Geostatistical and Flow Modeling of Intrareservoir Mudstones

Christopher D. White

Special Publications of SEPM

... data and inherent limitations in seismic resolution preclude direct inference of intrareservoir mudstone dimensions. The following sections briefly...

Subaerial Exposure Environment: Chapter 1: PART 1

Mateu Esteban, Colin F. Klappa

AAPG Special Volumes

... periods following orogenic episodes because of: (1) the Click to view image in JPEG format. Fig. 20. [Color] Speleothem. Plan view of vertical solution...

Stylolites and Porosity In A Lower Cretaceous Limestone Reservoir, Onshore Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

Stephen N. Ehrenberg, Sadoon Morad, Liu Yaxin, Rulin Chen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Chen 2016 1228 1247 Vol. 86 (2016) No. 10. (October) Abstract The vertical distribution of bedding-parallel stylolites in cores from the approximately...

Seismogenic Deformation Structures in Microbialites and Mudstones, Silurian Lockport Dolomite, Northwestern Ohio, U.S.A.

Charles F. Kahle

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-supported chaotic breccias and clast-supported mosaic breccias with fitted clasts (Fig. 3E, F). Abrupt to gradational, lateral, and vertical changes...

Compaction and Micromechanics of a Mudstone Reservoir

Evan M. C. Kias, Jose Hasbani, John Degenhardt, Roberto Suarez-Rivera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the formation. Figure 3. Visible light and micro-CT images of Vaca Muerta samples highlight the variation in morphology of carbonate minerals. VM vertical...

Maintaining and Repairing Casing Integrity - Workshop Summary

Alan Snider, Don Vogtsberger, Ed Barret, Stefanie Merkel, Rodney Reynolds, Wes Randall, John Francis, Sam Toscano

PTTC

... and casing is the downhole video pipe inspection. Unlike earlier versions in the 1970s, today's cameras are color, smaller, higher resolution...

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

J. F. Sarg

Special Publications of SEPM

... with mineralogically unstable grains, significant solution will occur over the shelf in the shallow portion of the underlying highstand carbonate platform...

Determination of Sedimentation Rates by Magnetic Spherule Abundances

Thomas A. Mutch, Robert E. Garrison

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-by-particle deposition, primarily of planktonic organisms, in a starved basin. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES Processing of salt involved solution of samples in water...

Delineation of a Thin Sandstone Reservoir Using Seismic Lithologic Modeling in the Taber-Turin Area, Alberta

Tom Guidish and Marc DeBuyl

AAPG Special Volumes

... approach was implemented in this study to produce a velocity model that delineates the vertical and lateral extent of a thin reservoir, and estimates...

If It Is So Easy, Why Dont You Come Do It Yourself? A Response to What I Wish My Geologist Knew About Drilling: A Drilling Engineers View of GeosteeringŽ

Raymond L. Woodward, Samuel F. Noynaert

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to differential deposition, differential compaction, or both. As above, limited vertical well control and the realistic limits of seismic resolution...

Lower Mesozoic and Upper Paleozoic Petroleum Potential of the Hingeline Area, Central Utah

Floyd C. Moulton

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... this area unique and different. Some resolution of the puzzle is now possible with the accumulation of data from exploratory wells and from extensive...

Simultaneous 3D 4C - OBC & VSP Walkaway Survey in the Attaka Field, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Bill Borland, Phil Johnston, Mike Reblin, Suta Vijaya, Omar Kulbrandstad, Muhammad Idrees, Scott Leaney, Jan van de Mortel

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as the OBC recording. In addition, a stand-alone high-resolution "mini"-3D walkaway was recorded immediately after the OBC survey around the well...

Residual Oil Saturation and Displacement Sweep Efficiency Computation Using Openhole Resistivity Log Data: An Example from a Brownfield in Mahakam Area

Hidayat Mukmin, Gde Wirawan, Haris Kurniawan Hidayat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... log represents mesoscopic to macroscopic depending on the log vertical resolution, and field simulation and geomodeling represent megascopic scale...

The Value of Microseismic Monitoring and Interpretation of Microseismic Event Hypocenters … Myths, Misconceptions, Realities, and Opportunities

Erkan Ay, Nigel Payne, Joel Le Calvez, Herve Denaclara

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... mapping, 4D seismic mapping, crosswell tomography high resolution imaging, surface electromagnetic mapping, surface seismo-electric mapping...

Integrated Geomechanical Interpretation of Hydraulic Stimulation Operations Using Distributed Vibration Sensing

Michael Williams, Joel Le Calvez, Colin Wilson, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...., 2014). The same approach can also be used to estimate the time-lapse Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) response, which is another way DAS has been used...

Challenges in Pore Pressure Prediction for Unconventional Petroleum Systems, #42018 (2017).

Changrui Gong, Lucia Rodriguez

Search and Discovery.com

... in most basins.” 5 METHODS OF PORE PRESSURE PREDICTION GEOPHYSICAL BASIS Velocity or frequency analysis. Vertical resolution dependent on seismic...

Seismic to Well Ties with Problematic Sonic Logs, by Don Burch, #40078 (2003)

Search and Discovery.com

Pressure and Rate-transient Behavior of a Horizontal Well Intercepting Multiple Vertical Fractures within a Fractal Reservoir

Alex R. Valdes-Perez, Leif Larsen, Thomas A. Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Pressure and Rate-transient Behavior of a Horizontal Well Intercepting Multiple Vertical Fractures within a Fractal Reservoir Alex R. Valdes-Perez...

Enhancing Consistency Between Geological Modeling and Seismic Pre-Stack Amplitude Inversion With Pseudo-Wells: An Example From the Gendalo Field

David Glenn, Febry Hariyannugraha, Rhys Schneider, Khristina Kirschner, Skip Walden, Steve Smith, Eduardo Berendson, Chris Skelt, Leonard Lisapaly, Robert van Eykenhof, Mark Sams

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... resolution than the input seismic data. The process works by removing the wavelets from the angle stacks, converting seismic interface properties...

Multiwell Transient Model for Fractured Horizontal Wells with Complex Geometries

Vincent Artus

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... URTeC 3967527 2 This model provides a new solution for transient, nonlinear numerical simulation of fractured horizontal wells with complex...

Novel Monitoring Technology Helps to Make Informed Decisions and Maximize the Efficiency of Completion Strategy

Sergey Parkhonyuk, Roman Korkin, Artem Kabannik, Andrey Fedorov, Max Nikolaev, Fedor Litvinets

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... vertical; 16,299 horizontal wells were drilled in 2017 in contrast to 6,575 vertical wells drilled (Spears 2017).  The era of swellable packers...

Extended Abstract: Improved Mechanical and Natural Fracture Model of the Lower Austin Chalk Using Outcrop, Core, and Well Logs, Central Texas

Chris Zahm

GCAGS Transactions

... (e.g., orientation, length, and intensity) and construct a high-resolution outcrop fracture model, demonstrate the challenges of vertical...

Evidence for latest Pleistocene to Holocene movement on the Santa Cruz Island fault, California

Nicholas Pinter, Christopher Sorlien

Pacific Section SEPM

... solution of the interaction of sea-level rise with uplift at the west end of Santa Cruz Island predicts that the youngest strata in the faulted terrace...

Anthropogenic Sinkholes in the Delaware Basin Region: West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

Lewis Land

West Texas Geological Society

.... These anthropogenic sinkholes are often associated with improperly cased abandoned oil wells, or with solution mining of salt beds in the shallow subsurface...

Core-flood Effluent and Shale Surface Chemistries in Predicting Interaction between Shale, Brine, and Reactive Fluid

Asli S. Gundogar, Jennifer L. Druhan, Cynthia M. Ross, Adam D. Jew, John R. Bargar, Anthony R. Kovscek

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... In the initial core-flood experiment with the Marcellus outcrop, simplified fluid compositions were used. A low salinity (0.5 M) NaCl solution served...