A Predictive Approach for Tight Oil and Gas Exploration; #42028 (2017)

Fujian Ma

Search and Discovery.com

... the requirement of a structural trap in deep basin. Tight gas typically occurs in low porosity (<10%) and low permeability (in microdarcy range) reservoirs...

Dorado Discovery - Unlocking a Major New Oil and Gas Play in the Bedout Sub-Basin

Melissa Thompson

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., wells, hydrocarbon discoveries and seismic surveys (after Minken et al. 2019). prospect is a combination structural/stratigraphic trap, created...

Upper Jurassic updip stratigraphic trap and associated Smackover microbial and nearshore carbonate facies, eastern Gulf coastal plain

Ernest A. Mancini, William C. Parcell, Wayne M. Ahr, Victor O. Ramirez, Juan Carlos Llinas, Milo Cameron

AAPG Bulletin

...Upper Jurassic updip stratigraphic trap and associated Smackover microbial and nearshore carbonate facies, eastern Gulf coastal plain Ernest...

Factors controlling petroleum accumulation and leakage in overpressured reservoirs

Fang Hao, Weilin Zhu, Huayao Zou, and Pingping Li

AAPG Bulletin

... (the depth to trap crest, vertical and/or lateral overpressure transfer, mechanisms of overpressure generation); and (3) factors related to the geomechanical...

Why Carbonate Reservoirs Are Heterogeneous: Examples From Permian Basin Reservoirs

Robert F. Lindsay

West Texas Geological Society

... barite scale. Trapping Mechanism The enclosing trap is either created by lateral facies changes to form a stratigraphic trap or by later structural...

Mission Canyon Porosity Development, Glenburn Field, North Dakota Williston Basin

LEE C. GERHARD, SIDNEY B. ANDERSON, JAMES BERG

Montana Geological Society

... of the Mission Canyon and updip permeability barriers of anhydrite to be major seals for stratigraphic traps (Johnson, 1956). In the same...

Enabling the Next Generation of Hydrocarbon Exploration

Stefano Volterrani, Tim Matava, Zakir Hossain, Shihong Chi, Brian W. Horn

GEO ExPro Magazine

... consideration for the geologic interpretation of structure, lithology and fabric. It is also a common belief that sequence stratigraphic interpretation...

Geopressure Progression-Regression: An Effective Risk Assessment Tool in Gulf of Mexico Deep Water

Shaker, Selim S.

GCAGS Transactions

... Tester (MDT), establish the progress and regress in the pressure envelopes. The sandwiching of seals between successive reservoir compartments (where...

Examples of Unconformities of Related Systems Tracts, Cretaceous through Precambrian Strata, Front Range (Colorado) and Wyoming

John Dolson, Robert J. Weimer

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... stratigraphic trap, migration and charge in a tectonically active foreland basin, in Dolson, J.C. ed., Unconformity related hydrocarbon exploitation...

Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Modeling in the Barmer Basin of Western Rajasthan, India: Lessons for Exploration in Rift Basins with Late-Stage Inversion, Uplift, and Tilting

Bodapati S. Naidu, V. R. Sunder, Vachaspati Kothari, Pinak Mohapatra, Stuart D. Burley, John Dolson, Paul Farrimond

AAPG Special Volumes

... the Vandana-Vijaya Field, are dominated by a stratigraphic component to the trap integrity. Lateral seals have also been important in limiting the loss...

Stratigraphic Traps in the Llanos Basin of Colombia – Styles and Petroleum Systems

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Petroleum Traps in the Illinois Basin: Chapter 23: Part I. Illinois Basin: Oil and Gas Systems

Beverly Seyler, Robert M. Cluff

AAPG Special Volumes

...) trap large quantities of oil, these multiple reservoirs have strong stratigraphic trapping components. Significant combination stratigraphic-fault...

Abstract: Petroleum Generation and Migration Modeling, Rawat Central Sub-basin, Sudan; #91204 (2023)

Yassir A. Elamin, Elkhatim O. Elgaali

Search and Discovery.com

... started at the mid Oligocene postdating the trap formation. All the discovered hydrocarbon in the Rawat Central sub-basin were encountered in thin...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

AAPG Bulletin

... limited by spill around the flanks of the stratigraphic trap and therefore not at critical seal capacity. Resistant Forces to Secondary Migration...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

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Hydrocarbon Accumulation in "Meramec-Osage" (Mississippian) Rocks, Sooner Trend, Northwest-Central Oklahoma

Sherod A. Harris

AAPG Bulletin

...-Woodford shales provided adequate top and bottom seals. CONCLUSIONS 1. The Meramec-Osage stratigraphic trap at the Sooner Trend has two separate...

Recent Exploration Results in the Lower Triassic, Bedout Sub-Basin: Australias Next Petroleum Province?

Melissa Thompson, Fred Wehr, Jack Woodward, Jon Minken, Gino D’Orazio, Fred Fernandes, Margarita Kongowoin, Laurence Hansen, David Kuek, Rylan Fabrici

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., potentially requiring a stratigraphic trap. Seismic resolution is insufficient to discern the stratigraphic boundaries, with a run of dip leading...

The Interpretation of Fluids and Pressures in Determining Conventional and Unconventional Gas Resources in the Rocky Mountain Region

John R. Forster, John C. Horne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... aquifers in the various basins demonstrate pressure isolation that requires a boundary or seal. Some of the seals occur at easily defined stratigraphic...

Abstract: Application of Geological Analogs in the Exploration Workflow: Drawing on Decades of Knowledge to Identify the Critical Elements of a Play or Trap, by Shengyu Wu, Shaoqing Sun, Robert Trice, and Jose I. Guzman; #90039 (2005)

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The Internal Seismic Character of the Gamtoos Basins Upper Valanginian to Upper Hauterivian Syncline Fill Sequences and the Potential for a Hydrocarbon Play; #20449 (2018)

C.B. Van Bloemenstein, A.C. Davids

Search and Discovery.com

... and seals have been interpreted using seismic stratigraphy methods. In this study potential reservoir 6180000 6180000 2.15 20km and trap...

The Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... of the stratigraphic trap and therefore not at critical seal capacity. Resistant Forces to Secondary Migration In a previous example we discussed how...

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

T. P. Harding, A. C. Tuminas

AAPG Bulletin

... of the trap are not considered. Faults and other possible seals also Fig. 1. Profile characteristics of typical footwall (lowside) traps at faults with reverse...

Petroleum Resources and Petroleum Systems of SE Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand

J. V. C. Howes

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... fields and 100 productive petroleum systems in the region. Stratigraphic ages of source rocks, reservoirs and seals span 500 million years from...

Tertiary Tectonostratigraphic Development of the Balam Depocenter, Central Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Yarmanto, T. L. Heidrick, Indrawardana, B. L. Strong

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Strong 1995 33 45 Three major Tertiary tectonic and stratigraphic episodes (F1, F2, and F3) characterize the sequential development of the Balam...

Top Down Petroleum System Analysis: Exploiting Geospatial Patterns of Petroleum Phase and Properties, #42421 (2019).

Zhiyong He, Andrew Murray,

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... vs. trap closure—a fundamental control on the distribution of oil and gas: in R.C. Surdam, ed., Seals, traps, and the petroleum system: AAPG Memoir 67...