Results and Conclusions of a Horizontal-drilling Program at South Pass 62 Salt-dome Field, by E.P. Mason, M.J. Bastian, R. Detomo, M.N. Hashem, and A.J. Hildebrandt, #20018 (2004).

Search and Discovery.com

Characteristics and origin of Microfracture in Lower Cretaceous Tight Sandstone from Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China; #10514 (2013)

Chun Liu, Ronghu Zhang, Huiliang Zhang, Xianzhang Yang, and Junpeng Wang

Search and Discovery.com

... microfractures and grain-edge microfractures caused by diagenesis are along the bedding plane and parallel to the directional mineral grains...

PTTC Network News - Vol. 12, No.3 - 2006

Dwight Rychel

PTTC

... has grown for greater capability to drill onshore directional wells, managed pressure, high pressure/high temperature and wells likely to encounter...

Southeastern Los Angeles Basin (Field Trip D)

J. E. Schoellhamer, J. G. Vedder

Pacific Section of AAPG

... engineer for the Signal Oil and Gas Co., will give a talk titled “Techniques of directional drilling in the Huntington Beach field.” 47.5 Return...

Norphlet Geology and 3-D Geophysics of Fairway Field Mobile Bay, Alabama

Chip Story

GCAGS Transactions

... internally due to the cross bedding. Even with a volumetric reservoir there can be problems with gas bypassing and directional permeability, which...

Results of a 3-D Seismic Shoot at Lopeno Field, Zapata County, Texas

By Richard W. Debus and E. E. Rudder

GCAGS Transactions

... particularly in the area of the Lopeno Fault's shadow and to image the fault planes where directional drilling was desired. The 35 square mile shoot began...

Developments in Well Stimulation and Slim-Hole Technology - Workshop Summary

Jerry Griffith, William McDonald, Gary Kuecker, Dan Pepe, Albert Banahene, Richard Lueck

PTTC

... propagation resistivity, density/neutron, and Navi185 directional/gamma ray. Slim-hole multiple propagation resistivity tools, which measure eight...

Petroleum Potential of Southeastern Oklahoma and Northern Arkansas

M. W. Schramm, Jr. and W. M. Caplan

Tulsa Geological Society

... from northeast-southwest to northwest-southeast, the same directional pattern as that noted for deeper pre-Pennsylvanian strata in the Arkoma Basin...

Fredericton: Bedrock Geology of the City of Fredericton including the Old City Quarry

Peter Wallace

Atlantic Geoscience Society Special Publications

...) Small fractures are also found on many bedrock surfaces. Again, they are good directional indicators, but unlike striae, they form perpendicular to ice...

Palestine and Grand Saline Salt Domes, Eastern Texas: Field Excursion No. 6, November 15, 1962

William R. Muehlberger, Patricia S. Clabaugh, Maxwell L. Hightower

Houston Geological Society

... inhomogeneity that may significantly affect the directions of blast fracturing, stability of mine walls, and directional differences in the strength...

Natural Catastrophe Risk Modelling for Northwest Australia Offshore Installations

Tomohiko Inamura, Francis Lobo, Rie Hirose, Hajime Sano

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

.... With MASCOT, the maximum gradient wind speed is estimated at a target point, and surface wind speed is represented as a function of directional surface...

Use of Cable Suspended Submersible Pump Systems in the Java Sea

Luis Caycedo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... near discovery wells X-1 and X-2, respectively. Five directional wells from each platform are being drilled to penetrate the Batu Raja formation...

Sedimentology of the Dimple Limestone, Marathon Region, Texas

Alan Thomson, M. Ray Thomasson

Dallas Geological Society

... travelling turbidity currents which deposited limestone turbidites. Rocks of the slope facies have intermediate characteristics. Directional...

The Handil Oil Field in East Kalimantan

Ph. Magnier, Ben Samsu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... distance as they are very variable and can diminish (from 20 to 0 m) in less than 500 meters (evidence from directional wells in the cluster HA). Correlation...

San Antonio as Seen from Space

Alf Hawkins, Leslie Jones

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... composite image Spectral ratio Two-dimensional contrast stretch (TDCS) Principal component (PC) image DECOR color composite image Directional...

Marginal Offshore Oil Field Development - Langsa TAC: Innovative Solution in Dealing With Lost Circulation in Producing Horizon

Yoji Murachi, Fauzi Imron, Steve Hartono, Kunto Wibisono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... production wells. H-4 is a slightly directional well due to the location of the subsea pipelines and the restriction due to FPSO anchor pattern and L-3...

Case History of the Bekapai Field

M. De Matharel, G. Klein, T. Oki

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the structure, Bekapai No. 1 and the delineation wells were drilled with a jack-up. Later one vertical hole and seven directional platform. Presently...

Proposing an Entirely Pennsylvanian Age for the Fountain Formation through New Lithostratigraphic Correlation along the Front Range

Dustin E. Sweet, Corbin R. Carsrud, Aaron J. Watters

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., Colorado: Journal of Paleontology, vol. 64, p. 859–880. Mardia, K.V. and Jupp, P.E., 2000, Directional Statistics: John Wiley & Sons, London, 460 p...

Imaging below Seafloor Canyons and other Rugose Features

Dominic Fell, Kiran Dyal, Tony Hallam, Sebastian Nixon

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... (thousands of metres) lateral velocity variations in the deeper zones of interest. Each tomography update was also performed with directional...

Marine Current Directions in Upper Precambrian and Cambrian Rocks of the Southwestern United States

David A. Seeland

Four Corners Geological Society

... by a trigonometric restoration to the horizontal using an IBM 360/65 computer. The vectorial method was used for determining central tendency of the directional...

Electric Logging Techniques – Fort Worth Basin

Bill Stallsworth

Dallas Geological Society

.... A directional survey of the borehole can determine bottom hole location. Data presented in both tabular and graphic displays are available...

Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the Dinasaur Canyon Member of the Moenave Formation, Southern Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations, Arizona

Allen H. Johnson

Four Corners Geological Society

... a greater spread, an environment less directional than that in which the well-sorted sandstone was deposited is inferred. Thus, two of the eight directions...

The Valhall Story: The Importance of a Gas Cloud

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... improved considerably, with techniques such as waterflood, fracture stimulation, directional drilling, particularly the use of horizontal wells, and 3D...

Break-n-Shake: Microseismicity Images a Dramatically Varying Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation in a Shale Well Crossing a Listric Fault

Kenneth D. Mahrer, G. Mitch Kniffin

West Texas Geological Society

... with minimal directionality, compared to the earlier, highly-directional stages. All these clouds are asymmetrically displaced southwest of the wellbore. (Note...

Florence Field

Will Duggins

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... shown good results by lessening formation damage and improving returns. Wells are drilled as slanted or directional through the Pierre, with the highest...