Mapping Deformed Salt and Associated Non-salt Sediments

New Orleans Geological Society

... compact gouges). The magnitude of pressure at the top of the hydrocarbon column also plays a role in evaluating a fault seal, inasmuch as the fault may...

A New Insight on the Mechanism of Salt Wall Collapse in Northeastern Paradox Basin, Utah, #10837 (2016).

Mohammad Naqi, Bruce Trudgill, Charles Kluth

Search and Discovery.com

... that formed in the crestal area of the salt anticline. The graben system has a maximum displacement in the NW end and decreases toward the central part...

THIN-SKINNED NORMAL FAULTS IN DEERLICK CREEK COALBED-METHANE FIELD, BLACK WARRIOR BASIN, ALABAMA

Saiwei Wang, Richard H. Groshong. Jr., Jack C. Pashin

Alabama Geological Society

... down-to-basin half grabens and one full graben. These faults postdate the Pottsville Formation in the study area and are presumably pre-Cretaceous...

An Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Clastic Facies of the Lower Cretaceous Sligo Formation, Eastern U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain

Colin A. Doolan, Alexander W. Karlsen

GCAGS Transactions

... salt anticlines in the central part of the basin (Montgomery and Ericksen, 1997). Oakvale Field is an example of a field associated with a high-relief...

Overpressured Reservoirs: A New Generation of Exploration Opportunities

Richard E. Swarbrick

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... not been assessed prior to entry into the reservoir. Lateral transfer may also raise pore pressures to the fracture pressure, leading to seal...

Geo-Fluid-Dynamic Aspects of Oil-Gas Accumulation in Sub-Salt Sediments of Central Siberian Craton

M. S. Kraychik, O. A. Baboshina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Geo-Fluid-Dynamic Aspects of Oil-Gas Accumulation in Sub-Salt Sediments of Central Siberian Craton M. S. Kraychik, O. A. Baboshina 1996 10 14 Vol. 30...

Abstract: The Mackenzie Corridor, Northern Mainland, Canada: A Comprehensive Assessment of Conventional Petroleum Potential; #90172 (2014)

Peter K. Hannigan, David W. Morrow, Bernard C. MacLean

Search and Discovery.com

... along with Mt. Cap shales, providing top and lateral seal. Trapping styles range from flower structures, and roll-over anticlines in grabens...

Experience in Use of Geochemical Methods of Exploration for Oil Fields in Eastern North Caspian

L. A. Yariyeva, Sh. Sh. Sadykov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... map of the region on the top of sub-salt carbonate unit KT-II the Zhanazhol, Kungur, Kozhasay, and Sinel’inkov structures are present in the northern...

The Rotliegend Reservoir System of the Northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany: From Outcrop Analogue Studies to Geothermal Reservoir Assessment; #80194 (2011)

Kristian Bär, Marita Felder, Annette E. Götz, Nicolaas Molenaar, and Ingo Sass

Search and Discovery.com

... vertically exaggerated. c b Depth to top reservoir [m a.s.l.] Temperature [ °C] Figure 8. (left) Top view of the northern Upper Rhine Graben showing...

Geology and Tectonic Evolution of Fore-Arc Basins: Implications of Future Hydrocarbon Potential in the Western Indonesia

Benyamin Sapiie, Ferry Yulian, Jesica Chandra, Awang H. Satyana, Dessy Dharmayanti, Asep H. Rustam, Ian Deighton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... was developed as forearc basin since Early Miocene. However, numerous evidence of pre-Miocene graben fill was explored in the new 2D seismic data...

Buried-hill play, Jizhong subbasin, Bohai Bay basin: A review and future prospectivity

Xianzheng Zhao, Fengming Jin, Quan Wang, and Guoping Bai

AAPG Bulletin

... and resurrected hills of central Ozarks: AAPG Bulletin, v. 16, no. 7, p. 629–652.Du, J., W. Zou, B. Fei, H. Lei, F. Zhang, and Y. Zhang, 2002, Buried hill oil...

Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Punta Del Este Basin, Offshore Uruguay, South America (1)

F. A. STOAKES , C. V. CAMPBELL , R. CASS , and N. UCHA

AAPG Bulletin

... symmetrically around a central basement high. Lack of top seal and source are the two potential exploration risks. Source risk may be overcome only...

A New Exploration Method for Buried-Hill Oil Fields, The Liaohe Depression, China

Zheng Changming

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... hill with a high rate of oil production in the Damintun Depression. Well Sheng 11 in the Dongshengpu granite buried hill oil field, for example...

A Comprehensive Well Look-Back; Analyzing Three Years Worth of Drilling, Completing and Producing Eagle Ford Wells in Order to Understand Trend-Wide Performance Drivers and Variability

Douglas H. Portis, Hector Bello, Mark Murray, Bailo Suliman, Gervasio Barzola, Neil Basu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... can be used to describe the entire trend. For example, TOC is the primary performance driver for our strongest wells; whereas poorest performing wells...

The Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Canadian Sedimentary Basins — A Synthesis

R. G. McCrossan, J. W. Porter

CSPG Special Publications

... be the key to productive areas. — preservation: The effects of intense tectonic activity are often destructive through the loss of top seal...

Recommendations for a uniform chronostratigraphic designation system for Phanerozoic depositional sequences

John W. Snedden, Chengjie Liu

AAPG Bulletin

... uncertainty in determination of reservoir, source, and seal rock occurrence (Liu et al., 2006; Snedden and Sarg, 2008). For example, our work has...

Giant Fields of Indonesia: Play Types, Geologic Factors, and Prospectivities of Future Giant Fields

Awang Harun Satyana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... shales of the Echuca Shoals Formation, provide the primary side-seal and top seal (Nagura et al., 2003). Play Type: Pre-Cenozoic Fractured Basement...

Deep-Sea Basins in Indonesia

L. Witoelar Kartaadiputra, Zainal Ahmad, Andre Reymond

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...: Government Printing Office, The Hague. BOLLIGER, W., & de RUITER, P.A.C., 1975, Geology of the South Central Java offshore area: Proc. Indonesia Petrol...

Structure and genesis of the Boulder-Weld allochthon, Denver Basin, Colorado – Gravity slide or Laramide thrust sheet?

Edward J. Ned Sterne

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... by high-pressure, methane-saturated brines in the Ordovician Bald Eagle Formation of central Pennsylvania. He cites an example of a gas reservoir...

Compressibility and Brine Permeability of Reservoir and Seal of Pore Space Gas Storages; #42510 (2020)

Carlo Dietl, Jennifer Szech, Hansjörg Baumgartner, Eberhard Jahns

Search and Discovery.com

... procedure. Inlays: top left: typical reservoir sandstone plug, top right: typical seal marlstone specimen. 4. Conclusions Compressibility tests...

Well Design and Successful Field Installation of Openhole Sand Control Completions with Acid Stimulation in a Highly Deviated Well in Vietnam

Hung Vu, Son Tran, Trang Nguyen, Bharathwaj Kannan, Khoa Tran, Thong Nguyen

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... inside the completion string to locate the seal assemblies accurately at the corresponding seal bore extension positions for effective acidizing treatment...

Abstract: An Integrated Sedimentological, Geochemical and Rock Mechanical Facies Classification for the Evaporite Facies of the Hith and Arab Formation (Saudi Arabia) - Implications for Seal Integrity; #91209 (2025)

Nicolas Boehm, Mohammed Aldossary, Juan Andrade Marquez, Maria Camila Sierra Hernandez, Yuriy Kaprielov, Frans van Buchem, Thomas Finkbeiner

Search and Discovery.com

... signature and rock strength values contribute to an integrated evaluation of seal capacity. The top half of the core is comprised of the lower...

Fracture Systems of the Austin Chalk, North-Central Texas

Edward W. Collins, Susan D. Hovorka, Stephen E. Laubach

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...Fracture Systems of the Austin Chalk, North-Central Texas Edward W. Collins, Susan D. Hovorka, Stephen E. Laubach Geological Studies Relevant...

Prospect of hydrocarbon associated with fossil-rift structures of the southern Indus basin, Pakistan

Nayyer Alam Zaigham, Khalil Ahmad Mallick

AAPG Bulletin

... with respect to the central graben segment. In general, the depths of these inferred rift segments are estimated as >5 km for southern, >9 km for central...

A geological assessment of the carbon storage potential of structural closures in the East Midlands shelf, United Kingdom Southern North Sea

I. de Jonge-Anderson, A. D. Hollinsworth, J. R. Underhill, and R. J. Jamieson

AAPG Bulletin

... compartmentalization. The suprasalt closure is substantially larger but poses a greater containment risk due to pervasive faulting within the top seal...