Turning dry holes from disasters to exploration wisdom: Decision tree to determine the key failure mode for segments in conventional petroleum prospects

Alexei V. Milkov, and Jack M. Samis

AAPG Bulletin

...) and failure (C, D) for top seal. Green dots in (C) and (D) indicate the presence of petroleum shows and oil or gas anomalies, suggesting...

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...

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

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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)

... seal quality Good seal quality Top Paleocene Top Cretaceous Basement Top Eocene Good seal quality Reservoir facies Seal quality Boundary between...

Improving Petroleum System Identification in an Offshore Salt Environment: Gulf of Mexico and Red Sea Case Studies; #41607 (2015)

Rick Schrynemeeckers

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... and the horizontal blue line on top of it represents the seal. The thick gray vertical line next to the reservoir represents a fault. We are all familiar...

Hydrocarbon Columns, Buoyancy Pressures, and Seal Efficiency: Comparisons of Oil and Gas Accumulations in California and the Rocky Mountain Area (1)

Donald L. Zieglar

AAPG Bulletin

..., with the thickness of the seal being the interval of nonreservoir from the top of a producing zone to the next shallower reservoir zone. On a self...

Do-It-Yourself Gravel Pack Application in Tarakan, Indonesia

Alexis Ariwibowo, Muchammad Rizal Alfaqih

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and installed on top of cross over (inside blank pipe). This seal bore & seal stinger assembly is critical to ensure the gravel slurry could flow from...

Discrimination of Oil-Gas-Water Bearing Complexes as a Basis for Predicting Oil-Gas Potential in the Example of the Platformal Parts of Turkmenistan

Ya. A. Khodzhakuliyev, L. A. Abukova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of Turkmenistan. The lower Turonian seal is at relatively shallow depths at -1200 m on the Central Kara Kum high to-1600 m on the Bakhardok monocline and deeper...

Abstract: Downthrown Trap Infill Analysis, Case Study from Melut Basin Sudan, by Izzeldin Z. Abdelrahim; #90105 (2010)

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Frac Hit Prevention and Engineered Treatment Design in the Permian Basin Using In-Situ Stress from 3D Seismic

Michael Shoemaker, James Hawkins, John Becher, Veronica Gonzales, Sandeep Mukherjee, Reza Garmeh, David Kuntz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... geometry estimation and effective hydraulic fracture treatment design that accounts for far field virgin subsurface variability. Closure Stress Scalar...

Vaca Muerta Shale Reservoir Characterization and Description: The Starting Point for Development of a Shale Play with Very Good Possibilities for a Successful Project

Mariano N. Garcia, Federico Sorenson, Juan Carlos Bonapace, Fabio Motta, Christian Bajuk, Hernan Stockman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... or Gr. Lotena (at basin’s northern location) or even directly on top of Gr. Cuyo (at the Huincul arch area). The Vaca Muerta formation thickens from...

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...

Compartmentation in the Anadarko Basin: Implications for Exploration and Production: Abstract

Z. Al-Shaieb

Tulsa Geological Society

... is enclosed by top, bottom, and lateral seals. The top seal, which is located between 8500 and 11,000 ft below the surface, is relatively horizontal, dips...

Abstract: Compartmentation in the Anadarko Basin: Implications for Exploration and Production, by Z. AL-Shaieb; #90957 (1995).

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ABSTRACT: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF CO2 INJECTION STRATEGIES IN SALINE AQUIFERS; #90114 (2010)

Mojdeh Delshad, Xianhui Kong, and Mary Fanett Wheeler

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... to top seal. Application There is an overwhelming evidence of increased level of green house gases such as CO2 in atmosphere with an urgent need...

Using Simple Loading Models to Predicted Crestal Pore Pressures in Miocene Carbonate Exploration Targets, Luconia, Sarawak

Jakob Heller, Don Basuki, Matthew Choo, Stephen O ‘Connor, Richard Swarbrick

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in basins such as North Lombok and Central Luconia, Sarawak. One of the key risks associated with these traps is that of mechanical seal failure, whereby...

Diagenetic Capping of Carbonate Reservoir Facies: ABSTRACT

Robin G. Lighty

AAPG Bulletin

... zone of low permeability within a carbonate unit that may act as a diagenetic seal over potential reservoir facies. Although the process of submarine...

Review Of West Sea Horse Field (Gippsland Basin) Using Quantitative Stochastic Trap Analysis for Stacked Pay

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ABSTRACT: Hydrocarbon Entrapment Mechanics in the Eastern Mediterranean Nile Delta Cone: Consequences of an Overpressured Environment; #90051 (2006)

Mohamed Nashaat

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... process to maintain constant pressure magnitude and subsequently constant hydrocarbon column at the top reservoir. Leakage of natural gas from traps...

ABSTRACT: Fault Seal Analysis, a Tool to Reduce the Exploration and Development Risks, a Case Study from Middle Indus Basin; #90120 (2011)

Farrukh Daud, Attique-ur Rehman, Gulzeb Nabi Khan, and Asad Ilyas

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... of the early Cretaceous, Lower Goru formation which are sourced by the Sembar shales and the top seal is provided by the intraformational shales...

Pressure Stratigraphy in Deep Marine Sediments, by Kenneth E. Williams and Martin D. Matthews; #90052 (2006)

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Relating shale thickness to seal potential

Justin Palmer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... shale as a primary top seal for good reasons not limited to 1) less likely to breach by fractures or faults, 2) more likely to contain very tight...

Fault-Seal Analysis in Minas Field Area-1, Central Sumatra Basin

Yohanes Bosko C. Indrarto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Fault-Seal Analysis in Minas Field Area-1, Central Sumatra Basin Yohanes Bosko C. Indrarto IPA14-G-214 PROCEEDINGS, INDONESIAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION...

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

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... been found that fracture geometry faithfully depicts the stress regime that dominated the fracturing process. The rock facies and ductility control...

Reservoir flow modelling to constrain CO2 plume-fault interaction. South West Hub Carbon Capture and Storage Project, WA

Laurent Langhi, Ludovic Ricard, Julian Strand

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... with a plume reaching the interface between the top of the proposed injection unit and a secondary containment unit. The conceptual fault hydrodynamic models...