The Biggest Risks in Hydrocarbon Exploration That are Often Overlooked: Cases of Exploration Failures in Indonesia and The Solutions

Awang H. Satyana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Source to Trap (Memoir 60) - Magoon and Dow (editors, 1994). The petroleum system is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon-fluid system in the geosphere...

“J-1ST1” Post Well Analysis: Implications on Hydrocarbon Charge and Sedimentary Fairway Development of the West Luconia Delta

Harun Alrashid Bin Mohamad Idris, Anifadora Binti Mustapha, Noor Farinda Binti Salim, Dayang Aimi Nuraini Binti Awang Bakar, John Jong, Titus Murray

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... charged with hydrocarbons but that they had failed to trap any significant accumulations. Subsequently, a study of Fluid Inclusion Stratigraphy (FIS...

Structure, Reservoir Characterization, and Carbon Dioxide Resources of Farnham Dome Field, Carbon County, Utah

Craig D. Morgan

Utah Geological Association

... revealed the surface anticline was a shallow feature on the west flank of the broader anticline that forms the trap for the CO2. Nearly 5 billion cubic...

Abstract: 2-D Basin Modeling in the North West German Basin - Influence of Reservoir Model on Gas Distribution, by W. Leu, B. Klug, and R. Schegg; #90923 (1999)

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Abstract: Geophysical Applications … Using Geophysics for Reserves and Resources Classification and Assessment; #90187 (2014)

Marian Hanna and Tooney Fink

Search and Discovery.com

... data were used in reserves documentation to map the areal extent of the reservoir formation and the geometry and nature of the trap. However, in some...

Neural Network Application for Frontier Exploration: East/Central African Rift Example, Valentina Baranova, Azer Mustaqeem, #41278 (2014)

Francis Karanja, Danson Mburu

Search and Discovery.com

... for feasibility of vertical hydrocarbon charge and risk of vertical hydrocarbon leakage through top seal or fault systems. Method The chimney processing...

Exploring Shallow Prospects in the Iliran Basement High, South Sumatra Basin

Didit A. Firmansyah, Aziz Rifai, Sinto Yudho, Asril Kamal, R.M.I. Argakoesoemah

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... intervals are provided by intraformational Talang Akar shales, Baturaja muddy carbonate facies and Telisa shales (Figure 6). There is a risk of leakage...

Numerical modeling study of the CO2 trapping characteristics of thin-skinned fold and thrust belts: A case study of the Catawba Syncline, Virginia, U.S.A.

Lars W. Koehn, Phillip Prince, Ryan M. Pollyea

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... These structures may effectively trap CO2, reducing plume propagation and potentially benefitting projects by reducing leakage risk and decreasing the area...

Geologic Case History of Slocum Dome, Anderson County, Texas

John L. Read, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... of leakage from the deeper sands. The shallow Carrizo oil is a heavy black oil, being 19° gravity. Oil has been recovered from tests of impermeable...

3D Structural Analysis of Hydrocarbon Migration in the Vulcan Sub-Basin, Timor Sea

G. Chen, K. C. Hill, N. Hoffman

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... using both simple and detailed thermal models for hydrocarbon charge, in an area that is well known for trap leakage and breaching. Allowing...

Geoscience workflows for CO2 storage

Steve Moss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...: Implementing comprehensive and adaptive monitoring programs to detect potential leakage or unexpected behaviour, along with developing effective...

Gold (Hydrogen) Rush: Risks and Uncertainties in Exploring for Naturally Occurring Hydrogen

Linda Stalker, Asrar Talukder, Julian Strand, Matthew Josh, Mohinudeen Faiz

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... migration, enabling build-up No/limited leakage through the trap No leakage – fluid builds up over time to be retained or to experience limited leakage...

Deep-Water Kutei Basin: A New Petroleum Province

E. Guritno, L. Salvadori, M. Syaiful, I. Busono, A. Mortimer, F. B. Hakim, J. Dunham, J. Decker, S. Algar

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... sea bed). Top seal leakage across some oil and gas fields does occur. This leakage manifests itself as gas clouds above the crest of traps and along...

Is It Trap? Is It Seal? A Move Towards Consistent Risking of Stratigraphic Traps, Mark A. Sykes, J. Steve Davis, Christopher J. Vandewater, #42492 (2020).

Samuel J. Plitzuweit, S. Lance Jackson,

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...Is It Trap? Is It Seal? A Move Towards Consistent Risking of Stratigraphic Traps, Mark A. Sykes, J. Steve Davis, Christopher J. Vandewater, #42492...

Deep biogenic methane and drilling-associated gas artifacts: Influence on gas-based characterization of petroleum fluids

Dariusz Strąpoć, Benjamin Jacquet, Oscar Torres, Shahnawaz Khan, Esra Inan Villegas, Heidi Albrecht, Bruno Okoh, and Daniel McKinney

AAPG Bulletin

... of migration-mixing versus diffusion-leakage in petroleum systems, and (3) bias introduced by gases generated at the drill bit, including alkenes...

Source, Generation, Migration and Critical Controls on Oil Versus Gas in the Deepwater Kutei Petroleum System

Rui Lin, Art Saller, John Dunham, Phil Teas, Marek Kacewicz, Joe Curiale, John Decker

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reservoirs. The generation of oil and gas mostly occurred at “oil window” maturities. Migration fractionation and gas leakage, not source facies, exercised...

Visualise The Big Picture With PGS MegaSurveys

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... for the subtle trap' in order to f ind, understand and develop remaining reserves. to extract, use, and compare information from adjacent surveys...

Abstract: Development of Diagenetic Traps Along the Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways; #91204 (2023)

Ahmed Taher, Mariam Al Hammadi, Bernardo Franco, Muna Al Shuwaihi, Maria Augustina Celentano, Aurifullah Vantala

Search and Discovery.com

... migration pathways hydrocarbon accumulations. 1. Trap Mechanism Faults and diagenetic traps are the most known trap styles that can cause hydrocarbon...

WFT Data and Pressure Profile Analysis: Applications, Complexities, and Challenges

J. V. C. Howes

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... valuable and cost-effective input on issues such as residual hydrocarbons, fluid contacts, pay identification, trap geometry, seal capacity, reservoir...

Abstract: New Routes to Solutions of the WCSB Oil Charge Conundrum: γ-ray Photons and Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry; #90174 (2014)

Steve Larter, Thomas Oldenburg, Norka Marcano, Lloyd Snowdon, Jennifer Adams, Ken Chanthramonti, Andrew Stopford, Haiping Huang, Fuqin Song, Claude Laflamme, and Mike Ranger

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... petroleum and the dynamics of trap integrity, including leakage phenomena. Such constraints would allow for basin scale prospectivity estimates based...

Geochemistry of CO2 sequestration in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Colorado Plateau, Utah

W. T. Parry, Craig B. Forster, J. P. Evans, Brenda Beitler Bowen, Marjorie A. Chan

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... with respect to seal strata, and underlies many large point sources of CO2. However, faulting common on the Colorado Plateau may provide pathways for leakage...

Differential Entrapment of Oil and Gas: A Fundamental Principle

William Carruthers Gussow

AAPG Bulletin

... loaded with salt water; (4) traps filled with oil are still effective gas traps but a trap filled with gas is not an effective trap for oil; (5...

Abstract: Devillier Field, Chambers County, Texas - Effects of Growth Faults and Deltaic Sedimentation on Hydrocarbon Accumulation in a Stratigraphic Trap

Patrick T. Gordon

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Trap Patrick T. Gordon 1981 4 4...

Fill-and-spill model for trap charge, central Alberta foothills

M. F. McGroder, J. L. Watson, C. M. Keith

CSPG Special Publications

...Fill-and-spill model for trap charge, central Alberta foothills M. F. McGroder, J. L. Watson, C. M. Keith 2001 207 207...

Biogenic-Thermogenic Near-Surface Gas Anomaly Over Gingin and Bootine Gas Fields, Western Australia

M. J. Gole, C. R. M. Butt

AAPG Bulletin

... be directly above the field due to seepage through cap rocks, as halos due to leakage around the perimeter of the seal, or aligned along faults and fractures...