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AAPG Hedberg Research Conference
Evaluating the Hydrocarbon Sealing Potential of Faults and Caprocks
December 1-5, 2002, Barossa Valley, South Australia
Search and Discovery Article #90009 (2002)
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Sequence Stratigraphic Control of Seismic Properties and Facies Variation in Deepwater Shales, Outcrop and Subsurface Examples, by W.R. Almon, W.C. Dawson, S.J. Sutton, F.G. Ethridge, and B. Castelblanco
*Petrophysical Assessment of Lithology and Key Physical Properties of Mudstone Caprocks, by A.C. Aplin, Y. Yang, S.R. Larter, and J.K.S. Moore
Calibration and Application of Permedia MPATH for Modeling Secondary Migration, by S.S. Boettcher, S.A. Barboza, and J. Bunney
Fault-seal
Calibration Using
In-Situ Buoyancy Pressure, by P Bretan and G. Yielding
Capillary Effects on Fault-Fill Sealing Mechanisms and Rates, by A. Brown
*Fault Seal
Integrity in the
Timor Sea Area: Prediction of Trap Failure Using Well-Constrained Stress Tensors
and Fault Surfaces Interpreted from 3D Seismic, by D.A. Castillo, D.J. Bishop,
and M. de Ruig
Sealing and Non-Sealing Fault Along a Major Wrench Trend in the Kakap Area of the West Natuna Basin, by M. Chalik
*The Impact of Fault Seal
Properties on Hydrocarbon Migration Modeling of the Oseberg-Syd Area, Viking
Graben, by C. Childs, Ø. Sylta, S. Moriya, D. Hermansen, J. Strand, and J.J.
Walsh
*Potential of Unconventional Petrophysical Methods (Electrical, Electrokinetic and NMR) for Estimation of Flow Properties of Fault Seals and Other Tight Rocks, by M.B. Clennell
*Seals – It’s All Geomechanics!, by G. Couples
*Capillary and Hydraulic Seal
Failure in the Taranaki and East Coast Basins, New Zealand, by D. Darby, S.
Ellis, and R. Funnell
Sealing Characteristics of Marine Shales Interpreted in a Sequence Stratigraphic Context, by W. C. Dawson and W.R. Almon
*Geomechanical and Microstructural Properties of Siliciclastic Fault Rocks and Their Impact on Prediction of Fault Reactivation, by D.N. Dewhurst, R.R. Hillis, R.M. Jones, and S.D. Mildren
*The Fluid Flow Properties of Faults in Sandstones, by Q. Fisher, M. Casey, and R. Knipe
Fault Geometry and Reservoir Pressure Data, Cooper Basin (Australia): Issues, Problems and Lessons Learned, by T. Flottmann and R. Garth
*Stress History Analysis from 3D Restoration of Faults: Initial Results and Implications for Fault Reactivation and Hydrocarbon Leakage in the Timor Sea Region, Australia, by A. Gartrell and M. Lisk
*An Integrated Earth Modelling Approach to Simulating Fault Flow Behavior, by M. Gerdes, K. Mabe, A. Bernath, W.D. Wiggins, and W. Sumner
*Vertical Hydrocarbon Seal
Retention in Deep Offshore Tertiary Basins, by D. Grauls, J. L. Montenat, and M.
Lescanne
*Seals, Barriers, and Baffles of the North Monagas Overthrust Giant Fields, Eastern Venezuela: Implications for Multi-scale Compartmentation of Clastic Reservoirs, by J. I. Guzmán, J. De Mena, L. Benkovics, E. Roa, C. Márquez, M. Alberdi, J. Maguregui, E. Hernández, and J. Franquet
*Using Detection of Seismic
Chimneys in Seal
Integrity Analysis, by R. Heggland
Seal
Failure Related to Basin
Scale Processes, by C. Hermanrud, H.M. Nordgard-Bolas, and G.M.G. Teige
Evaluating the Predictive
Capabilities of Seal
Technology, by S. Hippler
*Discrete element Stress Modeling in the Otway Basin, Australia, by S. Hunt and P.J. Boult
An Integrated, Quantitative
Approach to Assessing Fault Seal
Risk, by R.M. Jones and R.R. Hillis
Potential in Cretaceous and Late Jurassic Rocks of the Vulcan Sub-Basin, North West Shelf, Australia, by T. Kivior, J.G. Kaldi, and S.C. Lang
*Fluid Flow Behavior of Faults: Critical Variables, Uncertainty Limits and Prediction, by R.J. Knipe, Q.J. Fisher, G. Jones, D.T. Needham, R.K. Davies, H.E. Edwards, J. Ellis, S. Freeman, S.D. Harris, M. Kay, A. Li, H. Lickorish, G. Phillips, J.R. Porter, D. Condliffe, P. Jones, S. O’Connor, N. Odling, and A.C. Barnicoat
Seal
Sequence Stratigraphy and
Seal
Geometry, by S.C. Lang, T. Payenberg, R. Root, and T. Nakanishi
*Capillary Seal
or Permeability
Barrier: Field, Experimental, and Theoretical Considerations of Caprock Wetting
State, by S. Larter, B. Bennett, A. Van Duin, B. Bowler, K. Bond, A. Aplin, J.
Buckman, R. Winans, and R. di Primio
*Quantifying the Impact of the Fault Modeling Parameters on Production Forecasting from Clastic Reservoirs, by G. Lescoffit and C. Townsend
A New Approach to Integrated
Top Seal
Evaluation, by M. Lisk and A. Butcher
*Evaluation of Late Caprock Failure on Hydrocarbon Migration Using a Linked Pressure and Stress Simulator, by A.E. Lothe, H. Borge, and Ø. Sylta
Seal
Risk and Expected
Monetary Value, by D. Lowry
Top and Lateral Seal
Integrity
in the Thrusted Terrain of Northeast British Columbia, Canada, by T.J. MacRobert
*Numerical and Geological Advances in Fault Handling for Production Flow Simulation, by T. Manzocchi, J.J. Walsh, C. Childs, and A.E. Heath
*Risking Brittle Failure of Caprocks in the Otway Basin, Australia, by S.D. Mildren, P.J. Boult, and B. Camac
*FAST: A New Approach to
Risking Fault Reactivation and Related Seal
Breach, by S.D. Mildren and R.R.
Hillis
*The Corinth Rift Laboratory: Monitoring of Active Faults, by I. Moretti, L. Micarelli, J.M. Daniel, Y. Geraud, N. Orellana, and M. Diraison
*A Probabilistic Fault Seal
and
Fault Breaching Assessment of a Norwegian Shelf Prospect: Considering Variance
in Paleo and Present Stresses, Fault Geometry and Lithology, by T. Murray and C.
Guargena
*Common Characteristics of Proven Sealing and Leaking Faults, by S.J. Naruk, W.F. Dula, J.P. Busch, B.A. Couzens-Schultz, L. Garmezy, H. Griffiths, A.M. Gunst, C.A. Hedlund, E. McAllister, U.O. Onyeagoro, B.M. Ozumba, and A. Younes
Stress Regimes – Important Controls on Leakage Mechanisms?, by H.M. Nordgard-Bolas, G.M.G. Teige, and C. Hermanrud
*Fault and Top Seal
Failure:
Exploration Risk or Rather a Missed Opportunity for Evaluating Hydrocarbon
Prospectivity at Prospect to Sub-Basin Scale?, by G.W. O’Brien, G. Lawrence, A.K.
Williams, and M. Brincat
*Structural Uncertainty Modeling in Reservoirs (Havana-SUM): The Effect of Varying Fault Geometry and Transmissibility on Recovery, by S. Ottesen and C. Townsend
*From 2D to 4D Fracture Network
Model, Structural Modeling of a Complex Thrust Trap: Implications for Top Seal
:
A Case Study From the Tarija Basin, Argentina, by Carlo Sanders and Massimo
Bonora – presented by Titus Murray
*Importance of Seals and Flow Barriers in E&P Projects, by R.M. Sneider and J.S. Sneider
*Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Regional Seals Using Carbon Isotope Mud Gas Depth Profiles, West-Central Alberta, Canada, by B. Tilley, R. Miller, and K. Muehlenbachs
*Realistic Fault Description for Reservoir Modeling, by C. Townsend
Hydrodynamic Analysis in
Faulted Strata - Implications to Fault Seal
, by J. Underschultz and C. Otto
*Fault Seal
and Fault Leakage
in the Timor Sea and the Northwest Shelf, Offshore Australia, and the Northern
North Sea, Offshore Norway, by D. Wiprut, D. Castillo, and M.D. Zoback