Searching for Stratigraphic Traps

Jane Whaley, Robert Trice

GEO ExPro Magazine

... structural closure through failing to recognise the stratigraphic component, or to fail to recognise a stratigraphic or subtle trap due to an unfamiliarity...

Emerging Geology of the Heavy-Oil Sands

George T. MacCallum

CSPG Bulletin

... collected oil from that drainage. Although our structural picture is incomplete, I believe that a massive trap system was in place at the time...

ABSTRACT Lessons Learned to Date for Application to Large Scale Carbon Dioxide Storage, #90103 (2010)

John R. Wilkinson, Gary F. Teletzke

Search and Discovery.com

... are given below: 1. Storage in a depleted oil and gas field with the structural trap being a salt supported structure and spill point connections...

Recognition of Passive Salt Diapirism in the Rock Record, #30614 (2019).

Katherine Giles, Mark Rowan,

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... the system due to dissolution. Yet understanding if, when, and where passive diapirism occurred is critical to structural restoration, burial history...

ABSTRACT: Precambrian Basement Structure and Crustal Oxidation State of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains … Its Possible Importance to Petroleum Systems as a Physical Control on Fluid Path and Trapping Mechanism and as a Chemical Control of Hydrocarbon Stabi

Monte M. Swan, Stanley B. Keith, Jim Viellenave

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... the Pshear carrier conduit to a sealed, stratigraphic-wedge, Riedel-tensile, dilational zone or transpressive, anticlinal structural trap. This fluid...

What Drives the Link? Salt, Oil, Gas and Metals, #70219 (2016).

John K. Warren,

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... of structural, stratigraphic, and diagenetic traps. When classifying a field with an evaporite trap, the fact that salt is so mobile, so soluble, and so...

Five Myths & Myth-conceptions of the northern Perth Basin

Darren Ferninando

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... most frequent trap type is anticlines, with roughly 20% of the traps in this structural style and then nine low side traps, comprising about 17.5...

Potential New Method for Paleostress Estimation by Combining Three-dimensional Fault Restoration and Fault Slip Inversion Techniques: First Test on the Skua Field, Timor Sea

A. P. Gartrell, M. Lisk

AAPG Special Volumes

.... de Ruig, M. Trupp, and M. W. Shuster, 2000, Trap integrity in the Laminaria highNancar trough region, Timor Sea: Prediction of fault seal failure...

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

Beverly Seyler, Robert M. Cluff

AAPG Special Volumes

... Devonian The major trapping mechanism in Devonian strata is structural. Trap types include anticlines and draping of strata over Silurian reefs. Most...

New Approach of Petroleum Systems Extension in Deep Water Gulf of Mexico, by Mario Limón G., Ernesto Miranda C., Rebeca Navarro H., and María Escandón C.; #90062 (2007)

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Thats Not a Very Prospective Basinƒ

Gerry Sheehan

GEO ExPro Magazine

... indications of a working hydrocarbon system. Minor production of both oil and condensates was established on the Dakar peninsula at Diam Niadio and Kabor...

South Coyote Creek Field, Wyoming

Earl T. Hegna

Wyoming Geological Association

... that it will not sustain further economic development. Fall River The Fall River oil pool is purely a stratigraphic trap as are most of the Fall River...

Evaluation of the Diagenetic and Structural Influences on Hydrocarbon Entrapment in the Cardium Formation, Deep Basin, Western Alberta

Christopher Murray, Robert Ehrlich, Edward Mason Ross Clark

CSPG Bulletin

...Evaluation of the Diagenetic and Structural Influences on Hydrocarbon Entrapment in the Cardium Formation, Deep Basin, Western Alberta Christopher...

The Neogene Deformation, Unconformity Surfaces and Uplift Features in Delta Tectonics, Tarakan Sub-Basin

Hade B. Maulin, Benyamin Sapiie, Indra Gunawan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Delta is different in some aspects to the famous Kutai. The structural and stratigraphy of the basin gave signatures to the model of Tarakan delta...

Occurrence of Natural Gas in the Western Part of Green River Basin

Max L. Krueger

Wyoming Geological Association

..., but with stratigraphic affinities). TIP TOP: Structural, augmented by faulting and with perhaps some variable permeability barriers. HOGSBACK: Fault trap...

Irion 163 Field: A Subtle Structural Trap

Mark S. Tepperman

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

...Irion 163 Field: A Subtle Structural Trap Mark S. Tepperman 1987 13 20 Vol. 27 (1987) No. 8. (April) Cloud, P.E., and V. E. Barnes, 1948...

Abstract: Discovery of a Large Startigraphic Trap in a Rift Basin: Case History from Barmer Basin, India; #90254 (2016)

Kaushal Pander, V. R. Sunder, Vachaspati Kothari, Ashesh Desai, Stephen Goodlad, Pinakdhar Mahapatra

Search and Discovery.com

... in 2014. The well targeted a large three way faulted strati-structural trap in the Barmer Hill Formation at a shallow depth of 700 m TVDSS. The upper...

Abstract: Inversion Tectonics: Overrated in Exploration and Underreported in Production?;

Gabor Tari, Zsolt Schleder

Search and Discovery.com

..., Online/Virtual Abstract Albert W. Bally provided the first description of structural inversion in the early 1980s. By definition, an inversion...

Reversal of Basement-Block Motions in Cambay Basin, India, and its Importance in Petroleum Exploration

L. R. Chowdhary

AAPG Bulletin

... the formation of the latest Cretaceous Deccan traps. A thick sequence of Tertiary sediments was deposited directly above the trap. During Paleocene-early Eocene...

Differential Distribution of Oil and Gas Pools

A. S. Panchenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of differential entrapment of hydrocarbons is the logic that in all cases where two or more fluids of different density enter a trap, the heavier...

The Northern Nam Con Son Basin Petroleum System, Based on Exploration Data from Block 04-2 Vietnam

K. J. Watts

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... rocks predates structural traps in Block 04-2. The Oligocene has generated substantial volumes of gas since trap formation. Source rocks have been...

Using Structural Restoration Techniques and Strain Tracking to Predict Fracture Distributions, #42089 (2017).

Catalina Luneburg

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... a classic 4-way closure structural trap, and has been associated with a large NS trending fault in the western part of the field. The interpretation...

Surface Geochemical Imaging of the Tweed Lake Cambrian Field, Northwest Territories Canada; #40986 (2012)

Robert O. Potter and Paul Harrington

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... Cambrian field. 2 Presenter’s notes: This schematic cross section shows the structural and stratigraphic setting of the Cambrian petroleum system...

Integrated 3D Basin and Petroleum Systems Modelling of the Great Australian Bight

E. Frery, M. Ducros, L. Langhi, J. Strand, A. Ross

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... working on structural geology, geological modelling, trap integrity analysis and basin modelling. Mathieu Ducros is a senior exploration geologist...

Relationship of Gulf Coast Basement Tectonics to Present and Future Oil and Gas Fields

J. C. Pratsch

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... General opinion favors the interpretation that regional Gulf Coast structural features are formed by salt diapirism, glide and shear tectonics related...