Gas Chimney and Hydrocarbon Exploration

Abstract

Abstract: Gas chimney is one of seismic anomalies resulted from vertical fluid migration, which is the interactional outcome due to overpressure, low stress and shale barrier. Multi-layered nonlinear neural network is now an effective technology for gas chimney research. The gas chimney can be applied in hydrocarbon exploration in terms of ranking prospects, detecting migration pathways, distinguishing sealing or non-sealing faults, identifying potential over-pressured zone and drilling (shallow gas) hazards as well as assessing the sea floor stability for platform design and drilling.

Key words: gas chimney, mechanism, seismic profile, hydrocarbon exploration

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LIANG Quan-sheng, LIU Zhen, WANG De-jie, LI Wei-lian, CHANG Mai. Gas Chimney and Hydrocarbon Exploration[J]. Xinjiang Petroleum Geology, 2006, 27(3): 288-290.

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