Abstract High-quality hydrocarbon source rocks are present in the upper Cretaceous layer western slope of Songliao Basin. Oil and gas have accumulated these at shallow edge basin, which has led to formation oil sand resources. This study uses back-propagation (BP) neural network method predict distribution reservoirs is first its kind China. First, based on basic data collected by core sample, ...

The optimization of reservoir sweet spots is the key to efficient exploration and development low-permeability tight sandstone gas reservoirs. However, offshore deep, has characteristics large burial depth, diagenesis heterogeneity prominent importance diagenetic facies, which make it difficult predict spots. This work comprehensively used logging data, core observation, conventional analysis, ...

ABSTRACT Upper Devonian and Lower–Middle Mississippian strata of the North American midcontinent are ubiquitously fine-grained silt-rich, comprising both so-called shale as well argillaceous limestone (or calcareous siltstone) that accumulated in Laurentian epeiric sea. Although long recognized recording marine deposition, origin transport siliciclastic material these units remains enigmatic be...

Organic matter (OM) and carbonate are the important organic inorganic components, respectively, in shales of upper fourth member Eocene Shahejie Formation, Dongying Depression, Eastern China. Their enrichment affects hydrocarbon generation capacity reservoir development shales. The mechanism sequence stratigraphy influence on OM deposition investigated this study. Based petrological, mineralogi...

Remains of non-marine bivalves are widespread in the Carboniferous Donets Basin (Eastern Ukraine). The studies this group fauna important for stratigraphy, paleoecology and paleobiogeography. remains were found sediments Mospyne Formation; Carbonicola obtusa (Hind) Naiadites sp. roof shale g2 coal bed; Curvirimula trapeziforma (Dewar) C. tesselata (Jones) identified g12 bed, rectilinearis Truem...

Detailed log facies studies of Miocene succession in the well Rashidpur-04, Rashidpur structure, Surma Basin were carried out by integrating wireline log and limited core sample data in order to reconstruct the paleoenvironments of deposition. Based on the analysis of the log motifs, grain size, sand/shale ratio and major change in gamma ray log motifs, two major depositional sequences were ide...

The mineralogy and geochemistry of Paleocene shales and interbedded siltstones in the southwestern of Ahar town (NW Iran) were studied by optical microscopy, XRD, SEM, XRF, and ICP-MS techniques. The mineralogical composition, mainly characterized by calcite, quartz, feldspar, dolomite, muscovite, magnesiohornblende, chlorite, illite, montmorionite, palygorskite, and koninckite, suggests relati...

The gypsum mineralization occurred in the form of Satin Spar and Selenite in the south and southwest of the Fars province in the folded Zagros zone. In this region, Satin Spar mineralization has been formed as stratiform between the red marl and siltstone units of Late Miocene–Pliocene in Agha Jari, Bakhtiari, and the Gachsaran formations. The reserves of Satin Spar in this area are at least 20...

The effects of geological conditionwere assessed on density of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) and Nitrogen (N)in a sequence of hillslope landscape, derived from different lithology i.e. loess deposit, reworked loess, marl with mixed siltstone and shale, reddish brown clay deposits and older loess in the semiarid area of northern Iran. However, other factors can influence SOC and N density such as la...