USE OF CORE-MEASURED FRACTURE PATTERNS IN EXPLORATION  AND EXPLOITATION STRATEGY 

CHRISTOPHER H. GARRETT RICHARD H. SNYDER

Fort Worth Geological Society

... patterns P and R are associated with diapiric structures. Potentially, each fracture pattern consists of an extension and two conjugate shear fractures...

Analogue Fractured Reservoir Characterization in Grasberg Igneous Complex (GIC) and New Guinea Limestone Group, Papua

Muhammad Fachri, Benyamin Sapiie, Wahyu Sunyoto, Sugeng Widodo, Yudihanri, Widodo Margotomo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Riedel or R-shears form at angles of approximately 15° counterclockwise from the bounding faults. Antithetic or conjugate Riedel or R’-shears form...

Milestones in Angolas Oil History

Tako Koning

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the southern Atlantic conjugate The Tupi discovery proved that a working petroleum system margins, an historic event for the hydrocarbon industry...

Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Barents Sea

Hans Ronnevik, Bengt Beskow, Hans P. Jacobsen

CSPG Special Publications

... model presented by Ziegler (1978) which included a major sinistral shear fault to the west of the Barents Sea and a conjugate dextral system...

Preliminary Report on the Geology, Structure, and Resources Potential of the Central Basin of Vanuatu

H.G. Greene, D.A. Falvey, A. Macfarlane, Scientific Party

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... pattern of primary and conjugate faults and folds. These structures may be related to the complex tectonic history of the arc, which involves...

Structural Setting of Fivemile Pass and Northern Boulter Mountains Area

Paul Dean Proctor

Utah Geological Association

... are less numerous than those of the northeast set. The northwest group ranges in strike from N 45-60 degrees west and forms a conjugate system...

Future Petroleum Potential of Front Range Areas, Colorado

Donald R. Hembre, Harry TerBest Jr.

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... by vertical movement resulting in an uplift with adjacent basin areas. A preferred alternative concept is of lateral displacement along conjugate shear...

Pangea III: At the Heart of E&P

Pierre-Olivier Lys, Paul Robin

GEO ExPro Magazine

... famous theory of continental drift is still today the backbone of oil and gas exploration, as illustrated by the recent interest in the conjugate...

The Greater Orphan Basin: Unraveling Newfoundland's Emerging Energy Plays

Hermann Lebit, Yermek Balabekov, Taylor Buckley, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the conjugate to the Flemish Cap. The southern lineament marks the transition into an array of horst and grabens that indicate a crustal extension system...

On the Presence of Pre-Carboniferous Metasediments in the Eastern Belt: A Structural View

Ibrahim Abdullah

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... affecting the Eastern Belt (Mustaffa Kamal, 2003). The conjugate lateral fault system formed after that as a result of the later EW compression. From...

Productive Petroleum Basins of Morocco

Stuart Harker

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Essaouira Basin Lying on the Atlantic coast, this basin has a similar Pre-Tertiary geological history to the Scotian Shelf on the conjugate margin...

Saglek Basin in the Labrador Sea, east coast Canada; stratigraphy, structure and petroleum systems

Christopher D. Jauer, Gordon N. Oakey, Graham Williams, J.B.W. Hans Wielens

CSPG Bulletin

.... and Louden, K.E. 1995a. Evolution of nonvolcanic rifted margins: new results from the conjugate margins of the Labrador Sea. Geology, v. 23, p. 589–592...

Oxfordian Erg Play Fairway Evaluation in the Gulf of Mexico Using 2D and 3D Seismic Evidence

Karyna Rodriguez, Eric Newman, Mike Saunders

GCAGS Transactions

... reconstruction model published by Nguyen and Mann (2016), under the Conjugate Basins, Tectonics, and Hydrocarbons (CBTH) Consortium at the University...

The Relationship Between Recovery Efficiency and Depositional Setting in a Deltaic Plain Environment, by Robert C. Shoup, #40240 (2007).

Search and Discovery.com

Nova Scotia Play Fairway Analysis: Gross Depositional Environments and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, #50455 (2011)

Hamish Wilson, Matt Luheshi, David Roberts, Bernard Colletta

Search and Discovery.com

... – The other mixed marine terrestrial • Evidence for a restricted hypersaline source rock • Similar characteristics from oils on the conjugate margin...

Petroleum Systems Modeling of the Salt Province and Outer Margin Offshore Essaouira (Atlantic Margin of Morocco), #30386 (2014)

Martin Neumaier, Ralf Littke, Stefan Back, Peter Kukla, Adrian Kleine, Michael Schnabel, Christian Reichert

Search and Discovery.com

... to salt tectonics. In addition, the relative success of the conjugate Atlantic margin of Nova Scotia is encouraging. The Atlantic margin offshore Morocco...

Unconventional Gas Potential in the Northern Territory, Australia: Exploring the Beetaloo Sub-Basin; #10933 (2017)

David Close, Elizabeth Baruch, Alexander Cote, Carl Altmann, Faiz Mohinudeen, Brenton Richards, Stephanie Stonier

Search and Discovery.com

... height growth, and reactivation of conjugate fracture sets observed after an open-hole DFIT that was imaged during wireline logging, and critically...

The Punta del Este Half Grabens, Offshore Uruguay: The Next Exploration Frontier in the South Atlantic, #10983 (2017).

Oscar R. Lopez-Gamundi, Hector De Santa Ana, Bruno Conti

Search and Discovery.com

... of Rifted Continental Margins and Break-Up Evolution: Insights from the South Atlantic, North Atlantic and Red Sea - Gulf of Aden Conjugate Margins...

Not Written in Stone: Plate tectonics at 50, #70336 (2018).

Keith James

Search and Discovery.com

...-to-southeast Rio Grande Ridge (outer edge of South America’s magnetic extension). Basalts on the “conjugate” Walvis Ridge show continental signature. Both...

What is the State of Understanding of Super Basins, The Worlds Richest Oil and Gas Basins?; #70401 (2020)

Charles A. Sternbach

Search and Discovery.com

... (Copenhagen, Denmark), featuring Europe and North Africa super basins. Other events included a session on Atlantic conjugate margin basins (Halifax...

Cenozoic Evolution of the Northern Colorado River Extensional Corridor, Southern Nevada and Northwest Arizona

James E. Faulds, Daniel L. Feuerbach, Calvin F. Miller, Eugene I. Smith

Pacific Section of AAPG

...-sites, and the attitudes of conjugate normal-fault systems, the extension direction changes from northeast/southwest to east-northeast/west-southwest...

Relation of Subsalt Structures to Suprasalt Structures During Extension

D. D. Schultz-Ela, M. P. A. Jackson

AAPG Bulletin

... by the reflection seismic method. Seismic data collected at the surface invariably degrade with depth. This problem is especially acute for salt-related...

Piceance Basin Bibliography

Ann Priestman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the hydraulic-impedance method, in Holditch, ed., Proceedings, SPE unconventional gas technology symposium: p. 97-108. Logan, T. L., J. C. Seccombe...

Porous Sandstone Deformation: Investigating the Effect of Induced Pore Pressure Increase on Stress Path Evolution under Undrained Conditions

Buhari U. Ardo, Ernest H. Rutter, Julian Mecklenburgh

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., but samples showed strain softening and failed by the development of conjugate shear bands. In general, the rock displays a transition from brittle to ductile...

Optimization of Infill Drilling in Naturally Fractured Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoirs in the San Juan Basin - Workshop Summary

Lawrence Teufel, Scott Cooper, John Lorenz, Bruce Hart, Robin PEarson, Hamoud Al-Hadrami, Her-Yuan Chen, Arild Sunde, Mike Kelly

PTTC

... of conjugate fractures, a pair with a bed-parallel axis of intersection and a pair with a bed-normal axis of intersection, are limited to siliceous...