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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Bakken shale"”.
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Imaging a Hydraulically Fractured Bakken Shale Reservoir Using 4D-Tomography and Reverse VSP Techniques with Perforation Shot Sources
Hydrocarbon production from shale reservoirs varies considerably from one location to another in the same well. This variation can be due to geologic factors but also due to variabilities in the reservoir’ stimulation. Seismic images may be inconclusive in identifying areas where hydraulic …
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Effect of thermal maturity on nanomechanical properties and porosity in organic rich shales (a Bakken shale case study)
Unconventional resources (Shale Plays) have been the game changer of energy supply worldwide. The ever improving technologies and expanding of knowledge related to unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations has generated an enormous opportunity for countries with these resources towards energy …
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Estimating Seismic Anisotropy: Fluid Substitution Theory, 3D-Printed Inclusion Models, and Multi-Component 3D VSP in the Bakken Shale
… walk-away and walk-around VSP data in the Bakken shale, North Dakota, provided to us by Hess Corporation. I found that there was strong polar anisotropy in evidence from the VSP data in the Mission Canyon, Lodgepole, and Bakken formations. Thomsen’s anisotropy parameters for the Bakken …
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An Examination of the Mineralogy and Lithology of the Bakken Shale with Implications upon the Bakken Petroleum System, Southeastern Saskatchewan
Late Devonian and Early Mississippian Bakken shales are important source rocks to the oil accumulations in southeastern Saskatchewan. However, to date there is lack of knowledge concerning the mineralogy and lithology of the Bakken shales, which may impact the source effectiveness and heterogeneity …
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Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Regional Mapping of the Late Devonian Interval, Upper Three Forks Formation, Sanish Member, and Lower Bakken Shale, U.S. Portion of the Williston Basin
… Devonian upper Three Forks, Sanish, and lower Bakken units from eight wells were examined and described at the North Dakota core depository. Core descriptions, wireline log correlation and mapping, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) data were integrated to recognize seven facies: The Three Forks D and …
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Source rock potential of the Bakken shales in the Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana
The lower and upper Bakken shales are world class source rocks in the Williston Basin, sourcing reservoirs in the Bakken, upper Three Forks, and lower Lodgepole formations, which comprise the economically significant Bakken Petroleum System (BPS). Lower and upper Bakken shales exhibit a wide range …
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Macrofossils and biostratigraphy of the Bakken Formation (Devonian and Mississippian) in western North Dakota
<p>The Bakken Formation, up to 145 feet thick in North Dakota, is a subsurface formation in the Williston Basin that typically consists of two black shale members separated by a middle member of predominantly gray siltstone or silty limestone up to 85 feet thick.</p> <p>Well over 500 macrofossils …
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Applications of optimization to shale oil and gas monetization
… addresses the challenges brought forth by the shale oil and gas revolution through the application of formal optimization techniques. Two frameworks, each addressing the monetization of shale oil and gas resources at different ends of the scale spectrum, are developed. Importantly, these …
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Thermal history model of the Williston Basin
… would have dissipated before the deposition of Bakken Formation 363 Ma ago. The heat flow history of the Basin was probably a steady-state condition after the Bakken was deposited. </p><p> Compaction is the major factor that affected the thermal structure of the Williston Basin after deposition …
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ELASTIC, MICROSTRUCTURAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF KEROGEN MATURITY FOR SHALES
… affect the seismic properties for organic-rich shale reservoirs. The dissertation links geochemistry, seismic and petrophysics. The experimental part of the dissertation involves rock-eval pyrolysis, TOC estimation, and anhydrous pyrolysis for artificial maturation, kerogen isolation, porosity …
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Essays in Firm Behavior, Innovation, and Social Learning
… and fracture-input decisions in North Dakota's Bakken Shale in order to study the interaction between dynamic decision making and the possibility of social learning. The chapter first confirms that operators have changed their input decisions over time in a manner that is consistent with …
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Essays in Industrial Organization and Labor Economics
… second studies technological switching in the shale industry. The third chapter studies wage garnishment in the United States. The first chapter (joint with Adam Harris) uses observational data to explore how a predictive algorithm changes human decision-making. Using a novel, rich …
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Lithological and sequence stratigraphic examination of the Madison Group marker beds, eastern Williston Basin margin, North Dakota
… sequence which includes part of the upper Bakken shale and extends to the basinwide Madison unconformity. The Frobisher-Alida interval represents a single third-order sequence spanning 2-3 million years and the compositional subintervals are considered fourth-order sequences. </p><p>The …
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Origin of brecciated intervals and petrophysical analyses: the Three Forks Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota, U.S.A.
… in age and lies stratigraphically below the Bakken Formation. The upper 50ft of the Three Forks is included in the Bakken Petroleum System. The upper and middle units of the Three Forks are the focus of this study. These units can be subdivided into four lithofacies: (1) a green to gray or …
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Study of induced seismicity for reservoir characterization
… to a microseismic dataset monitoring a Middle Bakken completion in the Beaver Lodge area of North Dakota. Our results show: 1) moderate-to-strong anisotropy exists in all studied sedimentary layers, especially in both the Upper Bakken and Lower Bakken shale formations, where the Thomsen …
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Silica diagenesis and its pore-scale influence on the characteristics of the upper and lower Bakken shales, Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana
The Bakken Formation has been a major producer of oil and gas in North Dakota and Montana since the advent of horizontal drilling, reaching peak production of over 1.2 million barrels of oil per day. It is Late Devonian and Early Mississippian in age and consists primarily of a dolomitic reservoir …