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• Dip-sealing fault
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal A [[dip]]-sealing fault traps hydrocarbons against the fault plane.
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• Shale gouge ratio
  | title = Quantitative Fault Seal Prediction ...ure 1a]] illustrates how this would be calculated, at a given point on a [[fault]] surface, for explicit shale beds (Equation 1):
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• How fault zones affect seal
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...ons of the fault zone seal. Given the complex structure and composition of fault zones and the many factors that could affect a seal, it has been surprising
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• Growth fault
  ...lt along which movement occurs as sediments are deposited on and above the fault scarp. Continued movement and sedimentation over an extended period of time ...e was originally level, but has since been displaced by movement along the fault. Note thickening of sedimentary layers on the downthrown side. This indicat
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• Fault seal breakdown during production
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ..., no. 2, p. 363–374.</ref><ref name=ch10r10>Buck, S., Robertson, G., 1996, Fault seal behavior at Beryl field, UK North Sea: observations from 20 years of p
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• Reservoir simulations and field unitization
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...ility]], nor areas of sand/sand juxtaposition are constant over the entire fault surface.
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• Seal failure prediction
  ...y of surrounding rocks, and timing. Note these characteristics to evaluate fault-associated leakage: ...re. The higher the shale content of the fault fill, the less the chance of fault-plane leakage.
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• Dip-leaking fault
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...the fault plane. Dip-leaking faults can be identified by the presence of a fault plane leak point (FPLP).
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• Fault seal quantitative prediction: shale smear factor, shale gouge ratio, and smear gouge ratio
  ...ct the likely [[Fault seal behavior|sealing behavior]] of each part of the fault system. ...from the source bed and the compound nature of the clay smear in the fault zone. (No scale on original figure.)
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• Fault plane profile construction
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...d sand/shale juxtaposition, establish seal relationships, define potential fault-dependent [[Trap leakage|leak points]], and help assess [[hydrocarbon volum
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• Overpressure and hydrocarbon distribution, Gulf Coast
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal [[file:evaluating-top-and-fault-seal_fig10-45.png|thumb|300px|{{figure number|1}}Distribution of oil and ga
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• Quantitative fault seal analysis
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1997/06jun/0897/0897.htm Quantitative fault seal prediction]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 6, p. 897–917.</ref>
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• Fault seal-conduit studies
  ...hin section analysis]], and construction of [[Fault plane profile analysis|fault-plane maps]] to determine the juxtaposition of rock types along faults. ...eal–conduit behavior and potential [[hydrocarbon column]] height, based on fault morphology and [http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/E-rock/gougezone.html gouge]
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• Cross-leaking fault
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal A cross-leaking fault allows [[lateral]] communication of hydrocarbons between juxtaposed reservo
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• Fault plane profile
  | chapter = Evaluating top and fault seal ...d sand/shale juxtaposition, establish seal relationships, define potential fault-dependent [[Trap leakage|leak points]], and help assess [[hydrocarbon volum
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• Molyneux:sandbox
  * [[Fault]] * [[Fault seal]]
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• Main Central Thrust
  ...</ref>. Generally speaking, the Main Central Thrust is the ductile [[shear zone]], along which the Great Himalayan Crystalline complex was placed over the ...ts of India and Asia. It is structurally dominated by three north-dipping, fault—bound units stacked by, from north to south, the [[Southern Tibetan Detac
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• Seismic data: two- or three-dimensional interpretation
  ...the strong amplitude reflections from the west are dipping. Top Rotliegend fault blocks are also evident. By using motion (e.g., rotation around the time ax ...cal seismic sections, you will fail to see faults that have trends in this zone. The same phenomenon occurs with depositional stratigraphy.
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• Fracture trap regime
  ...intimately associated with and controlled by tectonic folds. || Related to zone of maximum curvature. | rowspan = 2 | Fault-related fracture traps; Fractures are intimately associated with or control
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• Seismic data
  * Map and [[contour]] fault surfaces critical to closure. * Integrate fault and horizon contours.
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• Three-dimensional seismic method
  ...et zone and the aperture size required for adequate imaging of that target zone.<ref name=pt07r64>Yilmaz, O., 1987 Seismic Data Processing: Society of Expl ...migrated section that are easily correlated with reflections outside that zone. When we do 2-D migration, we confine the movement of the energy into the p
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• Fluid contacts
  ...splacement pressure]] (DP) on the capillary pressure curve. The transition zone is the interval with co-production of water and hydrocarbons. The fraction ...The ''[[What is a reservoir system?#Waste and transition zones|transition zone]]'' is the elevation range in which water is coproduced with hydrocarbons.
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• Structural geology
  ==Growth fault== ...jpg|thumb|300px|{{figure number|1}} Sketch showing a well-developed growth fault and accompanying structures.]]
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• Structural play geology
  ...e|faults]], which can result in structural traps, including anticlines and fault closures. ...he play in three dimensions, including relative attitudes of formation and fault surfaces
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• Plate tectonics and basin formation
  ...th's crustal plates that collide with each other will form the subduction zone and cause the forces acting both horizontally and vertically, which will fo ...undary is also known as transform fault. The most common type of transform fault occurs along [[fracture]] zones and connect two divergent plate boundaries
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• Types of wells
  ...nt of keeping the well within a specific reservoir interval or hydrocarbon zone.]] ...ctory to keep the well within a specific reservoir interval or hydrocarbon zone. In a strict sense, these wells are rarely perfectly horizontal, but they t
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• Well types
  ...nt of keeping the well within a specific reservoir interval or hydrocarbon zone.<ref name=Shepherd_2009>Shepherd, Mike, 2009, [http://archives.datapages.co ...ctory to keep the well within a specific reservoir interval or hydrocarbon zone. In a strict sense, these wells are rarely perfectly horizontal, but they t
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• Subduction zone
  ...nd basins attract the minds of geologists. The profound role of subduction zone emerges as methods in geophysics reveal the structure and composition of ma ...ove inside the Earth. According to the types of involved crust, subduction zone has two separate types: island-arc and active [[continental margin]] (ACM).
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• Strain partitioning
  ...or shear zones) and an arc normal component (accommodated through [[thrust fault]]s).<ref name=Platt93>Platt, J.P. (1993). "Mechanics of Oblique Convergence ...ay be partitioned by the development of a [[strike slip fault]] or [[shear zone]] across the actively deforming region.<ref name=TyesTik /><ref name=Fossen
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• Structural analogies
  ...D. A., 1996, En echelon geometry and two-dimensional model of the triangle zone, Grease Creek syncline area, Alberta: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geolog * Erslev, E. A., Mayborn, K., R., 1997, Multiple geometries and modes of fault-propagation folding in the Canadian thrust belt: Journal of Structural Geol
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• Using and improving surface models built by computer
  ...the block edge. (d) When displayed, contours are constrained to inside the fault block polygon and all models are displayed on the same map.<ref name=pt08r1 ...s are constructed for the faults and for each surface on each side of each fault. Operations between surface models prevent them from projecting past one an
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• Cuba: Geology and regional setting
  ...[[Pinar del Rio]]. Carbonates exist in the highly deformed [[Motagua fault zone]], in central [[Guatemala]], but similarity to carbonates found in Cuba is ...tes] are common throughout the Caribbean and extend from the Motagua fault zone, between the Maya and Chortis block, to [[Puerto Rico]]. They also form the
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• 3-D seismic data: the data cube
  * Much better areal mapping of [[fault]] patterns and connections and delineation of [[reservoir]] blocks ...ne smearing], or [http://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Dictionary:Fresnel_zone Fresnel zone], problem)
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• Austin Chalk, onshore U.S. Gulf Coast
  ...012). Accordingly, exploration had been focused on the naturally fractured fault zones (these major fractures oriented parallel to the Lower Cretaceous shel ...ses; Male and Zahm (2021) investigated the productivity of wells linked to fault distribution in Karnes Trough area.
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• Pressure compartment seals
  ...ure influences the development of authigenic materials. Quite possibly the zone of mineralization stays near the [[temperature::200&deg;F]] isotherm, migra ...ea graben. It correlates tectonic activity with pressure leakage caused by fault reactivation and hydraulic fracturing of the top seal.
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• Condensate banking effect
  ...observed further away from the wellbore. No condensate is present in this zone and only gas is mobile. * Condensate Buildup Zone: (Zone 2) As we move closer to the wellbore, the reservoir pressure is now below t
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• Relationship between porosity and permeability on fractured basement reservoir
  ...re can appear as a long micro rock separation in micrometer or continental fault until thousands of kilometers. It can be limited by a rock formation or a l ...ture is circulated from matrix fracture and return to fracture, saturation zone with oil and water phase.
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• Faults: structural geology
  ...ogist analyzes the structures from core and log data. Having established a fault framework for a field, it is important to know whether or not fluid flow co ...here is a high density of such features or where knowledge of the detailed fault or fracture pattern is important for reservoir development.
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• South Viking Graben
  ...r, more accurate depictions of the [[structure]], particularly the western fault-bounded [[margin]] and the internal [[structure]] of the graben fill, are n ...://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.9 doi:10.1144/SP471.9].</ref>). The major [[fault zone]] on the western side of the SVG can be defined by three significant lineam
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• Subsurface maps
  ...level is a useful reference datum. Commonly contoured horizons are top of zone or top of net pay. Control points are provided by surveyed wells and can be ===Fault planes===
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• Tectonic modeling
  ...0046/0046.htm Three-dimensional visualization of salt walls and associated fault systems]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, p. 46–61. * Storti, F., Salvini, F., McClay, K., 1997, Fault-related folding in sandbox analogue models of thrust wedges: Journal of Str
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• Pressure detection
  ...erpressure exists. This method of predicting the depth to an overpressured zone has been widely used, especially in the offshore Gulf coast of the United S .... If the drilling rate increases, it can be inferred that an overpressured zone is being encountered. The rate increases because bottom hole conditions cha
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• Hammerfest basin
  ...gas fields of the decade 1978-1988: AAPG Memoir 54, p. 349–370.</ref>), [[fault]] reactivation (Larsen et al., 1993<ref name=Larsenetal1993>Larsen, R. M., ...is in a natural long-term carbon sequestration analogue: Little grand wash fault, Utah: M. S. thesis, University of Texas, Austin, TX.</ref>). As distinctio
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• Llanos basin
  ...dation]] as well as a currently active meteoric water flow. The transition zone shows interactions of deep fluid [[updip]] migration and meteoric water [[d ...responds to the former Early [[Cretaceous]] basin edge is the [[Guaicaramo fault]] (Bayona et al., 2008<ref name=Bayonaetal2008 />), but some [[thrust]]s an
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• Cuba: Geologic history
  ...of the middle Cretaceous quartzose clastics, and the dip of the subduction zone. '''Stratigraphic unit names followed by an asterisk (i.e., Capitolio*) wer ...conditions were separated by a [[Conglomerate|conglomeratic]] [[breccia]] zone (Sagua la Chica* belt) representing a [[forereef]] facies, although reefs t
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• Cross section
  ...over developing [[fold]]s or the thickening of the section across [[growth fault]]s. The following elements of cross section design are presented as if they ...schematic because stratigraphic and well log variations across a number of fault blocks are the main features of interest and the details of lateral variati
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• Barmer basin
  ...day of ca. 3 km and have not been significantly inverted. The large, deep fault northwest of the [[Vandana]] area is a major hinge line, controlling deposi ...name=Bladonetal2015a />, 2015<ref name=Bladonetal2015b />). The resulting fault network provides [[fluid migration]] pathway linkages across long distances
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• Kingfisher field
  ...range of geological structures when compared to the more classical rotated fault blocks of the North Viking Graben Brent province. ...etaceous unconformity (BCU) can be envisaged as being related to synrift [[fault]] growth and linkage instead of the result of structural inversion.
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• Reservoir fluids
  # ''The zone of 100% oil production.'' This is located above the height where the water ...re. In some reservoirs, the entire oil column may be within the transition zone.<ref>Fanchi, J. R., R. L. Christiansen, and M. J. Heymans, 2002, Estimating
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• Geologic mapping (UGM)
  ...o draw a lineament that estimate the geological structures such as faults. Fault is marked by the change of contour line patterns drastically or shifted in # The place where the common structure (fault, stocky, folds, etc.)
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