Quantifying Seal Effectiveness, Seal Effectiveness Timing, HC Column Height, % Trap Fill, Timing Risk using Petroleum System 1D Models for Leads and Prospects

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Testing the basin-centered gas accumulation model using fluid inclusion observations: Southern Piceance Basin, Colorado

Andras Fall, Peter Eichhubl, Stephen P. Cumella, Robert J. Bodnar, Stephen E. Laubach, Stephen P. Becker

AAPG Bulletin

...-seal fracture cement record pressure, temperature, and fluid compositional conditions during fracture opening and a time segment of basin...

Abstract: Producing Pore Pressure Profiles Based on Theoretical Models in Un-Drilled Deep-Water Frontier Basins E.G. Labrador; #90224 (2015)

Sam Green, Stephen O'Connor, William Goodman, Niklas Heinemann, Alexander Edwards, James Carter, and Deric Cameron

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... of the pressure regime to ascertain (a) the risk of top seal integrity from mechanical seal risking and (b) the drilling window(the fracture pressure...

Laboratory and Field Observations of an Apparent Sub-Capillary-Equilibrium Water Saturation Distribution in a Tight Gas Sand Reservoir, by K.E. Newsham and J.A. Rushing, #40400 (2009).

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Rock Pressure

William B. Heroy

AAPG Bulletin

... to the total depth to the sand. This method can be used only where the pressure is moderate and not sufficient to force the fluid higher than the top...

Geomechanical, microstructural, and petrophysical evolution in experimentally reactivated cataclasites: Applications to fault seal prediction: Reply

David N. Dewhurst, Richard M. Jones

AAPG Bulletin

... to top seal leakage in the Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Shelf, Australia: Petroleum Geoscience.Dewhurst, D. N., and R. M. Jones, 2002, Geomechanical...

Numerical Simulation of Thermal Stress on Entrapped Pressure of Deepwater and Further Research on Anti-Thermal-Stress Casing Tools

Changbin Kan, Jin Yang, Xiaocong Yu, Wei Meng, Nanding Hu, Bo Zhou, Bailing Zhang, Zhiqiang Hu

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... compression rubber seal, the sealing pressure is normally less than 30MPa, the real testing value and qualitative analysis prove that the pressure...

Controls on the Trap Integrity of the Skua Oil Field, Timor Sea

A. Gartrell, M. Lisk, J. Underschultz

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the Vulcan Sub-basin (Fig. 1). The hydrocarbons are reservoired within Early Jurassic sandstones of the Plover Formation with top and lateral seal provided...

Overpressure History of the Malay Basin, Offshore Peninsular Malaysia

Mazlan Madon

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... zone. The Group F regional shale seal had effectively, therefore, deepened the top of overpressure in the basin centre. A simulation of overpressure...

ABSTRACT: The Carbonate Mineralization in Sandstone Reservoirs Near the Top Overpressure Surface in Dongying Depression; #90132 (2011)

Yuanjia Han

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... the carbonate mineralization in sandstone reservoirs closed to the top pressure seal, frequently ranging from 15～40% for carbonate minerals...

Geodynamics of West Siberian Platform and Its Frame

V. F. Podurushin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of erosion of the lower Aptian regional seal; and uplift of the top of the basement. Thickness of consolidated crust beneath the Siberian High Ground...

Extension, Displacement, and Block Rotation in the Larger Gullfaks Area, Northern North Sea: Determined from Map View Restoration

Delphine Rouby , Haakon Fossen , Peter R. Cobbold

AAPG Bulletin

... be deduced from the relative movements of block boundaries. RESTORATION OF THE TOP BRENT HORIZON, LARGER GULLFAKS AREA To obtain a regional displacement...

Improving Cement Placement in Horizontal Wells of Unconventional Reservoirs Using Magneto-Rheological Fluids

Mansur Ermila, Alfred W. Eustes, Mehdi Mokhtari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... either surface leaks or sustained casing pressure posing both safety and environmental concerns (Gray, 2011). The mud displacement process...

Case History: Big Bend Gulf of Mexico Exploration Success Through Integrated G&G Technology

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Carbon Dioxide Storage Potential of the Broom Creek Formation in North Dakota: A Case Study in Site Characterization for Large-Scale Sequestration

James A. Sorensen, Steven A. Smith, Anastasia A. Dobroskok, Matthew L. Belobraydic, Wesley D. Peck, Justin J. Kringstad, Zheng-Wen Zeng

AAPG Special Volumes

... (1990) and Hoda (1977) to generate formation structure, pressure, temperature, and thickness maps for the Broom Creek Formation and its primary seal...

Crossing conjugate normal faults

David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, John A. Stamatakos, Darrell W. Sims

AAPG Bulletin

... dissolution or mechanical compaction may be indicated by extreme displacement gradients at fault tips). In the absence of such evidence, even the most...

Expulsion of Water from Clays with Anomalously High Pore Pressures in Reservoirs

Kh. B. Yusufzade, G. I. Nabiyev, E. N. Dergunov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... (pore) pressures. In the Sangachaly-more - Duzannyy-more - Bulla-Island field the anomalous pressure begins in the Apsheron sediments. Pressure...

Abstract: Abstract: Evaluation of CO2 Storage Capacity, Leakage Mechanisms and Injector Well Placement in a Giant Oilfield at Late Stage of Production, by John R. Bunney and Stephen J. Cawley; #90066 (2007)

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AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 15: Simple 3-D Modeling of Hydrocarbon Migration

Wangen, M., T. Throndsen

AAPG Special Volumes

... because of extensive dispersion, and that losses during lateral migration are probably minimal because flow is concentrated below the top seal (Thomas...

Altamont-Bluebell--A Major, Naturally Fractured Stratigraphic Trap, Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter T. Lucas, James M. Drexler

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Tertiary section, but little, if any, displacement is recognizable in the stratigraphic column above the level of the top of abnormal formation pressures...

Subsurface Plumbing of the Crayfish Group in the Penola Trough: Otway Basin

P. J. Boult, P. Lyon, B. Camac, D. Edwards, D. M. McKirdy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... .S D- N U.. "' ~ ::> 0 u - Loire Core (seal) 15% Q) c ~ .!? c D ~ Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Cu rves 2364.3 m 2460 c 0 33% 3...

Deep Water Drilling with the Sedco-445 Offshore Java

A. P. Anderson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... riser couplings. Ball joints are provided at upper and lower ends of the riser, the lower unit being of the pressure-balanced type. At the top...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Overpressure Determination from Sonic and Resistivity Log Anomalies, Jonah Field, Northern Green River Basin, Wyoming

Robert M. Cluff, Suzanne G. Cluff

Wyoming Geological Association

... anomaly surface represents the former top of a maturation surface, or, perhaps, the top of a regional seal that held back part of the pressure...

Seepage pathway assessment for natural gas to shallow groundwater during well stimulation, in production, and after abandonment

Maurice Dusseault and Richard Jackson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

.../ft). As shown in Figure 5, this leads to a greater driving pressure at the top of the fracture than at the bottom, leading to preferred fracture rise...

Abnormal Pressures in Midland Field, Louisiana

William A. Fowler Jr, Walter A. Boyd Jr, Sabin W. Marshall, Robert L. Myers

Houston Geological Society

... contact above the top of the aquifer on the barren, high-pressure side of the trap. The only difference between hydrodynamic entrapment and tilted...