Facies modeling is an essential part of reservoir characterization. The connectivity of facies model is very critical for the dynamic modeling of reservoirs. Carbonate reservoirs are so heterogeneous that variogram-based methods like sequential indicator simulation are not very useful for facies modeling. In this paper, multiple point geostatistics (MPS) is used for facies modeling in one of th...

The Permian Council Grove Group in the Panoma Field of southwest Kansas has yielded 80 x 10 meter of gas from approximately 2600 wells from a 60-meter interval at depths of 800-1,000 meters since its discovery in the 1960’s. Initial gas saturation, production rates and cumulative production in the Panoma Field are controlled by the distribution of porosity and permeability in the field, which a...

The Trout Valley Formation of Emsian–Eifelian age in Baxter State Park, Maine, consists of fl uvial and coastal deposits that preserve early land plants (embryophytes). Seven facies are recognized and represent deposits of main river channels (Facies 1, 2), fl ood basin (Facies 4), storm-infl uenced nearshore shelf bars (Facies 3), a paleosol (Facies 5), and tidal fl ats and channels (Facies 6,...

[1] Clay-rich mass transport deposits (MTDs) in the Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, record failures that mobilized along extensional failure planes and transformed into long runout flows. Failure proceeded retrogressively: scarp formation unloaded adjacent sediment causing extensional failure that drove successive scarp formation updip. This model is developed from three-dimensional seismic reflect...

The western Tianshan high-pressure/low-temperature orogenic belt in NW China contains eclogite-facies metavolcanic rocks and omphacite-bearing blueschists. Previous Sm-Nd (omphacite, garnet, glaucophane, whole rock) and Ar/Ar (crossite) dating of eclogite-facies rocks has suggested an age of ca. 345 Ma as the best approximation for the timing of peak metamorphic conditions. The samples describe...

Identifying facies for classification for a seismic inversion project is an important step where one balances computational effort and the quality of the results. We propose a new measure to quantify the suitability of a given facies partition based on information theory. The results depend on a user-selected cutoff, and we propose a reasonable value for this constant. We also show the analysis...

Integration of ichnologic, sedimentologic, and stratigraphic studies of cores from Lower Pennsylva-nian oil and gas reservoirs (lower Morrow Sandstone, southwest Kansas) allows researchers to distinguish between estuarine-and open-marine deposits. This study represents one of the first published ichnologic analyses of a Paleozoic reservoir and, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to test t...