Platforms for Deep Water: Gulf of Mexico Development

B. E. Cox

New Orleans Geological Society

... is intended to provide the reader with general characteristics about platform types and show how operational requirements impact alternative evaluation...

Imaging a San Andres Reservoir with Interwell Seismic

James H. Justice, J. Craig Woerpel

West Texas Geological Society

... in the project were spaced from about 700 feet to one-half mile apart, with the reservoir found at about 4,800 feet subsurface. The types of images which have...

A Comparison of Core and Crosswell Seismic Data from a Carbonate Reservoir

K.E. Tucker and P.M. Harris

Search and Discovery.com

... a crosswell profile. McElroy Field is a very mature field; i.e., close well spacing and advanced types of reservoir processing are either already in place...

Up-Estuary Variation of Sedimentary Facies and Ichnocoenoses in an Open-Mouthed, Macrotidal, Mixed-Energy Estuary, Gomso Bay, Korea

Byongcheon Yang, Robert W. Dalrymple, Murray K. Gingras, Seungsoo Chun, Heejun Lee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in estuarine sedimentation. Because of up-estuary decrease in wave energy, physical structures pass up-estuary from wave-dominated planar lamination...

Wave-Formed, Coarse-Grained Ripples and their Relationship to Hummocky Cross-Stratification

Dale Leckie

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... certain types of hummocky cross-stratification. This conclusion is strongly supported by comparisons of wave conditions for CGR and hummocky cross...

Advanced Technology Improves Natural Fracture Prediction - Workshop Summary

Doug Pachen, Rob Finley, Bob Heim, Steve Laubach, Bob Hardage

PTTC

.... A newly available shaped-charge source can create S waves for fracture identification. P-to-S wave mode conversion was demonstrated to be as effective...

Hydrodynamic influences on sedimentology and geomorphology of nearshore parts of carbonate ramps: Holocene, NE Yucatán Shelf, Mexico

Thomas C. Neal, Christian M. Appendini, Eugene C. Rankey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the study area—it likely extends to greater depths) with a variety of bottom types. Rocky bottoms are exposed in locations where wave, tidal...

Using Ichnology to Determine Relative Influence of Waves, Storms, Tides, and Rivers in Deltaic Deposits: Examples From Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, U.S.A.

M. Royhan Gani, Janok P. Bhattacharya, James A. Maceachern

Special Publications of SEPM

... time. Consequently, many deltaic successions may not be simply classified as endmember types (i.e., ‘wave-dominated’, river-dominated, or ‘tide...

Basic Types of Carbonate Platforms

J.F. Read

Special Publications of SEPM

...Basic Types of Carbonate Platforms J.F. Read Copyright © 2012 Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Milankovitch Sea-Level Changes, Cycles...

A New Solid Streamer Design

Rune Tenghamn, Andrew Long

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... streamers. In marginal weather conditions, streamers are towed in a water layer subject to w in g and wave-induced turbulence. The most significant amount...

Application of 3D converted wave processing technology in imaging of gas cloud area

Mingxing Xue, Zhijun Zhang, Jinhui Zhang, Zhen Ma

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Application of 3D converted wave processing technology in imaging of gas cloud area Mingxing Xue, Zhijun Zhang, Jinhui Zhang, Zhen Ma Application...

Equivalent reflection coefficient and AVO characteristics of the thin bed

Zhengyang Kuai, Danping Cao, Chao Jin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., the exact thin-layer PP wave reflection coefficient consisting of reflection and transmission coefficients of top and bottom interface is derived...

Deep learning approach to inverting flexural wave dispersion

Hengjian Zhang, Zhifen Sun, Xianzhi Li, Xiaofang Sun, Chu Wang, Ya Jin, Xiaofei Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Deep learning approach to inverting flexural wave dispersion Hengjian Zhang, Zhifen Sun, Xianzhi Li, Xiaofang Sun, Chu Wang, Ya Jin, Xiaofei Wang...

Converted-Wave Prestack Time Imaging without using P-Wave

Search and Discovery.com

...Converted-Wave Prestack Time Imaging without using P-Wave Converted-Wave Prestack Time Imaging without using P-Wave Xiaogui Miao* CGGVeritas...

Time-Lapse Acoustic Monitoring of Facture Alteration in Marcellus Shale

Jihui Ding, Anthony C. Clark, Tiziana Vanorio, Adam D. Jew, John R. Bargar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... fluid flow. There is a wide range of alteration types from geochemical reactions to proppant emplacement, which requires understanding how various...

Modern River Deltas: Variability of Processes and Sand Bodies

J. M. Coleman, L. D. Wright

Houston Geological Society

... displaying steep offshore slopes and a low rate of subsidence and where wave power and tide range are highly variable. Figure 8. Types of delta shifting...

Depositional Facies Across Carbonate Shelf Margins

James Lee Wilson

GCAGS Transactions

..., prevailing rock types, color, microfacies, sedimentary structure, terrigenous content, and characteristic biota. Description of this very widespread...

Lithofacies and Depositional Environments of Middle Ordovician Shelf Carbonates in the Southern Appalachians

Alison Lee

GCAGS Transactions

... because of the abundance of indigenous algal types. Packstone lithologies were probably deposited very near wave base where occasional wave and current...

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

... percent Shallow water carbonate rocks contain a wide variety of porosity types and present a special problem to the geologist involved in subsurface work...

Storm-Influenced Inner-Shelf Sand Lobes in the Caradoc (Ordovician) of Shropshire, England

Patrick J. Brenchley, Geoffrey Newall

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... hummocky bedding. In the upper formation the mudstones are commonly bioturbated but also have many wave-rippled silty horizons. The interbedded thick...

Computer Simulation of Nearshore Sediment Transport: ABSTRACT

Graeme F. Bonham-Carter

AAPG Bulletin

... and subaqueous topography, assuming constant wave conditions? A computer simulation model is used to explore these questions. Components of the model...

Abstract: Stoneley: The Permeability Probability Log; #90211 (2015)

Nabil Al-Adani and Doug Hardman

Search and Discovery.com

..., Canada Abstract Over decades, Stoneley measur ement was considered the c losest measurement of formation permeability. Biot wave propagation in por...

Abstract: Hunting for the Alida with New Arrows: A Shear Wave Case Study; #90225 (2015)

Jim Pullishy and Robert Kendall

Search and Discovery.com

...Abstract: Hunting for the Alida with New Arrows: A Shear Wave Case Study; #90225 (2015) Jim Pullishy and Robert Kendall AAPG Datapages/Search...

Allocyclic and autocyclic controls on facies distribution in interdistributary bayfill deposits of the Campanian Neslen Formation, Eastern Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A.

Jostein Myking Kjærefjord, Scott Bullimore

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Wave-influenced deltas: geomorphological implications for facies reconstruction: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 187–210. Bhattacharya, J.P., and Walker, R.G....

Facies architecture of a net transgressive sandstone reservoir analog: The Cretaceous Hosta Tongue, New Mexico

Peter J. Sixsmith, Gary J. Hampson, Sanjeev Gupta, Howard D. Johnson, John F. Fofana

AAPG Bulletin

... complex.The Hosta sandstone contains a complex arrangement of wave- and tide-dominated facies associations arranged in an overall transgressive pattern...