Fluvial architecture and four-dimensional saturation modeling of a steam flood: Kern River field, California

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 1167-1196
Author(s):  
D.K. Larue ◽  
J.P. Allen ◽  
D. Beeson
Keyword(s):  
Steam Flood ◽  
Fluvial Architecture

FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE OF EXHUMED AND INVERTED PALEOCHANNELS OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF EAST-CENTRAL UTAH

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Wizevich ◽  
◽  
Isabelle Kisluk ◽  
Willow R. Reichard-Flynn ◽  
Abby Keebler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
Fluvial Architecture

Changes in fluvial architecture induced by discharge variability, Jaicós Formation (Silurian-Devonian), Parnaíba Basin, Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 105924
Author(s):  
Monica Oliveira Manna ◽  
Claiton Marlon dos Santos Scherer ◽  
Manoela Bettarel Bállico ◽  
Adriano Domingos dos Reis ◽  
Lucas Vargas Moraes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluvial Architecture ◽  
Parnaíba Basin

Remote monitoring of the steam‐flood enhanced oil recovery process

Geophysics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 1457-1465 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. F. Laine
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Seismic Velocity ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Vertical Plane ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Steam Flood ◽  
Borehole Seismic

Cross‐borehole seismic velocity and high‐frequency electromagnetic (EM) attenuation data were obtained to construct tomographic images of heavy oil sands in a steam‐flood environment. First‐arrival seismic data were used to construct a tomographic color image of a 10 m by 8 m vertical plane between the two boreholes. Two high‐frequency (17 and 15 MHz) EM transmission tomographs were constructed of a 20 m by 8 m vertical plane. The velocity tomograph clearly shows a shale layer with oil sands above it and below it. The EM tomographs show a more complex geology of oil sands with shale inclusions. The deepest EM tomograph shows the upper part of an active steam zone and suggests steam chanelling just below the shale layer. These results show the detailed structure of the entire plane between boreholes and may provide a better means to understand the process for in situ heavy oil recovery in a steam‐flood environment.

Hydrogeological implications of paleo-fluvial architecture for the Paskapoo Formation, SW Alberta, Canada: a stochastic analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375-1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick R. Burns ◽  
Laurence R. Bentley ◽  
Masaki Hayashi ◽  
Stephen E. Grasby ◽  
Anthony P. Hamblin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Analysis ◽  
Fluvial Architecture

Evaluation of Well Completions in the First Steam Flood Pilot Performed in an Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoir in Kuwait

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharmesh Chandra Pandey ◽  
Nayef Fadhel Al Shammari ◽  
Aiydah Khaled Al-Dhafeeri ◽  
Ahmad Al-Naqi ◽  
Faisal Al- Arfan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steam Flood ◽  
Sandstone Reservoir ◽  
Well Completions

Frac and Pack Completion Strategy in Duri Steam Flood (DSF) Field

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias T. Satyagraha ◽  
Amritzar Aimar
Keyword(s):  
Steam Flood

Quantification of fluvial-peat interactions in the Pikeville formation Central Appalachian Basin, USA.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wooldridge ◽  
Robert Duller ◽  
Rhodri Jerrett ◽  
Kyle Straub
Keyword(s):  
Accumulation Rate ◽  
Appalachian Basin ◽  
River Channels ◽  
Channel Depth ◽  
Peat Accumulation ◽  
Floodplain River ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Fluvial Architecture ◽  
Sand Bodies

<p>Basin-scale fluvial architecture is, to a large extent, determined by the ability of river systems to migrate and avulse across their own floodplain. River avulsion takes place when a river aggrades by one channel depth to achieve super-elevation above the surrounding floodplain. However, peat enhancement of floodplain aggradation is likely to affect this fluvial behaviour and has received little attention. The interaction between river channels and peat-dominated floodplains is likely to have the effect of inhibiting or prolonging the conditions required for river avulsion, and so will impact on basin scale architecture during prolonged peat accumulation on floodplains. To elucidate and quantify the nature of this channel-floodplain interaction we investigate the coal-bearing clastic interval of the Carboniferous Pikeville Formation, Central Appalachian Basin, USA. Using a combination of well data and outcrop data, two coal horizons and intervening sand bodies, were mapped across an area of 5700 km<sup>2</sup> to ascertain overall basin-scale architecture. Comparison of the accumulation rate of the coal units (corrected for decompaction) with the synchronously deposited sand bodies suggests that extensive and rapid peat accumulation can increase avulsion timescales by 3 orders of magnitude and dramatically alter basin-scale fluvial architecture.</p>

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