Raleigh Field, Smith County, Mississippi, A Lower Cretaceous Oil Field

F. X. Bland, W. E. Gardner

GCAGS Transactions

... of 700 feet at Lower Cretaceous depths, diminishing rapidly towards the shallower beds, (50 feet near top chalk), is measured along the "field fault...

The Petroleum Prospectivity of the Otway Basin

V P St John

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Resources Limited 14.. - - Normal Fault Stress Regime and Structuring in the Otway Basin - - Transfer Fault T he Otway Basin developed as one...

Gravity Exploration for Petroleum in Railroad Valley, Nevada--Search for the Subtle Trap

Douglas J. Guion, William C. Pearson

AAPG Special Volumes

... fault. An overlying seal is provided by the dense, impermeable basal conglomerate of the Tertiary valley fill sequence. On the east side of Railroad...

Oil-Gas Potential of Upper Cretaceous Sediments of Southern Part of Sakhalin

P. F. Volgin, V. I. Isayev, V. Yu. Kosygin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...-Sakhalin fault (North Sakhalin fault); 4-main Cretaceous area of Sakhalin; 5-gas fields accociated with south segment of Central Sakhalin fault. B...

The Influence of the Peace River Arch on Beaverhill Lake Sedimentation

J. Walter Keith

CSPG Bulletin

...-productive reefs on top of basement fault blocks. These are in the order of 1 km across. A number of these have been found in the Dawson area (Twp. 80...

Stratigraphy and Petroleum Exploration History of the Smackover Formation (Oxfordian), Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Andrew J. Petty

GCAGS Transactions

... closure along this fault system, and was also abandoned as a dry hole. STRATIGRAPHY The top of the Smackover is defined as the highest stratigraphic...

Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Upper Jurassic Smackover Carbonate Shoal Complex Reservoirs, Womack Hill Field, Choctaw and Clarke Counties, Alabama

Mancini, Ernest A., Panetta, Brian J.

GCAGS Transactions

... typically consist of carbonate mudstone/wackestone at the base and ooid grainstone at the top. Porosity has been enhanced through dissolution...

The 2017 Offshore Acreage Release Areas: Petroleum Geological Overview

Thomas Bernecker, Steve Abbott, George Bernardel, Megan Lech, Ryan Owens, Tegan Smith, Jennifer Totterdell

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... in the Release Area, The APPEA Journal 323 including tilted fault blocks, syn-rift wedges, and a potential Lower Triassic regional seal over the top-Permian...

Geosequestration Investigations - Offshore New South Wales, Australia

J. Sayers, A. Kernich, T. Dance

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... seismic data of 1971 vintage were used to assess the top and base of the Cainozoic sediment wedge, despite its poor quality. Normal moveout correction...

Chapter 5: Transcurrent Structures of Late Cretaceous and Middle Paleocene Age

Thomas X. Homza, Steven C. Bergman

AAPG Special Volumes

... contains ample hydrocarbons, we interpret them to represent hydrocarbon expulsion via local top seal failure that we estimate occurred at about 65 Ma...

Geologic Controls on Oil Production from the Niobrara Formation, Silo Field, Laramie County, Wyoming

Carrie Welker, Lisa Stright, Tom Anderson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the Niobrara. Ductile marl units have higher organic carbon content, and act as both a source and seal while most reservoir capacity is in the brittle...

Does It Pay to Innovate? An Economic Lookback at the Lifecycle of the Amplitude Play of the Deepwater GOM with Application to other Trends; #51441 (2017)

Mohamed Taha

Search and Discovery.com

... basins that are generally formed and dominated by convergent stresses of strike slip tectonics and related structures. Strike-slip fault related...

Analog modeling of normal faulting above Middle East domes during regional extension

Darrell W. Sims, Alan P. Morris, Danielle Y. Wyrick, David A. Ferrill, Deborah J. Waiting, Nathan M. Franklin, Shannon L. Colton, Yoshihiko Tamura Umezawa, Mamoru Takanashi, Emily J. Beverly

AAPG Bulletin

... study the effects of planform dome shape on fault patterns developing with and without concurrent regional extension oriented oblique to the long axis...

Citronelle Dome: A Giant Opportunity for Multi-Zone Carbon Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin of Alabama

Richard A. Esposito, Jack C. Pashin, Peter M. Walsh

GCAGS Transactions

... Cretaceous Rodessa Formation. The top seal for the oil accumulation is a thick succession of shale and anhydrite, and the reservoir is under-filled...

Hydrocarbon Potential of Unexplored Tokala Area in The Eastern Arm Sulawesi as Part of Australian Fragment: A Preliminary Result

Anggoro P. Kurniawan, Agnes S. Ningrum, Candra D. Ardianto, Iman Firman, Endi Nurjadi, Agung Prasetyo, Iwan Galih Widyoseno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... are defined as potential source * rocks but its reservoir quality, trap integrity and seal effectiveness are not well defined. Finally, in 2017, Pertamina...

Exploring For Shallow Hydrocarbon Reservoirs In Ancient Sedimentary Basins

Chester A. Wallace, David C. Jacobs

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... high-pressure brine and hydrocarbons break confining seals to forcefully intrude overlying semi-consolidated sediment in seal-bypass systems, dynamic...

An Integrated Subsurface Study for Evaluating Potential in Teluk Rendah Field , South Jambi PSC, South Sumatera Basin

Irfan Yuliandri Syukri, Budi Permana, Irvan Rahmawan, Iranta Bona Sinaga

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as compartmentalization within each well suggesting stratigraphic compartmentalization. Initial volume estimates were based on fault compartmentalization but given...

Kasim and Walio Fields--Indonesia Salawati Basin, Irian Jaya

C. Gibson-Robinson, N. M. Henry, S. J. Thompson, Haryono Tri Raharjo

AAPG Special Volumes

... mudstone and wackestone from top seal of Walio field (Klasafet Formation). (B) Photomicrograph of seal lithofacies showing lenticular and laminar areas...

Chapter 9: Discovery of a Bolivian Foothills Giant Gas Field: Incahuasi

Jean-Claude Heidmann, Jacques Durand, Philippe Mallard, Jean-Francois Ballard, Jean-Marc Moron

AAPG Special Volumes

.... A prolific petroleum system, with a thick and mature Devonian source rock known as the Los Monos Formation acting as source rock and a thick seal...

The Darai Plateau Play: Foreland Basin Potential

J. C. Hulse, G. I. Harris

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... along the Darai Fault, due to limited access and the lack of surface water on the plateau. Details of the early surveys are covered by Causebrook...

Integrated Stratigraphic and Depositional-Facies Analysis of Parasequences in a Transgressive Systems Tract, San Joaquin Basin, California: Chapter 5: Recent Applications of Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy

Robert S. Tye, James S. Hewlett, Peter R. Thompson, David K. Goodman

AAPG Special Volumes

... cross section: sheet 3, San Andreas fault to the Sierra Nevada Range: AAPG, Tulsa, Oklahoma. California Division of Oil and Gas, 1934, Summary...

Play Opportunities for the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

H. E. Denman, J. A. Adamick

GCAGS Transactions

... acquired for evaluation of these tracts along with 450 blocks of new 3-D seismic. These new data, when combined with the relatively sparse drilling record...

Ruston Field--U.S.A. Gulf Coast Basin, Louisiana, by L. A. Herrmann, J. A. Lott, R. E. Dave, #20000 (1999).

Search and Discovery.com

Chapter 11: Petroleum Systems of Syria

Eric Barrier, Louai Machhour, Marc Blaizot

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Here, the thick evaporitic Lower Fars Formation provides a top seal for the major Cenozoic discoveries. Anticlinal traps formed during the Late...

Productive Trends and Production History, South Louisiana and Adjacent Offshore

R.B. Branson

New Orleans Geological Society

... million barrels of oil equivalent gas (OEG) per reservoir. Any one large field will usually have many productive fault blocks and numerous pay sands...