawton, Joe Wong

Search and Discovery.com

... identification by arrival times in the processed results was done by numerical raytracing, which assumes the raypaths obey Snell’s law and velocities...

Thermal Subsidence and Generation of Hydrocarbons in Michigan Basin

Jeffrey A. Nunn , Norman H. Sleep , Wayne E. Moore

AAPG Bulletin

... sciences, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: London, Academic Press, p. 685-692. Sleep, N. H., and N. S. Snell, 1976...

Markov Analysis of Cyclic Alluvial Sediments: NOTES

Philip D. Gingerich

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 83, no. 2, p. 217-341. KEMENY, J. C. AND SNELL, J. L., 1960, Finite Markov chains: Van Nostrand, Princeton, 210 p. KRUMBEIN, W. C., 1967, FORTRAN IV...

Subsidence and Heat Flow in Intracontinental Basins and Passive Margins

Jean-Claude Mareschal

CSPG Special Publications

... Society, v. 23, p. 325-350. Sleep, N. H. and Snell, N. S. 1976. Thermal contraction and flexure of midcontinent and Atlantic marginal basins...