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• Petroleum exploration
  ...apped before we know the volume and shape of a reservoir. We use petroleum exploration which means process of exploring for oil and gas resources in the earth. Ho [[File:UGM_Petroleum_Exploration_Diagram_1.png|thumb|300px|Petroleum Exploration Flowchart]]
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• Microfossils in exploration
  ...suring relative geologic time. They are particularly useful in hydrocarbon exploration because they can be recovered from both [[Mudlogging: drill cuttings analys ==Utility of microfossils in exploration==
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• Structural exploration workflow
  ...to the drill site. The discussion is from the perspective of a full-cycle exploration play, where we have a play concept and are looking for a drill location to ...lay concept from inception to drill location through a “normal” structural exploration process, as shown in [[:file:exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-3.png|Fig
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• Reducing exploration risk
  ...roleum system]] concept can help in the exploration process by determining exploration intensity and assessing risk. ...h independent variable can be evaluated on a scale of zero to one (0–1.0). Exploration risk is determined by multiplying the three variables: charge, trap, and ti
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• Offshore exploration and exploitation
  ...ry make indirect exploration, which, if it is successful, goes to a direct exploration, and if that is also successful, ends finally in an exploitation. ==Exploration==
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• Surficial geochemical exploration principles
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...uncertain of how such information can best be integrated into conventional exploration and development programs.
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• Surface geochemical exploration: assumptions
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...eochemical exploration, in Davidson, M. J., ed., Unconventional Methods in Exploration for Petroleum and Natural Gas IV: Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist Univ. P
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• Structural exploration: location selection
  Because the most important goal of exploration is economic success, locations are often chosen to provide maximum informat * [[Structural exploration workflow]]
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• Structural exploration:location selection
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• Structural exploration: thrust belt example
  ...ches in [[:file:exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-4.png|Figure 1]]. The exploration process begins with an examination of the regional tectonic setting of the exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-4.png|{{figure number|1}}Structural exploration in the Laramide western Wyoming thrust belt in the late 1970s and early 198
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• Classification of exploration traps
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• Magnetics: petroleum exploration applications
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration [[Magnetics]] can be an extremely effective and economical exploration tool when properly employed. Its proper use, however, depends on the follow
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• Gravity in petroleum exploration
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration [[Gravity]] offers significant applications to petroleum exploration. Gravity measurements are affected by changes in rock [[density]]. Surface
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• Exploration strategy for deepwater sands
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• East Breaks deepwater exploration strategy
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• Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...uncertain of how such information can best be integrated into conventional exploration and development programs. This chapter examines surface geochemical prospec
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• Applying magnetics to petroleum exploration
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• Biostratigraphic applications in hydrocarbon exploration
  ...asinal configuration. Biostratigraphy plays an important role in petroleum exploration and production as it allows a number of cost-effective, quick and logistica ...th.<ref name=Jones_1996>Jones, R.W., 1996. Micropalaeontology in petroleum exploration (p. 173). Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref>]]
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• Principles of surface geochemical exploration
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• Assumptions of surface geochemical exploration
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• Scientific method: application to exploration
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration ...ion. The table below shows how to apply the scientific method to petroleum exploration.
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• Applying gravity in petroleum exploration
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• Exploration strategy for Deepwater sands
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• Applying the scientific method to exploration
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• East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy
  Based on the regional basin analysis as previously discussed, an exploration strategy for the East Breaks area and GOM basin deepwater areas can be defi # Locate exploration wells using detailed fault pattern maps overlain by seismic facies maps of
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• Applying the scientific method to petroleum exploration
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• Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies
  ==Exploration strategy== ...on, migration, and trap formation are very important considerations in the exploration for indirect BCGAs.
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• Utilization of the industrial revolution 4.0 in oil and gas exploration
  ...fourth industrial revolution in the Oil and Gas sector specifically in the exploration and appraisal stage. ...gas industry deals with a wide array of uncertainty in many aspects. From exploration, field development, and future outlook, we exhibit huge ambiguity and risks
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• Workflow to find a prospect
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• Applying gravity in petroleum exploration
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• Basics
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• Assumptions
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• Applying magnetics to petroleum exploration
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• Thrust belt example
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• Principles of surface geochemical exploration
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• Location selection
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• Structural exploration:location selection
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• Assumptions of surface geochemical exploration
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• Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...uncertain of how such information can best be integrated into conventional exploration and development programs. This chapter examines surface geochemical prospec
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• Applying the scientific method to exploration
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• Applying the scientific method to petroleum exploration
  #REDIRECT [[Scientific method: application to exploration]]
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• Exploration strategy for Deepwater sands
  #REDIRECT [[East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy]]
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• Exploration strategy for deepwater sands
  #REDIRECT [[East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy]]
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• East Breaks deepwater exploration strategy
  #REDIRECT [[East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy]]
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• Surficial geochemical case histories
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...histories listed below document the effectiveness of [[Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum|surficial geochemical surveys]].
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• Surficial geochemistry: limitations and uncertainties
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...h geochemical exploration methods. Some limitations of surface geochemical exploration are related to geology; others are related to the method itself.
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• Gravity in petroleum exploration
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration [[Gravity]] offers significant applications to petroleum exploration. Gravity measurements are affected by changes in rock [[density]]. Surface
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• Scientific method
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration In looking at past actions and past outcomes, it is easy to analyze whether exploration predictions were correct. If they were correct, the technology used for the
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• Basement
  ...ver, often [[igneous]] or metamorphic. It is generally not of interest in exploration for oil and gas, but in some places fractured basement has proven to be a c
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• Thrust belt
  * [[Structural exploration: thrust belt example]]
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• Basin-centered gas
  ...types of BCGSs result in strikingly different characteristics that impact exploration strategies. The majority of known BCGAs are the direct type. ...of the world, concepts of basin-centered gas systems are poorly known, and exploration activity focused on basin-centered gas accumulations is minimal.
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• Surficial geochemical case history 2: stratigraphic trap
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...[[trap]] at [[commom depth point (CDP)]] 1070 ([[:file:surface-geochemical-exploration-for-petroleum_fig18-6.png|Figure 1]]). [[Surficial geochemistry and hydroca
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• Combination trap
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps file:classification-of-exploration-traps_fig2-3.png|{{figure number|1}}Upper Valley field, Utah. Courtesy Rock
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• Surficial geochemical case history 3: Predrill–postdrill comparison
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...mmarize one company's experience with a soil gas geochemical method. Their exploration program involved geochemical surveys of 139 prospects located in both matur
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• Fluidic trap system
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Stratigraphic trap system
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Surface geochemical exploration: assumptions
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...eochemical exploration, in Davidson, M. J., ed., Unconventional Methods in Exploration for Petroleum and Natural Gas IV: Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist Univ. P
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• Geochemical surface expression
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum [[file:surface-geochemical-exploration-for-petroleum_fig18-3.png|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Generalized model
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• Structural fairway prospectivity
  ...specific portions of those domains provide the greatest opportunities for exploration success. Those areas are called '''prospective structural fairways'''. In a * [[Structural exploration workflow]]
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• Structural domains
  ...rospective tectonic setting is identified, we can determine where to focus exploration within that setting. This can be done most effectively by defining the boun * Exploration [[seismic data]]
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• How to use the trap classification scheme
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Stratigraphic trap
  ...ctive geologic interpretation and, therefore, effective stratigraphic trap exploration integrates all data types, including [[Seismic interpretation|seismic]], [[
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• Borehole gravity: uses, advantages, and disadvantages
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration Borehole [[gravity]] is especially effective for the following exploration and production purposes:
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• Tectonic setting
  * [[Structural exploration workflow]] * [[Structural exploration:location selection]]
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• Seepage activity and surficial geochemistry
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum [[file:surface-geochemical-exploration-for-petroleum_fig18-2.png|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Zone of maximum di
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• Structural trap system
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Using analogs to identify critical elements
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration ...location, and penetration direction. This is known as the analog method of exploration.
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• Stratigraphic column
  * Exploration significance of each formation
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• Surficial geochemical exploration principles
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...uncertain of how such information can best be integrated into conventional exploration and development programs.
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• AAPG Wiki:Bob
  | job = Senior exploration geologist
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• Displacement pressure
  ...eference Manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration 10], p. 221-225.</ref>
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• Surficial geochemical case history 1: structural traps
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum ...xcellent but little-known case history documenting [[Surficial geochemical exploration principles|vertical migration and microseepage]] from undisturbed structura
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• Structural exploration workflow
  ...to the drill site. The discussion is from the perspective of a full-cycle exploration play, where we have a play concept and are looking for a drill location to ...lay concept from inception to drill location through a “normal” structural exploration process, as shown in [[:file:exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-3.png|Fig
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• Microfossils in exploration
  ...suring relative geologic time. They are particularly useful in hydrocarbon exploration because they can be recovered from both [[Mudlogging: drill cuttings analys ==Utility of microfossils in exploration==
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• Potential fields
  ...entary gravity and magnetics for geologists and seismologists]: Society of Exploration Geophysicists Monograph Series 1, 121 p. ...in the Papuan thrust belt, in G. J. Carman, and Z. Carman, eds., Petroleum Exploration in Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the First Papua New Guinea Petroleum Co
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• Offshore exploration and exploitation
  ...ry make indirect exploration, which, if it is successful, goes to a direct exploration, and if that is also successful, ends finally in an exploitation. ==Exploration==
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• Magnetics: total intensity and residual magnetic maps
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration ...ation Geophysicists Monograph Series 1, 121 p.</ref> Copyright: Society of Exploration Geophysicists.]]
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• Sequence stratigraphy: hierarchy of sequences
  ..., and fifth-order sea level cycles model sequence deposition for petroleum exploration. A third-order sequence is a composite of fourth- and fifth-order sequences ...another to make a composite sea level cycle curve. For stratigraphic trap exploration, cycles that impact trap location are usually third-, fourth-, and fifth-or
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• Temperature trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Scientific method: application to exploration
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration ...ion. The table below shows how to apply the scientific method to petroleum exploration.
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• Reducing exploration risk
  ...roleum system]] concept can help in the exploration process by determining exploration intensity and assessing risk. ...h independent variable can be evaluated on a scale of zero to one (0–1.0). Exploration risk is determined by multiplying the three variables: charge, trap, and ti
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• Macroseepage vs. microseepage in surficial geochemistry
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum .../pg/0036/0008/1500/1505.htm Significance of oil and gas seeps in world oil exploration]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 36, p. 1505–1541.</ref><ref name=ch18r23>Macgregor,
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• Geological fieldwork benefits
  ...ected value and chance of success|risk]]. Compared with more sophisticated exploration techniques, the cost of a field program is a bargain. Acquiring, processing ...sults can advance specific business recommendations on how to proceed with exploration or manage technical risk.
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• Structural lead and prospect delineation
  ...a structural lead. Many companies use a mixture of these issues to assess exploration risk, employing various numerical approaches. * [[Structural exploration workflow]]
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• Designing a surficial geochemical survey
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum * Exploration objectives
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• Evaporite
  ...onmarine settings. The common evaporite minerals associated with petroleum exploration are [[halite]], [[gypsum]], and [[anhydrite]].
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• Pressure trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• The art and science of exploring for oil and gas
  [[Category:Developing a philosophy of exploration]]
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• AAPG Wiki:Terms of use
  ...roleum Geology Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps'' and the ''AAPG Methods in Exploration 10 Development Geology Reference Manual'' is copyright of AAPG and is forma
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• Surficial geochemical survey objectives
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum The principal objectives of a geochemical exploration survey are to
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• Structural exploration: location selection
  Because the most important goal of exploration is economic success, locations are often chosen to provide maximum informat * [[Structural exploration workflow]]
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• Fieldwork risk assessment
  ...the well is plugged and abandoned. Fieldwork does not necessarily lower exploration risk, but it may improve how risk is defined.
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• Gravity anomaly models
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration ...or more complex geometric modeling, which is often performed to solve real exploration problems. When modeling gravity effects, it is much more important to const
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• Fracture
  ...hives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/beaumont/ch02/ch02.htm Classification of exploration traps] in E. A. Beaumont and N. H. Foster, eds., Handbook of Petroleum Geol
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• Classification basis
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps ...alyzed and compared to one another to provide valuable information for the exploration and development of similar features.
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• Toe
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Selecting a surficial geochemistry survey method
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum How does one select a method(s) for a surface geochemical exploration program? The choice of method(s) depends on the kinds of questions you hope
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• Basement fault blocks and fault block patterns
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration ..., Jr., 1995, The basement fault block pattern: its importance in petroleum exploration, and its delineation with residual aeromagnetic techniques, in R.W. Ojakang
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Songliao and Junggar Basins
  '''By Zhi Yang, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina, China''' ...rmian saline lacustrine dolomitic rock, Junggar Basin, NW China: Petroleum Exploration and Development Online, vol. 39, no. 6, p. 657–667.</ref><ref>Zhang, Y.,
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• Selling a structural play
  ..., differences exist because of the varied focus of these groups in today's exploration environment. The table below lists suggestions for the style of presentatio ...al risk. The goal is technical calibration with other prospects within the exploration portfolio.
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• Surficial geochemical interpretation guidelines
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum .../memoir66/17/0223.htm Understanding geology as the key to using seepage in exploration: the spectrum of seepage styles], in D. Schumacher, and M. A. Abrams, eds.,
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• Gravity basics
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration * Can distinguish sources at exploration depths
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• Critical elements application: Niobrara example
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration ...tors from the analog field(s) are fully understood, we can devise the best exploration methods to delineate the critical factors.
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• Trap systems: structural, stratigraphic, and fluidic
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Surficial geochemistry and hydrocarbon detection methods
  | chapter = Surface geochemical exploration for petroleum Direct detection methods are geochemical exploration methods designed to detect the presence of hydrocarbons in soils, near-surf
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• 2021 Middle East Wiki Write Off
  ...yrouz AlEssa [[Utilization of the industrial revolution 4.0 in oil and gas exploration]] ...Ali Alwaheed, and Ali Halal [[Biostratigraphic applications in hydrocarbon exploration]]
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• Isochron
  | series = Methods in Exploration
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• Multilateral well
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Bend
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Multilevel well
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Spore coloration and thermal alteration indices (SCI and TAI): usage
  There are a number of scales for both SCI and TAI within the exploration industry. The SCI and TAI scales have been standardized to the [[vitrinite ...nd TAI (after<ref name=ch06r16>Waples, D., 1985, Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration: Boston, IHRDC, 232 p.</ref>).
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• Build rate
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Heel
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Gravity applications: examples
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration ...gravity color image of the Andaman Sea area of Southeast Asia. &copy; ARCO Exploration and Production Technology.]]
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• Horizontal well
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Kickoff point
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Who finds oil?
  | chapter = Developing a philosophy of exploration ...s to compare thousands of data sets rapidly, as in [[Surficial geochemical exploration principles|surface geochemical ratios]]. But even with all the new technolo
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• Magnetic field: local variations
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration ...Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1013 p.</ref><ref name=ch14r5>Jakosky, J. J., 1950, Exploration Geophysics: Los Angeles, Trija Publishing Co., 1195 p.</ref><ref name=ch14r
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• Geosteering
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Extended-reach wells
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Fracture traps
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Diagenetic trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps ...ment in creating commercial porosity and permeability in these reservoirs, exploration efforts usually focus on defining the original depositional fairway of thes
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• Fluid-composition trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Lateral
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Total measured length
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Sidetrack
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Top seal integrity: Central Graben example
  ...ntegrity using two traps in the Central Graben, North Sea. Copyright: Esso Exploration and Production U.K.]] ==Importance to exploration==
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• Update for Fayetteville Shale Gas Play in Arkansas, 2019
  ....jpg|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Primary area of the Fayetteville Shale exploration and development in Arkansas.]] The Upper Mississippian Fayetteville Shale play is a regional shale-gas exploration and development program within the central and eastern Arkoma Basin of Arka
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• Trap classification
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps ...e systematic and rigorous approach. It uses elements critical to petroleum exploration to group traps into levels. The method is similar to the one used by biolog
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• Petroleum system concept: examples of application
  ...e examples of how the petroleum system concept can be applied to petroleum exploration at local and regional levels. ...chives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1980-81/data/pg/0065/0012/2500/2546.htm Exploration for Oil Accumulations in Entrada Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico]: AA
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Bohai Bay Basin
  ...d member of Dongying Formation (Ed3) are the primary targets for shale oil exploration (Xue et al., 2020). '''Shale Oil Exploration'''
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• Main Page
  The wiki has been seeded with two AAPG volumes: ''Methods in Exploration'' #10, and ''Treatise in Petroleum Geology'' #3. Please explore, using the
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• Logging while drilling
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14
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• Rig personnel
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Wiki write off
  * [[Petroleum exploration]] * [[Offshore exploration and exploitation]]
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• Risk: dealing with risk aversion
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...development wells deemed to have less than a 90% chance of success to the exploration department as so-called in-field wildcats! The result is to retard reserve
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• Sedimentary basin analysis
  ...ng]] to a single local basin, provides the geologic framework for defining exploration plays and prospects. * [[Exploration strategy for deep-water sands]]
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• Hydrocarbon accumulation: the seven critical elements
  Exploration risk is best understood by studying historically what has and has not been The goal of an exploration effort is to use all the data available to identify fully the technical ris
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• Douglas K. Strickland
  ...central Utah Hingeline play. Mr. Strickland co-taught AAPG’s Creativity in Exploration course with E.A. “Ted” Beaumont for several years. He also received AAP ...piksel.com/player.php?v=bl432u69 Conventional Wisdom: A Different Approach—Exploration in the Central Utah Thrust Belt]” was presented at the AAPG 2009 conferen
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• Magnetotellurics case history: frontier basin analysis (Amazon Basin, Colombia)
  ...onnaissance of the Colombian Amazon: 54th meeting, European Association of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 428–499.</ref> This study area was
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• Log interpretation: initial quick scan
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...is, 2nd Edition: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=707 AAPG Methods in Exploration 16], 244 p.</ref>]]
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Sichuan Basin
  ...0×103 m3. In order to achieve big breakthrough in the deep shale reservoir exploration, it is of great important to innovate drilling technologies and equipments. ...g Formation-Silurian Longmaxi Formation in Sichuan Basin, China. Petroleum Exploration and Development 47, 193-201.
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• Magnetics: petroleum exploration applications
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration [[Magnetics]] can be an extremely effective and economical exploration tool when properly employed. Its proper use, however, depends on the follow
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• Gravity data processing
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration [[Category:Applying gravity in petroleum exploration]]
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• Magnetotellurics case history: rugged carbonate terrain (Highlands of Papua New Guinea)
  ...ved in exploration in the region (Mills, personal communication, 1994). BP Exploration<ref name=Hoversten /> acquired MT data over both the Angore anticline and t
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• Remote sensing
  In hydrocarbon exploration, remote sensing data is primarily used to (1) examine and map the surface g * Sabins, F. F. Jr., 1998b, Remote sensing for petroleum exploration, part 2: [[case histories]]: The Leading Edge, vol. 17, p. 623–626, DOI:
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• Covenant field
  ...piksel.com/player.php?v=bl432u69 Conventional Wisdom: A Different Approach Exploration in the Central Utah Thrust Belt]: Audio-Video presentations at 2009 AAPG An ...the Covenant field disproved many aspects of conventional wisdom as to the exploration potential of the region.<ref name=Strickland05 />
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• East Breaks petroleum geology
  Field development, including [[step-out]] drilling, and exploration are enhanced by the understanding of the [[petroleum system]]—especially * [[Exploration strategy for deep-water sands]]
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• Geometrical analysis
  The first step in [[stratigraphic trap]] exploration is a geometrical analysis of stratigraphic components of the basin fill. A
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• East Breaks depositional sequence
  ...7.png|{{figure number|5}}Map of the study area, showing the named offshore exploration areas and bathymetry. ...4-17.png|Figure 5]] is a map of the study area, showing the named offshore exploration areas and bathymetry. It also shows the locations of the East Breaks 160-16
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• Trap
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Province, basin, system, play, and prospect
  ...Magoon, L., B., 1995, The play that complements the petroleum system—a new exploration equation: Oil & Gas Journal, vol. 93, no. 40, p. 85–87.</ref> Other diffe [[The petroleum system concept]] is used two ways in exploration. By [[Petroleum system: geographic, stratigraphic, and temporal extent|mapp
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• Erosional trap regime
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• Borehole gravity applications: examples
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration ==Distant reef exploration==
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• Petroleum system
  Practical application of petroleum systems can be used in exploration, resource evaluation, and research. * [[Reducing exploration risk]]
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• Trap classification levels
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• Magnetics
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...tudes in the northern hemisphere.<ref name=ch14r7 /> Copyright: Society of Exploration Geophysicists.]]
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• East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy
  Based on the regional basin analysis as previously discussed, an exploration strategy for the East Breaks area and GOM basin deepwater areas can be defi # Locate exploration wells using detailed fault pattern maps overlain by seismic facies maps of
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• Fault trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Diagenesis: information from petrology
  ! Petrological information || Exploration significance || Exploration application
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• Coalbed methane
  ...in]] of New Mexico and Colorado; [[:file:FG34.JPG|Figure 1]]). Significant exploration for and production of coalbed methane in these basins began in the U.S. in
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• Black Warrior basin
  * [http://www.visionexploration.com/bwb.htm Vision Exploration article]
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• Fayetteville Shale Gas Play, Arkansas
  The Upper Mississippian Fayetteville Shale play is a regional shale-gas exploration and development program within the central and eastern Arkoma Basin of Arka ...this information to the oil and gas industry and the public to assist with exploration and development projects. The results of these studies were published by t
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• Weyburn field location and trap problem
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref>, cou ...ref name=ch09r13>Dahlberg, E. C., 1982, Applied hydrodynamics in petroleum exploration: New York, Springer Verlag, 161 p.</ref><ref name=ch09r24>Hannon, N., 1987,
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• Three-dimensional seismic method
  | series = Methods in Exploration Subsurface geological features of interest in hydrocarbon exploration are three-dimensional (3-D) in nature. Examples are salt diapirs, [[overthr
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• Hydrodynamics
  ...<ref name=ch05r5>Dahlberg, E. C., 1994, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 295 p. ''Excellent subsurface fluid pr ...havior principles, including pressure, with broad application to petroleum exploration.''</ref> courtesy AAPG.]]
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• Tool table
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ods]] [[Category:Pages with badly formatted tables]] [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Fishing
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...1}}Differential sticking. ©Exploration Logging<ref name=ExplorationLogging>Exploration Logging, Inc., 1979, Field geologists training guide—an introduction to o
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• Austin Chalk, onshore U.S. Gulf Coast
  ...ow-permeability matrix (Corbett et al., 1994; Pearson, 2012). Accordingly, exploration had been focused on the naturally fractured fault zones (these major fractu ...acres in Louisiana. Many other large operators were also present. But the exploration in Louisiana was discouraged by the preliminary production results ConocoPh
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• Drilling problems
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• Energy Minerals Division
  ...zed in 1977, EMD serves as an international forum for those working in the exploration, development, and production of energy sources other than conventional oil
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• Fault seal-conduit studies
  ...-Pederson, P., and A. G. Koestler, eds., Hydrocarbon Seals, Importance for Exploration and Production: Norwegian Petroleum Society Special Publication 7, 250 p. * Nybakken, S., 1991, Sealing fault traps—an exploration concept in a mature petroleum province: Tampen Spur, northern North Sea: Fi
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• EMD Tight Oil & Gas Committee 2019-20 Annual Report
  Advisory Group Member - Robert J. Coskey, Rose Exploration, Inc. ...h was produced from Sinopec’s Fuling Shale Gas field. Lacustrine shale oil exploration has also been successful in the Sichuan and Ordos Basins in central China,
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• Fold trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Sandstone porosity and permeability prediction
  ...Clastic Depositional Systems: Applications to Petroleum, Coal, and Uranium Exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 438 p. Summarizes reservoir characteristics of
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• Oil and gas contracts
  | series = Methods in Exploration There are a variety of other special agreements used in oil and gas exploration and development activities.
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• Structural analogies
  ...data. For example, if the regional [[tectonic setting]] indicates that our exploration area is in a [[thrust belt]], but local [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dic ...r zones in the East African rift system and their relevance to hydrocarbon exploration in rifts]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 74, p. 1234–1253.
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• Natural gas: history and forecast
  ...gas was regarded as a nuisance, a less-valued by-product of [[crude oil]] exploration and production to be gotten rid of as cheaply as possible, commonly by vent
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• Electrical methods
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...and rocks (including virtually all of the rocks of interest to hydrocarbon exploration) at the frequencies utilized by electrical methods is controlled by the flu
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• Seismic data display
  | series = Methods in Exploration In exploration seismology, reflections are recorded from velocity or density contrasts in
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• Minibasins and petroleum systems
  ...rap|entrapment]] history. This information provides a template for further exploration for subtle traps along the [[migration]] avenue.
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• Interpreting gravity measurements
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration [[Category:Applying gravity in petroleum exploration]]
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• Diagenetic impact on traps
  ...ever, if [[diagenesis]] does not follow facies or paleostructure, then the exploration and exploitation risk increases because predicting the trap location is mor
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• Amplitude versus offset (AVO) analysis
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...[elastic model|elastic layered model]] of the earth in the vicinity of the exploration or development target. To accomplish this goal, a systems approach to the p
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• Synthetic seismogram
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...about synthetic seismograms, the interested reader can refer to ''Seismic Exploration Fundamentals'' ([[Coffen, 1978]]).{{Citation needed}}
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• Magnetotelluric data acquisition
  ...ource.<ref name=ch16r6>Vozoff, K., 1972, The magnetotelluric method in the exploration of sedimentary basins: Geophysics, vol. 37, no. 1, p. 98–141., 10., 1190/ ...ontinuous profile at 100–200-m (300–600-ft) spacings. The maximum depth of exploration for the controlled-source method is 3,000–4,500 m (10,000–15,000 ft) in
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• Pressure compartment seals
  ...sub-surface pressure in the Norwegian Central Graben and applications for exploration, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings o * [[Applying pressure compartment concepts to exploration]]
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• Bakken and Three Forks Formations, Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana
  ...ability members of the middle Bakken and upper Three Forks, with continued exploration into the middle and lower intervals of the Three Forks Formation and the Pr ...e to proximity to the organic-rich lower Bakken shale member, drilling and exploration of the middle and lower Three Forks continues across the basin (Sonnenberg
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• Australia, Northern TerritoryVelkerri Formation, Beetaloo Sub-basin
  ...ension of the Beetaloo Sub-basin middle Velkerri shales: Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) Proceedings, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 20-21 April 2 ...ord 2018-006.</ref>. The Amungee Member is the main target for hydrocarbon exploration within the Velkerri Formation, it represents the deepest and most distal de
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• Borehole gravity tool
  | chapter = Applying gravity in petroleum exploration [[Category:Applying gravity in petroleum exploration]]
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• Economics: fundamental equations for oil and gas property evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• AAPG Wiki:Project timeline
  ...ves.datapages.com/data/alt-browse/aapg-special-volumes/me10.htm Methods in Exploration 10: Development Geology Reference Manual], because it is clearly organized,
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• Magnetics: interpreting residual maps
  | chapter = Using magnetics in petroleum exploration * [[Magnetics: petroleum exploration applications]]
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• Mudlogging: the mudlog
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• Fracture trap regime
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• EMD Tight Oil & Gas Committee 2018-19 Annual Report
  ...exploiting hydrocarbons from these unconventional reservoirs, with active exploration projects on most continents, much of the successful exploitation from shale ...ntional shale gas and oil province is currently assessed in Argentina, but exploration and exploitation of these reservoirs and infrastructure are still in the de
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• Functions of a petroleum landman
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Well log sequence analysis
  ...ime and Facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 7], 55 p.</ref> courtesy AAPG.]] ...in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic Stratigraphy and Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 117–133.<
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• Pressure compartments
  ...sub-surface pressure in the Norwegian Central Graben and applications for exploration, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings o * [[Applying pressure compartment concepts to exploration]]
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• Midale lithofacies and distribution
  ...on, E. B., D. J. Hartmann, and J. B. Thomas, 1990, Applied Petrophysics in Exploration and Exploitation: Notes from short course sponsored by Univ. of Colo.–Den ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> cour
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• Oil correlation
  ...; but negative correlations can be of even greater value in developing new exploration ideas. Exploration applications of correlation studies include the following:
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• Relating traps to paleogeography
  ...itional processes and tectonic [[deformation]] is essential to hydrocarbon exploration in GOM [[minibasins]]. ==Basin slope exploration plays==
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• Artificial lift
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• The gravity method
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Tethys region
  ...fields on the Western Tethyan Margin could in part be attributed to under exploration rather than less resource potential. Thus, identifying similarities across ...on systems across the margin will undoubtedly facilitate the growth of new exploration ideas and new production.
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• Static oil pressure gradient estimation
  ...havior principles, including pressure, with broad application to petroleum exploration.</ref>
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• Vaca Muerta, La Luna Shale, South America
  ...understanding of the heterogeneous nature of this formation and optimizing exploration and development efforts when economic conditions improve. This summary focu Early exploration and development focused almost exclusively upon the organic-rich bottom set
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• Offshore rigs
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• Economics: key parameters
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...p.</ref> Megill,<ref name=pt02r12>Megill, R. E., 1988, An introduction to exploration economics, 3rd ed.: Tulsa, OK, PennWell Books, 238 p.</ref> and Thompson an
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• Structural exploration: thrust belt example
  ...ches in [[:file:exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-4.png|Figure 1]]. The exploration process begins with an examination of the regional tectonic setting of the exploring-for-structural-traps_fig20-4.png|{{figure number|1}}Structural exploration in the Laramide western Wyoming thrust belt in the late 1970s and early 198
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• Depositional sequence analysis of plays
  ...should be based on local geology. Locally based models make more effective exploration tools.
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• Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS): procedures
  Traditionally, the most common application of GC/MS in exploration has been selected ion monitoring (SIM). In this technique, a single ion is ...two newly discovered seeps, in G. J. Carman and Z. Carman, eds., Petroleum Exploration and Development in Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the Second PNG Petroleu
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• Utilization of the industrial revolution 4.0 in oil and gas exploration
  ...fourth industrial revolution in the Oil and Gas sector specifically in the exploration and appraisal stage. ...gas industry deals with a wide array of uncertainty in many aspects. From exploration, field development, and future outlook, we exhibit huge ambiguity and risks
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• Economics of property acquisitions
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ill programs are contemplated. If the property is also perceived as having exploration potential, geological uncertainties (reserves and chance of success) must b
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• How different structural philosophies govern techniques
  Exploration and production organizations usually display strength or focus in perhaps o
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• Drilling a well
  ...d A. M. Woods, eds., Development geology reference manual: AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10, p. 65-66.</ref> ...nd R. M. Slatt, 2004, Petroleum systems of deep-water settings: Society of Exploration Geophysicists/European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Distingui
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• Stratigraphic predictions from computer simulation
  * [[Exploration strategy for deep-water sands]] * [[East Breaks deep-water exploration strategy]]
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• Natural hydraulic fracturing example, North Sea
  ...lose to the fracture pressure at the base of the top seal. Copyright: Esso Exploration and Production, U.K.]]
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• Oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation
  '''Exploration applications''' of correlation studies include the following:
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• Petroleum exploration
  ...apped before we know the volume and shape of a reservoir. We use petroleum exploration which means process of exploring for oil and gas resources in the earth. Ho [[File:UGM_Petroleum_Exploration_Diagram_1.png|thumb|300px|Petroleum Exploration Flowchart]]
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• Palynofacies and kerogen analysis
  ...petroleum, in Brooks, J., ed., Organic Maturation Studies and Fossil Fuel Exploration: London, Academic Press, p. 201–223.</ref><ref name=ch17r8>Batten, D., J.
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• Pore system fundamentals
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> cour
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• Normal hydrostatic pressure gradients
  ...dissolved gas contributes little to the density and can be ignored in the exploration state.
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• Minibasin
  ...t Breaks 160 field on the offshore Texas shelf edge: a model for deepwater exploration and development: Proceedings, 20th Annual Offshore Technology conference, p ...nearly coincident with the boundary between the Galveston and High Island exploration areas ([[:file:Sedimentary-basin-analysis fig4-17.png|Figure 3]]). The diag
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• Subregional and local pressure compartments
  * [[Applying pressure compartment concepts to exploration]]
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• Seismic facies mapping
  ...in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic Stratigraphy and Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 117–133.<
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• Well planning
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• Checkshots and vertical seismic profiles
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...crepancies between sonic log and seismic check-shot velocities: Australian Exploration Association Journal, v. 19, pt. 1, p. 131–141.</ref> Consequently, if a w
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• Basin-centered gas systems: historical development and classification
  ...of definition has led to misconceptions that have, in some cases, impeded exploration efforts. When regionally pervasive gas accumulations, like BCGAs, became kn ...as sands'' has been widely used to describe BCGAs for many years, and many exploration geologists still use that term. In many cases ''tight gas sands'' is an app
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• Structural styles: data and techniques for evaluation
  ...ll.<ref name=ch20r215>Lowell, J., D., 1985, Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration: Tulsa, OGCI, 460 p.</ref>
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• Core handling
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• Israel petroleum systems
  ...ties of oil and gas had been discovered and produced. In 1999 the focus of exploration was shifted from the onshore systems to the Levantine Basin ([[:file:M106Ch ...riods of drilling success were followed by [[dry]] wells and suspension of exploration activity, at times influenced by geopolitical instability, unfavorable fisc
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• Shale smear factor
  ...es, in Norwegian Petroleum Society, eds., Hydrocarbon seals-importance for exploration and production (conference abstracts): Oslo, Norwegian Petroleum Society, p
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• Seismic interpretation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...mes down to putting pencil to paper or cursor to screen. After building an exploration analog by integrating the available geological data, it is advisable to sca
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• Mapping unconformities
  ...nconformity|unconformities]] (sequence boundaries) is part of an effective exploration effort. Facies, [[porosity]] systems, and hydrocarbon shows are evaluated i ...usch.<ref name=ch21r8>Busch, D. A., 1974, Stratigraphic Traps in Sandstone—Exploration Techniques: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=131 AAPG Memoir 21], 174
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• Seismic inversion
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• Sidewall coring
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• Oil and condensate analysis
  | series = Methods in Exploration Variations in these properties can be used to test exploration models and evaluate development strategies. All of the basic bulk propertie
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• Forward modeling of seismic data
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...S. W., 1991, Seismic Modeling of Geologic Structure: Tulsa, OK, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Geophysical Development Series, v. 2.</ref>
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• Jordan petroleum geology
  ...ting asphalt blocks in Dead Sea waters and on the shoreline. Nevertheless, exploration efforts in the Dead Sea have been disappointing so far and resulted in the ...1, Petroleum exploration opportunities in Jordan: Directorate of petroleum exploration, Amman, 56 p.</ref> 100 km (62.1 mi).
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• Agglutinated microfossils
  * [[Microfossils in exploration]]
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• Rate of penetration
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• Correlation and regression analysis
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• Paleobathymetry
  ...is the paleoenvironmental interpretation most widely used in [[petroleum]] exploration because of its value in determining the depositional history of a basin. Be ..., 1966, Interpretation of depositional environment in Gulf Coast petroleum exploration from paleoecology and related stratigraphy: Transactions of the Gulf Coast
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• Total organic carbon (TOC)
  ...=ch06r3>Chinn, E., W., 1991, The role of organic geochemistry in petroleum exploration: Basin Research Institute Bulletin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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• Measurement while drilling
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• Basin-centered gas systems
  * [[Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies]]
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• Borehole gravity
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ation and reservoir evaluation questions, while the other extends to basic exploration. Figure 1 is an example of both applications. In fact, the purpose of the s
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• Reservoir simulations and field unitization
  ...SGR) thresholds for seal behavior may have to be calibrated separately for exploration and for reservoir simulations.
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• Vertical and lateral seismic resolution and attenuation
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• Oilfield water analysis
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• Mudlogging: equipment, services, and personnel
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Sea level cycle phase and systems tracts
  ..., in Payton, C., E., ed., Seismic Stratigraphy—Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 213–248.< ...zing Advanced Geophysical, Wireline, and Borehole Technology for Petroleum Exploration and Production: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 17th Annual Research c
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• Normal hydrostatic pressure
  ...<ref name=ch05r5>Dahlberg, E. C., 1994, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 295 p.</ref>
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• Structural maps and cross sections
  ..., regardless of local structural style, level of structural complexity, or exploration maturity:
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• Amplitude (seismic)
  ...ion: short course notes. Distinguished Instructor Series no. 4. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, Oklahoma</ref>]] ...arbon Determination], in Seismic Stratigraphy- Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration, [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26] </ref>]]
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• Paleontology
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...logy, the study of fossil organisms and their traces, has been used in the exploration for and exploitation of hydrocarbons since the later half of the nineteenth
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• Biostratigraphy in sequence stratigraphy
  ..., and outcrops: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration 7], 55 p.</ref> Paleontologic data, integrated with [[Seismic data|seismic] ...ogene, in Innovative Biostratigraphic Approaches to Sequence Analysis: New Exploration Opportunities: Selected Papers and Illustrated Abstracts of the Eighth Annu
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• Basin framework
  ...consists of a number of subbasin elements that have significant impact on exploration for hydrocarbons within each of these subbasins. We can prepare (or locate)
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• Risk: expected value and chance of success
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...l and economic parameters that impact project commerciality. However, many exploration ventures do not succeed, and not all [[development well]]s and projects suc
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• Depositional trap regime
  | chapter = Classification of exploration traps [[Category:Classification of exploration traps]]
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• Niobrara & Codell of the Denver-Julesburg Basin
  ...perate in the Niobrara and Codell, including Confluence Resources, Mallard Exploration, Bison Oil & Gas II, Edge Energy, Boomtown, and Clear Creek Resource Partne Higley, D.K., Cox, D.O., 2007. Oil and gas exploration and development along the front range in the Denver Basin of Colorado, Nebr
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• Surface production equipment
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• Sequence stratigraphy
  ...ime and Facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 7], 55 p.</ref> Basic principles are reviewed below, but many im
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• Hydrodynamic flow and pressure transients
  ...ref name=ch10r16>Dahlberg, E. C., 1982, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 161 p.</ref><ref name=ch10r50>Lerche, I. Thomse
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• Phosphatic microfossils
  * [[Microfossils in exploration]]
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• EMD Tight Oil & Gas Committee
  ...loping unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs continue to grow, with active exploration projects on most continents, but most of the successful development of and
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• Traps in a framework of sequence stratigraphy
  ...ime and Facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 7], 55 p.</ref>
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• Source rock
  The first factor to be assessed in an exploration play in an area yet to be drilled is whether a source rock is present. If s
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• Drive mechanisms and recovery
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ervoir fluid flow and natural drive mechanisms, in IHRDC Video Library for Exploration and Production Specialists, Manual for Module PE502: Boston, MA, IHRDC, p.
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• Cased hole tools
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Cross-borehole tomography
  | series = Methods in Exploration .... R. Hutt, 1992, Acoustic tomography in reservoir surveillance: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Reservoir Geophysics, p. 321–334.</ref><ref name=pt07r27>J
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• Stratigraphically complex fields
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• Seismic data - mapping with two-dimensional data
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...H. J., 1973, Pitfalls in [[Seismic interpretation]]: Tulsa, OK, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Monograph Series n. 2, 50 p.</ref> Also, make sure that the i
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• Siliceous microfossils
  * [[Microfossils in exploration]]
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• Palynomorphs (organic-walled microfossils)
  * [[Microfossils in exploration]]
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• Systems tracts identification
  .... R., Wornardt, W. W., 1990, Well log seismic stratigraphy: a new tool for exploration in the '90s: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 11th Annual Research conf ...seismic stratigraphy], in Seismic Stratigraphy—Applications in Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 205–212.<
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• Procedure for basin-fill analysis
  ...in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic Stratigraphy and Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 117–133.<
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• Pore and pore throat sizes
  ...equences: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists guidebook for petroleum exploration and exploitation in clastic and carbonate sediments, p. 45-58.</ref> Courte
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• Conventional coring
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ore-handling and preservation system such as a disposable inner barrel. An exploration program might profit by employing a wireline core barrel to core and drill
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• Waterflooding
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Bakken and Three Forks Formations, Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana (USGS)
  ...members of the middle Bakken and Three Forks (upper part), with continued exploration into the middle and lower intervals of the Three Forks and the intervening ...e to proximity to the organic-rich lower Bakken shale member, drilling and exploration of the middle and lower Three Forks continues across the basin (<ref name=S
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• Reserves estimation
  | series = Methods in Exploration | Analogy || OOIP, OGIP, recoverable reserves. Use early in exploration and initial field development. || Highly dependent on similarity of reservo
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• Wireline formation testers
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Elemental parameter data for oil–oil and oil–source rock correlations
  ...ttBrooks1988>Kennicutt, M. C., and J. M. Brooks, 1988, Surface geochemical exploration studies predict API gravity off California: Oil & Gas Journal, September 12
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• Biostratigraphic applications in hydrocarbon exploration
  ...asinal configuration. Biostratigraphy plays an important role in petroleum exploration and production as it allows a number of cost-effective, quick and logistica ...th.<ref name=Jones_1996>Jones, R.W., 1996. Micropalaeontology in petroleum exploration (p. 173). Oxford: Clarendon Press.</ref>]]
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• Petroleum source rocks
  ...n. Subsequently, Waples<ref>Waples, D. W., 1985, Geochemistry in petroleum exploration: International Human Resources Development Corporation, Boston, 232p.</ref> ...e, 1984, Petroleum formation and occurrence: A new approach to oil and gas exploration: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 538p.</ref><ref name=Peters1986>Peters, K. E., 19
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• Basin-centered gas systems: global distribution
  ...tribution of BCGAs is incomplete. Even in North America, where most of the exploration activity for BCGAs has occurred, the geographic distribution is not well kn ...bs/methodo2/data/a077/a077/0001/0000/0025.htm Petroleum system logic as an exploration tool in a frontier setting], ''in'' L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow, eds., The p
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• Mudlogging: gas extraction and monitoring
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Pore system shapes
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref>
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• Reflection configuration patterns
  ...Payton, C., E., ed., Seismic Stratigraphy and Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 117–133.<
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• Midale water saturation and pore geometry
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> cour
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• Formation evaluation of naturally fractured reservoirs
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Dipmeter
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...oil migrates updip, it would seem there is nothing more fundamental in oil exploration than determining which way is up. It is for this basic purpose that the ele
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• Hydrodynamic traps: mapping
  ...ame=Dahlberg1994>Dahlberg, E. C., 1994, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 295 p</ref> courtesy Springer-Verlag.]
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• Predicting sandstone reservoir porosity
  ...in order to view the ranges of porosity at different depths. In a frontier exploration setting, the usefulness of porosity–depth plots may be limited if global ...From Hayes;<ref name=Hayes>Hayes, J. B., 1983, Sandstone diagenesis as an exploration tool: AAPG Clastic Diagenesis School, June 27–July 1, Monterey, Californi
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• Seismic migration
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ner, G. H. F., ed., 1985, Migration of Seismic Data: Tulsa, OK, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Monograph Series, 462 p.</ref>
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• Hydrodynamics: change in configuration
  ...<ref name=ch11r7>Dahlberg, E. C., 1982, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 161 p.</ref>). Where data quality is good, hydr
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• Molyneux:sandbox
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• Plate tectonic studies
  ...s into the regional tectonic picture may yield new ideas and approaches to exploration.
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• Seismic processing basics
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...pedic Dictionary of Exploration Geophysics: 2nd ed.: Tulsa, OK, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 323 p.</ref>
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• Mudlogging: drill cuttings analysis
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• Full waveform acoustic logging
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Deep-water marine reservoirs
  ...latt, 2004, Petroleum systems of deep-water settings: SEG/EAGE (Society of Exploration Geophysicists/European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) Distingu ...Gulf of Mexico experience: GCS-SEPM Foundation, p. 1–22.</ref> Deep-water exploration in the [[Gulf of Mexico]], Brazil, and west Africa is targeting and finding
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• Marine seismic data acquisition
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...acquired in the field, the final result will be better illumination of the exploration objectives.
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• Monte Carlo and stochastic simulation methods
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• Borehole imaging devices
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Recognizing stacked depositional sequences from well data
  ...F., L. Jr., 1966, Interpretation of depositional environment in Gulf Coast exploration from paleoecology and related stratigraphy: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological ...R., Wornardt, W., W., 1990, Well log seismic stratigraphy: a new tool for exploration in the '90s: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 11th Annual Research conf
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• Tight gas reservoirs: evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Uncertainties impacting reserves, revenue, and costs
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...86-87/data/pg/0071/0001/0000/0001.htm Dealing with risk and uncertainty in exploration--how can we improve?]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 71, n. 1, p. 1-16.</ref>
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• Production histories
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Structural geology fieldwork
  Structural fieldwork can be useful throughout an exploration program. If it is done prior to or in conjunction with the interpretation o
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• Age model chart
  ...a set of burial history curves (upper graph). Using temperature data from exploration wells, Piggott and Pulham.<ref name=ch04r75>Piggott, N., and A. Pulham, 199 ...ed on the calculation of Piggott and Pulham<ref name=ch04r75 />), using BP Exploration's Theta [[Modeling]], generation of significant oil from a Jurassic source
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• Parasequences (fourth- and fifth-order sequences)
  ...ime and Facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 7], 55 p.</ref> In siliciclastic parasequences, [[grain size]] c
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• Lithofacies maps
  ...clastic depositional systems: Applications to petroleum, coal, and uranium exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 489 p.</ref> Modern analogs show the geometrica ...al environments: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=130 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 11], 147 p.</ref> The book includes a series of aerial photographs a
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• Types of completions
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Calcareous microfossils
  * [[Microfossils in exploration]]
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• Multivariate data analysis
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ocation of data (drilling patterns and core plugs), a prevalent problem in exploration and development. Such preferential selection of data points can severely bi
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• Wellsite safety
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Seismic data acquisition on land
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• Combining well log with seismic sequence analysis
  ...Suez rift basin sequence models--Part B: Miocene sequence stratigraphy and exploration significance in the central and southern Gulf gf Suez: Proceedings of the 1
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• Regional pressure compartments
  * [[Applying pressure compartment concepts to exploration]]
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• Sequence stratigraphy analysis
  ...l, in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic Stratigraphy--Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 American Association Petroleum
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• Libya hydrocarbon provinces
  Libya produces 1.74 million barrels of oil a day. Future exploration and development will increase this amount. The producing [[sedimentary]] [[ Major [[offshore exploration and exploitation | offshore oil production]] in the El Bouri oil field of t
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• Midale porosity, pore geometries, and petrophysics
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> cour
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• Micropermeable seal leakage
  ...ties because [[wettability]] and permeability of seals are poorly known in exploration settings. Micropermeable leakage can be geophysically and geochemically det
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• Enhanced oil recovery
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• How faults control trap fill and migration pathways
  ...ction.org/content/56/1/1.abstract The significance of normal faults in the exploration and production of North Sea hydrocarbons], in A. M. Roberts, G. Yielding, a
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• Reservoir quality
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...l-volumes/me3.htm Basic well log analysis for geologists]: AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 3, 216 p.</ref> (For more on the information that wireline logs can
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• Seismic facies analysis
  ...Payton, C., E., ed., Seismic Stratigraphy and Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 117–133.<
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• EMD Tight Oil & Gas Committee 2020-21 Annual Report
  Advisory Group Member - Robert J. Coskey, Rose Exploration, Inc. • Zhi Yang and Jiarui Li, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, PRC [Songliao Basin and Junggar Basin
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• Fractured reservoir evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration Anticipated exploration and development problems associated with these four reservoir types are sum
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• Production logging
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Nature of the oil and gas lease
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...l and gas lease provides for the lessee to obtain the rights incidental to exploration, drilling, developing, producing, and disposing of the oil, gas, and associ
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• Show evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ve. However, the following “rules of thumb” can be useful<ref name=pt03r17>Exploration Logging, Inc., 1985, Mud Logging: Principles and Interpretations. Boston, M
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• Land description and maps
  | series = Methods in Exploration Any person involved in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas is usually exposed on a daily b
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• Economics: time value of money
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...e, should multiple discount rates be used--one discount rate for high risk exploration projects versus a lower discount rate for lower risk development projects?
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• Preparing to go to the field
  ...ies” worldwide in your quest for data. For example, if carbonates are your exploration target, the modern reefs in the Bahamas or the ancient Permian reef complex
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• Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies
  ==Exploration strategy== ...on, migration, and trap formation are very important considerations in the exploration for indirect BCGAs.
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• Land rigs
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• Statistics overview
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ugh, J. W., Doveton, J. H., Davis, J. C., 1977, Probability methods in oil exploration: New York, John Wiley, 269 p.</ref> and Krumbein and Graybill.<ref name=pt0
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• Fluid contacts
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ref name=pt06r21>Dahlberg, E. C., 1982, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer Verlag, 161 p.</ref> (Equation 2):
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• 3-D seismic data: the data cube
  ...mation than an equivalent amount of 2-D seismic and can reduce [[Reducing exploration risk|risk]].
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• Fracture analysis
  ...ctures in Core: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1203 AAPG Methods in Exploration 8], 88 p.
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• Hydrocarbon expulsion, migration, and accumulation
  ...s: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45-58.</ref> Courte
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• Water resistivity determination
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• Practical suggestions for oil correlation
  ...46-6</ref><ref name=ch08r58>Waples, D. W., 1985, Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration: Boston, IHRDC, 232 p.</ref><ref name=ch08r47>Rullkötter, J., P. A. Meyers
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• Limitations of oil correlations
  ...R. W. Jones, 1979, Application of biological marker chemistry to petroleum exploration, in Proceedings of the Tenth World Petroleum Congress: London, Heyden & Son
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• Workovers
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• Seismic data
  ...2-D reflection seismic data are most important in the earlier stages of an exploration program, especially in frontier basins.
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• Prudhoe Bay field
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14 Several publications relate the exploration process leading to the discovery of Prudhoe Bay field and its geologic char
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• Barmer basin
  ...tion modeling in the Barmer Basin of Western Rajasthan, India: Lessons for Exploration in Rift Basins with Late-State Inversion, Uplift, and Tilting .... 86, p. 433–456.</ref>; [[:file:M114CH03FG01.jpg|Figure 1]]). Significant exploration potential remains in deeper structural plays and in post-rift [[stratigraph
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• Mowry Shale, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
  Exploration and production from the Mowry Shale has been periodic and slow. As the writ
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• Core alteration and preservation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...D. A. T. Donohue, 1985, Core analysis: Boston, MA, IHRDC Video Library for Exploration and Production Specialists, n. PE405, 186 p.</ref>
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• Pay determination
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• Wettability
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• SEM, XRD, CL, and XF methods
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• Shale tectonics
  ...pages.com/data/specpubs/memoir93/CHAPTER04/CHAPTER04.HTM Observations from exploration drilling in an active mud volcano in the southern basin of Trinidad, West I ...which additional advances can be made in the study of shale tectonics. As exploration and development of hydrocarbons move into deeper waters along continental m
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• Depth and thickness conversion
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Cash flow model
  | series = Methods in Exploration # All front end costs—leases, geology and geophysics (G &amp; G), overhead, exploration drilling, and completion costs
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• Seismic attributes
  ...data], in Weimer, P., Davis, T., eds., Applications of 3-D Seismic Data to Exploration and Production: AAPG Studies in Geology 42, p. 107–121.</ref> Stratigraph
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• Petrophysical analysis of lithofacies
  ...ref name=ch21r9>Dahlberg, E., C., 1982, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 161 p.</ref>
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• Llanos basin
  ...low impact the economy of the [[field]]s whatever the high success rate of exploration in this area. In addition to this impact on production, the [[API]] of the ...ng in Sedimentary Basins, Proceeding of the 1st IFP Research Conference on Exploration, Carcans, June 3–7, 1985, p. 173–195.</ref>). Even if the fluid flow mo
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• Overview of routine core analysis
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• Drilling fluid
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• Formation fluid pressure from repeat formation testers
  ...ref name=ch05r5>Dahlberg, E., C., 1994, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 295 p.</ref> Copyright: Springer-Verla
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• Production testing
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• Preprocessing of logging data
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• Definitions of depositional system elements
  ...seismic stratigraphy], in Seismic Stratigraphy—Applications in Hydrocarbon Exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1157 AAPG Memoir 26], p. 205–212.<
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• Core description
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• Formation fluid pressure from drill stem tests
  ...ref name=ch05r5>Dahlberg, E., C., 1994, Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 295 p. Excellent subsurface fluid pres
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• Contouring geological data with a computer
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...A precise method for determining contoured surfaces: Australian Petroleum Exploration Society Journal, v. 22, p. 205-212.</ref> and figure 11.07 of Clarke<ref na
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• Tar sands
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcrop crop out] and were identified early in the exploration for oil throughout the world. Most of those that do not crop out are at sha
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• Core orientation
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• Structurally complex reservoirs: evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...clastic depositional systems applications to petroleum, coal, and uranium exploration: New York, Springer Verlag, 423 p.</ref>)
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• Basin-centered gas systems: development
  ...G. Teleki, R. E. Mattick, and J. Kokai, eds., Basin analysis in petroleum exploration: Dordrecht Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 201-219.</ref> and t ...bs/methodo2/data/a077/a077/0001/0000/0025.htm Petroleum system logic as an exploration tool in a frontier setting], ''in'' L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow, eds., The p
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• Wellbore trajectory
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Pressure transient testing
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• Apatite fission track analysis
  ...interpretation and application of apatite fission track data in petroleum exploration.
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• Predicting carbonate reservoir location and quality
  Regional [[cross section]]s are critical for all interpretations in an exploration play. Regional cross sections establish the correlations that structural, f
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• Two-dimensional geophysical workstation interpretation: generic problems and solutions
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...l tops associated with horizons on the seismic profiles fully integrate an exploration concept. Lithology types from the log model can be superimposed on the seis
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• Contourites
  ...recently been pushed forward due to the continuous advance of hydrocarbon exploration. ...ccurrence. Our findings could be an important change in future hydrocarbon exploration targets.
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• Carbonate diagenesis
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...mination manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=603 AAPG Methods in Exploration 1], 65 p.</ref>]]
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• Well completion
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• Structural geology
  .... The updip area on the downthrown block is the main target of oil and gas exploration because it has synthetic and antithetic faults and rollover anticlines. The # Ground water and mineral exploration
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• Delta plain, lower
  * Coleman, J. M., 1976, Deltas: Processes of deposition and models for exploration: Continuing Education Publ. Co., Champaign, IL (now available from Burgess ...st Karroo Basin, South Africa: in M. L. Broussard, ed., Deltas, models for exploration, 2nd ed:, Houston Geol. Soc., p. 457-469.
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• Reservoir fluids
  .../detail.aspx?id=612 Development geology reference manual]: AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10, p. 226–228.</ref> Reprinted with permission from the AAPG. ...a/pg/0071/0010/1150/1196.htm Capillary pressure techniques: Application to exploration and development geology]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 71, no. 10, p. 1196–1209.</re
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• Production problems
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• Sea level cycles and carbonate sequences
  ..., and Outcrops: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 7], 55 p.</ref>]]
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• Capillary pressure
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...mination manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=603 AAPG Methods in Exploration 1], 35 p.</ref> proposed a simple nomograph whose application improved esti
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• Flow units for reservoir characterization
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• Taxes
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Geology workstation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...p. 23–29.</ref> which may supplant LIS. The [http://www.seg.org Society of Exploration Geophysicists] oversees several standards for seismic data formats, the mos
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• Pressure detection
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• Reservoir modeling for simulation purposes
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• Geological heterogeneities
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Kingfisher field
  ...and P.483) is operated by Shell U.K. Limited (49.74%) and co-owned by Esso Exploration and Production U.K. Limited (49.37%) and Marathon Oil North Sea U.K. Limite ...mber|2}}Top Brae reservoir depth structure map showing the location of the exploration, appraisal, and production wells. Also shown is the 13,100 ft (3993 m) TVDS
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• Sampling for paleontology
  ...zons because they avoid sampling caved material. The rise of international exploration has led to increased analysis of outcrop material; [http://www.merriam-webs
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• Subsurface diagenesis and its relation with diagenetic trap on carbonate rocks reservoir
  ...reservoir that has no relation with the structure<ref>Aquitaine, E., 1982, Exploration for Carbonate Petroleum Reservoirs: New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</ref> ...o structural highs. When the trap diagenesa formed between rock sequences, exploration drilling on the structural highs will not succeed. To determine the locatio
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• Oil correlation case history: Norwegian sector, North Sea
  ...ter Ekofisk crude oils, in Thomas, B., M., eds., Petroleum geochemistry in exploration of the Norwegian Shelf: London, Graham & Trotman, p. 75–92.</ref> followi
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• Oil correlation case history: Brazilian offshore basins
  The [[Offshore exploration and exploitation|offshore]] margin of Brazil contains oil reserves in Creta
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• Flow units and containers
  ...eference Manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 282–285.</ref> courtesy AAPG.]]
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• Making regional tectonic maps
  ...es of Gulf Coast Tertiary continental margins: Applications to hydrocarbon exploration]: AAPG Continuing Education Course Notes Series 25, 226 p.</ref>
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• Sandstone permeability prediction from texture
  ..., E. B., Hartmann, D. J., and Thomas, J. B., 1990, Applied Petrophysics in Exploration and Exploitation: Notes from short course sponsored by Univ. of Colorado–
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• Migration by separate phase
  ...data/a028/a028/0001/0050/0053.htm Geological and Geochemical models in oil exploration, principles and practical examples], in G. Demaison and R .J. Murris, eds.,
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• Super basins
  ...and gas) are shown in light blue. DwGoM = deep-water Gulf of Mexico; E&P = exploration and production; WCSB = Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.<ref name=Fryklunda Structural traps have historically driven exploration and have been responsible for most reserves in super basins. However, strat
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• Subsurface maps
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ocuments the pros and cons of using isochron thins and structural highs as exploration drilling criteria for dolomitized Devonian limestones.
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• Fluid flow fundamentals
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• Organic facies
  ...e, 1984, Petroleum formation and occurrence: A new approach to oil and gas exploration: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 538p.</ref> The somewhat time-consuming elemental ...en-rich organic facies reflect hydrocarbon generative potential that helps exploration geologists map the distributions of possible petroleum source rock candidat
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• Basin-centered gas systems: examples
  ...in, USA, ''in'' A. Mitchel and D. Grauls, eds., Overpressures in petroleum exploration: Elf Aquitaine Memoir 22, p. 133-135.</ref> Ryder,<ref name=Ryder_1998>Ryde * [[Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies]]
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• White paper: Hydraulic fracturing
  ...is to communicate to the public the science behind issues that affect the exploration for and production of petroleum and other energy mineral resources. ...tly to the use of hydraulic fracturing caused a significant uptick in U.S. exploration, including in areas where hydraulic stimulation was not commonly known or w
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• Porosity
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...Polaz, I., Sengupta, S. K., eds., Automated Pattern Analysis in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag.</ref> In this process, pore space is delineated
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• Third-order sequences
  ...ime and Facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 7], 55 p.</ref> Although different basin types, i.e., foreland b
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• Introduction to biosteering operation
  ...interpretation is a critical element in modelling the subsurface geology. Exploration drilling plans are made primarily based on seismic results in addition to o ...name=Fadiya_2014>Fadiya, S. L. 2014. Impact of wellstie biostratigraphy on exploration drilling in the deepwater offshore Nigeria. Journal of African Earth Scienc
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• Wellsite math
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Reservoir simulation study
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• Rock-water reaction
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• Rock-water reaction: formation damage
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• Thermal maturation
  ...eral coloration (FCI) and time-temperature (TTI) indices from Beaufort Sea exploration data: AAPG Annual Convention Abstracts, p. 87.</ref> is a newly emerging ap
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• Structural restoration
  ...ructures and/or lack of data, leading to highly uncertain models, and thus exploration/operational difficulties. For that, subsurface dynamic structural models ar The impact of structural restoration on petroleum exploration and development resides in its ability to evaluate the relative timing of p
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• Fault seal quantitative prediction: shale smear factor, shale gouge ratio, and smear gouge ratio
  ...es, in Norwegian Petroleum Society, eds., Hydrocarbon seals-importance for exploration and production (conference abstracts): Oslo, Norwegian Petroleum Society, p
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• Basin-centered gas systems: gas resources
  * [[Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies]]
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• Cross section
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• Identifying depositional sequences from biostratigraphic data
  ...MSC 160-1 core hole, East Breaks area (data provided by Gerry Ragan, Mobil Exploration and Producing US). The core hole is [[length::0.3 mi]] to the west of the s
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• Arecuna field
  | series = Methods in Exploration No. 14 ...clastic depositional systems: Applications to petroleum, coal, and uranium exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 423 p.</ref> were constructed for the major str
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• Near-surface destruction
  ...Gulf Coast Oils and Gases—Their Characteristics, Origin, Distribution, and Exploration and Production Significance: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Research confe
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• Deltaic environments
  ..._1976>Coleman, J. M., 1976, Deltas: Processes of deposition and models for exploration: Continuing Education Publication Company, Champaign, IL, 102 p.</ref>
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• Owners of oil and gas interests
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• Petroleum reservoir fluid properties
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• Amplitude variations with offset (AVO)
  ...industry standard; it has proven its validity and usefulness in countless exploration efforts. In 1997 Castagna and Swan proposed AVO crossplotting wherein an es
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• Mandal-Ekofisk(!) petroleum system
  ...Ekofisk crude oils, in Thomas, B., M., eds., Petroleum Geochemistry in the Exploration of the Norwegian Shelf: London, Graham and Trotman, p. 75–92.</ref> from
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• Ellesmerian(!) petroleum system
  ...R. W. Jones, 1980, Application of biological marker chemistry to petroleum exploration: Proceedings of the 10th World Petroleum Congress, Bucharest, p. 425-440</r
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• Carbon dioxide (CO2) storage
  ...n dioxide an option for Australia: The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal, v. 40, no. 1, p. 654–666.</ref><ref name=IPC ...ons for new gas field development: The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal, v. 42, no. 1, p. 25-46.</ref><ref name=Streita
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• Permeability
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• Open hole tools
  | series = Methods in Exploration [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Lithofacies and environmental analysis of clastic depositional systems
  | series = Methods in Exploration | [[Paleontology]] ([[Microfossils in exploration|micro]], [[Macrofossils|macro]], [[trace fossils]]), [[palynology]]
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• Stimulation
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• Organic compounds: environmental indicators
  ...D. W., and T. Machihara, 1991, Biomarkers for geologists: AAPG Methods in Exploration 9, 91 p.</ref> and/or more oxidizing conditions<ref name=ch08r39>Peters, K. ...wo newly discovered seeps, in G. J. Carman, and Z. Carman, eds., Petroleum Exploration and Development in Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the Second PNG Petroleu
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• Stable isotope stratigraphy
  ...lysis of fossil calcareous shell material for a section of a high-latitude exploration well. Age estimates for each sample represent the mean of ages derived usin
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• Density-neutron log porosity
  ...eference Manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 180–185.</ref> courtesy AAPG.]]
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• Standard interpretation
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• South Pass 62 field
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• Types of wells
  ...eference manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 71–75.</ref> One method of directional drilling uses an as ...n the reservoir: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=525 AAPG Methods in Exploration 14], p. 127–141.</ref> In the Widuri and adjacent fields, offshore Sumatr
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• Log analysis applications
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• East Breaks hydrocarbon migration model
  ...1994, [http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-92/issue-23/in-this-issue/exploration/gulf-of-mexico-growth-fault-drilled-seen-as-oil-gas-migration-pathway.html
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• Data: sources
  ...al-volumes/me10.htm Development geology reference manual]: AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10, p. 101–103.</ref> Cores are commonly taken at the exploration and appraisal stage, although some of the early production wells may also b
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• Well types
  ...eference manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 71-75.</ref> One method of directional drilling uses an asse ...n the reservoir: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=525 AAPG Methods in Exploration 14], p. 127-141.</ref> In the Widuri and adjacent fields, offshore Sumatra,
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• Thin section analysis
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• Carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration
  ...n dioxide an option for Australia: The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal, v. 40, no. 1, p. 654–666.</ref><ref name=IPC
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• Burial destruction
  ...e deep burial environment may make an accumulation uneconomic and, from an exploration point of view, “destroyed.” The following burial processes destroy accu
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• Diagenetically complex reservoir evaluation
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...tectonic history of the area, the local structural history, the history of exploration and production in the area, the burial history including major erosional an
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• Weyburn seal capacity
  ...elated Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> deve
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• Facies map
  ...apping: Prentice-Hall, 648 p.</ref><ref name=ch04r107>Visher, G. S., 1984, Exploration Stratigraphy: Tulsa, PennWell Books, 334 p.</ref> We map [[reservoir system
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• Hammerfest basin
  ...Ohm, S. E., D. A. Karlsen, and T. J. F. Austin, 2008, Geochemically driven exploration models in uplifted areas: Examples from the Norwegian Barents Sea: [http://
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• Biostratigraphic correlation and age determination
  ..., in J. M. Armentrout, and B. F. Perkins eds., Sequence Stratigraphy as an Exploration Tool: Concepts and Practices in the Gulf Coast: Program and Extended and Il
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• Quick-look lithology from logs
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• Drill stem testing
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• Yowlumne field
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• Core-to-log transformations and porosity-permeability relationships
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• Deltaic reservoirs
  ...clastic depositional systems: Applications to petroleum, coal, and uranium exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 489 p.</ref> ...of processes and sand bodies, in M. L. Broussard, ed., Deltas, models for exploration: Houston Geological Society, p. 99–149.</ref> For example, a wave-dominat
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• Log analysis: lithology
  | series = Methods in Exploration ...ods]] [[Category:Pages with badly formatted tables]] [[Category:Methods in Exploration 10]]
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• Delta plain, subaqueous
  ..., Imperial County, California: in M. L. Broussard, ed., Deltas, models for exploration, 2nd ed: Houston Geol. Soc., p. 239-265.</ref> and Wright and Thom.<ref nam ..._1976>Coleman, J. M., 1976, Deltas: Processes of deposition and models for exploration: Continuing Education Publ. Co., Champaign, IL (now available from Burgess
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• Sill intrusion mechanism, parameters, and temperature effect of sills on a petroleum system
  ...rusions in the Faroe Shetland basin and their implications for hydrocarbon exploration; new insights from well and seismic data / N. J. Mark, N. Schofield, S. Pug ....R. Kurchikov // Ministry of Geology. G 46 USSR; West-Sib. R&D. Geological Exploration. Oil Institute, Moscow: Nedra PH, 231 p.
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• Iran petroleum systems
  ...of Iran, 1:1,000,000 with explanatory note: National Iranian Oil Company, Exploration and Production Affairs, Tehran.</ref> Ghavidel Syooki<ref name=Ghavidelsyoo ...isal of Lurestan: Iranian oil operating companies report 1182, Geology and Exploration Division, 64 p.</ref> <ref name=Sharpetal_2010>Sharp, I. R., Gillespie, P.,
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• Chromatography
  ...is routinely used in the petroleum industry, spanning applications to the exploration of petroleum resources, refining of finished products to industrial and aca
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• Petroleum basins of Turkey
  ...rgeted. Stratigraphic traps are not sufficiently explored and are awaiting exploration. The majority of production is made from Mesozoic reservoirs (mainly Cretac ...hostratigraphic units series-2: General Directorate of Mineral Reseach and Exploration Publications, Ankara, p. 43–83.</ref>).]]
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• Braided fluvial reservoirs
  ...clastic depositional systems: Applications to petroleum, coal, and uranium exploration: New York, Springer-Verlag, 489 p.</ref>
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• Faults: structural geology
  ...eference manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 122–124.</ref> ...eference manual: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=612 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 10], p. 158–162.</ref> <ref name=Adamsanddart_1998>Adams, J. T., a
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• Using and improving surface models built by computer
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• Rock physics analysis for reservoir identification
  ...name=4Avsethetal>Avseth, P., A. Janke, and F. Horn, 2016, AVO Inversion in Exploration – Key Learnings from a Norwegian Sea Prospect: The Leading Edge, v. 35, n
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• Carbonate reservoir
  .... P., G. Caillet, L. Meciani, N. Judge, M. Green, and P. Adam, 1999, Chalk exploration, the search for a subtle trap, in A. J. Fleet and S. A. R. Boldy, eds., Pet
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• Vaca Muerta play
  Nevertheless, the unconventional exploration and production in the Neuquén Basin is in its infancy, and the main unconv ...repeatability and high confidence. As a consequence, during the phases of exploration, pilot, and appraisal, it is not vital to find multiple landing zones, one
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• West Texas Super Basin
  | chapter = West Texas (Permian) Super Basin Unconventional Resources: Exploration, Discovery, and Development Exploration, discovery, and economic development of hydrocarbons in unconventional reso
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• Biodegradation of crude oil in reservoirs
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• Structural play geology
  In the [[petroleum systems]] approach to exploration, the relative timing of major events, such as trap formation, is critical.
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• Marcellus Shale (Devonian) -- Appalachian Basin
  ...y (2020) no production from the Marcellus Shale in Maryland. There were no exploration wells drilled to the Marcellus Shale in Maryland between 1996 and 2020. Due
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• Appalachian Basin Marcellus gas play
  ...archers involved in the EGSP identified the Marcellus Shale as a potential exploration target in the central and northern Appalachian Basin in the late 1970s. Ide # The Marcellus Shale became an important unconventional exploration target in the late 1970s and early 1980s following studies by the EGSP and
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• Eolian reservoirs
  ...nik, and C. J. Schenk, eds., Modern and ancient eolian deposits: Petroleum Exploration and Production, Rocky Mountain section, SEPM, Denver, Colorado, p. 13-1–1
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• Basin-centered gas systems: elements and processes
  * [[Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies]]
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• Mudstones
  ...N. Parkinson, eds., Geological applications of well logs: AAPG Methods in Exploration 13, p. 123–141.</ref>; Bohacs and Lazar<ref> Bohacs, K. M., and O. R. Laz
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• The Neuquén Basin: Sequence Stratigraphy of Vaca Muerta Formation
  ...rton, eds., Seismic Stratigraphy II: An integrated approach to hydrocarbon exploration: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=128 AAPG Memoir 39], p. 255-274.</re
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• Wattenberg field
  *Late 1980s: Gerrity, Snyder, Martin Exploration, Prima, Basin, HS Resources ...ey and Cox<ref name=HigCox>Higley, D. K., and D. O. Cox, 2007, Oil and gas exploration and development along the front range in the Denver Basin of Colorado, Nebr
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• Gas chromatography: data obtained
  ...two newly discovered seeps, in G. J. Carman and Z. Carman, eds., Petroleum Exploration and Development in Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the Second PNG Petroleu
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• Shale-gas resource systems
  ...as resource systems in North America has led to an international effort in exploration to identify such systems. This type of resource potential is present wherev ...velopment of unconventional shale-gas resources. United States independent exploration and development companies have found and produced a huge surplus of natural
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• Geologic mapping (UGM)
  ...at’s most competent and is used for various purposes either for science or exploration of natural resources. A geological map is a map that consists of geological
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• Paraná Basin
  ...''in'' C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic stratigraphy—Applications to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Memoir 26, p. 83–97</ref> in the form of rock packages representing
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• Relationship between porosity and permeability on fractured basement reservoir
  ...in Austin. The main function of both these correlations is at the time of exploration and discovered the presence of fault of seismic data where the data obtaine
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• In-situ stress characterization and applications
  ...20]]). These tools are used during the drilling of the well for petroleum exploration and production. The four caliper arms push against the wall as they move al
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• Shale-oil resource systems
  ...into more liquid-rich and black-oil areas have been another United States exploration and production paradigm shift since about 2008. ...ndance of gas has reduced its current economic value and there has been an exploration and development shift toward locating producible shale-oil resource systems
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• Subduction zone
  ...ins of the Antarctic Peninsula, ''in'' St. John, B., ed., Antarctica as an exploration frontier--Hydrocarbon potential, geology, and hazards: AAPG Studies in Geol
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• Basin modeling: identifying and quantifying significant uncertainties
  Basin modeling is an increasingly important element of exploration, development, and production workflows. Problems addressed with basin model
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• Meandering fluvial reservoirs
  ...imer and T. L. Davis, eds.: AAPG Studies in Geology 42 and SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Geophysical Developments Series 5, p. 45–56.</ref>). Repri
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• Three-dimensional modeling of clinoforms in shallow-marine reservoirs
  ...deltaic depositional systems, in M. L. Broussard, ed., Deltas, models for exploration: Houston, Texas, Houston Geological Society, p. 87–98.</ref>). Fluvial-do ...ime and facies: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1196 AAPG Methods in Exploration Series, no. 7], 55 p.</ref> Hampson et al.,<ref name=Hmpsn2008 />), that is
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• Mudstone nomenclature
  ...cations of source rocks<ref>Waples, D. W., 1985, Geochemistry in petroleum exploration: Amsterdam, Springer Netherlands, 232 p.</ref>. More detailed terms such as
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• Phanerozoic Tethys region
  ...e=Macgregor_1998>Macgregor, D., 1998, Giant fields, petroleum systems, and exploration maturity of Algeria, in D. Macgregor, R. Moody, and D. Clark-Lowes, eds., P
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