Geologic Interpretation and Assessment of Early Cretaceous Shale Oil and Gas Potential in Austral Basin, Santa Cruz, Argentina

H. Belotti, F. Pagan, A. Perez Mazas, M. Agüera, J. Rodriguez, J. Porras, G. Köhler, G. Weiner, G. Conforto, M. Cagnolatti

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Above and in depositional transition, the Albian Middle Palermo Aike is composed by calcareous mudstone that seems to be a regional seal, Figure 14b...

Stratigraphic-Unconformity Trapping, Anomalous Pressure and Temperature, Keys to Prolific Production in the Muddy Sandstone at Amos-Elk Draw Fields, Powder River Basin, WY

Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of gas (cum 2024; production since 1974 Drilling Information/Enverus). URTeC 4253208 3 Figure 1. Structure contour map on top of Muddy Formation...

Conoco Indonesia, Farmouts for 2001, Presented at SEAPEX 2001

Conoco Indonesia Exploration Staff

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of the Arang Formation and the Muda Formation provide top seal for the Upper Gabus reservoirs. Additional intraformational seals such as the Brown Shale...

Reservoir Characteristics of the Smackover Formation at the Little Cedar Creek Field, Conecuh County, Alabama

Ezat Heydari, Lawrence R. Baria

GCAGS Transactions

... aragonitic grains. Unlike virtually all other Smackover fields in the Eastern Gulf, Little Cedar Creek does not possess a Buckner Anhydrite top seal...

Geology and Oil-Gas Prospects of the Riphean Sedimentary Basins of the Siberian Craton

K. A. Savinskiy, G. P. Filippova, V. V. Zabaluyev, K. Ye. Veselov, V. S. Volkhonin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... craton; 2-outcrops of Riphean rocks; 3-structure contours on top of Riphean, m; 4-basement at surface; 5-areas with no Riphean rocks; 6-faults...

ABSTRACT: Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Quality Prediction in the Ahnet-Timimoun Basin, Central Sahara, South-west, Algeria; #90016 (2003)

DAOUDI, Mohamed

Search and Discovery.com

... contains mainly transgressive to highstand sediments. The transgressive to highstand shales provide the best regional top seal for the Lower Devonian...

CO2 Storage Capacity Below Structural Spill Point in the Utsira Formation, #80091 (2010)

Christian Hermanrud, Hege Nordgård Bolås, Hilde Hansen, Ola Eiken, Jon Lippard, Gunn M. Grimsmo Teige

Search and Discovery.com

... strategy § Risk acceptance The Utsira Formation in the Sleipner area West East 0 0 Upper Seal 100 200 Middle Seal 300 (m) 10 km 1000 Utsira...

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Subsurface Modeling for Risk Identification

Monzurul Alam, Assef Mohamad-Hussein, Qinglai Ni, Ngurah Beni Setiawan, Bayu Wisnubroto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... towards the top of the storage reservoir. To prevent this, a confining layer, also known as a caprock, is necessary to prevent vertical migration...

Faulting Associated with Deep-Seated Salt Domes in the Northeast Portion of the Mississippi Salt Basin

Dudley J. Hughes

GCAGS Transactions

... do not. By comparing a gravity anomaly lacking subsurface well control with a nearby anomaly which has good well control, an estimation...

Why Look in Deepwater When Elephants Prefer the Shallows? The Biliton Basin Revisited

Chris Atkinson, Mike Renolds, Alan Clarke, Sonny Sampurno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., and North Arjuna Basin illustrating pronounced angular unconformity which typifies the top of the Syn-Rift I interval. Renewed rifting and reactivation...

Investigating the impacts of reservoir pressure increase on hydrocarbon fill-to-spill using PVT models: A case study of the Brent field, North Sea

Michael Cheng, Zhiyong He

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... height is attributed to gas leakage through the top seal and gas shrinkage as reservoir pressure increased. Additionally, the tallest oil column...

Seal bypass systems

Joe Cartwright, Mads Huuse, Andrew Aplin

AAPG Bulletin

... geology of NW Europe: Proceedings of the 6th Conference, Geological Society, London, p. 15771594.Ingram, G. M., and J. L. Urai, 1999, Top seal leakage...

Listric Normal Faults: An Illustrated Summary

John W. Shelton

AAPG Bulletin

... overlie ductile rocks in an extensional regime. In some places the ductile section may be thin and bounded sharply at its top. Also, the extensional...

Hydrocarbon Kitchen and Migration Assessment of North Aceh Offshore Basin, North Sumatra, Indonesia from Views of Sequence Stratigraphy and Organic Geochemistry

A. Fuse, K. Tsukada, W. Kato, H. Honda, Asep Sulaeman, S. Troyer, L. Wamsteeker, Mardhan Abdullah, R. C. Davies, P. Lunt

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... preservation of algal content explains higher source-rock potential at the basinward sites. The marine Bampo represents a regional seal that controlled...

Heat Flow and Tectonic Patterns on the Southern California Borderland

T. L. Henyey

Pacific Section of AAPG

... in the continental crust and underlying mantle increased their ductility and facilitated crustal thinning, pull-apart and folding in response...

CO2-Related Diagenesis in the Tuna Field, Gippsland Basin: A Natural Analogue Study for Geosequestration

U. Schacht

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... yet potentially highly reactive partly sealing formation which in turn is overlain by a regional seal (Lake Entrance Formation)]. This configuration...

Unconventional No Longer

David Bamford

GEO ExPro Magazine

... candidate technologies. of the respected petroleum geologist Arthur Berman<1X2 ). As in 2009 and 2010, the top three for 2011 were Fracturing/ Stimulation...

Development of Storage of Captured CO2 as a New Geoscience Business—Focus on the Gulf Coast

Susan D. Hovorka, Ramón H. Treviño

GCAGS Transactions

... simulation tool for storage capacity estimation of saline aquifers: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 74, p. 142–54, ...

Origin of overpressures in shales: Constraints from basin modeling

Hege M. Nordgrd Bols, Christian Hermanrud, Gunn M. G. Teige

AAPG Bulletin

... estimation from velocity data: Accounting for overpressure mechanisms besides undercompaction: Society of Petroleum Engineers Drilling and Completion...

Upper Cretaceous in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia, South America: A New Exploratory Target in an Old Mature Basin, by Mario Prince, Rafael Acevedo, Christian Sanchez, Daniel Rojas, #10296 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

Horizontal Drilling Potential of the Middle Member Bakken Formation, North Dakota

Search and Discovery.com

Origin and charging histories of diagenetic traps in the Junggar Basin

Jianguo Pan, Guodong Wang, Yongqiang Qu, Wen Qi, Lu Yin, Duonian Xu, Tuanyu Teng, Bin Wang, Kaijun Tan, and Linjun Huang

AAPG Bulletin

... and mudstone. The critical physical property of the reservoir, based on the ratio of its average capillary radius to the ratio of its seal, is a crucial...

Multi-Attribute Seismic Wheeler Volume Workflows, Illuminating Stratigraphy, Geomorphology, and Prospectivity within a Mezardere Slope Fan Exploration Model, Thrace Basin, Turkey; #41885 (2016)

Sean Norgard, Gary Focht, Valeura Geoscience Team

Search and Discovery.com

... channel mapping has also aided structural interpretation and fault seal estimation by allowing the measurement of transverse fault movements...

Degradation of a footwall fault block with hanging-wall fault propagation in a continental-lacustrine setting: How a new structural model impacted field development plans, the Sirikit field, Thailand

Christopher K. Morley, Yarick Ionnikoff, Nantavan Pinyochon, Krongpol Seusutthiya

AAPG Bulletin

... fault-plane reflections; 3 = strong reflections from the interface between sand-prone and shale-prone sequences; TMS= top main seal; TK = top K sands; TL...

A Regional Analysis of Fault Reactivation and Seal Integrity Based on Geomechanical Modeling: An Example from the Bight Basin, Australia

S. D. Reynolds, E. Paraschivoiu, R. R. Hillis, G. W. O'Brien

AAPG Special Volumes

...A Regional Analysis of Fault Reactivation and Seal Integrity Based on Geomechanical Modeling: An Example from the Bight Basin, Australia S. D...