Integration of Gas Chimney Processing and Fault Stress Analysis to Evaluate Top Seal Integrity in the Gippsland Basin, Australia

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The Effect of Oil Saturation on the Mechanism of Compaction in Granular Materials: Higher Oil Saturations Lead to More Grain Fracturing and Less Pressure Solution

Shanvas Sathar, Richard H. Worden, Daniel R. Faulkner, P. Craig Smalley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of variable brine–oil mixtures. Each experiment, at 500 kPa effective stress, lasted 48 hours and involved repeated measurements of volumetric strain...

Abstract: Seal Character and Sequence Stratigraphy of Marine Shales in Gulf Coast-Style Basins, by W. C. Dawson and W. R. Almon; #90924 (1999).

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Seismic Meta-Attributes as a Practical Exploration Tool: Gas Chimney and Fault Volumes, by Fred Aminzadeh and David Connolly, #400101 (2003).

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Salt-driven evolution of a gas hydrate reservoir in Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Alexey Portnov, Ann E. Cook, Mahdi Heidari, Derek E. Sawyer, Manasij Santra, and Maria Nikolinakou

AAPG Bulletin

... to continuously increase and reaches approximately 42°C/km (∼12.9°C/1000 ft) just above the top of the salt. The plane strain model shows a very similar...

Structural Restoration of the Jurassic Section at Kra Al-Maru and Riksah Structures, West Kuwait; #51031 (2014)

Aimen Amer, Hanan Salem, Talal Al Adwani, Meshal Al Wadi, Abdulaziz Sajer, Bhaskar Chakrabarti

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... at the cross section top. Well C is drilled over a high strain area and has more fractures then Well B. Riksah structure has a higher strain level. Two...

The impact of fault envelope structure on fluid flow: A screening study using fault facies

Muhammad Fachri, Jan Tveranger, Nestor Cardozo, Oystein Pettersen

AAPG Bulletin

..., and S. Schueller, 2008, A methodology for efficiently populating corner point grids with strain: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 14, p. 205216, doi...

Quantitative Assessment of Regional Siliciclastic Top-Seal Potential: a new application of proven technology in frontier and maturing South American basins

J. A. Deckelman, S. Lou, P. S. D’onfro, R. W. Lahann

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

...Quantitative Assessment of Regional Siliciclastic Top-Seal Potential: a new application of proven technology in frontier and maturing South American...

Multiuse of Seismic and Attribute Mapping for Field Appraisal and Development in the Eagle Ford Shale: Mapping TOC, Porosity and Seal Integrity

Hector D. Bello, Gervasio Barzola, Doug Portis, Beau Tinnin, Michael Handke, Kit Clemons

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Multiuse of Seismic and Attribute Mapping for Field Appraisal and Development in the Eagle Ford Shale: Mapping TOC, Porosity and Seal Integrity...

Determining Static Elastic Anisotropy in Shales from Sidewall Cores: Impact on Stress Prediction and Hydraulic Fracture Modeling

Brian Crawford, Yueming Liang, Philippe Gaillot, Kelvin Amalokwu, Xianyun Wu, Robert Valdez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... geological applications including top seal storage and integrity assessment. URTeC 2206 2 Introduction Energy is essential for human development...

Abstract: Trap and Seal Analysis — Concepts and Mexican Examples

Marco A. Arreguin-Lopez, Raymundo Sanchez-Rivera, Edmundo Heredia-Cervantes, Susan Hippler

GCAGS Transactions

... is a faulted anticline with a conformable seismic amplitude anomaly. The methodology shows that it has not reached the top seal capacity and the trap should...

Lateral Seals of Small Stratigraphic Traps in Cretaceous Rocks, Western Nebraska: ABSTRACT

John C. Harms

AAPG Bulletin

... with clay shale, providing a top seal. The lateral seal can be visualized as a maze of pipes and capillaries through which the oil phase finds its way...

Characteristics of Displacement Transfer Zones Associated with Thrust Faults

F.X. O'Keefe, David W. Stearns

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... on the top and sides of all models before deformation and serve as strain indicators. The thrust faults involved in a transfer zone were simulated...

Hydromechanical modeling of critically stressed and faulted reservoirs

Xing Zhang, Nick Koutsabeloulis, Kes Heffer

AAPG Bulletin

..., volumetric and shear strain changes, induced deformation evolution, and permeability changes. With a permeability enhancement model, permeability increase...

Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 1Uncoupled models

Gang Luo, Maria A. Nikolinakou, Peter B. Flemings, Michael R. Hudec

AAPG Bulletin

... Paper 84554, 14 p.Fredrich, J. T., B. P. Engler, J. A. Smith, E. C. Onyia, and D. N. Tolman, 2007, Predrill estimation of subsalt fracture gradient...

ABSTRACT: Differential Exhumation and the Structural Evolution of the Northern Oman Mountains; #90051 (2006)

Mohammed AL-Wardi, R.W.H Butler

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... coeval and both were influenced by pre -existing NNE-SSW trending basement structures. In Saih Hatat syn-exhumation shears ware directed top NNE...

Differential Exhumation and the Structural Evolution of the Northern Oman Mountains

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Structural Interpretation of Hydrocarbon Traps Sealed by Basement Normal Block Faults at Stable Flank of Foredeep Basins and at Rift Basins

T. P. Harding, A. C. Tuminas

AAPG Bulletin

... by the high capillary pressure of the top seal bed at the fault (Downey, 1984). The presence of a buoyant column of hydrocarbon beneath a faulted top...

Fitting Deterministic Arcuate Map View/Sigmoidal Cross Section Surfaces to IHS Beds in Fluvial Point Bars; #51065 (2015)

Gregory S. Benson

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...’s scour base nor to the overlying seal beds. In general, the upper point bar bed geometry is sigmoidal in cross section and arcuate in map view. This shape...

The Implementation of Underground CO2 Sequestration: Analysis of Caprock Leakage on the Todilto Shale of San Juan Basin

Irma Primasari, William Ampomah, Her Yuan Chen, Jiawei Tu, Dung Bui, Dana Ulmer-Scholle, Shaoping Chu

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

... to evaluate the impact of the increasing pressure that is possible to cause a leak from the top seal and hypothetical leakage from the activated fault. As part...

A kinematic trishear model to predict deformation bands in a fault-propagation fold, East Kaibab monocline, Utah

J. P. Brandenburg, Faruk Omer Alpak, John G. Solum, Steve J. Naruk

AAPG Bulletin

... monocline in southern Utah. A kinematic trishear analysis is compared with field-based strain measurements. We find that the widespread dense deformation...

Methodology for risking fault seal capacity: Implications of fault zone architecture

Roald B. Farseth, Eivind Johnsen, Susanne Sperrevik

AAPG Bulletin

... approach to fault and top seal appraisal; Pyrenees-Macedon oil and gas fields, Exmouth Sub-basin, Australian Northwest Shelf: Marine and Petroleum Geology...

Stress vs. Strain Understandings and Misconceptions in their Application to Hydraulic Fracturing; #80261 (2012)

Randy Koepsell

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...Stress vs. Strain Understandings and Misconceptions in their Application to Hydraulic Fracturing; #80261 (2012) Randy Koepsell Stress vs. Strain...

P-Wave Azimuthal Anisotropy and Its Application in Sandstone-Conglomeratic in Yani Oil Field

Zha Chaoyang, Shen Shuirong, Hairunnisa, Xia Tianfang

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by the variation of lithology in the fan and the fault system or strain variation of tectonic. Fracture analysis shows that high fracture density...

A geologic deconstruction of one of the world's largest natural accumulations of CO2, Moxa arch, southwestern Wyoming

Thomas P. Becker, Ranie Lynds

AAPG Bulletin

....egypro.2011.02.426.Corcoran, D. V., and A. G. Dore, 1994, Top seal assessment in exhumed basin settingsSome insights from Atlantic margin and borderland basins...