Natural fractures and their relationships to structure, stress, and permeability in the Raton Basin

John C. Lorenz, Scott P. Cooper

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., but fracturing also includes both dip-slip and strike-slip conjugate shear-fracture sets as well as irregular deformation-band shear fractures...

2017 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition

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Chapter 15: Fracturing in the Bakken Petroleum System, Williston Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Julie A. LeFever, Ronald J. Hill

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in the structural trend, however, changes the trend of orientation of structure-related fractures. These fractures often occur in conjugate patterns. A complete...

Degradation of a footwall fault block with hanging-wall fault propagation in a continental-lacustrine setting: How a new structural model impacted field development plans, the Sirikit field, Thailand

Christopher K. Morley, Yarick Ionnikoff, Nantavan Pinyochon, Krongpol Seusutthiya

AAPG Bulletin

... Formation; however, in most of the Sirikit field today, the Chum Saeng Formation is on the hydrostatic pressure gradient. It seems very likely...

How to predict thermal stress in hyperextended margins: Application of a new lithospheric model on the Iberia margin

Marie Callies, Pierre-Yves Filleaudeau, Matthieu Dubille, and François Lorant

AAPG Bulletin

..., A., N. White, G. Edwards, and D. Shillington, 2008, Evolution of the Newfoundland–Iberia conjugate rifted margins: Earth and Planetary Science Letters...

Characterization of natural fracture systems: Analysis of uncertainty effects in linear scanline results

Rafael F. V. C. Santos, Tiago S. Miranda, José A. Barbosa, Igor F. Gomes, Gabriel C. Matos, Julia F. W. Gale, Virginio H. L. M. Neumann, and Leonardo J. N. Guimarães

AAPG Bulletin

... provided by the systematic use of this method, errors and uncertainties caused by sampling biases exist. The problems caused by these uncertainties can...

Guizhou modern karsts as analogues for paleokarst reservoirs in the Shunbei oil field, Tarim Basin, China

Jingbin Wang, Dongya Zhu, Zhiliang He, Haiming Song, Quanyou Liu, Cheng Zeng, Tianbo Yang, and Qian Ding

AAPG Bulletin

.... The northeast-striking No. 1 fault and north–northwest-striking No. 5 fault were connected to X-type conjugate faults in the Tabei uplift (Figure 1A) (Deng et al...

Determining Paleo-Structural Environments through Natural Fracture and Calcite Twin Analyses: A Case Study in the Otway Basin, Australia

Hugo B. Burgin, Khalid Amrouch, Mojtaba Rajabi, David Kulikowski, Simon P. Holford

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... angles of conjugate fracture formation for each regime. to the formation of highly distinguishable fracture set geometries and characteristics...

Characterizing and Modeling Multi-Scale Natural Fractures in the Ordovician-Silurian Wufeng-Longmaxi Shale Formation in South Sichuan Basin

Qin Jun, Chenggang Xian, Xing Liang, Chuanduan Zhao, Gaocheng Wang, Lizhi Wang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of them were validated by analyzing regional geology and tectonic evolution. Then Discrete Fracture Network method was used to build multiscale...

Integrated reservoir characterization and simulation of a shallow, light-oil, low-temperature reservoir: Umiat field, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

Catherine L. Hanks, Grant Shimer, Iman Oraki Kohshour, Mohabbat Ahmadi, Paul J. McCarthy, Abhijit Dandekar, Joanna Mongrain, Raelene Wentz

AAPG Bulletin

... composition derived using the Pedersen method. This sample was then used to determine fluid properties at reservoir conditions such as bubble point pressure...

Provenance of Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous synrift strata in the Terra Nova oil field, Jeanne d’Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: A new detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf reference frame for the Atlantic Canadian margin

Alexander D. Hutter, and Luke P. Beranek

AAPG Bulletin

... of detrital zircons using the laser ablation method: Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 29–October 1, 2010...

Geological Constraints for the Geodynamic Evolution of the Southern Margin of the Caribbean Plate

Giuseppe Giunta, Michele Marroni, Elisa Padoa, Luca Pandolfi

AAPG Special Volumes

...-slip faults (e.g., Oca, San Sebastian, La Victoria, El Pilar) and associated conjugate synthetic (e.g., Tacata, Charallave) and subordinate antithetic...

Application of inversion to support exploration and development growth opportunity maturation across the North West Shelf asset, Australia

Matthew Docherty, John Coffin

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... a conjugate-gradient algorithm. The inner loop produces the first estimate of the earth’s elastic properties (and updated incident field). The workflow...

The Prospectivity of the Cape Vogel Basin, Papua New Guinea

Said Amiribesheli, Andrew Weller

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... and, before the Aure–Moresby fold-thrust belt (Miocene) and Coral Sea breakup (Palaeocene), it is likely that the Mesozoic of the CVB is a conjugate...

Influence of Proterozoic Heritage on Development of Rift Segments in the Equatorial Atlantic; #30577 (2018)

A. Krueger, I. Norton, E. Casey, R. D. Matos, M. Murphy

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.... Matos, R.M.D. de, 2005, Petroleum systems related to the Equatorial Transform Margin: Brazilian and West African conjugate basins, in P. Post, N. Rosen, D...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Prediction of Porosity and Water Saturation of Shaly Sandstone Reservoirs; #51559 (2019)

Chaw Yin Nyein, Ghareb Mostafa Mostafa Ali Hamada

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... -contains at least one feedback loop  Most commonly used Training Algorithms 1. 2. 3. 4. Levenberg Marquardt Quasi- Newton Conjugate Gradient Resilient...

Question of the Wind River Thrust, Wyoming, Resolved by COCORP Deep Reflection Data and by Gravity Data

Scott B. Smithson, Jon Brewer, S. Kaufman, Jack Oliver, Charles Hurich

Wyoming Geological Association

... reflections might be expected. Our COCORP results show that the method was highly successful in tracing the Wind River Thrust to depth...

Natural Gas Potential of the Sanford Sub-basin, Deep River Basin, North Carolina; #10366 (2011)

Jeffrey C. Reid, Kenneth B. Taylor, Paul E. Olsen, O. F. Patterson III

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... fractures trend northwest, whereas the conjugate fractures trend northeast. In some places along the west side of the basin, the primary fractures...

Cratonization of the Arabian Shield: The Basement Grain is Imprinted: Chapter 2

Z. R. Beydoun

AAPG Special Volumes

... thick shield along a number of great shears. The left-lateral northwest system (the Najd trend) prevailed over the conjugate dextral northeast-trending...

Locally Develop Tectonic Historic Of Southern Barito Basin Due To Tensor Type Analyses, Study Case In Panyiuran Region, South Kalimantan

Emanuelta Naibaho, Hendry Setiawan Lie, Febriwan Mohamad, Arief Pinandita

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... extensional joints, conjugate joints, compressional joints, cleavages and gash fractures), six fold data (five folds data from the outcrop and one from...

ABSTRACT: PSDM Imaging of the Petroleum Systems of the South Atlantic

Steven G. Henry, PhD, Al Danforth, Naresh Kumar, Peter Nuttall, and Sujata Venkatraman

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... petroleum system in the Brazilian Santos Basin and the 2011 pre-salt discovery on the conjugate margin in the Angolan Kwanza Basin. Analogs...

Extended Abstract: Pre-Salt Play Elements, Play Potential and Continental Margin Type: South Atlantic

Frank Love

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... conjugate basins provide a geologic template which can be used to recognize similar pre-salt exploration opportunities. Specific rifted margin types...

Extended Abstract: Characterizing the Natural Fracture System of the Buda Formation, South Texas

Ross Ledoux, Raphaël Gottardi

GCAGS Transactions

... restricted. These fractures have similar strike orientations as the fractures in the Buda Formation. Two conjugate sets of fractures are evident...

Abstract: Sources, sand provenance and supply to North Atlantic margin basins during the Early Cretaceous

Shane Tyrrell, Aron Barry, Kerryming Sun, David Chew, Aoife Blowick, Jess Franklin, Martin Nauton-Fourteu, Bébhinn Anders, Andrew Morton, Xavier Monteys, Nathan Cogné, Peter D. W. Haughton, J. Stephen Daly, Patrick M. Shannon

Atlantic Geology

... Conjugate Margins Conference 2018, August 19-22, 2018 doi: 10.4138/atlgeol.2018.014 Copyright © 2019 Atlantic Geology Lower Cretaceous sands and sandstones...

Abstract: Processes involving the formation of Organic Facies for Oil and Gas-Condensate Source rocks in the Late Triassic to Early Cret; #90063 (2007)

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