The Pinedale Gas Field: A Sweet Spot in a Regionally Pervasive Basin-centered Gas Accumulation, Green River and Hoback Basins, Wyoming

Ben E. Law, Charles W. Spencer

AAPG Special Volumes

... Steidtmann, 1977, Deformation and deposition between a foreland uplift and an impinging thrust fault: Hoback Basin, Wyoming, Geological Society...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Petrophysical Variation, and Sealing Capacity in Deepwater Shales, Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, South-Central Wyoming

William R. Almon, William C. Dawson, Sally J. Sutton, Frank G. Ethridge, Bellatrix Castelblanco

Wyoming Geological Association

... and petrophysical properties suggests that seismic data may have good potential as a tool for seal evaluation. Abed, A. M., and R. Sadaqah, 1998, Role...

A Structural Re-Evaluation of the North Banggai-Sula Area, Eastern Indonesia

Farid Ferdian, Robert Hall, Ian Watkinson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of different features along the length of individual fault zones on the plateau top indicates that they are likely to be genuine strikeslip faults. However...

Oil Springs and Flat Top Anticlines, Carbon County Wyoming: An Unusual Fold Pair

D.L. Blackstone Jr.

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the junction of the Freezeout Hills Anticline, the Shirley thrust fault and the Flat Top Anticline. The surface fold as defined by the outcrop of the Wall...

Relating shale thickness to seal potential

Justin Palmer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... shale as a primary top seal for good reasons not limited to 1) less likely to breach by fractures or faults, 2) more likely to contain very tight...

ABSTRACT: Geological and Geophysical Evaluation of the Naricual Formation, Musipan-El Carito Area, Eastern Venezuela Basin, by Juan Abud, Pablo Oviedo, Jose Hernandex, Eduardo Garcia, Nicolas Escalona; #91003 (1990).

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Understanding Stratigraphic Heterogeneity: A Methodology to Maximize the Efficiency of the Geological Storage of CO2

Catherine M. Gibson-Poole, Lotte Svendsen, Maxwell N. Watson, Richard F. Daniel,Jonathan Ennis-King, Andy J. Rigg

AAPG Special Volumes

... and petrophysical characterization of Muderong Shale: Application to top seal risking: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 8, p. 371383.Ennis-King, J., and L. Paterson...

Petroleum Systems in Southeast Asian Tertiary Basins

Harry Doust

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... in gentlydipping strata with few faults, and top and side seal integrity (Atkinson et al., 2006). While these conditions are present in many basins...

Logging While Drilling as the Kernel Acquisition … Fully Integrated Formation Evaluation in a Deepwater Exploration Campaign, Makassar Strait, Indonesia

Mathias Horstmann, Graziano Capone, Lilik Budi Riyanto, Yus Wilian, Scott Fey

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... operation were: • TOP pretests had an 80% test success rate in mobilities ranging from 4.5 mD/cp to >5 D/cp. Seal success rate was 96%. • No sticking...

Integrated Interpretation of Borehole and Geophysical Data for Fault Configuration and Its Implication to Hydrocarbon Distribution in Bunyu Area, Tarakan Basin

Helmi Indrajaya, Dina Novi Susanti, Totong Koesnadi Usman, Aliftama Febrian Wicaksono, Hitler Sijabat, Mohammad Wahyudin, Sugiri

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Integrated Interpretation of Borehole and Geophysical Data for Fault Configuration and Its Implication to Hydrocarbon Distribution in Bunyu Area...

Chapter 149: Jackfork Group Turbidites in the Hollywood Quarry, Arkansas, USA: Outcrop Characterization, 3-D Geological Modeling, and Upscaling for Reservoir Simulation

J. Camilo Goyeneche, Roger M. Slatt, Alan J. Witten, Roger A. Young

AAPG Special Volumes

... by this fault gouge. The high-resolution seismic line confirms fault 9′s continuity beneath the quarry floor. Figure 12. Top: Fault zone at fault 9. Dips of beds...

Prediction of Oil and Gas Pools in Triassic Rocks of the Southwest Part of the North Caspian Depression

T. V. Dmitriyevskaya, A. V. Lobusev, G. V. Martovskiy, S. G. Ryabukhina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...-isochors, which approach some kind of seal: a salt plug, a fault, an erosion zone. This phenomenon suggests that the sealing of the traps took plase...

Chapter 13: The Tamar Giant Gas Field: Opening the Subsalt Miocene Gas Play in the Levant Basin

Daniel L. Needham, Henry S. Pettingill, Christopher J. Christensen, Jonathan ffrench, Zvi Kul Karcz

AAPG Special Volumes

... with seal-breaching faults were mitigated by detailed mapping, including observations of the up-section fault termini. With one exception, the faults died...

Altamont-Bluebell: A Major Fractured and Overpressured Stratigraphic Trap, Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter T. Lucas, James M. Drexler

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and fluid properties and the highly disseminated occurrence of producing zones result in unusual engineering and evaluation problems which include: (1) very...

Fault Closure-Type Fields, Southeast Louisiana

Hunt Perkins

GCAGS Transactions

.... This necessitates only the creation of a shale barrier at the reservoir sand interface with the fault plane to provide a seal to migration. While in theory...

Abstract: Cambodia’s Hydrocarbon Prospectivity - An Insight from Block A

Katherine Y. J. Kho, John M. Jacques

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... paleosols are the main top seals of hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs in the Khmer Trough. Fault seals are accomplished by sand-shale juxtaposition...

Abstract: The Prediction of Permeability Enhancing Fracture Patterns within Natural Gas Reservoirs Based on Outcrop Characterization Near Normal Faults; Wind River Basin, Wyoming, by Hutch Jobe, Randy Herr, and Paul MacKay; #90039 (2005)

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Bireun High Complex, a Rejuvenated Carbonate Province in Offshore North Sumatra Basin

Ferry Hakim, Mayesta Gunarto, Michael Sompie, Safto Raharjo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and faulted top seal (Meckel, 2012). Peusangan D-1 was drilled two years later in 1988. It penetrated a shaley limestone less than 3 feet thick. Although gas...

Seismic sequence analysis and reservoir potential of drowned Miocene carbonate platforms in the Madura Strait, East Java, Indonesia

A. Kusumastuti, P. Van Rensbergen, J. K. Warren

AAPG Bulletin

... (see the arrow direction on top of buildup in Figure 10). Both buildups failed because they lacked a prospective seal configuration. Figure 10...

Geologic Features and Rate of Movement Along the South Branch of the San Andreas Fault, San Bernardino, California

Gary S. Rasmussen

Pacific Section SEPM

... geologic maps show the hill as being made up of granitic bedrock (Rogers, 1967). The south branch of the San Andreas fault passes through the crest or top...

Role of Compaction in Listric Shape of Growth Normal Faults

Hong-Bin Xiao, John Suppe

AAPG Bulletin

... and ^Thgr0 and ^Thgr are the initial and final fault dips after compaction. This equation is tested on several southern Louisiana growth normal faults...

Review of the Exploration Potential of Madagascar

David N. Clark

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... of the fault blocks, so it is unreliable as a top seal. Sporadic shows of heavy oil or bitumen have been noted at the top of the Isalo. The Andafia...

Structural and Stratigraphic 3D Seismic Interpretation of Middle Cretaceous in South East Muglad Basin, South Sudan; #30269 (2013)

Dorar Hamdoba Elshaikh Saror and Zuhar Zahir Bin Tuan Harith

Search and Discovery.com

..., and the top seal is the fluvial shale of Aradeiba Formation. Most of the traps are normal fault blocks with high dependency on the lateral seal across...

Evaluating Trap Integrity in the Vulcan Sub-Basin, Timor Sea, Australia, Using Integrated Remote-Sensing Geochemical Technologies

G. W. O'Brien, P. Quaife, R. Cowley, M. Morse, D. Wilson, M. Fellows, M. Lisk

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... breach of top and/or fault seal in many previously charged traps (O'Brien & Woods, 1994, 1995; O'Brien & Quaife, 1997, O'Brien et al., 1996a, 1997...

Abstract: Models for the Development of Listric Normal Faults and Fault Seals

John B. Spang

GCAGS Transactions

..., fault smear, "normal" drag folding and displacement gradients from as little as zero at the top layer to a maximum at depth. The new model contains...