Download or read book Surface Lineaments and Lithofacies Distribution of the Tyler Formation in Southwestern North Dakota written by Nicolas Beltran Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a correlation exists between surface lineaments and lithofacies distribution of the Pennsylvanian Tyler Formation in the southwest portion of North Dakota of the Williston Basin. If a cost-effective technique to locate preserved fluvial sandstone bodies can be developed, the Tyler Formation has the potential to be a productive hydrocarbon exploration target. Many intercratonic sedimentary basins, such as the Williston Basin, exhibit nearly orthogonal surface lineaments. In the case of the Cooper Basin in Australia, lineament analysis helped locate areas where Proterozoic rocks are fractured and filled with quartz veins containing precious metals. In the Michigan Basin, the lineament analysis helped locate deep faults that allow for greater heat flow among anticlinal structures and for thermogenic dolomite to develop. The dolomites are more likely to preserve secondary porosity and be reservoirs for oil. To locate areas with a greater probability of sandstone preservation, this North Dakota Tyler study attempts to establish the use of surface lineaments as a predictive indicator. The Tyler sandstones are presumably preferentially deposited along lineament orientations. The surface lineaments are the result of subtle topographic changes due to preferential erosion, minor structures, movement, and/or faults along weak zones in the basement rock. The basement weakness zones are reactivated throughout geologic history and should have resulted in lineaments during Pennsylvanian time. Fluvial morphology is highly susceptible to small topographic changes: consequently, Pennsylvanian surface lineaments should have bounded drainage pattern into the same orientation as present day surface lineaments. Unfortunately, surface lineament analysis alone did not find a correlation with known lithofacies distribution in the study area.
Download or read book Reservoir Characterization written by Larry Lake and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reservoir Characterization is a collection of papers presented at the Reservoir Characterization Technical Conference, held at the Westin Hotel-Galleria in Dallas on April 29-May 1, 1985. Conference held April 29-May 1, 1985, at the Westin Hotel—Galleria in Dallas. The conference was sponsored by the National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Reservoir characterization is a process for quantitatively assigning reservoir properties, recognizing geologic information and uncertainties in spatial variability. This book contains 19 chapters, and begins with the geological characterization of sandstone reservoir, followed by the geological prediction of shale distribution within the Prudhoe Bay field. The subsequent chapters are devoted to determination of reservoir properties, such as porosity, mineral occurrence, and permeability variation estimation. The discussion then shifts to the utility of a Bayesian-type formalism to delineate qualitative ""soft"" information and expert interpretation of reservoir description data. This topic is followed by papers concerning reservoir simulation, parameter assignment, and method of calculation of wetting phase relative permeability. This text also deals with the role of discontinuous vertical flow barriers in reservoir engineering. The last chapters focus on the effect of reservoir heterogeneity on oil reservoir. Petroleum engineers, scientists, and researchers will find this book of great value.
Download or read book Evaporites written by John K. Warren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 1822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph offers a comprehensive discussion of the role of evaporites in hydrocarbon generation and trapping, and new information on low temperature and high temperature ores. It also provides a wealth of information on exploitable salts, in a comprehensive volume has been assembled and organized to provide quick access to relevant information on all matters related to evaporites and associated brines. In addition, there are summaries of evaporite karst hazards, exploitative methods and problems that can arise in dealing with evaporites in conventional and solution mining. This second edition has been revised and extended, with three new chapters focusing on ore minerals in different temperature settings and a chapter on meta-evaporites. Written by a field specialist in research and exploration, the book presents a comprehensive overview of the realms of low- and high-temperature evaporite evolution. It is aimed at earth science professionals, sedimentologists, oil and gas explorers, mining geologists as well as environmental geologists.
Download or read book Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GeoRef Thesaurus written by Barbara A. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karst Aquifers Characterization and Engineering written by Zoran Stevanović and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical training guidebook makes an important contribution to karst hydrogeology. It presents supporting material for academic courses worldwide that include this and similar topics. It is an excellent sourcebook for students and other attendees of the International Karst School: Characterization and Engineering of Karst Aquifers, which opened in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2014 and which will be organized every year in early summer. As opposed to more theoretical works, this is a catalog of possible engineering interventions in karst and their implications. Although the majority of readers will be professionals with geology/hydrogeology backgrounds, the language is not purely technical making it accessible to a wider audience. This means that the methodology, case studies and experiences presented will also benefit water managers working in karst environments.
Download or read book Hydrology of Guam written by Porter Elwood Ward and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional Environments and Sandstone Diagenesis in the Tyler Formation Pennsylvanian Southwestern North Dakota written by Stephen D. Sturm and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional Facies and Reservoir Analysis of the Tyler Formation in the Central Williston Basin North Dakota written by Paul David Monahan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the Pennsylvanian Tyler Formation has been targeted as a conventional reservoir consisting of barrier island and channel sand deposits in the southwestern Williston basin, North Dakota. The purpose of this study is to investigate the cyclothemic stacking patterns in the Tyler Formation near the depocenter of the basin to improve the petroleum system model. Utilizing one core located in central McKenzie County, the litho-stratigraphy of the cyclothems is characterized. Six facies were identified and described in each cyclothem. A network of six structural and stratigraphic cross sections was constructed. Structural cross sections and structural maps illustrate that the Tyler Formation dips to the northeast. The stratigraphic cross sections illustrate that the Tyler cyclothems were deposited during a period of sea level transgression and high stand. These cross sections and isopach maps also depict a discontinuous sand facies which does not occur in the core studied. New permeability and porosity data of two carbonate intervals as well as publically available data from several other intervals in the core were used to characterize the reservoir model of these cyclothems. The majority of the identified facies had less than one nanodarcy of permeability, strongly indicating this was a very tight formation. It is concluded that the overall tight-rock characteristics of the carbonate and siliciclastic rocks within the lower Tyler Formation may indicate an unconventional petroleum play. The sand facies within the upper Tyler Formation might lead to a conventional approach if hydrocarbons are present.
Download or read book Stratigraphy A Modern Synthesis written by Andrew D. Miall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated textbook is intended to serve as an advanced and detailed treatment of the evolution of the subject of stratigraphy from its disparate beginnings as separate studies of sedimentology, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, etc., into a modern integrated discipline in which all components are necessary. There is a historical introduction, which now includes information about the timeline of the evolution of the components of modern stratigraphy. The elements of the various components (facies analysis, sequence stratigraphy, mapping methods, chronostratigraphic methods, etc.) are outlined, and a chapter discussing the modern synthesis is included near the end of the book, which closes with a discussion of future research trends in the study of time as preserved in the stratigraphic record.
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by Zimbabwe Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PHYSIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN UNITED STATES written by NEVIN MELANCTHON. FENNEMAN and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Core Based Examination of Upper Tyler Formation Source Rocks Within Southwestern North Dakota written by Timothy Olaf Nesheim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geochemical data recently produced from a near complete Tyler Formation core, Shell Oil’s Gardner #41-9, reveals a series of three organic-rich limestone beds in the upper Tyler section that have a composite thickness of ~15 ft. Each limestone bed consists of dark grey to black, laminated to thinly bedded lime mudstone to finely crystalline lime boundstone-packstone that is argillaceous in part. Interbedded with these organic-rich limestone beds is calcareous to non-calcareous shale, which is also moderately organic-rich in part, and a fourth limestone bed that is similar in texture but organic-lean. Analyzed samples from the organic-rich limestone beds of the Gardner core average 5.4% TOC with an S2 of approximately 38 mg/g and an S3 of
Download or read book GeoRef thesaurus and guide to indexing written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Fox Hills Formation Late Cretaceous in the Williston Basin of North Dakota with Reference to Uranium Potential written by Alan M. Cvancara and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subsurface Stratigraphy Lithofacies and Paleoenvironments of the Fox Hills Formation Maastrichtian Late Cretaceous Adjacent to the Type Area North Dakota and South Dakota written by J. Mark Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation North Dakota Geological Survey written by North Dakota Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
