Carbon Capture and Storage … A Safe and Reliable Monitoring and Verification Plan Developed Using Oil and Gas Industry Core Skill Sets

Anthony Western

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... across the storage complex highlighting Toolachee Formation gas pools (red) overlain by the top Toolachee/Nappamerri primary containment seal (grey...

Pressure Regime in the Upper Cretaceous Shales and Sandstones in the Washakie Basin, Wyoming

Ronald C. Surdam, Zung S. Jiao, Jie Liu

Wyoming Geological Association

... pressure in psi of the seal rock, PdR is the subsurface displacement pressure in psi of the reservoir rock, pw is the subsurface density in g/cm3 of water...

Application of petroleum systems analysis to resource assessments

Lukasz Krawczynski, Martin Neumaier

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., depending only on the top seal capacity. A trap with high capillary entry pressure may be capable of holding a full column of gas. The eventual outcome...

Interpretation of Footwall (Lowside) Fault Traps Sealed by Reverse Faults and Convergent Wrench Faults

T. P. Harding, A. C. Tuminas

AAPG Bulletin

... the fault surface) is determined by the permeability of the top seal bed at the fault and any fault zone material. The presence of a finite buoyant column...

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

..., provided that the minimum displacement pressure of the potential seal is greater than the buoyant pressure generated by the hydrocarbon column within...

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

Pore structure of sediments from Green Canyon 955 determined by mercury intrusion

Hugh Daigle, Yi Fang, Stephen C. Phillips, and Peter B. Flemings

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure at the top of a gas column that can be held back by capillary forces (Schowalter, 1979). We converted the displacement pressures obtained from...

Production-Induced Capillary Breakdown of Reservoir Barriers, #41133 (2013)

Alton Brown

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... of p/z slope changes. Sw, 3 d Interaction of a displacement front with the barrier causes complexities in pressure and saturation that make...

Stress, pore pressure, and dynamically constrained hydrocarbon columns in the South Eugene Island 330 field, northern Gulf of Mexico

Thomas Finkbeiner, Mark Zoback, Peter Flemings, Beth Stump

AAPG Bulletin

... the pressure in the top seal adjacent to the structural highs of the reservoir sands. Table 5. Well Names and Parameter Values from Which Shale Pore Pressures...

Shale Variability in Deep-Marine Depositional Systems: Implications for Seal Character - Subsurface and Outcrop Examples

William C. Dawson, William R. Almon, Kelly Dempster, and Sally J. Sutton

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... 220 Stratigraphic separation of reservoir & top seal intervals p 210 200 120 110 100 Reservoir Facies 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0...

Abstract: Sedimentology, Reservoir Potential, and Seal Integrity of the Pale Sandstone, Eastern Papuan Basin, Papua New Guinea, by P. J. Boult, G. J. Carman, and S. E. Phillips; #91015 (1992).

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Abstract: Carbon Storage Prospect Assessment … Integrating Uncertainty on Pore Space, PVT, Seal and CO2 Plume Shape; #91209 (2025)

Martin Neumaier, Ian Bryant, Ben Kurtenbach, Eva Gebhardt

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..., leakage through the top or fault seal, plume extent or structural spill based on CO2 pressure and phase properties. For a given prospect...

Extended Abstract: Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Insights from Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Analyses

Celeste D. Lohr, Paul C. Hackley

GCAGS Transactions

... All EPA Class VI CO2 injection permits require top seal evaluation as a required step in determination of caprock seal integrity for carbon dioxide...

Capillary effects on fault-fill sealing

Alton Brown

AAPG Bulletin

... substantially below its original height. Membrane sealing is reestablished at low capillary pressure. Theoretically, restored seal capacity is close...

Distinct-element Stress Modeling in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin, South Australia

Suzanne P. Hunt, Peter J. Boult

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 3-D fault modelling and assessment of top seal structural permeabilityPenola Trough Onshore, Otway Basin: Australian Petroleum Production...

Abstract: The Regional Pressure Regime in Cretaceous Sandstones and Shales in the Powder River Basin, by R. C. Surdam and H. P. Heasler; #91012 (1992).

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Abstract: Leakage Dynamics through Fault and Top Seals, by A. Aplin, K. D. Kurtev, S. Abrakasa, and S. R. Larter; #90090 (2009).

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Hydrocarbon Entrapment Mechanics in the Eastern Mediterranean Nile Delta Cone: Consequences of an Overpressured Environment

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A Sonic Log Study of Abnormally Pressured Zones in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming

Debra Maucione, Vladimir Serebryakov, Paul Valasek, Yue Wang, and Scott Smithson

AAPG Special Volumes

... pressured zones. Because the conclusion of the log response study positively indicated the presence of abnormal pressure, surface seismic data will also...

The critical evaluation of carbon dioxide subsurface storage sites: Geological challenges in the depleted fields of Liverpool Bay

Lauren Chedburn, John R. Underhill, Sam Head, and Rachel Jamieson

AAPG Bulletin

... top seal resulting from a progressive pinch-out of halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone Group raise additional questions about the integrity...

Liner Hanger Installation in Challenging Offshore Well Conditions, #42003 (2017).

David Luna, Roberto Elizalde, Wantuadi Diwaku

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... 6,800 psi Collapse 5,850 psi Differential pressure at liner top 4,000 psi Liner hanger capacity 400,0001bs iremperature rating 250 F • Ability...

Basin Screening for Seal Rock Quality New Zealand Region

B. D. Field, D. P. Strogen, H. D. Zhu, T. R. Sahoo, A. G. Griffin, M. J. F. Lawrence, C. Martin, R. McDonnell, K. Jones, R. Daniel

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., to be interrogated. KEY WORDS Seal rocks, New Zealand, mudstone, seismic, oil, gas, mercury injection capillary pressure, MICP AUTHORS INSTITUTION...

Qualitative Early Screening Tools for CCUS Location and Its Application for Tangguh Vorwata EGR CCUS

Arief Maulana, Alit Dewanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... through pressure maintenance and gas displacement mechanisms. One of the references in CCUS site location characterization was by Gibson-Poole (2009...

Diagenesis Through Coupled Processes: Modeling Approach, Self-Organization, and Implications for Exploration

W. Chen, A. Ghaith, A. Park, P. Ortoleva

AAPG Special Volumes

... expansivity, and viscosity, as well as the temperatures imposed at the top and bottom boundaries. In addition to displacement from equilibrium...

Extended Abstract: Sedimentologic and Diagenetic Influences on Sealing Potential: Lower and Upper Tertiary Shales, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

William C. Dawson, Sally J. Sutton, William R. Almon, William T. Lawrence

GCAGS Transactions

... of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 682–699. Dawson, W. C., and W. R. Almon, 2002, Top seal potential of Tertiary deep-water Gulf of Mexico shales: Gulf...