Ram/Powell Field: Viosca Knoll Block 912, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Leaves in turbidite sands: The main source of oil and gas in the deep-water Kutei Basin, Indonesia

“…Sandstones of package 3 are interpreted as overbank deposits including levees. Similar strata have been interpreted as levee and overbank by Clemenceau (1995), Galloway and McGilvery (1995), and Schneider and Clifton (1995).…”

Controls on the development of valleys, canyons, and unconfined channel–levee complexes on the Pleistocene Slope of East Kalimantan, Indonesia

“…Large reservoirs in the West Africa occur in slope valleys (Reeckmann et al, 2003;Porter et al, 2006), whereas individual reservoirs in unconfined channelelevee complexes in the Gulf of Mexico (Clemenceau, 1995) are much smaller. When filled with sand-rich turbidites, slope valleys and canyons allow for many thick channel sands to be concentrated in narrow areas (Reeckmann et al, 2003).…”

“…In areas like offshore Angola and California, deepwater environments contain slope valleys and canyons (Shepard, 1981;Babonneau et al, 2002), whereas in other areas, like the Neogene of the Gulf of Mexico, slopes are dominated by channelelevee complexes (Hackbarth and Shew, 1994;Dixon and Weimer, 1998). Turbidite sands in channelelevee complexes are important hydrocarbon reservoirs in some locations like the Gulf of Mexico (Clemenceau, 1995;Schneider and Clifton, 1995;Prather et al, 1998). Turbidite sands in slope valleys are major oil and gas reservoirs in other places like offshore Angola (Minck et al, 2001;Reeckmann et al, 2003;Porter et al, 2006).…”

Outcrop-Behind Outcrop Characterization of Thin-bedded Turbidites for Improved Understanding of Analog Reservoirs: New Zealand and Gulf of Mexico

“…We interpret the facies and stratal patterns illustrated in Figure 5 as being common in thin-bedded turbidite strata in the Gulf of Mexico (and elsewhere). Ram-Powell J (17,18,19) 1600 300 N 1600 ---L ---375 (well test) Green Canyon 205 N1 (20) ---200-1700 N3 1000-4000 ---Garden Banks 171 (21) 900-8000 40-2800…”

“…Auger S2 (22,23) 300-400 10-80 ** A variety of descriptive terms used by individual authors [17][18][19][20][21][22][23] have been grouped into what we consider two similar classes of lithofacies, labeled A and B. Terms used for Type A are: "high density", "amalgamated sheets", "sandprone", "coarser-grained", "thick bedded", "Ta:.…”