The Interpretation of Fluids and Pressures in Determining Conventional and Unconventional Gas Resources in the Rocky Mountain Region

John R. Forster, John C. Horne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... a conventional accumulation at depths below the basin-wide top of abnormal pressure and is an excellent example of paleo-structural preservation...

Evidence of Recent Movements Along Faults of Balcones System in Central Texas

Frank Bryan

AAPG Bulletin

... than 30 miles, in width from a few feet to more than 4 miles, and in vertical displacement from only a few feet to more than 1,000 feet. The general...

Chapter 1: A New Exploration Strategy for Anomalously Pressured Reservoirs in Rocky Mountain Basins*

Ronald Surdam

Montana Geological Society

.... The depth of the onset of the velocity inversion indicates the pressure boundary and the top of the anomalously pressured compartment...

Hydrocarbon Accumulation in "Meramec- Osage" (Mississippian) Rocks, Sooner Trend, Northwest-Central Oklahoma

S. A. Harris

Tulsa Geological Society

... permeability in fractures explain the lateral seal of the Meramec-Osage trap at the Sooner Trend. The Chester was an original top seal in a much more...

Computer Simulation Models of Salt Domes

James C. Howard

AAPG Bulletin

... by viscous flow theory. Waveform describes displacement of top of simulated salt mass. Spines are accentuated as waveform amplifies in subsequent time...

Evolving Exploration Methods in the Hydrocarbon Play Within the Patchawarra Formation on the Western Flank, Cooper Basin

Johann Soares, Christopher Webb

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Basins Symposium (CABS) Copyright © 2019 by Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) Seal: Top, base and lateral seal for the sandstone...

Slick Rock Dakota (Oil), T. 29 N., R. 16-17 W., NMPM, San Juan County, New Mexico

R. F. Garvin

Four Corners Geological Society

... feet with 75 sacks of cement Perforations: 661 to 663 feet (open hole) Stimulation: Natural Initial Potential: 72 BOD (flowing) Bottom Hole Pressure...

Influence of fault rock foliation on fault zone permeability: The case of deeply buried arkosic sandstones (Gres d'Annot, southeastern France)

Thibault Cavailhes, Jean-Pierre Sizun, Pierre Labaume, Alain Chauvet, Martine Buatier, Roger Soliva, Leila Mezri, Delphine Charpentier, Henri Leclere, Anna Trave, Claude Gout

AAPG Bulletin

... rocks are characterized by a foliated fabric and quartz-calcite sealed veins, which formation resulted from the combination of the (1) pressure solution...

Abstract: Incised Valleys an Emergent Play in the Llanos Basin Southernmost Border, by Disalvo, Alfredo; Ragazzi, Mariano D.; and Piethe, Ricardo D.; #90166 (2013)

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Petroleum Potential of the Gage Submarine Fan, Offshore Perth Basin, Western Australia from Palaeogeographic Mapping and Geological Modelling; #10826 (2016)

Megan E. Lech, Diane C. Jorgensen, Chris Southby, Liuqi Wang, Victor Nguyen, Irina Borissova, David Lescinsky

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... International Conference & Exhibition, 13-16 September 2015 Isochore thickness of reservoir & effective seal top reservoir top effective seal AAPG | SEG...

Late Quaternary Slip Rates on the Oak Ridge Fault, Transverse Ranges, California: Implications for Seismic Risk

Robert S. Yeats

Pacific Section of AAPG

... uncertainty being the age of the top of the Saugus. Displacement of 2460 m of the top of the Saugus at South Mountain includes piercing-point displacement...

Induced and Natural Fractures in Shales - A Geomechanical Perspective; #40849 (2011)

Gary D. Couples

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..., United Kingdom ([email protected]) Abstract Shales can serve as pressure barriers in basins, as top seals, and as reservoirs in shale gas plays...

An innovative laboratory-testing protocol to investigate oil production due to primary depletion and huff-n-puff miscible gas injection from an ultra-tight reservoir rock sample

Le Van Si, Mahdi Khishvand, Keerti Sharma, Mohammad Piri, Morteza Akbarabadi, Nagi Nagarajan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... primary depletion and gas injection steps to investigate the potential for oil recovery. Figure 5: (Top) Changes in pore pressure during the primary...

ABSTRACT: Regional Present-Day Minimum Horizontal Stress Profile of the North Sea and Top Seal Integrity, by Younes, Amgad I.; #90026 (2004)

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Diffusion of Fluids Through Porous Media with Implications in Petroleum Geology

G. N. Pandey , M. Rasin Tek , Donald L. Katz

AAPG Bulletin

... for increased threshold-displacement pressure for nitrogen displacing water from the rock. These correlations verify that parameters which indicate...

The Role of Pressure, Temperature, Salinity, Lithology, and Structure in Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Constance Bayou, Deep Lake, and Southeast Little Pecan Lake Fields, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Frank W. Harrison, III

GCAGS Transactions

... are considered to be located in a "high" fluid-pressure area; an area in which hard geopressure occurs at a high elevation. Wells in which the top of the 0.7 ratio...

Production Geology of North Rankin Gas Field

E. J. Harris

AAPG Special Volumes

... a large horst block composed mainly of well-developed, clastic reservoir rocks, enveloped in a younger, predominantly nonreservoir sequence. The top...

Abstract: Advance Mechanisms of Allochthonous Salt Sheets: Implications for Predicting Subsalt Pore Pressure, by Michael R. Hudec; #90064 (2007).

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Overpressure compartments in the central paleo-uplift, Sichuan Basin, southwest China

Yifeng Liu, Nansheng Qiu, Zengye Xie, Qianying Yao, and Chuanqing Zhu

AAPG Bulletin

..., doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.01.012. Deming, D., 1994, Factors necessary to define a pressure seal: AAPG Bulletin, v. 78, no. 6, p. 1005–1009...

Volumetric effects of decompression following natural hydraulic fracturing in shale during expulsion of hydrocarbons: The case of the Baltic Basin (northern Poland)

Marek Jarosiński, Kinga Bobek, and Paweł Poprawa

AAPG Bulletin

... and the top of the fracture zone; ΔPP-fr = maximum pore pressure drop; ΔSh = the value of Sh between the top and the bottom of the fracture zone; PFr...

Review of Geological Storage Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Victoria

C. M. Gibson-Poole, S. Edwards, R. P. Langford, B. Vakarelov

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... %) are trapped in structural closures formed in the coarse clastics at the top of the Latrobe Group, beneath the Lakes Entrance Formation regional seal...

Optimizing Well Placement Strategy in a Giant Fractured Basement Gas Reservoir through Integrated Subsurface Analysis. A Case Study of the Suban Field

Jamal Alaydrus, Safitri Nurida, Hani Mohede

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... faulted and fractured, whereas the overlying ductile shales were only folded. The brittle rocks broke, the ductile rocks of the top seal just bent. From...

Field Study of Application and Results of Sodium Silicate Treatments in Combating Lost Circulation in Geothermal Wells

Zainal Ilmie B., Tanda Tampubolon, Suroso, Udin Daryono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... pressure and hydrostatic head. The addition of lost circulation materials (LCM) to the drilling fluid can sometimes correct the problem...

Trekulu-1: The Successful Drilling of an Untested HPHT Play in the Mahakam Area

Jacques-Antoine Dal, Jerome Guyon, Baginda Saragih, Marc-Olivier Spencer, Jocelyn Dufour, Nabiel Oemar, Mukhlis Taufik, Andre Wiharja, Aubin Lecomte, Sylvain Josserand

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be equal to the fracturation pressure at the apex and thus, the top seal may be currently leaking by hydrofracturation at well location. points...

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Hogback Ridge Field, Crawford Thrust Plate, Utah

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