Facies Mapping from Three-Dimensional Seismic Data: Potential and Guidelines from a Tertiary Sandstone-Shale Sequence Model, Powderhorn Field, Calhoun County, Texas

Hongliu Zeng , Milo M. Backus , Kenneth T. Barrow , Noel Tyler

AAPG Bulletin

... from x, y, z to x, y, t, where t is two-way vertical time. The impedance model was converted to primary reflection coefficient series that were...

Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Using the Cementation Factor: A Case Study of Little Cedar Creek Field, Onshore Alabama

Qifei Huang, Yuefeng Sun

GCAGS Journal

... variation. In this paper, cementation factor “m” in Archie's law is used to quantify the pore type variation in a microbial carbonate formation in onshore...

The Holocene Shelf Sediment Wedge Off the South and East Coast of South Africa

A. K. Martin, B. W. Flemming

CSPG Special Publications

... reflection survey supported by side-scan sonography, box-coring, and grab-sampling has revealed the characteristics of the continental shelf. Holocene...

ABSTRACT: Quantifying AVO Attributes and their Effectiveness; #90007 (2002)

Christopher P. Ross

Search and Discovery.com

..., Houston, TX Quantifying AVO Attributes and their Effectiveness Amplitude variation with offset techniques are used by exploration and production...

Criteria for Stratigraphic Correlation Using Aerial Photographs: Examples from the South-Central Pyrenees (1)

MARIA SGAVETTI

AAPG Bulletin

... reflection patterns in depositional sequences, in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic stratigraphy--applications to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Memoir 26, p...

PSDM for Unconventional Reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale Case Study; #80392 (2014)

Morgan P. Brown

Search and Discovery.com

... area exhibits mildly dipping beds, a significant shallow lateral velocity variation motivates the use of PSDM to correct event dips and improve...

Direct estimation of fault trajectory from structural relief

Nathan W. Eichelberger, Alan G. Nunns, Richard H. Groshong Jr., and Amanda N. Hughes

AAPG Bulletin

... the offset of the plywood–clay interface (red horizon in Figure 5). The area–depth point for the plywood interface was not included in the ADS analysis...

Seismic and Thermal Characterization of a Bottom-simulating Reflection in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Deborah R. Hutchinson, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn D. Ruppel, Fred Snyder, Brandon Dugan

AAPG Special Volumes

...Seismic and Thermal Characterization of a Bottom-simulating Reflection in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Deborah R. Hutchinson, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn...

Submarine Fan Lobe Models: Implications for Reservoir Properties

G. Shanmugam, R. J. Moiola

GCAGS Transactions

...-rich submarine fans such as the Mississippi fan are characterized by offset stacked sand bodies with poor lateral and vertical communication...

Interaction between sea-level changes and depositional tectonics: Implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the western coastal swamp depobelt, Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria

Ovie B. Ogbe, Ifeanacho P. Orajaka, Jerry Osokpor, Tuviere Omeru, and Sunday E. Okunuwadje

AAPG Bulletin

... sequence stratigraphic architecture: Upper Cretaceous star point sandstone, Wasatch Plateau, central Utah, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81...

Displacement Geometry in the Volume Containing a Single Normal Fault

Jim A. M. Barnett , John Mortimer , John H. Rippon , John J. Walsh , Juan Watterson

AAPG Bulletin

... displacement form concentric ellipses centered on the point of maximum displacement. Displacement gradients vary with fault size and with mechanical...

Colour Variations in Ireton Shale of Alberta

R. G. McCrossan

CSPG Bulletin

.... It was found that the shales darken appreciably westward and down the regional dip. To illustrate this point a number of typical core samples were chosen...

Geophysical Characterization of Lithology--Application to Subtle Traps

Carl H. Savit, Changsheng Wu

AAPG Special Volumes

... for the Subtle Trap In its first half century, geophysical exploration by the seismic reflection technique has been used mainly to delineate the morphology...

Analog modeling of divergent and convergent transfer zones in listric normal fault systems

Shamik Bose, Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

... zones with the faults approaching each other, offset by 90, and overlapping each other. During extension, the structures initiate as symmetric grabens...

Retrieving high-resolution acoustic impedance using full-waveform inversion in presalt reservoir setting, offshore Brazil

Akshat Abhishek, Alok K. Soni, Rene-Edouard Plessix, Martijn Blaauw, Jaydip Guha, Gautam Kumar

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...., 1989). Further, the conventional impedance or AVO (Amplitude variation with offset) inversion based on Zoeppritz equations assumes a local 1-D medium...

Apparent Recent Crustal Movement at Western End of Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma

M. M. Knechtel , H. E. Rothrock

AAPG Bulletin

... the ridge. The points at which the ruptures occur are disposed along a straight line. At one of these points a main was reported to be offset 4...

Use of Grain-Size Frequency Data to Interpret the Depositional Environment of the Pliocene Pleshet Formation, Beer Sheva, Israel

Ron Goldbery

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... burrowing. The Pliocene marine transgression which prevailed during the deposition of the Pleshet Formation was offset by progradation related...

Three-dimensional geomechanical modeling for constraint of subseismic fault simulation

Laurent Maerten, Paul Gillespie, Jean-Marc Daniel

AAPG Bulletin

..., Elastic stress control on the pattern of tensile fracturing around a small fault network at Nash Point, U.K.: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p...

Review and Classification of Quantitative Mapping Techniques

James M. Forgotson, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... the areal variation of either lithologic composition or other properties of a rock unit. They provide a three-dimensional picture of a stratigraphic unit...

Petrolem Exploration in Southeastern Arizona: Anatomy of an Overthrust Play

Jamie P. Robinson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... significantly in the past two years. This increase is largely a reflection of the efforts of Phillips Petroleum Company and its partners Anthrust Inc. (Buckhorn...

Abstract: Simultaneous P-P and P-S Waveform Inversion Algorithm Using Pre-Stack Time Imaging Method ; #90187 (2014)

Hassan Khaniani, John C. Bancroft, and Eric von Lunen

Search and Discovery.com

... an algorithm that predicts the mode converted P-S wave using the velocity in time. The algorithm is based on a scatter point response in P-wave reflection...

Depositional Elements of the Slope/Basin Depositional System Offshore Brunei

T. A. Mac McGilvery, Daniel L. Cook

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Figure 2. 3D perspective view of shaded seafloor structure with overlay of maximum positive amplitude extraction of the waterbottom reflection. V.E....

Seismic Modelling in 3D for Migration Testing

Search and Discovery.com

... reflecting surfaces, with arbitrarily variable reflection coefficients, embedded in a 3D medium characterized by a v ( z ) background velocity...

Effects of subsidiary faults on the geometric construction of listric normal fault systems (Geologic Note)

Tingguang Song, Peter A. Cawood

AAPG Bulletin

...). A known bed is offset with heave, H, by a listric fault whose upper part, between the footwall cut-off point, a, and the hanging-wall cut-off point, c...

Fluid Substitution as an AVO Calibration for Quantifying Uncertainty of Gas Presence in Late Miocene Binio Sandstone, Kampar Area, Central Sumatra Basin

Istiqlal Dalimunthe, Pamela Amelia Barus, Jhon Johannes Wood, Febrie Ekaninggarani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the relationship between amplitude and hydrocarbon. common reflection point. The amount of compressional energy recorded at the surface is dependent...