Exploring "Sweet Spots" in the Deep Shelf, Gulf of Mexico

Selim S. Shaker, Walter W. Wornardt Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... of leak off tests were available for public domain. Top of the Abnormal Pressure Mapping this interface is essential to determine the top seal cap...

A complex bimodal fluid gradient in a simple tilted sheet reservoir is explained and modeled by (biogenic) gas addition to an oil column

Morten Kristensen, Tarek S. Mohamed, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Oliver C. Mullins

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... content. (C) GOR and saturation pressure measurements of the oil column. (D) Methane isotope. The top half of the column exhibits a diffusive gradient...

Abnormal Pressure Evaluation of the Recent Pliocene and Miocene Gas Discoveries from the Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt, Using 2D and 3D Seismic Data

Philip D. Heppard and Martin L. Albertin

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Sheikh formation form many separate pressure compartments. Compartments range from normal pressure at about 1400 m at the top of the formation to over...

Chaparral Field (Smackover) Wayne County, MS

Mississippi Geological Society

Mississippi Geological Society

... STRATIGRAPHIC HORIZON PENETRATED: WELL: STRATIGRAPHIC UNIT: TOTAL DEPTH: NATURE OF TRAP: Downthrown - Lateral seal against salt - Top seal provided...

Abstract: Control of Top Seal Age and Depositional Facies on Gas Column Heights in Carbonate Reservoirs of the Central Nam Con Son Basin, Vietnam

Rob Satter

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...Abstract: Control of Top Seal Age and Depositional Facies on Gas Column Heights in Carbonate Reservoirs of the Central Nam Con Son Basin, Vietnam Rob...

Geopressured Shale and Sealing Effect of Smectite to Illite Transition

Robert L. Freed , Donald R. Peacor

AAPG Bulletin

... of abnormally high fluid pressure, then the transition itself must be able to produce a hydraulic seal. To our knowledge, only Foster and Custard (1980) have...

A Modelling Study on the Application of the Bentonites in Plugging Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

Hossein Dashti, Mohammad Sedaghat, Mahshid Firouzi, Suzanne Hurter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... during the CO2 injection. This will help to assess the effectiveness of bentonite to seal CCS wells independent of reservoir pressure and aligned...

Application of sand percentage to evaluate fault seal risk

Robert Shoup, John Jong, Franz L Kessler

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...Application of sand percentage to evaluate fault seal risk Robert Shoup, John Jong, Franz L Kessler CATATAN GEOLOGI GEOLOGICAL NOTES DOI : https...

Devonian and Mississippian Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration in Southern West Virginia, Appalachian Basin; #80220 (2012)

Scott McCallum and Chris Willan

Search and Discovery.com

... the data be used to better understand the mechanics of the various events? • Pressure history • Migration pathways • Seal  At this stage, components...

FAST: A New Technique for Geomechanical Assessment of the Risk of Reactivation-related Breach of Fault Seals

Scott D. Mildren, Richard R. Hillis, Paul J. Lyon, Jeremy J. Meyer, David N. Dewhurst, Peter J. Boult

AAPG Special Volumes

... and assessment of top seal structural permeabilityPenola trough, onshore Otway Basin: Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, v...

Numerical Simulation of Fluid Pressure and Fracturing in CO2 Sequestration; #80586 (2017)

Jonathan Matthews, Christopher Paolini, Jose Castillo

Search and Discovery.com

... In: porosity Out: pressure & mass flux Reservoir Displacement In: pressure Out: rock displacement if δφ∗ > TOL Numerical Simulation of Fluid Pressure...

Evaluation of the Diagenetic and Structural Influences on Hydrocarbon Entrapment in the Cardium Formation, Deep Basin, Western Alberta

Christopher Murray, Robert Ehrlich, Edward Mason Ross Clark

CSPG Bulletin

... facies change, diagenetic effect or faulting. An analysis of the Cardium main sand based on thin section, capillary pressure data and structural...

A New Approach to Pore Pressure Predictions: Generation, Expulsion, and Retention Trio—Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Selim Simon Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... and dewatering processes is the genesis and not the outcome. The effective seal is the main mechanism for creating excess pressure. Investigating possible...

Importance of evolving fault seals on petroleum systems: Southern Halten terrace, Norwegian Sea

Karthik Iyer, Daniel W. Schmid, Lars H. Rüpke, Jon Erik Skeie, Frode Karlsen, and Ebbe H. Hartz

AAPG Bulletin

... in the Njord field is extended to the fracture pressure gradient for gas. The top seal capacity in the model does not change through time during...

Structural History of the Terang and Sirasun Fields and the Impact Upon Timing of Charge and Reservoir Performance, Kangean PSC, East Java Sea, Indonesia

Wayne A. Basden, Henry W. Posamentier, Ron A. Noble

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by the Pleistocene Lidah shales. Both of the Sirasun pools and the Batur pool also have fault seal as a component of trap (Basden, Howes, and Wibisana...

Seals, Faults and Fractures in Siliciclastic Reservoirs: Integration of Geology and Geomechanics

Search and Discovery.com

The Geometry and Thickness of Deformation-band Fault Core and its Influence on Sealing Characteristics of Deformation-band Fault Zones

Z. K. Shipton, J. P. Evans, L. B. Thompson

AAPG Special Volumes

... seal analysis in the North Sea: AAPG Bulletin, v. 77, p. 778792.Knott, S. D., A. Beach, P. J. Brockbank, J. L. Brown, J. E. McCallum, and A. I. Welbon...

Normally Pressured vs. Abnormally Pressured Compartments in Sandstones in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: A Comparative Study of the Muddy Sandstone and the Minnelusa Formation

Donald B. MacGowan, Zun S. Jiao, Ronald C. Surdam, Francis P. Miknis

Wyoming Geological Association

.... Such a situation could arise when pressure within a pressure compartment exceeds the seal displacement pressure or when a compartment seal is ruptured...

The impact of fault envelope structure on fluid flow: A screening study using fault facies

Muhammad Fachri, Jan Tveranger, Nestor Cardozo, Oystein Pettersen

AAPG Bulletin

... be ranked according to impact on reservoir responses in the following descending order: fault core thickness, the type of displacement function...

Proper Simulation of Fracturing-Fluid Flowback from Hydraulically-Fractured Shale-Gas Wells Delayed by Non-Equilibrium Capillary Effects

G. Michel, F. Civan, R. Sigal, D. Devegowda

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the behavior of fluid displacement in shale. The transient behavior of the capillary pressure and relative permeability curves are shown. This study...

Regional migration and trapping frameworks in the frontier ceduna sub-basin: new insights from stratigraphic forward modelling and 'triangle juxtaposition' diagrams

Laurent Langhi, Emanuelle Frery, Julian Strand, Andrew Ross

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... in limited understanding of reservoir and top seal coupling, trends for fluid migration and structural trapping for the Late Cretaceous marine and deltaic...

Structural Geology and Pressure Compartmentalization of Jonah Field, Sublette County, Wyoming

Edward M. Warner

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... a topseal shale at the top of the Lance Formation. A northeast-southwest trending crossfault provides the updip seal to the west and a lateral seal...

Development of Secondary Porosity in a Meekwap Reef and Its Effect on Reservoir Properties

J.P. Reid, N.C. Wardlaw

CSPG Special Publications

... of AIME, New Orleans, SPE 3553. Pickell, J.J., Swanson, B.F. and Hickman, W.B., 1966; Application of air-mercury and oil-air capillary pressure data...

An Integrated Reservoir Simulation and Geomechanical Modeling of CO2 Injection at the Wyoming Dry Fork CarbonSAFE Geologic Storage Complex

Tao Bai, Ying Yu, Peng Li, Zunsheng Jiao, Matthew Johnson, Charles Nye, Jonathan McLaughlin, Scott Quillinan

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... the ground surface displacement for different scenarios, which indicates that sealing faults retard the pressure dissipation and a larger surface uplift...

Assessment of a potential storage site for carbon dioxide: A case study, southeast Queensland, Australia

Jacques Sayers, Cameron Marsh, Adam Scott, Yildiray Cinar, John Bradshaw, Allison Hennig, Stuart Barclay, Ric Daniel

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...) Special Publication 233, p. 211224.Zweigel, P., E. Lindeberg, A. Moen, and D. Wessel-Berg, 2004, Towards a methodology for top seal efficacy...