Geohistory Analysis--Application of Micropaleontology in Exploration Geology

J. E. Van Hinte

AAPG Bulletin

... (consolidation, compaction) is difficult to generalize for sandstone and limestone because sorting, solution, crushing, and cementation play varying roles...

Integrating Geology and Petrophysics Into Seismic Interpretation for Reservoir Definition and Improved Field Development: A Case Study From the Banuwati Field

Dave Atkins

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the uppermost sandstone reservoirs of the TAF with just 2.4% certified in the carbonate at Banuwati-4. An initial development plan envisaged...

Why So Much Oil in the Middle East?

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

... LEGEND ?? ?? Hiatus Major source Major reservoir Conglomerate Shale/ Mudstone Limestone Evaporite Sandstone Marl Dolomite Volcanics Rasoul...

Summary: Part II. Examples of Other Rift Basins

Susan M. Landon

AAPG Special Volumes

... and expulsion history. Inversion also influences porosity and permeability in reservoirs and seismic velocities. DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS Three...

A Discussion of the Geology of the Southeastern Canadian Cordillera and its Comparison to the Idaho-Wyoming-Utah Fold and Thrust Belt

K.H. Hayes

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., shale, and mature sandstone units. These rocks are underlain by Hudsonian crystalline basement of Early Proterozoic age (Burwash, et al., 1964...

Quantitative Interpretation in the Bedout Sub-basin: The value of seismic inversion in areas of sub-optimal seismic data quality

M. Kongawoin, A. Pauli, A. Locke, L. Hansen

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... overburden, and within the deeper Cossigny limestone and Palma Formation above the reservoir section. Analysis of noise in the seismic data was performed...

Palliser Banks in the Late Devonian Seas of Southwestern Alberta

F. W. Beales

CSPG Bulletin

... Mountain and Morley Map-areas, Alberta; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 236. Beales, F. W. (1953): Dolomitic mottling in Palliser (Devonian) Limestone, Banff...

Anisotropic and Nonlinear Properties of Rock Samples in the Vaca Muerta Formation: Experimental Measurements and Implications on Reservoir Geomechanics

D. Nicolas Espinoza, Agustin Sosa Massaro, Gabriel Gallardo-Giozza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... characterization of non-linearity, loading versus unloading, and anisotropy in stress-strain curves and elastic wave velocities. The analysis...

Structure and Stratigraphy of the Hope Basin, Southern Chukchi Sea, Alaska

Ralph B. Tolson

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... Sound are sandstone, siltstone, and coal, which are mostly nonmarine. Extensive tholeiitic and alkalic basalt flows of Tertiary age crop out on the Seward...

North Gabon: Lightning Strikes Connect the Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Trend to North Gabon

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson, Howard Nicholls, Paolo Esestime, TGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... to be related to shallow amplitude anomalies, indicating active hydrocarbon migration. derived velocity model (Figure 1). High velocities, which...

Structure of the Ust’-Lena Downwarp in the South Part of the Laptev Sea from Refraction Data

G. P. Avetisov, Ye. A. Ashikhmina, Yu. B. Guseva

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... Their interface velocities are 4.2-4.7, 5.2-5.7, and 6.3-6.6 km/sec, respectively. The poor definition or complete absence of horizon IV on profile II-K-85...

Preface to Memoir 49: Prediction of Reservoir Quality through Chemical Modeling

AAPG Special Volumes

... Almond Sandstone of the Red Desert and Washakie basins. Because we provide the reader with a discussion of the models that utilize ideas...

Thermal Conductivity of Organic Shales and Coals … How Their Presence and Persistence Effect Thermal Maturity, #41672 (2015).

Robert J. Coskey, Steve Cumella

Search and Discovery.com

... slow velocities and the first derivative indicates flattening of the temperature curve. Because thermal gradient increases at capillary seals...

Depositional Controls on Porosity and Permeability Evolution in the Upper Smackover Formation at Tubal Field, South Arkansas

Larry G. Frizzell

GCAGS Transactions

..., in Dolomitization and limestone diagenesis: SEPM Special Publication 13, p. 49-70. Becher, J.W., 1975, Deposition, diagenesis, and pore space evolution...

Stratigraphic-Trap Classification: Geologic Exploration Methods

Gordon Rittenhouse

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Cretaceous strike-valley sandstone reservoirs, northern New Mexico: Am. Association Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 53, no. 10, p. 2114-2140. McNeal, R...

Technological Revolution in Petroleum Exploration: Chapter 11

Edgar Wesley Owen, C. V. Millikan

AAPG Special Volumes

... production in western Pennsylvania was from hard sandstone and it was difficult to believe that so much oil could be produced from such hard rock. There must...

Stratigraphy and Structure of Southern Blake Plateau, Northern Florida Straits, and Northern Bahama Platform from Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data

R. E. Sheridan , J. T. Crosby , G. M. Bryan , P. L. Stoffa

AAPG Bulletin

..., p. 1948-1971. Grow, J. A., R. E. Mattick, and J. S. Schlee, 1979a, Multichannel seismic depth sections and interval velocities over outer...

Conditions of Deposition of Palliser (Devonian) Limestone of Southwestern Alberta

F. W. Beales

AAPG Bulletin

...Conditions of Deposition of Palliser (Devonian) Limestone of Southwestern Alberta F. W. Beales 1956 848 870 40 5. (May) A thin-section study...

Cenozoic History of the East Java Forearc

A.M. Surya Nugraha, Robert Hall

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., and Karangsambung and the Jiwo Hills in Central Java. These include chert, limestone, basalt, siliceous shale, sandstone, shale, volcanic breccia...

Flume Experiments on the Transition from Ripples to Lower Flat Bed with Increasing Sand Size

John B. Southard, Lawrence A. Boguchwal

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in detail the relationship between ripples in finer sands and the lower-flat-bed mode of transport at similar flow velocities in coarser sands. A graph...

Comparison of Petrographic Characteristics of Selected Carbonate Rocks to their Petrophysical Log Response--Smackover Formation (Upper Jurassic)

Alfred A. Biehle , Carey M. Crocker

GCAGS Transactions

.... Kieth, B. D., and E. D. Pittman, 1983, Bimodal porosity in oolitic reservoirs--effect on productivity and log response, Rodessa Limestone (Lower...

Porosity and Permeability Estimation Using Acoustic Impedance Inversion and Instantaneous Q Method in BarokahŽ Field, Baturaja Formation, South Sumatera Basin

Diva Alfiansyah, Sulistyo Oetomo Putro, Sismanto, Fatkhul Mu'in

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... oil and gas from a limestone reservoir of the Baturaja Formation. Acoustic impedance inversion, porosity, and permeability estimation are needed...

Giant sediment-wave field and supercritical flows in a distally steepened ramp, Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian), Kentucky–Tennessee, U.S.A.

C. ROBERTSON HANDFORD

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Knifley Sandstone and Cane Valley Limestone: two new members of the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) in south-central Kentucky, in Cohee...

Geophysical Study of a Magma Chamber Near Mussau Island, Papua New Guinea

S. V. Dadisman, M. S. Marlow

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... reconnaissance mapping on Mussau Island has revealed early Miocene shelf limestone, conglomerates containing pebbles of early Miocene planktonic...

Bottom Sediment Charts off the Asiatic Coast

Francis P. Shepard

Tulsa Geological Society

... a correlation of velocities with bottom types. Although surface currents may differ radically from bottom currents, a close relationship between them...