Density and mineralogy variations as a function of porosity in Miocene Monterey Formation oil and gas reservoirs in California

Caren Chaika, Loretta Ann Williams

AAPG Bulletin

... mineralogic difference between groups 1 and 2 is a higher clay content in group 1, resulting in different silica diagenesis pathways for the two groups...

Mineral Resource Estimation and Statistical Exploration

F. P. Agterberg

CSPG Special Publications

... estimation deals with the frequencies of undiscovered deposits over large regions and with models of their size distributions. Statistical exploration...

Developments Relating Total Organic Carbon Conversion in Unconventional Reservoirs to 3D Seismic Attributes

Nancy House, Janell Edman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The reflection coefficient is the difference of the impedances divided by the sum of the impedances. Impedance is velocity multiplied by density (V x ρ...

Event-based risk management for subsurface risks: An approach to protect value generation from oil and gas fields

P. Craig Smalley, and Konstantin Chebotar

AAPG Bulletin

... to verify that no area of potentially relevant risk has been overlooked. The relative frequencies with which the different categories of risks were...

ABSTRACT: Research on the Characters of Hydrocarbon Regeneration of Pennsylvanian Permian in JiYang Depression of Bohaiwan of East China

Jian Li, Xia Luo, Zhi-hua Xiao, Xiu-qin Wang, Cheng-hua Ma

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... and experienced the process of multiple embedding-lift-embedding. Therefore, its hydrocarbon generation process is different from that in continual...

Integrating Poroelastic Effects of Wastewater Injection and Rupture Dynamics to Understand Induced Seismicity

Dawid Szafranski, Benchun Duan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of different properties of the rocks and fluids, as well as the geometry of the operations on the potential for earthquake triggering. We find three main...

Multi-Resolution Grid Connectivity-Based Transform for Efficient History Matching of Unconventional Reservoirs

Hyunmin Kim, Feyi Olalotiti-Lawal, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and Yip 2014). They used the discrete cosine transform (DCT) which is a type of Fourier transform that reconstructs a discrete signal as the sum of cosine...

Seismic Reflections from a Lau Basin Magma Chamber

Janet L. Morton, Norman H. Sleep

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... different from the curve for 1.5 km/s, the expected velocity if the event resulted from sidescatter. All of the traces were deconvolved prior to stacking...

Oligocene and Miocene Carbonate Platform Development In the Browse Basin, Australian Northwest Shelf

Johannes Belde, Stefan Back, Julien Bourget, Lars Reuning

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Record 2008/07, p. Belde, J., Back, S., and Reuning, L., 2015, Three-dimensional seismic analysis of sediment-waves and related geomorphological features...

Quantitative Characterization of Fracture Frequency Variations Using a Linear Piecewise Regression Analysis and the Akaike Information Criterion; #42147 (2017)

Alex P. O’Hara, Robert D. Jacobi

Search and Discovery.com

... the statistical analysis produced three CFF slope intervals that define the distribution of possible fracture frequencies unique to the geologic setting...

Terminal Distributary Channels and Delta Front Architecture of River-Dominated Delta Systems

Cornel Olariu, Janok P. Bhattacharya

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... terminal distributary channels at different scales. Sediment dispersion through multiple terminal distributary channels results in an overall lobate shape...

A Textural Variation Series of Beach Sands from Cedar Point, Ohio

F. J. Pettijohn, J. D. Ridge

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., that changes progressively from place to place along the beach. A group of sediments which are genetically related and which have evolved from a common source...

Interrelationship of Geology and Geophysics

O. L. Brace

AAPG Bulletin

... variables can not be determined individually with the torsion balance, but only their sum total effect, unsupplemented torsion-balance data can be converted...

Utilizing Geochemical, Petrophysical, and Geomechanical Analysis to Optimize Stimulation Design in Pimienta Formation

Douglas J. Betancourt, Claudio Rabe, Omer Iqbal, Jesus P. Salazar, Besmir Hoxha

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... waves, and resistivity logs. Next, these data were interpreted to formation evaluation, geomechanical model and for production evaluation. These data...

Abstract: Azimuthal Fourier Coefficients: A Simple Method to Estimate Fracture Parameters; #90174 (2014)

Jon Downton and Benjamin Roure

Search and Discovery.com

... information about the fractures. The different FCs may be combined in a nonlinear fashion to estimate more fundamental fracture parameters including...

Comparison of fluid saturation distributions using 4D seismic and Bayesian evidence

Jeremy Gallop, Sandy Chen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of different model options and suitability. A simplified approach is warranted to balance accuracy with computational feasibility and a number...

Evaluating Gas Production Performances in Marcellus Using Data Mining Technologies

Qiumei Zhou, Robert Dilmore, Andrew Kleit, John Yilin Wang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...riable importance for different geological groups. As Fig.11 shows, the most important engineer factor for Group A1 is number of stages, fo...

Monitoring and Imaging the Dynamics and Extent of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Movement Using Ground-Based Electromagnetics, With Application to the Eagle Ford Shale

Mark S. Hickey, Santiago Treviño, Mark Everett

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the halfspace URTeC 2172634 3 including the pipe. This response was found for 32 different frequencies stepping from 0.1 Hz to 56 Hz. The largest...

Rock Physics Model of the Eagle Ford Shale

Colin M. Sayers, John J. Walsh, Kevin Fisher, Sagnik Dasgupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) of seismic waves reflected from an interface between two geological layers may be used to obtain predrill information on RQ and CQ. The information from AVA...

Production of Calcareous Nannofossil Ooze For Sedimentological Experiments

Toms Buls, Kresten Anderskouv, Ida L. Fabricius, Patrick L. Friend, Charlotte E.L. Thompson, Lars Stemmerik

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... substantial reworking after their first deposition, as illustrated by an abundance of sedimentary structures, such as drifts, moats, sediment waves...

F-xy Cadzow Noise Suppression

Search and Discovery.com

... form the sum of the first k weighted eigenimages: Fk ( A) = I1 + I 2 + + Ik , I i = siui v i H AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90170©2013 CSPG...

THE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO HEBGEN DAM AND THE NECESSARY REPAIR PROGRAM

C. H. KIRK

Montana Geological Society

.... It is the waves set up by this sudden movement which is called an earthquake. The stronger the rocks are, the bigger the earthquake can...

Quantification of Tertiary Exhumation in the United Kingdom Southern North Sea Using Sonic Velocity Data

Richard R. Hillis

AAPG Bulletin

...Quantification of Tertiary Exhumation in the United Kingdom Southern North Sea Using Sonic Velocity Data Richard R. Hillis 1995 130 152 79 1...

Outline of Water Problems in New Grosny Oil Field, Russia

Norbert T. Lindtrop

AAPG Bulletin

... a thickness of nearly 2,000 feet. There are twenty-two sands interbedded with shale and some siliceous dolomites. The Tertiary group is exposed...

Turbulent Flow

Gerard Middleton, John B. Southard

Special Publications of SEPM

... by the resistance force at the bottom boundary. This is just a different way of looking at the nature of the velocity distribution derived in Chapter 1...