Integration of Rock Physics Modelling to Improve Pore Pressure Prediction in Unconventional Shales

Jakob Heller, Venkatesh Anantharamu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The seal efficiency of low-permeability, fine-grained units may be enhanced by diagenetic cementation. Magnitude of overpressure from fluid expansion...

A surprising asymmetric paleothermal anomaly around El Gordo diapir, La Popa Basin, Mexico

Andrew D. Hanson

AAPG Bulletin

...(1980)8<82:PSAPOS>2.0.CO;2.Downey, M. W., 1994, Hydrocarbon seal rocks, in L. B. Magoon, and W. G. Dow, eds., The petroleum systemFrom Source to trap...

Measuring and modeling fault density for CO2 storage plume-fault encounter probability estimation

Preston D. Jordan, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Jean-Philippe Nicot

AAPG Bulletin

...Measuring and modeling fault density for CO2 storage plume-fault encounter probability estimation Preston D. Jordan, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Jean...

Statewide assessment of CO2 storage resources for the lower Paleozoic strata, Oklahoma: Simpson Group, Viola Limestone and Hunton Group

Anna M. Turnini, and Matthew J. Pranter

AAPG Bulletin

... and Simpson Group and lie above the Arbuckle Group. The Silurian–Devonian-age Hunton Group lies directly above the Sylvan Shale, a hydrocarbon seal...

Overpressures in the Taranaki Basin: Distribution, causes, and implications for exploration

Mark Webster, Stephen O'Connor, Bitrus Pindar, Richard Swarbrick

AAPG Bulletin

... combination of a top shale seal overlying a regional sequence boundary, lithologic barriers within fault compartments, fault planes, and subcropping...

Buried rift basin under the Kalpin fold-thrust belt in the northwestern Tarim Basin: Implications for deep oil and gas exploration

Cheng Zhong, Tongsheng Zeng, Chengzao Jia, Guoqi Wei, Dong Jia, Yongjin Zhu, Hongwei Yin, Zhuxin Chen, Xing Wang, and Yong Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... in the top seal (e.g., the middle Cambrian), they could represent potential hydrocarbon-bearing structural traps and could provide attractive exploration...

Garden Banks 625 #1

Mark T. Sunwall

Houston Geological Society

... levels within the trap. Oil saturated seafloor piston cores indicated a good chance for high GOR oil as the most likely hydrocarbon phase. Top seal...

The Use of the Petroleum System Approach in Exploration of the Southwest China Sea: An Example from the Vung May Basin

C. S. Kenyon

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... Basin: Play Type 7(a) (Oligocene-) Miocene to Pliocene pinnacle reefs developed on subsiding basin-centre inverted highs. Lateral and top seal from time...

Lithologic, mineralogical, and petrophysical characteristics of the Eau Claire Formation: Complexities of a carbon storage system seal

Ryan J. Neufelder, Brenda B. Bowen, Richard W. Lahann, John A. Rupp

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...Lithologic, mineralogical, and petrophysical characteristics of the Eau Claire Formation: Complexities of a carbon storage system seal Ryan J...

Strategy for Capturing the Hydrocarbon Volume Uncertainty in Case of Few Wells

Tan Chun Hock, Lothar Schulte

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... challenges are discussed in the following: how to get a reliable hydrocarbon volume estimation?; and: how to get a reliable estimation of the hydrocarbon...

Abstract: Criteria to Determine Borehole Formation Temperatures for Calibration of Basin and Petroleum System Models, by K. E. Peters and P. A. Nelson; #90091 (2009)

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Characterization of Thinly Bedded Units and 3D Static Model Open Reserves in Sabiriyah Field Middle Burgan Reservoir, North Kuwait; #20289 (2014)

Sabry Abd El-Aziz, Mariam Taqi, Saleh Al-Rashdan, Saleh Al-Rasheedi

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.... The study helped in understanding the reservoir heterogeneity and reduced the uncertainty in the identification of sand. With this more accurate estimation...

Hydrodynamics and Overpressuring in the Jeanne D'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada: Possible Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

A. L. Rogers, N. A. Yassir

CSPG Bulletin

... in this zone, directed toward open faults. Several of the open faults occur very close to the top of overpressuring and suggest a relationship between...

Fracture Development and Mechanical Stratigraphy of Austin Chalk, Texas

Kevin Corbett , Melvin Friedman , John Spang

AAPG Bulletin

... to the top of the Santonian Stage (Pessagno, 1967, 1969; Bukry, 1969). The stratigraphy of the Austin Chalk has been comprehensively studied by Durham...

Design and Construction of a Compaction Cell for Studying Sediment Diagenesis at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Kenneth R. Applin, David W. Houseknecht, Brian D. Hicks

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-ring seal and at the top of the cylinder with a rubber O-ring seal. In additi n to sealing the water jacket, the upper U-ring seal also serves...

A Devonian hydrothermal chert reservoir: the 225 bcf Parkland field, British Columbia, Canada

Jeffrey J. Packard, Ihsan Al-Aasm, Iain Samson, Zeev Berger, Jim Davies

AAPG Bulletin

... across the bounding faults. Lateral seals for individual pools are provided by diagenetic pinch-out into tight limestone of the host Wabamun. Top seal...

Rock-Eval Pyrolysis Data Analysis and Kerogen Kinetics Comparison of Selected Producing and Potential Shale Gas Plays in Canadian Sedimentary Basins; #80557 (2016)

Zhuoheng Chen, Chunqing Jiang, Denis Lavoie

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... • Summary Introduction • Resource play: source rock = reservoir = trap = top seal Source rock evaluation becomes the most important part in a resource play...

Magnitude, mechanisms, and prediction of abnormal pore pressure using well data in the Krishna–Godavari Basin, east coast of India

Sumangal Dasgupta, Rima Chatterjee, and Sarada Prasad Mohanty

AAPG Bulletin

... such as weakness in faults (Tobin and Saffer, 2009), mud volcano (Tingay et al., 2009b), migration of hydrocarbon, top-seal integrity, hydrocarbon column...

Experimental Investigation of Fluid Thermal Effects on Fracture Brittleness

Alireza RezaGholilou, Hossien Salemi, Nathan Tarom, Pouria Behnoudfar, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... (Gholilou et al. 2017; Feng et al. 2018a; Feng et al. 2018b; Behnoudfar et al. 2019). Formation brittleness or ductility is also another factor which...

Reservoir properties estimation using MAZ towed multisensor streamer seismic: A Norwegian case study

Cyrille Reiser, Roberto Ruiz

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Reservoir properties estimation using MAZ towed multisensor streamer seismic: A Norwegian case study Cyrille Reiser, Roberto Ruiz Reservoir...

Diagenesis and sealing capacity of the middle Tuscaloosa mudstone at the Cranfield carbon dioxide injection site, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Jiemin Lu, Kitty Milliken, Robert M. Reed, Susan Hovorka

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... Meeting Abstracts, v. 41, p. 438.Ingram, G. M., J. L.Urai, and M. A. Naylor, 1997, Sealing processes and top seal assessment, in P. Moller-Peterson...

Abstracts: Revisiting Homomorphic Wavelet Estimation and Phase Unwrapping; #90173 (2015)

Roberto H. Herrera and Mirko van der Baan

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...Abstracts: Revisiting Homomorphic Wavelet Estimation and Phase Unwrapping; #90173 (2015) Roberto H. Herrera and Mirko van der Baan AAPG Search...

Hydrocarbon occurrences in the western Anatolian (Aegean) grabens, Turkey: Is there a working petroleum system?

N. Bozkurt Ciftci, R. Ozgur Temel, Y. Haluk Iztan

AAPG Bulletin

..., fracturing may improve their reservoir rock parameters.No regionally consistent top seal in the western Anatolia exists because of the nature...

First Order Sealing and Hydrocarbon Migration Processes, Gippsland Basin, Australia: Implications for CO2 Geosequestration

G. W. O'Brien, P. R. Tingate, L. M. Goldie Divko, M. L. Harrison, C. J. Boreham, K. Liu, N. Arian, P. Skladzien

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... Onshore, the top-seal is relatively thick and offers good containment within the Lake Wellington and Seaspray depressions. However, outside...

Characterization and Modeling of the Broom Creek Formation for Potential Storage of CO2 from Coal-Fired Power Plants in North Dakota, by James A. Sorensen, Terry P. Bailey, Anastasia A. Dobroskok, Charles D. Gorecki, Steven A. Smith, David W. Fisher, Wesley D. Peck, Edward N. Steadman; #80046 (2009).

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