Seismic-Stratigraphic Mapping of Gulf Coast Stratigraphic Traps: ABSTRACT

John A. Ward

AAPG Bulletin

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

Basker Field, Gippsland Basin: Assessing Reservoir Connectivity with the Aid of Complementary Technologies

B. E. J. Messent, L. E. Farmer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... (Geoservices) was used. A constant-volume extractor (Reserval) was used during the drilling of all wells in addition to the standard gas trap...

A review of producing fields inferred to have upslope stratigraphically trapped turbidite reservoirs: Trapping styles (pure and combined), pinch-out formation, and depositional setting

Lawrence A. Amy

AAPG Bulletin

... low. Closure and containment, as related to the presence of a robust trap and seals capable of preventing updip leakage of hydrocarbons, are often...

Oil on the Patchawarra Flank - Some Implications from the Sellicks and Christies Oil Discoveries

M. J. Altmann, H. M. Gordon

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-Patchawarra seal integrity and subregional correlation. Together with structural definition, these may affect hydrocarbon migration and trap potential...

Repurposing gas fields for energy storage … a proposal for compressed air energy storage in the depleted Rolleston gas field

Xingjin Wang, Zhujun Wang, Yudong Yuan

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... in the centre of the four-way dip trap (Fig. 2b, c) and porosity of ~20%. Well testing on the Freitag gas reservoir at Rolleston-1 shows the initial...

Hydrocarbon-water interfacial tension values at reservoir conditions: Inconsistencies in the technical literature and the impact on maximum oil and gas column height calculations

Steven J. O'Connor

AAPG Bulletin

... and gas accumulations is extremely valuable in hydrocarbon exploration. The techniques used generally focus on the sealing capacity of the trap...

How to Look at Frontier Basins: An Example from the Canadian Arctic; #10724 (2015)

Robert Meneley

Search and Discovery.com

.... These are large thin-pay fields on wrench-related structures; Hecla has a stratigraphic trap component as well. The remaining fields are all on large salt-cored...

Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of Offshore and Coastal El Salvador and Guatemala; #11356 (2022)

Tom Phillips

Search and Discovery.com

... on the offshore outer high could potentially receive a substantial hydrocarbon charge of oil and gas. A Mid Case charge to trap of 23 billion barrels oil...

Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China

Bo Liu, Songlin He, Lingdong Meng, Xiaofei Fu, Lei Gong, and Haixue Wang

AAPG Bulletin

... the second member seals the primary reservoirs. The upper secondary trap is controlled by faults that have been activated during the structural reversal...

Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin, Colorado: ABSTRACT

R. A. Matuszczak

AAPG Bulletin

...) in the "J" sandstone of Cretaceous age. The trap was formed in the delta-front environment of a northwesterly prograding delta. The field...

ABSTRACT: Trap and Seal Analysis in Carbonate Shelf Margin Stratigraphic Trap Exploration; Example from the Lower Miocene, Zhujiang Formation, Pearl River Mouth Basin, People's Republic of China, by P. J. Chimney, A. J. Lomando, and J. P. Popek; #91019 (1996)

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ABSTRACT: Trap and Seal Analysis in Carbonate Stratigraphic Trap Exploration -Lower Miocene, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China, by Anthony J. Lomando, Peter J. Chimney, and John P. Popek; #90913(2000).

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Trinidad Mud Volcanoes: The Origin of the Gas

A. Battani, A. Prinzhofer, E. Deville, C. J. Ballentine

AAPG Special Volumes

... by chromatography and then oxidized in H2O and CO2 using a copper oxide furnace. The water was eliminated by the action of a trap cooled with liquid...

Stratigraphic Aspects of Petroleum Resource Assessment

Gregory Ulmishek

AAPG Special Volumes

... factors control petroleum richness of a region: source rock, reservoir rock, seal, and trap. Assessment of undiscovered resources of oil and gas...

An Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Seepage in Australia’s Timor Sea (Yampi Shelf) Using Integrated Remote Sensing Technologies

Geoffrey W. O’Brien, Paul Quaife, Shawn Burns, Michael Morse, John Lee

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... anomalies, right over a prominent basement ‘headland’ which defines the regional ‘zero-edge-of-seal’. The SAR anomalies appear to be due to the leakage...

Factors in Exploration for Nonassociated Natural Gas

Frank B. Conselman

AAPG Special Volumes

... Mtg., AAPG, Amarillo, Texas, Oct. 20. Pate, J. D., 1961, Laverne gas field--four story stratigraphic trap: Read before Mid-Continent Regional Mtg...

Gases in Marine Sediments

K. O. Emery , Dean Hoggan

AAPG Bulletin

... freeze-out trap until it became apparent that only water vapor was being transferred. The trap contained an integral pocket of desiccant and ascarite...

Finding New Pays in Old Plays: New Applications for Surface Geochemistry in Mature Basins, #41084 (2012)

Dietmar Schumacher

Search and Discovery.com

... unsurpassed for defining trap and reservoir geometry, but only detailed microseepage surveys have the potential to reliably image hydrocarbon microseepage from...

Northwest Java Basin: Perspective to Apply Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Indonesia

Hendry Setiawan Lie, Bonar Tua Halomoan Marbun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... consist of many kind of reservoirs with a tight rock seal or structural trap which will decrease the leakage problem. Besides that, the lower capture cost...

Introduction to Residential ROV: New Concept of ROV for Oil and Gas Activities

Husnul Furqon, Muhammad Iqbal, Yulian Mahendra

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on, such as suspected leak hull inspection, mine trap indicated on seabed survey. The equipment used for survey is identical with previous system. High...

Geology and Geochemistry of Gas Hydrates, Central Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope

R. Sassen , S.T. Sweet , A. V. Milkov , D.A. DeFreitas , G. G. Salata , and E. C. McDade

GCAGS Transactions

... Brooks, and G.J. Denoux, 1988, Leakage of deep, reservoired petroleum to the near surface of the Gulf of Mexico continental slope: Marine Chemistry, v...

Geology and Exploration History of Offshore Central Sarawak

H. Doust

AAPG Special Volumes

.... In Luconia, the volume of buildup carbonate forming a trap is limited to the part above the highest leakage horizon--normally the highest dipping...

Subtle Discontinuity Detection and Mapping for Carbon Sequestration Assessment in the Illinois Basin

J. H. McBride, R. W. Keach II, H. E. Leetaru, W. J. Nelson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., the seismic data analysis alone cannot determine if reflector discontinuities necessarily imply potential leakage but can decrease the uncertainty...

Fault Displacement Hazards at Aliso Canyon (ACGSF) and Honor Rancho (HRGSF) Natural Gas Storage Fields (UGS), Southern California, USA, #51551 (2019).

Thomas L. Davis,

Search and Discovery.com

..., then the potential exists for methane leakage to the surface and risks to public safety, the environment, energy supply, and a valuable resource...

Grant Canyon and Bacon Flat Oil Fields, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada

Harry K. Veal, Herbert D. Duey, Louis C. Bortz, Norman H. Foster

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... BOPD coming from well 4. Production area appears to be 240 acres. The trap is a "high" fault block in the boundary fault zone that separates Railroad...