Abstract: Numerical Model of Microseismicity in Hydrofracturing: Our Prediction for Seismic Moment Tensors; #90172 (2014)

A. Guest, Tony Settari

Search and Discovery.com

... important factors that influence the fracturing and to learn how to control them. Microseismic monitoring can be a very useful tool for calibrating...

Characteristics of Microzonation Modelling in Reservoir Evaluation

Search and Discovery.com

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of a deep-water gas hydrate reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico

P. Kevin Meazell, Peter B. Flemings, Manasij Santra, and Joel E. Johnson

AAPG Bulletin

...–temperature conditions in which hydrate is not stable (nonpressure cores). Pressure cores have been useful in the study of conventional petroleum...

Shell CEO Stresses Interdependence and Co-operation

Jeroen van der Veer

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... was w ro ng. mechanisms for CCS as part of the cli mate co nference in Copenhagen next year. "We w il l need to del iver all the energ y we ca n g et...

The Deposition of Organic-Carbon-Rich Sediments: Models, Mechanisms, and Consequences„Introduction

Nicholas B. Harris

Special Publications of SEPM

...The Deposition of Organic-Carbon-Rich Sediments: Models, Mechanisms, and Consequences„Introduction Nicholas B. Harris DEPOSITION OF ORGANIC CARBON...

Stratigraphy and Structural Style of the Mazarn, Blakely and Womble Formations in the Ouachita Core Near Norman, Arkansas

David B. Buthman

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...-Hill, New York, 551 p. Elliott, D., 1976, The energy balance and deformation mechanisms of thrust sheets: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London. A., v. 283, p...

Internal Kinematics of Salt Diapirs

C. J. Talbot , M. P. A. Jackson

AAPG Bulletin

.... Trace amounts of brine can act like heat to weaken salt and promote geologic creep by solution-transfer mechanisms. We compare natural strain markers...

S-transform based processing of noisy surface wave record for recovering high-resolution spectrum

Sayan Mukherjee, Mrinal Bhaumik, Tarun Naskar

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... useful information resulting in loss of resolution. As noise contamination is inevitable in experimental shot-gather, we need an efficient...

Crustal Geometry and Extensional Models for the Grand Banks, Eastern Canada: Constraints from Deep Seismic Reflection Data

C. E. Keen, R. Boutilier, B. De Voogd, B. Mudford, M. E. Enachescu

CSPG Special Publications

..., C. and Tankard, A. J. (Eds.), Sedimentary Basins and Basin-Forming Mechanisms. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 12. Haworth, R...

Problems with Plate Tectonics: The Labrador Sea

A. C. Grant

CSPG Bulletin

...., 267p. van der Linden, W. J. M., 1975, Crustal attenuation and sea-floor spreading in the Labrador Sea: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 27...

Field Conference: Early Miocene Crustal Extension and Basin Development: Central Mojave Desert, Southern California

Robert J. Fillmore, John M. Fletcher

Pacific Section SEPM

...-plastic deformation mechanisms, which operated at temperatures between 300-400°C (Bartley and others, 1990; Fletcher and Bartley, 1994). On the large scale...

The Stress Regime of The Western Canadian Basin and Implications for Hydrocarbon Production

J.S. Bell, E.A. Babcock

CSPG Bulletin

... gradients" by petroleum engineers might suggest otherwise. In practice, fracture gradients give a useful indication of the average change of SHmin with depth...

Water/Oil Displacement by Spontaneous Imbibition Through Multiscale Imaging and Implication on Wettability in Wolfcamp Shale

Sheng Peng, Yijin Liu, Lucy Tingwei Ko, William Ambrose

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... result in strong X-ray attenuation, and thus was used in the micro-CT imaging for shale (Peng et al., 2017; Fodgen et al., 2014). SEM X-ray energy...

Pervasive Tight-gas Sandstone Reservoirs: An Overview

Lawrence D. Meckel, M. Ray Thomasson

AAPG Special Volumes

... matter transformations: AAPG Research Conference on Abnormal Pressure Generation and Maintenance Mechanisms, Keystone, Colorado, September 1011, 1979...

Fracture Development in the Bakken Petroleum System, Antelope Field, Williston Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Wyoming Geological Association

... high sonic porosities (compared to neutron and density porosities) indicating signal attenuation due to microfractures and oil saturation; 3) caliper...

Rhythmic Deposition on Mudflats in the Mesotidal Changjiang Estuary, China

Daidu Fan,, Congxian Li

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... resuspension mechanisms in Old Tampa Bay, Florida: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 40, p. 603-620. SHI, Z., 1991, Tidal bedding and tidal...

Geophysical characterization of a nonaqueous-phase liquidcontaminated site

Alberto Godio, Alessandro Arato, Stefano Stocco

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... up to a depth of 5 m (16 ft) from the surface. A more careful analysis of the GPR signal (e.g., attenuation) could be useful to detect the effects...

Case History Study of Seismic-Driven 3-D MEM Calibrated with 1-D MEMs and Petrophysics in Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

Vivek Swami, Julio Tavares, Vishnu Pandey, Tatyana Nekrasova, Dan Cook, Jose Moncayo, David Yale

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is especially useful if core based calibration of compressional to shear anisotropy ratios is available. From a geomechanical perspective, the key endgame...

Genesis of giant, bouldery bars in a Miocene gravel-bed river: Insights from outcrop sedimentology, UAS-SfM photogrammetry, and GPR

Jesse T. Korus, R. Matthew Joeckel, Shane T. Tucker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... architecture of modern fluvial bars. The outcrop analogs presented herein support a more holistic understanding of gravel-bed rivers, and they are useful...

Influence of Tectonic Terranes Adjacent to the Precambrian Wyoming Province on Phanerozoic Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountain Region: Part I. Regional Overview

J. J. Tonnsen

AAPG Special Volumes

... been observed. A model is discussed that has been useful in basin analyses and trend mapping for petroleum exploration. AAPG North American...

Predicting Cleats in Coal Seams from Mineral and Maceral Composition with Wireline Logs

David J. Johnston, Patrick J. Scholes

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...). When no mud cake exists, microlog measurements may yield useful information about lithology or borehole condition, but no quantitative interpretation...

AVO and Impedance Response of Perdices Miocene Sands, Lower Magdalena Valley Basin.

Oscar Moreno, Loz Darmon, Fernando Cerda, Anubrati Mukherjee

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... seismic amplitude that could be a useful to assess reservoir quality and fluid content, lowering uncertainty for prospects located in structurally calm...

Natural Radionuclide Contamination of Potable Groundwater Supplies

Henry M. Wise

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... hundred feet of its generation. If however convective processes are active radon attenuation is decreased by a factor of as much as 800. As a result...

Low-frequency data reconstruction for full-waveform inversion

Ramzi Djebbi, Maiza Bekara, Jaime Ramos-Martinez, Nizar Chemingui

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... noise attenuation approaches. In this work, we show that by properly reconstructing the low frequency content of seismic data we can effectively...

Time-lapse impedance variations using DAS VSP data during CO2 injection at the CMC Newell County Facility, Alberta, Canada

Yichuan Wang, Donald C. Lawton

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... geologic CO2 storage, it is useful to measure time-lapse (TL) variations of seismic impedance. Acoustic impedance (AI) and elastic impedance (EI) give direct...