Control of grain size of brittle minerals on fracture development in shale under compression: Insights from numerical experiments

Qingfeng Meng and Fang Hao

AAPG Bulletin

... to be capable of significantly affecting rock deformation and strain partitioning (Bose et al., 2018, 2020). Figure 1. Ternary diagram showing the percent...

Time-Dependent Deformations of Submarine Slopes

A.J. Silva, H.G. Brandes, M.H. Sadd, W.-M. Tian

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... on Gulf of Mexico clays are presented and a simplified constitutive relationship, using a logarithmic strain-time function, is discussed...

Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing: A Case Study Using Dip-in Fiber

Chaoyi Wang, Yuanyuan Ma, David Eaton, Kelly MacDougall, Carolyn Furlong

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... array of strain sensors. DAS has been widely adopted for hydraulic fracture (HF) monitoring in recent years. We report HF monitoring results from...

Simulation of Multiple-Stage Fracturing in Quasibrittle Shale Formations Using Pore Pressure Cohesive Zone Model

Mahdi Haddad, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... strain analysis in contrast to the common infinitesimal-strain analyses (Haddad and Sepehrnoori, 2014). Our 3D fracturing model enables us to study...

Styles of Continental Rifting: Results from Dynamic Models of Lithospheric Extension

Jean Braun, Christopher Beaumont

CSPG Special Publications

....): Methods of Computational Physics, v. 3, New York: Academic Press, p. 211-263. Woodward, D. J. 1980. Visco-elastic finite element analysis...

Internal structure of the fault zone in sand–clay sequences, revealed by coring across the fault in the Bohai Bay Basin

Zhida Liu, Xiaofei Fu, Lingdong Meng, Haixue Wang, and Zaihe Chen

AAPG Bulletin

.... The purpose of this work was to study the fault zone in this core-producing borehole through core observations, microstructural analysis...

Predicting the regional distribution of fracture networks using the distinct element numerical method

Bronwyn A. Camac, Suzanne P. Hunt

AAPG Bulletin

... and Exploration Association Journal, v. 42, p. 151166.Camac, B. A., S. P. Hunt, and P. J. Boult, 2004, Sensitivity analysis for fault and top seal integrity...

Case History Study of Seismic-Driven 3-D MEM Calibrated with 1-D MEMs and Petrophysics in Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

Vivek Swami, Julio Tavares, Vishnu Pandey, Tatyana Nekrasova, Dan Cook, Jose Moncayo, David Yale

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... seismic driven 3D geological model was built and calibrated to a petrophysical and geomechanical analysis, 1D-MEM (Mechanical Earth Model), on chosen...

Fracture Porosity in Alabaster; An Experimental Model of Rock Deformation

J. M. Boyd, J. B. Currie

CSPG Bulletin

... a given range of confining pressure. Cluster analysis is used to delineate objectively the grouping of deformation features which constitutes...

Reducing fault and seal uncertainty through restoration and forward geomechanical modeling in a compressional regime in the Arabian Plate

Ahmed AlHawaj, Yaser AlZayer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... from initiation to present day, and thus quantifying the amount of vertical strain imposed on potential seal rocks, where the integrity of the latter...

Explanation of Seram Islands More Prolific Oil Potential Compared to Its Offshore Area Using Palinspastic and Basin Modeling Approaches

Qi Adlan, Sony M. Kartanegara, Asep H. P. Kesumajana, Edin A. Syaripudin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by recent sediment from the east. The result of strain analysis is displayed in Figure 7. 2D BASIN MODEL PALINSPASTIC RESTORATION 2D basin model...

ABSTRACT: Controls on the Lateral Variation in Structural Style along an Evaporite-Influenced Normal Fault Array, Halten Terrace, Offshore Mid-Norway, by Wilson, Paul; Elliott, Gavin ; Gawthorpe, Robert L.; Jackson, Christopher A.; Michelsen, Lisa; Sharp, Ian; #90142 (2012)

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Geomechanical modeling for exploration wells, 2D or 3D? A case study from the West African Coast

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Numerical Upcaling of Coupled Flow and Geomechanics in Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media

Daegil Yang, George J. Moridis, Thomas A. Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... equilibrium equation. Hooke’s law defines the stress and strain relation and the elastic stiffness tensor is the intrinsic material property to be upscaled...

Mechanical and stratigraphic constraints on the evolution of faulting at Elk Hills, California

Patricia E. Fiore, David D. Pollard, William R. Currin, David M. Miner

AAPG Bulletin

... as compared with Figure 11a and b. Although this tectonic strain sensitivity analysis has indicated that changes in the orientation of the contraction...

Fabric Pattern in a Basal Till Succession and its Significance for Reconstructing Subglacial Processes

Nicolaj K. Larsen, Jan A. Piotrowski

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... analysis as an indicator of relative strain. We agree that it may be possible to estimate the cumulative strain in clearly deformed soft sediments using...

Trenton Exploration and Wrenching Tectonics--Michigan Basin and Environs: Chapter 14

C. E. Prouty

AAPG Special Volumes

... is petrographic analysis. Cap Rock A continuous unit of varying dolomite content occurs at the top of the Trenton throughout much of the Michigan basin...

Characteristics and origin of Microfracture in Lower Cretaceous Tight Sandstone from Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China; #10514 (2013)

Chun Liu, Ronghu Zhang, Huiliang Zhang, Xianzhang Yang, and Junpeng Wang

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.... Based on fluid inclusions, carbon-oxygen stable isotope analysis of fracture-filling cements (calcite and dolomite) and burial history, tectonic...

Episodicity and Rates of Thrust-sheet Motion in the Himalayas (Western Nepal)

Jean-Louis Mugnier, Pascale Huyghe, Pascale Leturmy, Franois Jouanne

AAPG Special Volumes

... Nepal Himalayas and compatible with elastic strain accumulation. This surface shortening would be induced by a 19 mm/yr slip rate, at depth...

Salients, Recesses, Arcs, Oroclines, and SyntaxesA Review of Ideas Concerning the Formation of Map-view Curves in Fold-thrust Belts

Stephen Marshak

AAPG Special Volumes

... forward when new tools became available for studying rock deformation. Strain analysis, kinematic analysis, paleomagnetic analysis, analog (sandbox...

Jointed deformation bands may not compartmentalize reservoirs

S. E. Tindall

AAPG Bulletin

... structural analysis of deformation banding as a guide to strain and paleostress in the Colorado Plateau region of southern Utah (abs.): Eos...

Reducing Exploration Risk in the Offshore Northern Perth Basin: Trap Integrity Study Addresses a Key Exploration Risk

Richard Kempton, Laurent Langhi, Yanhua Zhang, Chris Nicholson, John Kennard, Nadege Rollet, George Bernardel

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of Mines and major fa ults and key horizons (such as top under the Australian Government's Offshore Petroleum WAPIMS database. reservoir and top seal...

ABSTRACT: Quantifying matrix-to-fracture connectivity in fractured reservoirs; #90011 (2002)

C. ALIMONTI, A. ALISCIONI, Bob HARRISON, Roberto GAMBINI

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.... Future research will attempt to link in bottom up approaches (numerical simulation of fracture networks) and top down approaches (regional strain intensity...

Geodynamic Modeling of Sedimentation-induced Overpressure, Gravitational Spreading, and Deformation of Passive Margin Mobile Shale Basins

Markus Albertz, Christopher Beaumont, Steven J. Ings

AAPG Special Volumes

... and plane-strain finite element modeling. The limit analysis, supported by the models, indicates that narrow margins (slope regions...

1988 AAPG Annual Convention, March 20-23, 1988, Houston, Texas; Abstracts #91030 (2010).

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