Digital Mapping of Fractures in the Mesozoic Newark Basin, New Jersey: Developing a Geological Framework for Interpreting Movement of Groundwater Contaminants

Gregory C. Herman

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... spaced individual fractures (Figure 7). A fracture-density classification system using a linear scale (e.g., 0, 5, 10, 15, 20,..., n fractures per...

Relating Microseismicity to Geomechanical Strain

Adam M. Baig, Ben Witten, Aaron Booterbaugh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... components of the tensor, aligned along the cable itself. We can specify this component to be ϵ== working in a coordinate system where the first direction...

PfEFFER Pro Overview & Web Tools - Workshop Summary

Saibal Bhattacharya, Geoff Bohling, John Doveton, Bill Guy, Lynn Watney

PTTC

... Windows NT/XP/Vista operating system. VGA or higher resolution video adapter. PfEFFER add-ins and example files require 2 MB hard disk space. Goals...

USE OF CORE-MEASURED FRACTURE PATTERNS IN EXPLORATION  AND EXPLOITATION STRATEGY 

CHRISTOPHER H. GARRETT RICHARD H. SNYDER

Fort Worth Geological Society

... of high planar bed curvature. Radius of curvature (R) is expressed quantitatively in terms of the derivatives of an X-Y coordinate system, such that: R...

Effect of Kaolinite Content on Formation Damage Due to Fines Migration: Systematic Laboratory and Modelling Study

Thomas Russell, Larissa Chequer, Alexander Badalyan, Zhenjiang You, Pavel Bedrikovetsky

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... serve as a benchmark for correlating injectivity decline due to fines migration between wells using the rock mineralogy. The tests suggest that mineralogy...

Development and Application of a New Geothermal Database for the Illinois Basin, #80277 (2013)

Tiffany A. Proffitt, Kevin M. Ellett, Charles W. Zuppann, Shawn C. Naylor, Melony E. Barrett, Bryan G. Huff, Chris P. Korose, Alison B. Lecouris, T. Chase Noakes

Search and Discovery.com

... to be obviously inaccurate and were removed from the datasets. All well locations were projected to a consistent coordinate system, UTM X-Y, NAD83, Zone 16N...

Geological Considerations during Microseismic Monitoring, Processing, and Interpretation of Hydraulic Fracture Treatment

J. Le Calvez, S. Hanson-Hedgecock, P. Primiero, T. Al-Wadhahi, O. Harrasi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the well with each 3C sensor forming a 3 axis local coordinate system (Le Calvez et al., 2005; Bulant et al., 2006; Le Calvez et al., 2013). Calibration...

Quantification of Total Organic Carbon Content in Shale Source Rocks: An Eagle Ford Case Study

Adel A. Alqahtani, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... In this paper, various TOC quantification methods utilizing well-log data are introduced using Eagle Ford shale source rock data. An evaluation...

Implications of Cell Size on Modeling of Facies Proportions: A Modern Carbonate Platform Example, by Gregory Benson and Steve Bachtel, #50039 (2006).

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Technique of Stratigraphic Nomenclature: DISCUSSION

C. W. Tomlinson

AAPG Bulletin

... of the Permian system,--the place-names Wolfcamp and Leonard, which previously FOOTNOTE 3. Hubert G. Schenck, Hollis D. Hedberg, and Robert M. Kleinpell...

An Inverse Approach for Relating Seismic Velocity and Overpressure to Permeability and Sedimentation History in Deep Basins, #40863 (2012)

Hector M. Moreno, Tim A. Minshull, Rosemary A. Edwards,

Search and Discovery.com

...) where the reference frame is fixed on the solid grains using a Lagrangian fully compacted coordinate system (FCCS). The FCCS measures a sediment column...

Modeling of Fiber Optic Strain Responses to Shear Deformation of Fractures

Ruwantha Ratnayake, Ahmad Ghassemi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... measurements at close time intervals can be used to create a strain signature. A typical DSS system requires a laser interrogator, which generates...

Classification of Sandstone Pore Structure and Its Effect on Water-Flooding Efficiency: Chapter 15

Shen Pingping, Li Bingzhi, Tue Puhua

AAPG Special Volumes

... will be towards the origin of the coordinate system, and the more homogeneous will be the distribution of the throats. RESULTS OF CLASSIFICATION...

Abstract: Pre-survey Planning for Microseismic Monitoring Projects; #90174 (2014)

Brad Artman, Ben Witten, and Brad Birkelo

Search and Discovery.com

... in the orthogonal coordinate system defined by the well and the fault plane, and S energy is zero where the P is a maximum. The first priority is usually event...

Abstracts: Seismic Anisotropy of the Marcellus Shale: Feasibility Study for Fracture Characterization; #90173 (2015)

James Gaiser, Alvaro Chaveste, Mary Edrich, Tony Rebec, and Richard Verm

Search and Discovery.com

..., and stacked. Additionally, the two horizontal components are rotated to a source-centred, cylindrical coordinate system (Gaiser, 1999), where the radial...

Post-Stack Multi-Azimuth Stratigraphic Inversion Applied to Unconventional Reservoir Characterization: A Case Study in the Fort Worth Basin; #41120 (2013)

Mathilde Adelinet, Vincent Clochard, and Patrice Ricarte

Search and Discovery.com

..., the fitting uses 12 values (6 azimuthal values on 0‐180° and their projections on 180‐360°) in a spherical coordinate system to compute the best ellipse. We...

Chapter 10: Reservoir Modeling and Fluid-Flow Simulation, Ivie Creek Case-Study Area - Geological and Petrophysical Characterization of the Ferron Sandstone for 3-D Simulation of a Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir (MP-02-6)

C.B. Forster, S.H. Snelgrove, J.V. Koebbe

Utah Geological Survey

... variants of a single architectural element, the clinoform, and indicates prograding, shallow-marine deposition of a fluvial-dominated delta-front system...

Role of Salinian Block in Evolution of San Andreas Fault System, California

Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

...Role of Salinian Block in Evolution of San Andreas Fault System, California Stephan A. Graham 1978 2214 2231 62 11. (November) Discrepancies...

Simulations of the Effects of Diagenesis on the Evolution of Sandstone Porosity

Cathal G. Dillon, Richard H. Worden, Stuart A. Barclay

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and prediction of pore system modification. Diagenetic processes in real rocks are simulated using a combination of element X-ray maps and backscattered...

Chemical Correlation of Volcanic Ash Deposits in the Salt Lake Group, Utah, Idaho and Nevada

Rebecca Pope Smith, W. P. Nash

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... method utilized was the determination of principal components--a redefinition of the nine element coordinate system by ranking each new perpendicular...

Interpreting the Direction of the Gravity Gradient Tensor Eigenvectors: The Main Tidal Force and its Relation to the Curvature Parameters of the Equipotential Surface

Carlos Cevallos

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... + Φzz = 0. It is always possible to rotate the coordinate system around the z axis with a rotation matrix of the form (Condi, 1999; Dransfield, 1994...

Beyond the Surface: Uav-Based Digital Outcrop Modelling as Subsurface Analog for Clay Smear and Juxtaposition Evaluation of Kebo Formation in Sumberan, Gunungkidul

Ratna Vita Dewi, Salsabila Tiara, Salahuddin Husein

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... research. By utilizing UAVs, users can access data in challenging terrains. Photos acquired using UAVs have coordinate orientations, allowing users...

Numerical Methods for Mineral Estimation from Well Logs

John H. Doveton

Special Publications of SEPM

... ESTIMATION FROM WELL LOGS Theoy In this section of the manual, we consider methods for the compositional analysis of rocks using wireline logs. This goal...

Drilling an exploration prospect downdip: Quantifying the trade-offs between chance of success and associated resource potential

Mark Schneider, Gary P. Citron, Paul Haryott, and David Cook

AAPG Bulletin

... plot. Figure 3. Example prospect estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) distribution plotted in a log-probit coordinate system. Percentile values (P...

Coupled Geomechanics and Pore Confinement Effects for Modeling Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

Yi Xiong, Philip Winterfeld, Yu-Shu Wu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... coordinate system. Thus Equation (5) gives the trace of Hooke’s law for a thermo-poro-elastic medium as (Winterfeld and Wu, 2014), ( ) (11) ) ( Where Sm...