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• Carbonate facies
  ==Platform or ramp development== ...ystem-quality-and-performance_fig9-67.png|thumb|300px|{{figure number|2}}A platform's seaward edge steepens with time because subsidence cannot keep pace with
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• Extended-reach wells
  ...to true vertical depth. The term primarily refers to wells restricted to a platform or pad (because of environmental or economic contraints) that are attemptin
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• Predicting carbonate reservoir location and quality
  ...your situation.<ref name=ch09r49>Read, J. F., 1995, Overview of carbonate platform sequences, cycle stratigraphy and reservoirs in greenhouse and ice-house wo ...me using systems tract maps; use core and log data to infer shorelines and platform edge locations.
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• Offshore exploration and exploitation
  ...drilling is the searching for hydrocarbon resources off of the continental platform. The exploration and exploitation are complex because of the difficulty for ...compliant tower; 4, 5) vertically moored tension leg and mini-tension leg platform; 6) spar; 7, 8) semi-submersibles; 9) floating production, storage, and off
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• Offshore rigs
  ...it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing. In many cases, the platform contains facilities to house the workforce as well. ...eeps the rig from sinking into the soft mud and provides a stable drilling platform.
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• Gravity basics
  ...dynamic gravity measurement, extra care must be taken to keep track of the platform's position. The resulting gravity is usually not as accurate as land data.
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• Gravity data processing
  | Platform's velocity & heading
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• Third-order sequences
  ==Carbonate platform third-order sequence== ...ubs/carbona1/data/a044/a044/0001/0400/0409.htm The Mid-Cretaceous Urgonian platform of S. E. France], in J. A. Simo, R. W. Scott, and J. P. Masse, eds., Cretac
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• Sequences during low-amplitude, high-frequency cycles
  * High-relief buildups absent from the platform top * Reef and/or grainstone facies of platform margins with limited lateral migration, thick and poorly partitioned or hig
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• Sequences during high-amplitude, high-frequency cycles
  ...use conditions:<ref name=ch09r49>Read, J., F., 1995, Overview of carbonate platform sequences, cycle stratigraphy and reservoirs in greenhouse and ice-house wo ...k fourth-order sequences bounded by regional disconformities; sequences on platform margins shingled
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• Sea level cycles and carbonate sequences
  ...ccommodation events, and sequence stratigraphy of Middle to Upper Cambrian platform carbonates, Bonanza King Formation, southern Great Basin], in R. G. Loucks ...oduction until sea level rose enough to allow efficient circulation on the platform.
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• AAPG Wiki:Scope and strategy
  * To be a learning platform.
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• Sequences during moderate-amplitude, high-frequency cycles
  ...reenhouse times.<ref name=ch09r49>Read, J. F., 1995, Overview of carbonate platform sequences, cycle stratigraphy and reservoirs in greenhouse and ice-house wo * Platform tops and ramps of greater slope than greenhouse platforms
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• Cuba: Geology and regional setting
  ...t, Cuba adjoins the [[Gulf of Mexico]] and is separated from the [[Yucatan Platform]] by the narrow but deep [[Yucatan Channel]]. To the south, the [[Yucatan B ...bonate]]s and [[evaporite]]s on the north and a relatively thin section of platform to [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pelagic pelagic] carbonates a
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• Sea level cycles and climate
  ...ons. From Read.<ref name=ch09r49>Read, J., F., 1995, Overview of carbonate platform sequences, cycle stratigraphy and reservoirs in greenhouse and ice-house wo ...system tracts. Climatic conditions of an area are likely to be arid when a platform interior is subaerially exposed during long-term, sea level late highstand
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• Sea level cycles and carbonate diagenesis
  ...t cement types.<ref name=ch09r49>Read, J., F., 1995, Overview of carbonate platform sequences, cycle stratigraphy and reservoirs in greenhouse and ice-house wo ...ace becomes a disconformity. Refluxing brines dolomitize most of the inner platform section. Offshore, shoaling waves cause the deposition of ooid grainstones
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• Depositional trap regime
  ...reservoir. Oil and gas have been trapped in barrier reefs, fringing reefs, platform reefs, atoll reefs, patch reefs, pinnacle reefs, reef mounds (or mud mounts | colspan = 5 | ''Platform reefs''; Larger reefal carbonate buildup in which lateral dimensions are me
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• Oklahoma Shale Gas/Tight Oil Plays
  ...anadian Kingfisher), SCOOP (South Central Oklahoma Oil Province), Cherokee Platform, Arkoma Basin, and Ardmore Basin areas (Fig. 2). Initial potential oil/cond
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• Libya hydrocarbon provinces
  The Cyrenaica Platform and Al Kufrah Basin have had a few oil discoveries but no commercial produc ...the Sirt Basin and its relationships to the Sabratah Basin and Cyrenaican Platform, northern Libya, in M. J. Salem, A. S. El-Hawat, and A. M. Sbeta, eds., Geo
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• Cuba: Geologic history
  Shallow-water platform carbonates, with some evaporites, continued to accumulate in the north (coa ...aporite]]s, to [[breccia]]s. South, west, and possibly east of the Bahamas Platform, deep-water sedimentation of [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pel
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