Efficient Completions in Anisotropic Shale Gas Formations

Saied Mighani, Carl Sondergeld, Chandra Rai

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a wide brittle fracture with larger process zone with twice as much layer activation at lower stress levels. The fracturing process in shale...

Control and Adjustment of Surveys with the Magnetometer or the Torsion Balance

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Bulletin

... is constructed for use in a survey with stations at the corners of sections in a belt five sections wide and many sections long. The presence of additional...

Geophysical Prospecting for Oil

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Bulletin

... of the equipotential lines, that is, the lines along which there is no flow of current, and in others the azimuth and dip of the electro-magnetic field set up...

Improving IRR and Safety through Operational Efficiency

Wayne Jackson, Raj Bal, Mark Lochmann

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the exclusion zones of another vessel and of a wide azimuth (WAZ) fleet operating in the area. The vessel was not aware of the situation and once informed...

An Interpreter's Guide to Improvements in Depth Imaging Through Model-Based Velocity Estimation and Refinement

Andy Furniss

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... complicated and terms to account for the dip azimuth must also be introduced. Despite these corrections, the Dix transform will still produce...

Stratigraphy and Diagenesis of Sonora Canyon Deep-Water Sandstones, Val Verde Basin, Southwest Texas

H. Scott Hamlin, Sigrid J. Clift, Shirley P. Dutton

West Texas Geological Society

..., and Harrison, C. W., 1991, In-situ stress profiling and prediction of hydraulic fracture azimuth for the Canyon Sans Formation, Sonora and Sawyer fields...

An Interpreter's Guide to Improvements in Depth Imaging through Model-Based Velocity Estimation and Refinement

Andy Furniss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... complicated and terms to account for the dip azimuth must also be introduced. Despite these corrections, the Dix transform will still produce incorrect...

Geomechanics Helped to Understand the Underperformance of Fracture Treatments and Optimization for Future Operations

Khalil Rahman, Cahyo Nugroho, Dicky Hilmawan, Sugiri Umar Khiram, Wahyu Syukur

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... offset wells showed a SHmax azimuth of 65o ± 10o, which was also consistent with the regional stress map data. To profile the minimum horizontal stress...

Flexure Trend Slope Fan Deposition Gulf of Mexico

Robert K. Sawyer , Terrence C. O'Hearn

GCAGS Transactions

... the turbidite deposit exhibit a wide range of randomly-oriented scatter, magnitude, and azimuth directions. These data fit the criteria of a "yellow" pattern...

A fractal model for hydrocarbon resource assessment with an application to the natural gas play of volcanic reservoirs in Songliao Basin, China

Caineng Zou, Qiulin Guo, Jinghong Wang, Hongbing Xie

CSPG Bulletin

... of anisotropic stochastic process, β is a function of direction and H can be defined as a function of the azimuth angle, θ. The 2D fractal model can...

Evaluating Refrac Economic Potential and Primary-Infill Relative Well Performance in Permian Organic Shales

Robert Barba, John Stroder, Mark Villarreal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... as 400 BPD. The FDIs were slightly offset from the maximum principal stress azimuth as there was a major well mapped fault in the field suggesting...

Optimization Well Spacing for Development of Shale Oil Reservoirs using Integration of Data Analytics, Geomechanics Modeling, Pilots, and Economic Analysis

Zhengdong Lei, Kun Dai, Xiangji Dou, Jianchao Shi, Zhangxin Chen, Zhouyuan Zhu, Zhen Tao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in the X233 block are more effective. Figure 6. Fracture azimuth distribution characteristics On this basis, a structural model for this region...

Maximizing Project Value in Vaca Muerta Shale Formation, Part 2: Simultaneous Optimization of Well Spacing and Completion Design - Case of Study

Alejandro Lerza, Sergio Cuervo, Sahil Malhotra

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (length, spacing, azimuth, dip, cohesion). With respect to the hydraulic fracture simulation work, Malhotra et al. 2021, has already provided...

An Integrated Approach to Development Optimization Using Monitor Wells and Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostics in the Permian Basin

Ripudaman Manchanda, Yueming Liang, Holger Meier, Karthik Srinivasan, Sergio Leonardi, Mary Johns, Shelby Lyons, Owen Hehmeyer, Justin Eckes, Jonathan Zybala, Alberto Ortega, Kshitij Mohan, Dalton Vice, Satish Kumar Dayalan, Saurabh Rasal, Jake Kamps, Kendal Decker, Peeyush Bhargava, Prasad Sumant, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Isha Sahni, Matthew Bourke, Rayssa Sanchez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pilot presented in this paper required a multi-disciplinary effort from team members with a wide variety of skill sets – drilling, completions, geology...

Clay Minerals of Laramie Formation, Golden, Colorado, Identified by X-ray Diffraction

Arthur James Gude, rd

AAPG Bulletin

... wide by a half-mile long, with the long sides parallel to the strike of the sediments, was selected for the geologic investigation. Short...

Estimation of Gas-hydrate Saturation and Heterogeneity on Cascadia Margin from Ocean Drilling Project Leg 204 Logging-while-drilling Measurements

Aleksandra Janik, David Goldberg, Gilles Guerin, Timothy Collett

AAPG Special Volumes

...)-wide ridge in the Cascadia accretionary complex located 80 km (50 mi) offshore from Newport, Oregon, that has formed as a consequence of subduction...

Mudstones and Thin-bedded Turbidites Associated with the Upper Cretaceous Wheeler Gorge Conglomerates, California: A Possible Channel-Levee Complex

Roger G. Walker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... mudstones deformed in the slump of unit 1. Scale in centimeters, stratigraphic top to left. FIG. 6. Stereonet showing azimuth and rake of slump-fold...

Basement Influence on Later Deformation: The Problem, Techniques of Investigation, and Examples from Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Richard A. Hoppin , John C. Palmquist

AAPG Bulletin

... Mountains are about 120 miles long and 25 to 30 miles wide. The range strikes north-south at the southern end, becoming north-northwest...

Los Angeles Erosion Surface of Middle Cretaceous Age

A. O. Woodford , Craig Gander

AAPG Bulletin

... with approximately the same azimuth southeast beyond Newport Beach (Fig. 3). If it is farther east, it may pass beneath the western San Joaquin Hills...

Use of Seismic Data for Statistical Estimation of Outcome Probabilities of Complexly Faulted Structures in Tabasco Basin, Mexico

Juan M. Berlanga , John W. Harbaugh

AAPG Bulletin

... available, ranging from information obtained in wide-spaced reconnaissance surveys, to close-spaced seismic lines which provide detail for individual...

Frequency-dependent seismic-stratigraphic and facies interpretation

Hongliu Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

... in seismic character, including amplitude, continuity, dip and azimuth, contact relationship, and others. Some interpretational pitfalls...

CSPG/CSEG/CWLS Convention 2006; - Abstracts, #90211 (2015).

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MINTON POOL, SOUTH-CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN: A MODEL FOR BASEMENT INDUCED STRUCTURAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS

D. POTTER, A. ST. ONGE

Williston Basin Symposium

... to an azimuth N 12° E of maximum horizontal compression. Distinct lithologic changes are recognized along individual basement...

Demonstrating an Acceptable Level of Impact: An Assessment of Noise Impacts to Fishes from a Seismic Survey in an Australian Marine Park

Joe Edgell, Jeremy Colman, Samantha Jarvis, Ollie Glade-Wright

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... such as the limited available information The APPEA Journal 77 about the seafloor geology, the accuracy of the location and azimuth of the autonomous recorder...

A Salt-Related Detachment Model for the Development of the Vulcan Sub-Basin

E. P. Woods

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... relationships within the Jurassic section of the Vulcan Sub- basin. The Callovian Unconformity marks the onset of basin-wide subsidence and structuring...