March 2010
Thermal maturation and hydrocarbon migration within La Popa Basin, northeastern Mexico, with implications for other salt structures
Diapiric salt exposures as analogs
Hydrocarbon migration has occurred along the salt weld in La Popa Basin, as revealed by geochemical analysis of samples. Studying this rare subaerial exposure can potentially result in a better understanding of salt weld/hydrocarbon interaction in similar salt-related systems.
Stratigraphic controls on production from a basin-centered gas system: Lower Cretaceous Cadotte Member, Deep Basin Alberta
Basin-centered gas concept
The best gas production in the Cadotte Member comes from chert-rich shoreface and beachface deposits that alternate between tight quartzose sandstone. These depositional features are significant in generating gas-production sweet spots identifiable with thin section, well log, and seismic analysis.
Synthetic seismic models from outcrop-derived reservoir-scale three-dimensional facies models: The Eocene Ainsa turbidite system (southern Pyrenees)
Slope turbidites observed on seismic data
Synthetic seismic sections and volumes built from reservoir-scale three-dimensional facies models of the outcropping Ainsa slope turbidite system, southern Pyrenees, are analyzed at different scales of heterogeneity and seismic frequencies as an analog for deep-water slope, channel complexes.
Element migration in turbidite systems: Random or systematic depositional processes?
Modeling complex reservoir features
A mathematical relationship exists between the degree of channel story confinement and the stacking architecture of channelized sand bodies as shown in West African turbidite complexes. Channel distribution in these complexes is related to depositional settings.
Thermal and tectonic evolution of the southern Alps (northern Italy) rifting: Coupled organic matter maturity analysis and thermokinematic modeling
Thermokinematic numerical modeling
The comparison of paleothermal data and numerical modeling was done to gain knowledge on the potentials and limitations of this technique in frontier areas as shown by field and laboratory thermal analyses and thermomechanical numerical modeling in the southern Alps.