Geomechanics and Fracture Analysis (2024)

Explorer Geophysical CornerBy Bob Parney,Paul LaPointe,Randy Ray

This month's column is the second of a two-part series, dealing with fracture properties and azimuthal seismic data.

Explorer Geophysical CornerBy Bob Parney,Paul LaPointe,Randy Ray

This month's column is the first of a two-part series, dealing with fracture properties and azimuthal seismic data.

Explorer Geophysical CornerBy Jim Holmlund,Paul Griffiths,Randy Ray,Rob Smallshire,Steve Ahlgren

In the July 2002 'Geophysical Corner' we described a new fracture detection method incorporating a portable laserscan unit to completely image analog outcrops in three dimensions. This month we are going to explore how simple analysis of calibrated analog fracture models can enhance exploration and production in fractured reservoirs.

Explorer Geophysical CornerBy Jim Holmlund,Randy Ray,Steve Ahlgren

This month's column is titled 'Using 3-D Outcrop Laserscans for Fracture Analysis.'

Explorer ArticleBy Kathy Shirley

Surprise! A giant gas field currently being explored has a trillion cubic feet of natural gas every seven square miles -- and it's just north of Fort Worth, Texas.

Explorer Emphasis ArticleBy Kathy Shirley

R&D's Future: Lack of understanding seeps into the halls of Congress where significant funding issues for future research and development hang in the balance.

Explorer Emphasis ArticleBy Kathy Shirley

Economics and risk: Borehole imaging using microresistivity images have become important, efficient, cost-effective tools

Explorer Emphasis ArticleBy Kathy Shirley

Time-lapse, or so-called 4-D, seismic technology is proving its worth as a reservoir management tool -- not just on new fields where the technique is applied from inception, but at all stages of a field's lifecycle.

Explorer ArticleBy David Brown

Scott W. Tinker could be the industry's leading forward-thinker on oil and gas research.

Explorer ArticleBy Kathy Shirley

On the arid high plains of northeast Wyoming, the town of Gillette has become a bona fide boomtown. And it's coalbed methane creating the frenzy. The Powder River Basin has become the site of the hottest natural gas play in the country, a region most so-called experts wrote off as a wasteland for the gas.

DL AbstractBy John Suppe

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DL AbstractBy Kurt W. Rudolph

While there are many habitats that are associated with the deposition of organic-rich marine and lacustrine source rocks, one important pathway is linked to the onset of increased basin subsidence associated with major tectonic events. A key aspect is that this subsidence is spatially variable, with the uplift of basin flanks contemporaneous with the foundering of the basin center, resulting in a steeper basin profile.

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VG AbstractBy Juan I. Soto

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

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VG AbstractBy Juan I. Soto

The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.

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