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• Sand peel
  [[File:SandPeel.JPG|thumbnail|300px|Portion of a wood mounted sand peel]] ...ethods_of_core_preservation|cores]] or outcrops of unconsolidated sands. Sand peels allow for the capture of details in sedimentary features for analysis
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• Sand peel
  [[File:SandPeel.JPG|thumbnail|300px|Portion of a wood mounted sand peel]] ...ethods_of_core_preservation|cores]] or outcrops of unconsolidated sands. Sand peels allow for the capture of details in sedimentary features for analysis
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• Migration pathway map construction
  ...lt trap regime|faults]] and those parts of faults that juxtapose sand with sand as well as those faults that [[Cross-sealing faults|cross-seal]] or [[Cross | Defines sand-sand and sand-shale juxtaposition and potential [[Cross-leaking faults#Juxtaposed litholo
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• How fault zones affect seal
  ...between seal behavior and the inferred sand-shale ratio of the fault zone. Sand-rich portions of the fault zone leak; shale-rich portions of the fault zone ...ar gouge along a normal fault found in a sequence of Permian-Carboniferous sand and shales near Lynemouth, U.K..]]
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• Cross-bedding
  ...dstone near Mt. Carmel road, Zion Canyon, Utah, indicating wind action and sand dune formation prior to formation of rock.]]
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• Fault plane profile construction
  ...juxtaposed across the fault. By doing so, they show areas of sand/sand and sand/shale juxtaposition, establish seal relationships, define potential fault-d ..._fig10-15.png|Figure 1]] is a simple example of a fault plane profile. The sand reservoirs in the hanging wall (dark gray) and footwall (light gray) are sh
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• Gypsum
  ...at Great Salt Plains Lake, Oklahoma. The crystals form around grains of sand and clay to give the distinctive shape. Collected by Sara and Andrew Allen
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• Fault seal analysis example: Gulf Coast
  ...nging wall (R_u) are juxtaposed with water-wet sands of the 7100 sand in the footwall (R_d). .... Cross-seal (left) occurs where the 7100 sand is juxtaposed with the 7200 sand. This cross-sealing segment is characterized by low SGRs (blue). Cross-leak
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• Sediment thickness and field location maps: Gulf of Mexico example
  Sedimentary-basin-analysis fig4-4.png|{{figure number|2}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to Recent. A ==Map of major sand influxes==
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• Bioturbation
  ...e or decrease porosity and permeability. For instance, burrows filled with sand grains in a mud or clay unit could be conduits for fluid flow if connected.
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• East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy
  # Delineate prospective areas by looking for lowstand sand-prone areas. Use trends of [[isochron]] thicks basinward of each deposition # Map seismic facies and structures of sand-prone intervals to locate prospects.
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• Smear-gouge ratio
  Smear-gouge ratio is the ratio of sand to [[shale]] that has moved past some critical portion of the fault plane.<
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• Fault plane profile
  ...juxtaposed across the fault. By doing so, they show areas of sand/sand and sand/shale juxtaposition, establish seal relationships, define potential fault-d ..._fig10-15.png|Figure 1]] is a simple example of a fault plane profile. The sand reservoirs in the hanging wall (dark gray) and footwall (light gray) are sh
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• Sandstone diagenesis: composition and texture
  ...neralogy and sediment maturity. Mechanical and chemical weathering affects sand grains during transportation. The final product reflects the origin, amount ...57, no. 2, p. 349–369.</ref> Size does affect permeability; the finer the sand, the lower the permeability. [[Permeability]] indirectly affects porosity t
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• Israel petroleum systems
  | Quaternary || 27 || Hula || Hula || 1991 || Huyla Sand || Continental [[sandstone]], [[coal]] || Gas || Structural/stratigraphic | | Pliocene || 25 || Gaza Marine || Yafo || 2000 || Yafo Sand || [[Turbidite]] sandstone || Gas || Stratigraphic || Saqiye Group || Yafo
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• Tar sands
  ...l of total bitumen and extra-heavy oil in place in the presently known tar-sand deposits. Following the definitions discussed above, the [https://en.wikipe The only other major tar-sand deposits may be located in the former Soviet Union, but they are poorly und
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• Subregional and local pressure compartments
  ...at may form local pressure compartments are fault blocks, sand lenses, and sand wedges developed in [[growth fault]]s.
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• Cross-leaking fault
  ...</sub> of the R_d sand is greater than that of the R_u sand. The fault is cross leaking despite different OWCs. ...sand/sand juxtaposition along the fault. Hydrocarbons leak across the sand/sand juxtapositions.
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• Rock physics analysis for reservoir identification
  ...and A and Sand B have different properties due to the presence of clays in Sand B. ...ock physics properties between clean sandstone (Sand A), clayey sandstone (Sand B), and claystone.]]
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• Seal capacity of different rock types
  ...e some true shales as well as siltstones, silty mudstones, and interbedded sand/shale cores. ==Sand seals==
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• Reservoir simulations and field unitization
  ...e seal behavior, [[transmissibility]], [[permeability]], nor areas of sand/sand juxtaposition are constant over the entire fault surface.
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• Systems tracts and trap types
  ...graphic, but postdepositional [[deformation]] that places the gravity-flow sand deposit in a structurally high position enhances the potential for focused ...essive systems tract overlie the lowstand systems tract–prograding complex sand-prone facies, providing excellent top seal to the underlying sandy reservoi
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• Facies map
  ...oured parallel to the depositional dip of the slope valleys down which the sand was transported. ==Net sand map==
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• Sandstone provenance and characterization
  ...to transport them and to make them deposited. That’s why we can found the sand deposit or sandstone almost in everywhere. ...sandstone. Knowing the composition, may help us to understand where is the sand sediment come from and what is the source rocks of deposit, so we can inter
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• Migration by solution in water
  ==Diffusion in shale vs. Sand==
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• Superimposed sea level cycles
  ...of siliciclastic deposition are likely to transport significant volumes of sand into the basin, depositing potential reservoir facies. Transgressive phases ...d of three phases (Figure 4-18). The lowstand phase may consist of basinal sand-prone mounds (basin-floor fans) and shelf-edge deltas. The transgressive ph
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• Quantitative fault seal analysis
  ...ationship between the observed sealing behavior of faults and the inferred sand–shale content of the fault zone.<ref name=ch10r7>Bouvier, J., D., Kaars-S ...io is high in the zone (high SGR). A fault cross-seals or dip-seals if the sand–shale ratio is low in the zone (low SGR).
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• Sandstone porosity and permeability prediction
  ...s of major sandstone depositional environments, especially with respect to sand body geometries.</ref> cover the impact of depositional environment on poro
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• How faults control trap fill and migration pathways
  ...the flank of the structure against [[cross-sealing faults]] that have sand/sand juxtapositions. Wells in three fault compartments (211/18-5, 10, and 16) in
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• Amplitude versus offset (AVO) analysis
  file:amplitude-versus-offset-avo-analysis_fig2.png|{{figure number|2}}Brine sand model. file:amplitude-versus-offset-avo-analysis_fig3.png|{{figure number|3}}Gas sand model.
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• Perforation design
  [[file:UreigaAlmandiFigure12.jpg|thumb|200px|{{figure number|12}}Sand control completion flow chart.]] ==Summary Sand Completion Flow Chart==
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• Relating traps to paleogeography
  ...4-41.png|Figure 2]]). The anticlines continue to grow, and the tilt of the sand body becomes progressively more accentuated as each successive cycle of [[S ...s_fig4-40.png|Figure 1]], producing fields are along the 200-ft (60-m) net sand [[contour]] or beyond rather than in the axial thick. This is because of gr
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• Migration pathway
  * Petroleum is deflected laterally through sand-rich sections by overlying shale-rich sections. A map of the structure at the top of the main sand-rich section is required to make a petroleum migration map. Generally, a ma
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• Scientific method: application to exploration
  * A simple gross sand [[Subsurface maps#Isopach|isopach]] map that is essentially unaltered by re ...Seismic interpretation|seismic–stratigraphic interpretation]] of a similar sand unit. Although prepared with an impressive degree of advanced technical com
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• Sandstone
  [[File:Sandstone_Fig-1.png|thumb|300px|Fig 1. Udden-Wentworth Grain Scale (Sand scale) (Derived from Nichols)<ref name=Nichols>Nichols, G., 2009, Sedimento ...in size]] has a wide range of scale, from very coarse sand until very find sand. For the grain size measurement, its use a formula proposed by Krumbein in
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• Forward modeling of seismic data
  ...with observed seismic sections, provides a means of accurately determining sand thickness where well data are sparse or absent.
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• Example: mapping depocenters through time
  file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-4.png|{{figure number|1}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to recently. ...m from approximately 6 Ma to 4 Ma (interval A). Deposition consists of net sand isopach thicks on the shelf and intraslope basins that are interpreted to b
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• San Juan basin
  ...]] contains deposits of [[natural gas]], [[oil]], [[coal]], [[uranium]], [[sand]], [[gravel]], [[limestone]], [[humate]], [[gypsum]], road metal, building
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• Cross-sealing fault
  ...g10-6.png|Figure 1]]. Both oil and gas are prevented from flowing into the sand in the hanging wall (R_d) by the cross-sealing fault.
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• Pressure prediction: reconstructing burial history
  In the case of a sand body carried deeper by a [[growth fault]], first plot the [[Normal hydrosta
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• Limitations of quantitative fault seal analysis
  ...l faults in [[compression]], “[[shale-outs]],” and the lack of [[lateral]] sand continuity in [[fluvial]] sequences can affect seal behavior.
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• Yowlumne field
  ...X-Z and Y-Z showing basinward-stepping geometries exhibited by lobe-shaped sand bodies that make up the Yowlumne Sandstone. Note 660 m (2100 ft) of structu ...schultz_1992>Marino, A. W., and S. M. Schultz, 1992, Case study of Stevens sand horizontal well: Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 24910, p. 549-563.</re
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• Identifying sea level cycle phase with biostratigraphy
  ...ew may reflect very shallow water depths due to downslope transport of the sand by [[gravity]]-flow processes. Data from shelf environments have a differen ...the shelf, depositing it directly on the upper slope. Remobilized sand and sand supplied directly from rivers during floods may be transported downslope by
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• East Breaks reservoir rock
  ...tions. All four reservoir intervals are interpreted to be [[gravity]]-flow sand deposits.<ref name=ch04r7>Armentrout, J. M., 1991, Paleontological constrai ...pontaneous potential with true vertical depth displays. The GA-4 reservoir sand is below the displayed interval. Log profiles are annotated: arrow C = funn
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• Siliciclastic shorelines and barrier island reservoirs
  ...M91FG191.JPG|Figure 1]]). Wave action and occasional storms act to deposit sand along the shoreface. The lower shoreface lies below fair-weather wave base M91Ch11FG73.JPG|{{figure number|2}}[[Lithofacies map]] for the upper Piper Sand interval of the Scott field, UK North Sea (from Guscott et al.<ref name=Gus
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• Deep-water marine reservoirs
  ...eting and finding a large number of hydrocarbon pools in deep-water marine-sand systems. Only about 20% of these reservoirs had been developed to 2004.<ref ...eep-water sandstones may be ponded and stacked vertically into very thick, sand-rich intervals (Table 1). These reservoirs are very profitable as they can
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• Fluvial input through time: Gulf of Mexico example
  sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-4.png|{{figure number|1}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to Holocene.
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• Delta plain, lower
  ...r and are separated by broad evaporative sequences. From the standpoint of sand-body formation, the major environmental sequence consists of bay-fill depos ...sequence. E. [[Core_description#Maturity|Well-sorted]] and cross-laminated sand layers alternating with silts and silty clays associated with the lower par
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• Agglutinated microfossils
  ...r tests. The sedimentary particles used by these forms may include silt or sand grains, [[glauconite]], [[sponge spicule]]s, or even other foraminiferal te
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• Natural gas occurrence
  ...is being investigated in other parts of the world. Natural gas from tight-sand reservoirs is also becoming a substantial part of the total natural gas pro
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• Depositional environments
  ...nstruction in [[cross section]]. These deposits consist of abundant gravel-sand detritus on mostly fairly steep depositional slope. They are poorly sorted ...racteristic morphology, called oxbow lake. In braided river, deposition of sand and gravel grain sizes happens around the channel.
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• East Breaks hydrocarbon accumulation model
  ...o-west reflection amplitude termination is stratigraphically controlled by sand distribution. This petroleum-associated reflection amplitude pattern is in ...ell developed in this well. The depositional model for a delta-front sheet sand extending over the entire postdepositional anticline is likely to have four
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• Botucatu Formation
  ...and coarse-grained sandstones, representing ephemeral streams and aeolian sand sheet deposits. It consists mainly of fine to medium-grained quartz sandsto
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• Fracking
  ...horizontal well]] at some point. The next stage is the injection of water, sand and chemicals (fracking fluid) high pressure into the well. Injection, foll
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• Paleogeography and prospect identification
  ...servoir, from higher to lower pressure regimes. Such avenues might include sand-prone pathways, faults, salt walls, and [[Unconformity|unconformities]].
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• Eolian reservoirs
  Eolian sediments comprise desert sediments and coastal sand dunes, much of which are wind deposited. They can form thick and laterally ...s ([[:file:M91FG170.JPG|Figure 1]]). Dunes form where large volumes of dry sand are blown across the landscape. Lying between the dunes are the interdune a
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• Sandstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
  ...while transporting and depositing the coarser (sand-sized) particles. Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yel ...while transporting and depositing the coarser (sand-sized) particles. Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yel
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• Quick-look lithology from logs
  ...|300px|{{figure number|1}}Characteristic log shapes for different types of sand bodies set in shale, (a) Funnel shape, coarsening upward. Note that this is The shape of a gamma ray (or SP) log through a sand body is often thought of as a [[grain size]] profile. Three basic log shape
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• Fault control on hydrocarbon distribution
  ...seal is created by shale-prone gouge with low shale gouge ratios (SGR) or sand and shale juxtaposition.
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• Taphonomy and provenance
  * Generating [[paleocurrent]] models for sand transport
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• Niobrara & Codell of the Denver-Julesburg Basin
  ...sly composed of three facies: a lower bioturbated zone, a middle laminated sand zone containing many small shale drapes and cross beds, and an upper biotur ...mile and then two-mile laterals and evolving completion fluid volumes and sand loads (Ladd, 2001; Birmingham et al, 2006; Milne and Cumella, 2014). DJ Bas
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• Well log analysis for reservoir characterization
  ...haly or shale, when the low gamma ray reading indicates a clean formation (sand, carbonate, [[evaporite]], etc.), lithology interpretation is very importan | Average Sand || 1.45 || 1.54
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• Water resistivity determination
  ...ater-resistivity_fig1.png|Figure 1]]. These are arbitrary limits, with the sand lines normally representing the maximum deflection to the left and shale li ...e line to the maximum deflection developed in a thick, clean, waterbearing sand is referred to as the ''static SP'', or SSP.
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• Utica Shale, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky
  ...as the largest effect on the estimated ultimate recovery and the amount of sand used as a fracture proppant in Pennsylvania and West Virginia a numerically
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• Deltaic environments
  ...between the lush vegetation of the Nile delta and river course and the dry sand of the Sahara can be seen spectacularly in this enhanced true colour Medium ...rocesses resulting in complex redistribution of the deltaic sediment. Thus sand bodies within deltas display a variety of geometries and vertical-sequence
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• Braided fluvial reservoirs
  Sandy braided river systems show an intricate geometry of small bars, sand flats, and vegetated islands ([[:file:M91FG181.JPG|Figure 1]]). The river f ...ver sediments from the Morrison Formation of Utah. Individual single-story sand bodies have a mean width of 271 m (889 ft) and a mean thickness of 5 m (16
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• Carbonate diagenesis
  ...ent from which [[gypsum]] and [[halite]] are deposited. [[Sand dune|Eolian sand dunes]] composed of siliciclastic or carbonate grains may form on the supra ...o shoreline. Shorelines that face heavy wave action accumulate [[carbonate sand]] or gravel. [[Tidal current]]s are concentrated in channels between island
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• Thelma field
  ...arly [[Volgian]] Brae member and the “latest” early to middle–late Volgian sand–shale member ([[:file:M115CH11FG05.jpg|Figure 5]]). Both members represen ...r geological time. A thin shale, only 10–15 ft (3–4.6 m) hick, divides the sand-shale member but still seals over geological time. This shale may correspon
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• Dipmeter
  ...minated shaly sands can be best accomplished by a sensitive delineation of sand and shale layers. Rather than running a tool designed exclusively for this ...volume fraction of shale in laminated form for input into laminated shaly sand saturation equations.
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• EMD Bitumen/Heavy Oil Committee
  ...ly, the United States is producing commercial quantities of heavy oil from sand deposits in two principal areas, the San Joaquin Basin of central Californi
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• Delta plain, upper
  ...cycle of a braided channel. C. Ripple drift bedding separated by parallel sand laminations.<ref name=Colemanandprior_1981>Coleman, J. M., and D. B. Prior, ...ng-upward cycles (which are commonly truncated) occur within the resulting sand body. Each fining-upward cycle (owing to deposition of a laterally migratin
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• Lithofacies and environmental analysis of clastic depositional systems
  ...tings analysis|well cuttings]], [[Thin section analysis|thin sections]], [[sand peel]]s | Pressure (sand body connectedness)
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• Molyneux:sandbox
  * [[Sand]]
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• Meandering fluvial reservoirs
  ...lt in plan and [[cross section]] is of a complex labyrinth of interlocking sand bodies on the scale of hundreds of meters, embedded within varying volumes ...ion of sediment on the inside of meander bends, and they occur as discrete sand bodies with a lenticular or half-moon shape in plan view. A multitude of po
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• Recognizing stacked depositional sequences from well data
  ...of sediment type, with curve deflections to the left suggesting increased sand content while high values to the right indicate increases in clay content. ...t the top of forestepping parasequence sets. The southern wells (left) are sand-poor shale deposited in deep water (bathyal biofacies); sequence boundaries
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• Kingfisher field
  ...R. F. King, and T. P. Moulds, 1999, Capturing reservoir heterogeneity in a sand-rich submarine fan, Miller field: Geological Society (London) Petroleum Geo ...rine mass flow [[sandstone]] deposited by turbidity currents. This Heather sand represents a secondary reservoir interval within the Kingfisher field and w
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• Fault seal analysis for reservoir development
  * Cataclastic, where sandstone is crushed so that the grains of sand material enter the fault plane with high capillary pressure. ...low permeability and reservoir. The middle illustration shows that sand to sand juxtaposition which can occur due to the nature of relatively similar perme
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• Stimulation
  ...ld the fracture open. Common proppant materials include sand, resin-coated sand, and ceramic beads. ...40 mesh Ottawa sand is used during the treatment, the permeability of this sand will be about 100 D (darcys). Suppose that the width of the propped fractur
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• Deltaic reservoirs
  Deltas are major sites of sand and mud deposition. They contain significant volumes of hydrocarbons worldw | [[Distributary channel]]s form narrow sand bodies || - || May be missed by wells in fields with a large well spacing;
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• East Breaks hydrocarbon migration model
  ...able sandstone, it could move laterally up-structure within the continuous sand beds until it accumulated within structural closure. The driving force behi ...n of some of the petroleum from the sediment/salt interface laterally into sand-rich carrier beds (2). Pathway 3 consists of a fault intersection of either
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• Stratigraphic trap seals
  A trap would not form if the valley fill were composed of porous sand or if the bottom-sealing dolostone were absent (from unpublished data by Ra
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• Midale porosity, pore geometries, and petrophysics
  ...alyses, the particles are larger than 50μ (equivalent to very fine-grained sand). [[Capillary pressure]] data and petrographic analyses indicate the vugs a
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• Haynesville and Bossier Shales (Upper Jurassic), East Texas and Northwest Louisiana
  ...sville lime Louark sequence in the north and west. Several rivers supplied sand and mud from the northwest, north, and northeast into the basin. Haynesvill
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• White paper: Hydraulic fracturing
  ...of hydrocarbon molecules trapped in the tiny spaces between the grains of sand or tiny clay particles that comprise the rock. By creating artificial crack ...ephens County, Oklahoma, in 1968, when water with half a million pounds of sand (as a proppant to keep the artificial cracks open) was injected into the ro
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• Reservoir
  ...e accumulation of sand deposition. The sediment resulting from wind-blown sand. The clastic texture of the environment is granules (2–4 mm) and coarse ( ! Name !! Morphology !! No. of Slipfaces !! Wind Direction !! Sand Supply (relative) !! Relative Size
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• Pressure prediction: analysis of well-log and seismic data
  ...be reasonably thick to allow valid responses of the other logs and free of sand or lime stringers. (See points a–e, [[:file:formation-fluid-pressure-and-
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• Migration rate
  ...ing step that controls the overall rate of the process. In a sequence of [[sand]]s and [[shale]]s, the rate limiter is the least permeable shale and the ex
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• Depocenter
  # Map deltaic/shelf depocenters by mapping net sand distribution from well data.
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• Standard interpretation
  ...nsated density-neutron log with a gamma ray. The well is an unconsolidated sand and shale sequence from the Gulf Coast area. Interval D is apparently wet b ...sity and 17% water saturation. Zone C was found to be a residual light oil sand with 27% porosity and 72% water saturation.
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• Lithofacies maps
  ...iation of Sedimentologists Special Publication 15, p. 181–188.</ref> For a sand body to be picked out seismically, this means in practice that it should be ...distinct amplitude display images from seismic data could be derived from sand-prone lithofacies associations surrounded by muddy lithofacies.<ref name=Ze
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• Overview of routine core analysis
  ...burn, F. R., and C. A. Cheatham, 1988, Improved core recovery in laminated sand shale sequences: Journal of Petroleum Technology, v. 40, p. 1544–1546., 1 ...to decrease as the actual value decreases. Whole core samples may require sand blasting prior to permeability measurement to deal with the surficial build
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• Core orientation
  ...-well experiment site, Rifle, Colorado: Sandia National Laboratories Paper SAND 84-0380, Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper No. 13226, 15 p.</ref><ref na
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• Delta plain, subaqueous
  ...bar. Directly at the mouths of the active distributaries lie the coarsest sand deposits. These deposits are commonly referred to as the distributary-mouth ...ntinued delta progradation and is responsible for forming one of the major sand bodies associated with deltaic sequences--the distributary-mouth-bar deposi
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• Gravity applications: examples
  ...seen at the surface because they are covered by a thin veneer of alluvium, sand, and river deposits. However, the subbasins, because they are lower density
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• Permeability
  ...re 1]]. In this experiment, water was allowed to flow downward through the sand pack contained in an iron cylinder. Manometers located at the input and out * ''K'' = constant of proportionality that is characteristic of the sand pack
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• Seismic inversion
  ...two producers, whereas the low velocity zone on the dry hole comes from a sand that is porous but not prospective. [[:file:seismic-inversion_fig6.png|Figu
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• Dip-leaking fault
  ...ther. This asymmetric dip leakage is caused primarily by variations in the sand-shale ratio of the fault gouge. Other possible controls in some basins incl
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• Drill stem testing
  ...re across the sand face in unconsolidated formations, which will result in sand flow | Sand thickness
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• Geological heterogeneities
  ...|thumb|300px|{{figure number|5}}Architectural elements of a barrier island sand body. (From Galloway & Chang<ref name=pt06r35>Galloway, W. E., and E. S. S. ...and M. B. Lagoe, 1993, Scales of geological heterogeneity of a deep-water sand giant oil field, Long Beach unit, Wilmington field, California, in E. G. Rh
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• Vertical and lateral seismic resolution and attenuation
  ...d-attenuation_fig3.png|Figure 3]]). This might represent the pinchout of a sand body embedded in shale or any other combination of lithologics. When the we
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• Thin section analysis
  ...49.htm Influence of texture on porosity and permeability of unconsolidated sand]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 57, p. 349–369.</ref> Sorting also influences [[reser ...nary.reference.com/browse/detrital Detrital] matrix can be introduced into sand during or immediately following sedimentation by depositional processes, in
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