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A moving fluid pulse in a fault zone

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  • Matthew M. Haney

    (Colorado School of Mines
    Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics Department)

  • Roel Snieder

    (Colorado School of Mines)

  • Jon Sheiman

    (Shell International Exploration & Production)

  • Steven Losh

    (Cornell University
    Minnesota State University)

Abstract

Eructation event Evidence from the South Eugene Island Block 330 oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico, off Louisiana, suggests that the fault zones there have acted as conduits for fluids rising from deep in the Earth's crust. And now one of these ‘fault burps’ has been observed directly. Seismic-reflection imaging revealed the rapid ascent of a pulse of fluid, rising vertically up the fault by 1 km between 1985 and 1992. Burps like this may be important factors in subsurface hydrocarbon migration.

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  • Matthew M. Haney & Roel Snieder & Jon Sheiman & Steven Losh, 2005. "A moving fluid pulse in a fault zone," Nature, Nature, vol. 437(7055), pages 46-46, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:437:y:2005:i:7055:d:10.1038_437046a
    DOI: 10.1038/437046a
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    1. Chao Li & Xiaorong Luo & Likuan Zhang & Bing Wang & Xiaoyan Guan & Hongmei Luo & Yuhong Lei, 2019. "Overpressure Generation Mechanisms and Its Distribution in the Paleocene Shahejie Formation in the Linnan Sag, Huimin Depression, Eastern China," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-24, August.

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