Chapter 20: Petroleum Systems and Basins of Yemen

Mustafa As-Saruri, Rasoul Sorkhabi

AAPG Special Volumes

... conjugate margins from seismic reflection data: Geophysical Journal International, v. 160, no. 3, p. 869–890, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02524.x. Dyer...

Cambrian Shoreline Deposits in Northern Michigan

Charles A. Haddox, R. H. Dott, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... initial relief of just a few kilometers could easily account for the erosion and deposition of clastics by relatively short, high-gradient rivers...

Classification of Offshore Mass Movements

Thierry Mulder ,, Pierre Cochonat

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (Schwab and Lee 1988). If the main body triggers the instability alon the whole perimeter of the scar, such conjugate slumps are called adjacent slumps...

Pliocene-Pleistocene Diastrophism of Santa Monica and San Pedro Shelves, California Continental Borderland

Thomas R. Nardin, Thomas L. Henyey

AAPG Bulletin

... gravity gradient on the northeast side of the hills appears to be associated with this difference in basement elevation (McCulloh, 1957...

Origin, migration pathways, and prediction of high carbon dioxide accumulations in the Lower Saxony Basin (northwestern Germany): Part I

Volker Lüders, Johannes Schoenherr, Marta Sośnicka, Stefan de Graaf, and Samuel Niedermann

AAPG Bulletin

... the geothermal gradient of recent borehole temperatures (37°C/km) and estimated geothermal gradient at maximum burial. Ca2 = Zechstein-2-Carbonate; clath...

West Lake Verret Field St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Richard J. Stancliffe

New Orleans Geological Society

... of the field and appears to be semi-regional in extent. The structure is highly complicated in the shallow levels by generally east-west trending conjugate...

A Growing Atlantic Play

Rupert Hoare, Paul Bathurst, Hugh North

GEO ExPro Magazine

... framework of the Loppa High region is dominated by two conjugate lineament systems that trend north-west to south-east and north-east to south-west...

Extended Abstract: The Quest for an Understanding of Southeast Asian Cenozoic Tectonics and the Importance of pre-Tertiary Structures

Charles S. Hutchison

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... The popular E-W compression hypothesis requires a NW–SE and NE–SW conjugate fault system. The hypothesis is flawed because only the former direction is well...

Wrench Fault Tectonics in West Texas

G. Pat Bolden

West Texas Geological Society

... shear directions of movement are common in West Texas. The conjugate Riedel shear (R’) is right-lateral, and at ≅ 54°T. The Riedel shear (R) is left...

WolfBone Oil-Saturated, Super Sweet Spot, Southern Delaware Basin: Integrated Approach from Exploration to Geologic/Reservoir Modeling and Field Development

Bill Fairhurst, Mary Lisbeth Hanson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and zones with conjugate fractures systems. Integration with production logs has optimized horizontal target identification and horizontal drilling has...

WolfBone Oil-Saturated, Super Sweet Spot, Southern Delaware Basin: Integrated Approach from Exploration to Geologic/Reservoir Modeling and Field Development

Bill Fairhurst, Mary Lisbeth Hanson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and zones with conjugate fractures systems. Integration with production logs has optimized horizontal target identification and horizontal drilling has...

Depositional and Structural Controls on the Distribution of Tar Sands in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

R. Lawrence Phillips

Pacific Section of AAPG

... the cross-bedded facies. Strike-slip movement on the San Gregorio fault system formed a postdepositional conjugate fault-and-fracture system...

Asymmetrical Deformation, Thrusts and Mesoscale Fracturation of the Nyalau Formation at Bintulu

Ouzani Bachir

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... directions 010°, 030°,150° and 170° which are conjugate shears and hybrids. Normal faults are oriented mainly E-W. The lithology of the sequence respond...

New Light on Northern Argentina

Hannah Kearns, Karyna Rodriguez, Steve Devito, Spectrum

GEO ExPro Magazine

... rock on the conjugate Namibian and South African in the Paleogene and Cenomanian-Turonian, when the margins (see main foldout line). Approximately...

Ceará to Potiguar: New Insights into an Underexplored Hydrocarbon Province

Scott Opdyke, Yermek Balabekov, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... and stratigraphic traps in the Upper Cretaceous reservoir section. Tests of these reservoirs along the conjugate margin in West Africa have...

Carbonate Textures: Porosity Classification

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Pennsylvania. Filled fracture porosity. Conjugate set of large fracture veins. 0.38 mm. (Bottom). Holocene soil crust. Florida. Secondary enlarged...

Uranium Deposits in the Skull Creek and Uranium Peak Districts, Northwest Colorado

Y. William Isachsen

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... on the structure are affected by an intense conjugate joint system. Longitudinal joints are the more pronounced except on the anticlinal crest (Boyer...

My Favorite Outcrop(s): The Bromide-Viola Contact on SH177, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma: An Often Bypassed Outcrop.

Andrew Cullen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

.... Figure 11a. Fracture sets in the Viola Springs Formation. Although these fracture look like conjugate shears, the observation that one set appears...

Abstract: South China Sea (SCS) – A Geological Perspective

Michael Whibley

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... to circa 500bboe (400mmbo / 706tcfg), are speculative at best. Palaeo-reconstructions and conjugate margin analogies suggest potential in only a few...

Seismic Foldout: The Gateway to India: OALP-IX Offers Industry Access to East Indias Extraordinary Hydrocarbon Basins

Neil Hodgson, Peter Hoiles, Karyna Rodriguez, Searcher

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Formation (Loseth et. al., 2011) and employed in Namibia’s Orange Basin and its conjugate Pelotas Basin (Eastwell et. al., 2016, Rodriguez et. al...

Whos Andy? And what did he know about faults?

Molly Turko

GEO ExPro Magazine

... to the transition.” A general rule of thumb is that the conjugate faults (red and blue lines in the cubes) form at about 60° to each other, which is +/- 30° to S1...

Have bottom currents defined the Golden Lane and determined updip prospectivity?

Nick Cameron

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Age-equivalent fields along the conjugate margin of Africa that were also deposited in a lower slope setting, have been demonstrated to host along...

A unique well at a unique time: How did Exxon manage to drill a frontier well offshore Ireland so close to prognosis?

Geo ExPro Staff

GEO ExPro Magazine

... conjugate margin, with several blocks rotating at the same time and various pre-break-up orogenic trends superimposed, it is fair to say that even today...

Is the Colombian Basin on its way to become the next big frontier?

Luis Carlos Carvajal-Arenas, Lucia Torrado, Juan Pablo Ramos, Paul Mann

GEO ExPro Magazine

... C OX L O A T U R E S SXUXM O M B I A L A current study conducted by the Conjugate Basins, Tectonics, and Hydrocarbons (CBTH) Consortium...

Seismic Foldout: South Atlantic „ a raging bonfire of memes

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found, Searcher

GEO ExPro Magazine

... and horizontal scale to its near conjugate margin, a 2023 MC 3D pre-stack time migrated and depth converted section from beyond the outer high...