Fractured Continuum Approach to Stochastic Permeability Modeling

S. A. McKenna, P. C. Reeves

AAPG Special Volumes

... the advective traveltime of particles through the heterogeneous systems.Another technique for modeling fluid flow in groundwater and petroleum systems...

Basin Margin Environment: Chapter 11: PART 3

Harry E. Cook, Henry T. Mullins

AAPG Special Volumes

... consists of contour, current-winnowed carbonate sands. Water depth in meters on left; seconds of two-way travel time on right (from Mullins...

Neogene Basin Formation in Relation to Plate-Tectonic Evolution of San Andreas Fault System, California

M. C. Blake, Jr. , R. H. Campbell , T. W. Dibblee, Jr. , D. G. Howell , T. H. Nilsen , W. R. Normark , J. C. Vedder , E. A. Silver

AAPG Bulletin

... traveltime and kilometers of water depth. Missing section above upper unconformity between km 58 and 68 represents Ranger submarine slide (Normark, 1974...

Application of Borehole Images to Three-Dimensional Geometric Modeling of Eolian Sandstone Reservoirs, Permian Rotliegende, North Sea

Stefan M. Luthi, Jayanth R. Banavar

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1969, 1970). Two types of images may be obtained--one from amplitude attenuation and one from the two-way traveltime to the borehole wall and back...

Sequence Stratigraphy and Continental Margin Development of the Northwestern Shelf of the South China Sea

Percy P. H. Chen , Zhi Yuong Chen , Qi Min Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

.... Notice the pullup below the channel. See Figure 15 for line location. TWT = two-way traveltime in seconds. End_Page 856...

Interaction between prerift salt and detachment faulting in hyperextended rift systems: The example of the Parentis and Mauleon basins (Bay of Biscay and western Pyrenees)

Suzon Jammes, Gianreto Manatschal, Luc Lavier

AAPG Bulletin

... basins. These basins lie at water depth greater than 2 km (1.2 mi), are covered by kilometer-thick sedimentary successions, and are at present poorly...

Fault growth and linkage: Implications for tectonosedimentary evolution in the Chezhen Basin of Bohai Bay, eastern China

Jinbao Su, Wenbin Zhu, Jia Wei, Leiming Xu, Yanfeng Yang, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhiyong Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... seismic lines provide control on the Chengnan fault geometry with the maximum throw down to about 3.5 s two-way traveltime (TWT) or depth of 5 km (31 mi...

Temporal and lateral variation in the development of growth faults and growth strata in western Niger Delta, Nigeria

Hamed Fazli Khani, Stefan Back

AAPG Bulletin

... on their downthrown sides. Across the slightly listric deltaic faults, syntectonic strata thicken seaward by several tens of milliseconds two-way traveltime (ms TWT...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Imaging and Reservoir Modeling of an Upper Paleozoic “Reefal” Buildup, Reinecke Field, West Texas, United States, by Arthur H. Saller, Skip Walden, Steve Robertson, Robert Nims, Joe Schwab, Hiroshi Hagiwara, and Shigeharu Mizohata, 20044 (2006).

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Chapter 18: The Structure of an Inverted Back-arc Rift: Insights from a Transect across the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia near Bogota

Antonio Teixell, Juan-Camilo Ruiz, Eliseo Teson, Andres Mora

AAPG Special Volumes

...-detached fold belt with a basal decollement in lower Cretaceous evaporite at a depth of ca 4 km (2.4 mi). Anticlines in the Sabana de Bogota are interpreted...

Sequence stratigraphy of the Eocene turbidite reservoirs in Albacora field, Campos Basin, offshore Brazil

Andre De Gasperi, Octavian Catuneanu

AAPG Bulletin

... for prestacking depth migration; granulometric analyses from rock cuttings (two wells); cores from the producing reservoirs and the intervening pelitic...

Tectonics and subsidence evolution of the Sirt Basin, Libya

Abdulbaset M. Abadi, Jan-Diederik van Wees, Paul M. van Dijk, Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh

AAPG Bulletin

... (), paleocene ().The surface density and depth range of the wells (Figures 2, 3) allow us to analyze the spatial pattern of the subsidence that was lacking...

Seismic Stratigraphy of a Neogene Piggyback Basin, Argentina (1)

JAMES A. BEER , RICHARD W. ALLMENDINGER , DANIEL E. FIGUEROA , and TERESA E. JORDAN

AAPG Bulletin

... collection. Records are 5 sec long (two-way traveltime or TWTT), with the Neogene section occupying the upper 2.5 sec. On all of the lines, reflection...

Evolution of large normal faults: Evidence from seismic reflection data

Chris K. Morley

AAPG Bulletin

...; ii = later stage; 1-3 = structure contours (depth in km). Figure 2. Schematic illustration of how the basic models a and b in Figure 1 might develop...

Fracture and fault patterns associated with basement-cored anticlines: The example of Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Scott P. Cooper, Laurel B. Goodwin, John C. Lorenz

AAPG Bulletin

... are near 30, whereas dips along the eastern limb range from 7 to 14.Figure 2. Seismic cross section through Teapot Dome, two-way traveltime in seconds...

The function of fractures and in-situ stresses in the Khuff reservoir performance, onshore fields, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed S. Ameen, Ismail M. Buhidma, Zillur Rahim

AAPG Bulletin

... (mesoscopic and microscopic); (2) individual faults are small and not readily resolvable at seismic scale; (3) the depth and carbonate nature of the Khuff...

An integrated model of the structural evolution of the central Brooks Range foothills, Alaska, using structural geometry, fracture distribution, geochronology, and microthermometry

Alec Duncan, Catherine Hanks, Wesley K. Wallace, Paul B. O'Sullivan, Thomas M. Parris

AAPG Bulletin

..., and Relative Timing of Fracture Sets 1 to 4Subsurface MappingA two-dimensional seismic reflection line was interpreted in two-way traveltime and depth...

Comparative Precambrian Stratigraphy and Structure Along the Mid-Continent Rift

Albert B. Dickas

AAPG Bulletin

.... This well established a state Precambrian and total depth record (Figure 2). Interestingly, as long ago as 1933, Precambrian production was recorded...

Integrating strike-slip tectonism with three-dimensional basin and petroleum system analysis of the Salinas Basin, California

Tess Menotti, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Kristian Meisling, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

...–southeast-trending buried structural basement escarpment that partitions a relatively shallow basement platform (<1 km [<0.6 mi] depth) on the eastern...

Jurassic deep-water reservoirs at a transfer-transform offset: Modeling the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Shelburne subbasin, southeastern Canadian margin

Justin Nagle, David J. W. Piper, E. Marfisi, Georgia Pe-Piper, and F. Saint-Ange

AAPG Bulletin

... right shows location of the transect in red. DT = sonic transit time; GAM = gamma ray; MD = measured depth; MFS = maximum flooding surface; u/c...

Geological-petrophysical insights in the deep Cambrian dolostone reservoirs in Tarim Basin, China

Jin Lai, Shichen Liu, Yi Xin, Song Wang, Chengwen Xiao, Qiuqiang Song, Xu Chen, Kefu Yang, Guiwen Wang, and Xiujian Ding

AAPG Bulletin

.... G., 1999, Paleocave carbonate reservoirs; origins, burial-depth modifications, spatial complexity, and reservoir implications: AAPG Bulletin, v. 83...

Age and Significance of Sequence Boundaries on Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Rifted Continental Margins

Richard J. Hubbard

AAPG Bulletin

... on the oceanic depth relation: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 86, p. 6107-6114. Heller, P. L., S. S. Bowdler, H. P. Chambers, J. C. Coogan, E...

Structural and sedimentary evolution of the southern Songliao Basin, northeast China, and implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity

Hong-Hong Wei, Jun-Lai Liu, Qing-Ren Meng

AAPG Bulletin

... exhibit listric geometry and sole out at depth. The low-angle bounding faults could result in the tilting of hanging-wall fault blocks (Figure 5b...

Petroleum geology of the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, western DeSoto Canyon, and western Lloyd Ridge protraction areas, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Traps, reservoirs, and tectono-stratigraphic evolution

Renaud Bouroullec, Paul Weimer, and Olivier Serrano

AAPG Bulletin

... seismic imaging, and often prestack depth-migrated seismic, to be defined with confidence; 15 fields have this type of structural trap, including all 8...

Deltas of the Lake Malawi Rift, East Africa: Seismic Expression and Exploration Implications

Christopher A. Scholz

AAPG Bulletin

..., and has a maximum water depth of just more than 700 m (Figures 1, 2). The elevation of the lake surface is 474 m above sea level. Seven major river...