EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Geological Perception of Pore and Fracture Prediction: Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Shaker, Selim S.

GCAGS Transactions

... gradient in the upper effective seal (top of geopressured section). As soon the drill bit penetrates a sand body in this abnormally pressured...

Petrophysical Analysis of the Unconventional Reservoirs of the Lennard Shelf and Fitzroy Trough in Canning Basin, Australia

Valeri Shelokov, Robert Hull, Tony Rudge, Perry Richmond

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... and faults, as well as within the organic rich layers. In this study, a pressure top seal for the Laurel Formation was defined as well as the highlights...

Fault Displacement Hazards at Aliso Canyon (ACGSF) and Honor Rancho (HRGSF) Natural Gas Storage Fields (UGS), Southern California, USA, #51551 (2019).

Thomas L. Davis,

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... the operator’s and regulator’s evaluation of the fault displacement hazard and risk from the SSF. SoCalGas’ and State of CA regulator’s responses...

Conoco Indonesia, Farmouts for 2001, Presented at SEAPEX 2001

Conoco Indonesia Exploration Staff

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of the Arang Formation and the Muda Formation provide top seal for the Upper Gabus reservoirs. Additional intraformational seals such as the Brown Shale...

A Geologic Update of the Emplacement Mechanism Within the Kern River Formation at the Kern River Field

Edward J. Kodl, James C. Eacmen, Michael G. Coburn

Pacific Section SEPM

..., or organic (tar seal) trapping of the migrating hydrocarbons. ABSTRACT Evaluation and interpretation of the hydrogeologic and hydrodynamic...

Abstract: Fracture and Fault Imaging from VSP Data; #90174 (2014)

Simon J. Emsley

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...Abstract: Fracture and Fault Imaging from VSP Data; #90174 (2014) Simon J. Emsley AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90174 CSPG©2014 CSPG...

3D Palaeo-Migration Pathway Analysis: An Example from the Timor Sea

G. Chen, K. C. Hill, N. Hoffman, G. W. O'Brien

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... 3. Restore each fault and fold structure of the new top layer (Top Miocene) and datum the entire model onto a flat upper surface (Figure 2c & d...

Petroleum Geology and Exploration of the La Creciente Gas Field Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia

Juan F. Arminio, Rudyard Vega, Eduardo García, Franklin Yoris, Jairo Lugo, Gustavo Bertorelli

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... in a transgressive context during the Oligocene and culminated with an Early Miocene maximum flooding event that provides top seal to the trap. Lateral closure...

Hamilton Creek Field

Matthew H. Davis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... as the primary lateral seal. All pay is located in the footwall of this fault. Cyclic Pennsylvanian marine sedimentation stratifies organic-rich...

A Composite Model to Risk and Rank Global Exploration Prospect and its Application

Zhi Li, Zhifeng Ji, Fuheng Li, Zi Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... play evaluation For the geological risk of the play, four sub-factors such as trap, charge, reservoir, and seal, were considered for detailed risking...

Identification of Fractured Basement Reservoir Using Integrated Well Data and Seismic Attributes: Case Study at Ruby Field, Northwest Java Basin; #20195 (2013)

Made Suardana, Ari Samodra, Arief Wahidin, and Mohammad Rachmat Sule

Search and Discovery.com

... field has created a strike-slip fault system that formed the pull-apart basin in this area. Figure 12. (Top) Structural pattern and distribution...

Exploration Challenge in Southern Basin Area of East Java Basin - An Aftermath of South Saubi Drilling Campaign

Hendri Harsian

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in South Madura at the western part of WSB area. Seal The Cepu Formation thick bathyal shale exists over a range of top of the WSB Structure...

Caprock integrity determination at the Christina Lake Thermal Recovery Project, Alberta

Gary L. Prost, James Newsome

CSPG Bulletin

...) and top Devonian unconformity (right). There are no obvious features that exist on both maps, indicating that there are no seismic scale fault-like features...

Modelling Sealing Potential within the Palaeozoic Sequence in the Fitzroy Trough, Canning Basin, Western Australia, #10462 (2012)

Julian Strand, Cedric Griffiths, Laurent Langhi

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... the significant top sealing, Noonkanbah Formation. Prior to identifying suitable, fault-bound structures, identification of shale-rich, top-seal and fault-seal...

Assessing Oil and Gas Plays in Facies-Cycle Wedges

David A. White

AAPG Bulletin

..., and the wedge middle, which is both underlain and overlain by thick shale. Most risky are the regressive wedge-top sandstones with no thick shale seal...

A Correlation of Climate Stratigraphy with Biostratigraphy to Confirm Stratigraphic Units in the Sebatik Area

Diana Rosary, Adhyaksa Buana Nicaksana, John K. Wilkinson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The study shows that there is a reasonable correlation between stratigraphic and biostratigraphic data. The evaluation of reservoir-seal quality based...

Kinematics and Growth of Supra-Salt Systems: A Field and Subsurface Analysis, Paradox Basin, #30515 (2017).

Elizabeth Horne, Bruce Trudgill

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... and regions of varying fault strikes. These changes reflect heterogeneities of the top-salt geometry. Fault linkage analyses such as: fault throw...

Tertiary Carbonate Plays in the Papuan Basin

G. R. Leamon, G. L. Parsons

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... the thrust fault. Seal was provided by overlying Mesozoic shales. On testing, this unit initially flowed oil at 265m3/day (1610 BOPD) although water...

Pore Pressure Prediction Geology and Modeling Assessment

Selim S. Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... regional top seal (maximum flooding surface) prevents fluids from breaching to shallower depth (Fig. 1). The subsequent process of creating the top...

Tertiary Hydrocarbon Play in NW Arafura Shelf, Offshore South Papua: Frontier Area in Eastern Indonesia

Tiur Aldha, Kim Jae Ho

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... thick Buru Formation is also expected to act as an excellent seal / cap rock for this region petroleum system. The proven reservoir rocks in the nearby...

Abstract: Reactivating of a Mature Oil Field in the Finca-Yopales Area, Venezuel, Using 3-D Seismic, by M. Sanchez and H. Betancourt; #90951 (1996).

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ABSTRACT: 3D Characterisation of Potential CO&sub2; Reservoir and Seal Rocks, by Golab, Alexandra; Romeyn, Rowan; Averdunk, Holger; Knackstedt, Mark; Senden, Tim; #90155 (2012)

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Carbon storage and CO2-enhanced oil recovery potential in the Temblor Formation, northeast McKittrick oilfield, San Joaquin Valley, California

Kelly J. Harrington and Janice M. Gillespie

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... will be required within each sealed fault block, resulting in additional costs for implementing a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project.Through -EOR...

Overpressures in the Taranaki Basin: Distribution, causes, and implications for exploration

Mark Webster, Stephen O'Connor, Bitrus Pindar, Richard Swarbrick

AAPG Bulletin

... combination of a top shale seal overlying a regional sequence boundary, lithologic barriers within fault compartments, fault planes, and subcropping...

Oil and Gas Fields in the Barrow Sub-Basin

I. M. McClure, D. N. Smith, A. F. Williams, L. J. Clegg, C. C. Ford

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a top seal and lateral seal across the Fault and although the accumulation appears to be mainly structurally controlled , permeability barriers have...