Origin and Evolution of the Middle Miocene Submarine-Fan System, East-Central Gulf of Mexico

Combellas-Bigott, Ricardo I. and Galloway, William E.

GCAGS Transactions

... of the basement (e.g., Cuban Fracture Zone) originated first-order N-NW to S-SE linear salt ridges and plateaus (thin areas) (Fig. 4). To the west...

Potential New Method for Paleostress Estimation by Combining Three-dimensional Fault Restoration and Fault Slip Inversion Techniques: First Test on the Skua Field, Timor Sea

A. P. Gartrell, M. Lisk

AAPG Special Volumes

... of e twins in calcite; a linear programming method: Tectonophysics, v. 78, p. 651660.Letouzey, J., 1986, Cenozoic paleo-stress pattern in the Alpine...

Chapter 20: Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Western Barbados Accretionary Prism and the Eastern Tobago Basin: Implications for Petroleum Systems

Andres Cedeño, Mudussar Ahmed, Alejandro Escalona, Peter Abrahamson

AAPG Special Volumes

... by the IDFB (FF8) (Figure 9A). Subsidiary west-facing thrust faults also dissect S1 sedimentary rocks, forming a north–south linear belt. The main depocenters...

Stratigraphic Organization of Late Pleistocene Deposits of the Western Part of the Golfe du Lion Shelf (Languedoc Shelf), Western Mediterranean Sea, Using High-Resolution Seismic and Core Data1

Michel Tesson, Henry W. Posamentier, and Bernard Gensous

AAPG Bulletin

...-to-depth conversions are based on the assumption of acoustic velocity of 1500 m/s in water and 1763 m/s in sediment. Depositional sequence descriptions...

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

... structure in Bohai Oil Field as an example: Offshore Oil, v. 34, no. 3, p. 22–26. Zhao, Z., Z. X. Zhao, and J. R. Xu, 2012, Velocity structure...

Shale brittleness prediction using machine learning—A Middle East basin case study

Ayyaz Mustafa, Zeeshan Tariq, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Mohamed Mahmoud, Shams Kalam, and Rizwan Ahmed Khan

AAPG Bulletin

..., compressional wave velocity, gamma ray, and photoelectric absorption cross-section index) with mineralogy-based BI (Heidari et al., 2014; Lai et al...

Pore pressure prediction while drilling: Three-dimensional earth model in the Gulf of Mexico

Fausto Mosca, Obren Djordjevic, Thomas Hantschel, Jim McCarthy, Ana Krueger, Dave Phelps, Tayo Akintokunbo, Thorsten Joppen, Klaas Koster, Michael Schupbach, Kenneth Hampshire, and Andy MacGregor

AAPG Bulletin

... approximations in velocity and traveltime computations: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 21, p. 783–795, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2478.1973.tb00058.x. Bilgeri, D...

Chapter 23: An Integrated Approach to De-Risking Exploration and Appraisal in Structurally Complex Fold-and-Thrust Belts: Application to the Incahuasi Field (Bolivia)

Jean-Francois Ballard, Vincenzo Spina, Francis Clément, Pierre-Emmanuel Lardin, Jean-Marc Moron, Jean-Marc Fleury, Patrick Chaffel

AAPG Special Volumes

... and development plan was to find the approach, tools, and methodology to de-risk the geometrical uncertainty of the structure at depth. This chapter illustrates...

Depositional Sequence Mapping as a Technique to Establish Tectonic and Stratigraphic Framework and Evaluate Hydrocarbon Potential on a Passive Continental Margin: Chapter 5

Richard J. Hubbard, Joe Pape, David G. Roberts

AAPG Special Volumes

... sequences both in terms of depth and geologic time (Figure 2). Megasequence boundaries (regional unconformity surfaces) subdivide the overall basin history...

The Cordilleran Foreland Thrust Belt in Northwestern Montana and Northern Idaho From COCORP and Industry Seismic Reflection Data (1)

THEODORE R. YOOS , CHRISTOPHER J. POTTER , JANET L. THIGPEN , and LARRY D. BROWN

AAPG Bulletin

... is the westward extent of potentially hydrocarbon-bearing Paleozoic rocks in the subsurface? What is the geometry of major thrust structures at depth...

Stratigraphic Framework of a Late Pleistocene Shelf-Edge Delta, Northeast Gulf of Mexico

J. Sydow, H. H. Roberts

AAPG Bulletin

.... Modifying the assumed sound velocity by 100 m/s up or down changes the two-way traveltime to the 20-m sediment depth by only 1.5 ms. Although...

Miocene Shale Tectonics in the Northern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean)

Juan I. Soto, Fermin Fernandez-Ibanez, Asrar R. Talukder, Pedro Martinez-Garcia

AAPG Special Volumes

... with the Alhambra pock mark, are included for reference. The vertical depth bar is calculated for the average seismic velocity of the Miocene sedimentary...

Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Jurassic extensional basins of the eastern southern Alps and Adriatic foreland based on an integrated study of surface and subsurface data

Daniele Masetti, Roberto Fantoni, Roberta Romano, Dario Sartorio, Enrico Trevisani

AAPG Bulletin

... of the platform rising above the surrounding basin floors (seen at 0.8-s two-way traveltime [TWT]) by the end of the Early Cretaceous (Figure 7A, B, C...

Controls on minibasin infill in the Nordkapp Basin: Evidence of complex Triassic synsedimentary deposition influenced by salt tectonics

Luis Alberto Rojo, and Alejandro Escalona

AAPG Bulletin

.... = Toarcian; Tournais. = Tournaisian; Turon. = Turonian; TWT = two-way traveltime; Valangin. = Valanginian; V.E....

Rifting, Transpression, and Neotectonics in the Central Mecca Hills, Salton Trough, California

Arthur Gibbs Sylvester

Pacific Section SEPM

... interpretations of gravity data, depth to basement beneath the trough varies greatly from 2150 m in northern Coachella Valley to 6800 m near the Mexican border...

Sequence stratigraphy and syndepositional deformation of the Agbada Formation, Robertkiri field, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Olusola A. Magbagbeola, Brian J. Willis

AAPG Bulletin

... traveltime. (D) Limits of seismic survey used in this study (polygon) showing the thickness of deposits addressed in this study and traces of major...

Seismic architecture of a Lower Cretaceous platform-to-slope system, Santa Agueda and Poza Rica fields, Mexico

Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans, Robert Loucks, M. Alfredo Marhx, Carlos Reyes, Francisco Murguia

AAPG Bulletin

... (9841969 ft) in width and between 30 and 80 ms TWT in depth. This traveltime corresponds to a depth of 60 to 160 m (196525 ft) using a seismic velocity...

Geologic evolution of the Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins, offshore southern Vietnam, South China Sea

Gwang H. Lee, Keumsuk Lee, Joel S. Watkins

AAPG Bulletin

... traveltime vs. depth relationships at the wells; these relationships were used to tie stratigraphic tops from the wells to the seismic data...

Excess permeability in the Brazil pre-Salt: Nonmatrix types, concepts, diagnostic indicators, and reservoir implications

Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez, Gareth D. Jones, Jordan G. Mimoun, Melanie G. Bowen, J. A. Toni Simo, Virginia Marcon, and William L. Esch

AAPG Bulletin

... observations were made on amplitude and traveltime borehole images. However, when both data sets are available, our nonmatrix characterization...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies Geometries, and Depositional History of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico (1)

PAUL WEIMER

AAPG Bulletin

... equals two-way traveltime in milliseconds, and D equals subbottom in meters. This velocity equation was derived from an industry exploration well...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Method: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

Oz Yilmaz

AAPG Special Volumes

... midpoint (CMP) gathers, while in 3-D processing, traces are collected as common-cell gathers (bins). These gathers are used in velocity analysis...

Characteristics of Microzonation Modelling in Reservoir Evaluation

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GEO 2018; - Abstracts, #90319 (2018).

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Full Integration of Seismic Data into Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling

P. van Riel, P. Mesdag, H. Debeye, M. Sams

AAPG Special Volumes

.... A sufficiently accurate velocity model is not always available to properly transform between the time and depth domain. In such a case, geostatistical...

Chapter Seven: Reservoir Evaluation

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... but they are not new additional information. Seismic traveltime addresses structure and structural boundaries. Amplitude and frequency are left...