Petroleum Geology of the Petrel Sub-Basin, Northwestern Australia

Tun U. Maung

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... The abundance of good quality seals of Permian, Carboniferous and Devonian age, reduces the exploration risk related to seal failure. Hydrocarbon leakage...

Fault Compartmentalization in a Mature Clastic Reservoir: An Example from Elk Hills Field, California; #40907 (2012)

Alan P. Morris, Kevin Smart, David A. Ferrill, Nathaniel Reish, and Peter F. Cowell

Search and Discovery.com

... faults that contribute to permeability reduction - important at production, but not trap formation, time scales. Fault Seal Behavior A major cause...

From Deep Horizon to Deep Water, a North Eastern Latin America Success Story, for Some..., #30669 (2020).

Xavier Moonan, Javed Razack,

Search and Discovery.com

... to trap leakage of the steeply dipping folds that allowed hydrocarbon to pass through the structure. Spud : April 1st 1993 Drilling Completed : August...

Abstract: Revisiting the Subsalt Trap Archetype Classification Scheme After Nine More Years of Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Drilling

William H. Hart and Martin L. Albertin

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...Abstract: Revisiting the Subsalt Trap Archetype Classification Scheme After Nine More Years of Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Drilling William H. Hart...

Trap Spring Oil Field, Nye County, Nevada: ABSTRACT

Herbert D. Duey

AAPG Bulletin

...Trap Spring Oil Field, Nye County, Nevada: ABSTRACT Herbert D. Duey 1980 701 702 64 5. (May) Trap Spring oil field, located on the west side...

The Deliberate Search for Stratigraphic Traps in the Middle East. What Can We Learn from Global Stratigraphic Plays

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Role of Stratigraphy in Oil Discovery

Vincent C. Illing

AAPG Bulletin

... of a syncline would it receive its true explanation as a stratigraphic trap. Most of the structural theories depend for their validity on the ability...

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

... of the subsurface geology of such sites. Analysis of trap geometry and internal structure, reservoir quality, and seal integrity form essential components...

Evaluating CO2 Utilization and Storage in Kansas, #80337 (2013)

W. Lynn Watney, Jason Rush, Martin Dubois, Robinson Barker, Tiraz Birdie, Ken Cooper, Saugata Datta, John Doveton, Mina Fazelalavi, David Fowle, Paul Gerlach, Thomas Hansen, Dennis Hedke, Yevhen Holubnyak, Breanna Huff, K. David Newell, Larry Nicholson, Jennifer Roberts, Aimee Scheffer, Ayrat Sirazhiev, Raymond Sorenson, Georgios Tsoflias, Eugene Williams, Dana Wreath, John Youle

Search and Discovery.com

... studies to detect CO2 leakage and to validate the simulation model; (6) develop a rapid-response mitigation plan to minimize CO2 leakage...

Structural traps and seals for expanding CO2 storage in the northern Horda platform, North Sea

Johnathon L. Osmond, Mark J. Mulrooney, Nora Holden, Elin Skurtveit, Jan Inge Faleide, and Alvar Braathen

AAPG Bulletin

... provide the backbone for the geomodeling inputs, as well as trap and seal analyses performed herein. Interpretation of subsurface data was performed within...

The Helium System: A Modification of the Petroleum System for Inert Gases, #42098 (2017).

Bryan P. McDowell, Alexei V. Milkov, Donna S. Anderson

Search and Discovery.com

..., the helium system is identified by its source rock, reservoir, trap, seal, and migration pathway. Two helium systems are identified and tentatively called...

Formation Fluids in Faulted Aquifers: Examples from the Foothills of Western Canada and the North West Shelf of Australia

J. R. Underschultz, C. J. Otto, R. Bartlett

AAPG Special Volumes

... factors in determining migration fairways and assessing the retention and leakage history for hydrocarbons in the subsurface. Although formation...

The GEODISC Program: Research into Geological Sequestration of CO2 in Australia

JOHN BRADSHAW, ANDY RIGG

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

.... Magoon, L. B., and Dow, W. G. (1994). The petroleum system— From source to trap. AAPG Memoir 60. Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum...

Further Notes on the Hydraulic Theory of Oil Migration and Accumulation

John L. Rich

AAPG Bulletin

.... 3. The nature of the structural trap necessary to cause accumulation depends on a balance between the force due to the rate of movement of the water...

The Generative Basin Concept

Gerard Demaison

AAPG Special Volumes

... trap. A fundamental step in hydrocarbon charge prediction is to determine whether an undrilled trap has had access to hydrocarbon migration from mature...

Tan-Lu fault system and its significance in oil accumulation in the central Liaodong Bay subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Changyu Teng, Fang Hao, Huayao Zou, Xinhuai Zhou, and Changgui Xu

AAPG Bulletin

... of the source rocks, and it increases the FARs of the trap-bounding faults, resulting in vertical oil leakage along the breached fault...

Why Bother? (With Play Based Exploration): The Five Reasons Why Play Based Exploration Worthwhile in a Modern Busy Understaffed and Overworked Exploration Company Environment, #110227 (2016).

Ian Longley

Search and Discovery.com

... fairway and this well failed due to interpreted juxtaposition and fault plane leakage.. • This trap type is an under explored – especially since...

Effects of Exhumation on Gas Saturation in Tight Gas Sandstones

Alton Brown

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Conversion of gas expansion to change in gas saturation requires assumptions about pore connectivity on the trap scale. Three general situations can...

Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers Offshore Tanzania

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

..., representing clastic reservoirs charged by the same nondrilled source rock but with very different trap styles and depositional settings. Although...

Importance of Hydrodynamic Factor in Formation of Lower Cretaceous Combination Traps, Big Muddy-South Glenrock Area, Wyoming

Donald S. Stone , Roger L. Hoeger

AAPG Bulletin

... TRAPPING CAPACITY Studies by Petroleum Research Corporation (1959a, b) of many stratigraphic-trap oil fields in Cretaceous rocks in the Rocky Mountain...

Abstract: Seismic -- Stratigraphic Mapping Of Gulf Coast Stratigraphic Traps

John A Ward

GCAGS Transactions

...-stratigraphic trap depends not only on the thickness and the stratigraphic position of the objective unit, but the velocity contrast with nearby beds...

Synclinal Truncation Traps in Southeastern Saskatchewan (Williston Basin) [Abstract]

Grujenschi, C.

CSPG Bulletin

...) A "synclinal truncation trap" is a combination trap (subtle trap) that occurs at the updip edge of angularly truncated reservoir rocks. The folded...

Time of Oil and Gas Accumulation: ABSTRACT

A. I. Levorsen

AAPG Bulletin

... source, a rough guide as to the time of the accumulation is offered. It is based on the timing of the formation of the trap into which the oil and gas...

Summary

Robert R. Berg

AAPG Special Volumes

... of reservoir sandstones to the adjacent trap facies is clearly indicated by subsurface control. Effectiveness of trap facies can be calculated...

Waveland Field, Unique Structural and Stratigraphic Trap: ABSTRACT

Torstein Sanness, E. D. Minihan

AAPG Bulletin

...Waveland Field, Unique Structural and Stratigraphic Trap: ABSTRACT Torstein Sanness, E. D. Minihan 1979 1610 1611 63 9. (September) End_Page 1610...