PUBLICATIONS BY R. A. NELSON
(March, 2010)
Bratton, T., Canh, D.V., Cuc, N.V., Que, N.V., Gillespie, P., Hunt, D., Li, B.,
Marcinew, R., Ray, S., Monteron, B., Nelson, R., Schoderbek, D., and
Sonneland, L., 2006, Nature of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs,
Schlumberger Oil Field Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 4-23.
Chacartegui, F., Ortega, O., Azpiritxaga, I., Verenzuela, X., Oquendo, O., Nelson,
R.A., Taylor, C., Scott, R., Steinbis, M., Aswad, T., and Stiteler, C., 1995,
Geolical Model for the Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs in the Maracaibo
Basin, Venezula, abst of talk, AAPG Annual Conv., Houston, March 5-8,
1995, Ann., Conv. Program, p. 16a.
Edwards, E.E., Needham, T., Nelson, R., Isby, J., Chetri, H.B., Mukherjee, R.,
And Dutta, P., 2001, Fracturing in the Mauddud Limestone, Raudhatain &
Sabiriyah Fields, North Kuwait; abst. Proc. GCC Fractured Reservoir
Forum, Kuwait Oil Co., Oct. 8-9, 2001, Kuwait City.
Handin, J.W. and Nelson, R.A., 1973, Why is Lake Powell A-seismic?: Abst.,
UNESCO Colloquium on Seismic Effects of Reservoir Impounding,
Royal Society of London, March, 1973.
Jacoby, G.C., Jr., Nelson, R.A., Patch, S. and Anderson, O.L., 1977, Evaporation,
Bank Storage, and Water Budget at Lake Powell: Lake Powell Res. Proj.
Bull., no. 48, Inst. of Geoph. and Planetary Phys., Univ. of Calif., Los
Angeles, CA, 98 p.
Keating, J., Mugheiry, M., Hsu, C.F., and Nelson, R., 2004, Seismically
Constrained Integrated Reservoir Modeling of the Al Huwaisah Field,
North Oman; abst. of talk, Geo Arabia, Geo 2004, Oral-137, 1 p.
Morley, C.K., Nelson, R.A., Patton, T.L., and Munn, S.G., 1990, Transfer Zones
in the East African Rift System: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 74,
no. 8, Aug. 1990, pp. 1234-1253.
Nelson, R.A., 1972, Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Tertiary Igneous
Rocks of the Eagle Mountains, Van Horn, Texas: MS. Thesis, Texas
A&M Univ., College Station, Texas, August, 1972, 93 p.
__________, 1974, Fracture Permeability in the Mesozoic Clastics of
Southeastern Utah: Abstract of Talk, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Annual
Mtg., San Antonio, Texas, Student Session, April 1, 1974.
__________, 1975a, Factors Affecting the Orientation and Distribution of
Regional Fractures: Abst., South Central Section of the Geol. Soc.
Amer., 9th Ann, Mtg., Austin, TX, March 13, 1975, Geol. Soc. Amer.
Abstr. Programs, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 221.
__________, 1975b, Fracture Permeability in Porous Reservoirs: An
Experimental and Field Approach: PhD Dissertation, Texas A&M Univ.,
College Station, Texas, August, 1975, 171p.
__________, 1976, An Experimental Study of Fracture Permeability in Porous
Rock: Proceedings of the 17th Symp. Rock Mech., Snow Bird, UT,
August 25-27, 1976, 8 p.
__________, 1978, Brittle Structures Maps of New York State: Reviews of
Recent Publications: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 62, no. 9, p.
1723.
__________, 1979, Natural Fracture Systems: Description and Classification:
Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 63, no. 12, Dec. 1979, pp. 2214-
2221.
__________, 1981a, A Discussion of the Approximation of Subsurface (Burial)
Stress Conditions in Laboratory Experiments, in Mechanical Behavior of
Crustal Rocks, The Handin Volume: Amer. Geoph. Union, Monograph
24, pp. 311-321.
__________, 1981b, An Approach to Evaluating Fractured Reservoirs: Soc.
Petrol. Eng. of AIME, 56th Annual Mtg., San Antonio, TX, Oct. 5-7,
1981, Preprint No. SPE 10331, 4 p.
__________, 1981c, Significance of Fracture Sets Associated with Stylolite
Zones: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 2417-2425.
__________, 1982a, An Approach to Evaluating Fractured Reservoirs: Jour.
Petrol. Tech., vol. 34, no. 9, Sept. 1982, pp. 2167-2170.
__________, 1982b, Geological Evaluation of Fractured Reservoirs: Abst.,
Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Distinguished Lecture Tour, 1982-1983, Amer.
Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 1681-1682.
__________, 1983a, The Localization of Aggregate Stylolites by Rock Properties:
Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 313-322.
__________, 1983b, Fractured Reservoir Analysis: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.
Annual Mtg. Short Course, April 17, 1983, Dallas, TX, with course notes,
96 p.
__________, 1983c, Geological Evaluation of Fractured Reservoirs: Amer.
Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Slide-Tape Presentation, produced by Science-Thru-
Media, Inc., New York, New York, 2 cassette tapes, 52 (35 mm) slides.
__________, 1983d, Geologic Implications of Lineaments, Glen Canyon Area,
Utah and Arizona - Structural Analysis: Proceedings Fourth Intl. Conf.
New Basement Tectonics, Oslo, Norway, August 10-14, 1981, pp. 275-
286.
__________, 1985a, Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs:
Contributions to Petroleum Geology and Engineering No. 1, Gulf
Publishing Co., Houston, Texas, 311 p.
__________, 1985b, Characterization and Interpretation of Rock Mass Joint
Patterns: Reviews of Recent Publications: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol
Bull., vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 2039-2040.
__________, 1986, Fractured Reservoir Analysis: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.
Annual Mtg. Short Course, June 14, 1986, Atlanta, GE, with course
notes, 120 p.
__________, 1987a, Oriented Core: Its Use, Error, and Uncertainty: Amer.
Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 71, no. 4, April, 1987, pp. 357-367.
__________, 1987b, Fractured Reservoirs: Turning Knowledge into Practice:
Jour. Petrol. Technol., Distinguished Author Series, SPE 16470, April,
1987, pp. 407-414; reprinted in Al-Petrol, Cairo, 1988.
__________, 1987c, Distribution and Character of Fractures in Sedimentary
Basins, and Their Importance for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: abst., Soc.
Expl. Geop., Workshop on Fractures, Anisotropy, and Birefringence, 57th
Annual Intl. Mtg., October 15, 1987, New Orleans, LA, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 854.
__________, 1987d, Notes on the Northern Termination of the Gulf of Suez Rift
into a Pre-Existing East-West Fault System: Al-Petrol, Nov-Dec 1987,
Cairo, pp. 57-62.
__________, 1988a, Do Workers and Managers View Fractured Reservoirs
Differently?: Abst., Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 1988 Annual Mtg.,
Houston, TX, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 72, no. 2, p. 227.
__________, 1988b, The Characteristics and Distribution of Natural Fractures in
the Surface and Near Surface; abst. Of talk, AGU Chapman Conf., June
1988, 1p.
__________, 1990, Multi-Scale Natural Fracture Development and Its Effect on
Reservoir Modeling: Abst., Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 1991 Ann. Mtg.,
Dallas, TX, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 75, no. 3, p. 645.
__________, 1992, Evaluating Fractured Reservoirs, in R.M. Slatt (ed.),
Development Geology Reference Manual: AAPG.
___________, 1995a, Professional Society Value; Houston Geol. Soc. Bull.,
vol. 38, no. 1, p. 5.
___________, 1995b, Technology is the Lifeblood of Our Future; Houston Geol.
Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 2, p. 5.
___________, 1995c, Risk Analysis and Its Impact on Selling Prospects to the
Majors; Houston Geol. Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 3, p. 5.
___________, 1995d, Geology and the Often Ambiguous Attribute; Houston
Geol. Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 4, p. 5.
___________, 1996a, HGS has an Important Role in the GCAGS; Houston Geol.
Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 5, p. 5.
___________, 1996b, Students and the Industry of the Future; Houston Geol.
Soc., vol. 38, no. 6, p. 5.
___________, 1996c, The HGS-AAPG Relationship; Is It Working?; Houston
Geol. Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 7, p.5.
___________, 1996d, Process Improvements Versus Creativity; Houston Geol.
Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 8, p. 5.
___________, 1996e, Hero’s; Houston Geol. Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 9, p. 5.
___________, 1996f, Is Our First Year Like Every Year?; Houston Geol. Soc.
Bull., vol. 38, no. 10, p. 5.
___________, 1996g, Performance of Your 1995-1996 HGS Executive Board;
Houston Geol. Soc. Bull., vol. 38, no. 10, p. 32.
___________, 1998a, Overview of Research Applications to Fractured
Reservoirs; abst. Proc. Vol., Rocky Mnt. Assoc. Geologists, Fractured
Reservoir Symp., Jan. 19-20,1998, Denver.
___________, 1998b, Integrated Structural Geology Techniques and How They
Constrain Exploration Risk; Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Distinguished
Lecture Abst., SE Asia Tour.
___________, 1998c, Modern Approaches to Exploration in Fractured
Reservoirs; Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Distinguished Lecture Abst.,
SE Asia Tour.
___________, 1998d, Modern Approaches to Reservoir Characterization in
Fractured Reservoirs, abst., PETEX conf., Keynote address, Dec. 1998,
London.
___________, in review, A Brief History of the Building Stones Industry,
Houston Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub., The Building Stones of Houston, D.L.
Risch ed.
___________, 2000, Tips and Guidelines for being a Successful AAPG
Session Chairman; Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Standing Technical
Program Comm. Publication, 6p., 1 fig.
___________, 2001a, Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs; 2nd
Edition, Gulf Professional Publishing/ Butterworth-Heinemann, Houston,
332p.
___________, 2001b, Secondary Recovery Design Considerations in Fractured
Reservoirs with Emphasis on Giant Fields in the Middle East and North
Africa; abst., Proc. Middle East and North Africa Oil & Gas Conf.
(MENA 2001), London, Sept. 18 & 19, 2001.
___________, 2001c, Exploring for Conventional Fractured Reservoirs and
Subtle Fractured Reservoirs in the Middle East & North Africa; ; abst.,
Proc. Middle East and North Africa Oil & Gas Conf. (MENA 2001),
London, Sept. 18 & 19, 2001.
___________, 2001d, Historic Production Distributions as a Fractured Reservoir
Screening Tool; abst. Proc. Structural Traps and Fractured Reservoirs in
the Rocky Mountain Region, Rocky Mountain Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Oct.
1, 2001, Denver, 3p.
___________, 2002a, Creating Static Conceptual Models for Fractured
Reservoirs: Abst. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Proc. 2002 Ann. Mtg., p.
A129.
___________, 2002b, US Energy Usage: Where Does It All Go?: Kansas
Geological Survey, Spec. Pub., Sustainability of Energy and Water
through the 21st Century, L.C. Gerhardt, P.P. Leahy and V.J. Yannacone,
Jr. Eds., pp. 75-80.
___________, 2003, Exploration for Fault-Related Fractured Reservoirs; abst.,
Houston Geological Society Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 3, Nov. 2003, p. 27.
___________, 2004a, Integragtion of Fracture, Production, and Diagenetic Data
in Static Subsurface Models Using 3D Visualization; abst. of talk, Proc.
AAPG Hedberg Conf., Structural Diagenesis: Fundamental Advances and
New Applications form a Holistic View of Mechanical and Chemical
Processes, Austin, Feb. 8-11, 2004.
__________, 2004b, Quantification of Wellbore Fracture Intensity and the
Correlation to Wellbore and Field Performance; abst. Of talk, AAPG ann.
Conv., 2004, AAPG Bull., vol. 88, no. 13 (Supplement), 1p.
__________, 2004c, Our Fractured Reservoir Scorecard; Where We Are, and
Where we Want to be, Keynote Address, SPE Annual Mtg. Houston, TX,
Sept. 27-29, 2004.
__________, 2004d, U.S. Energy Usage: Where Does It All Go?; abst.
EMD/DEG All Convention Luncheon, AAPG Eastern Sec. Mtg.,
Columbus, OH, Oct. 5, 2004, Prog. & Abst. Vol., p. 42.
__________, 2004e, Fractured Reservoirs from Exploration Concepts to
Simulation Predictions: Where Do We Stand in Making This a Single,
Continuous Process?; abst. Fractured Reservoirs Research Conf., Geol
Soc., Geol. Soc. London, London, Nov. 16-17, 2004.
__________, 2005a, Dynamic Characterization of Fractured Reservoirs
Constrained by Static Observations; Keynote address, SPE Advanced
Technology Workshop, Fractured Carbonates from Reservoir Dynamics to
Optimum Production Strategies, Muscat, April 3-6, 2005.
__________, 2005b, How Our Approach to Fractured Reservoirs Has Matured
Over Time?; Extended abst., EAGE 2nd North-African Mediterrean
Conference & Exhib., Algiers, April 11-13, 2005.
__________, 2005c, Quantification of Wellbore Fracture Intensity and the
Correlation to Wellbore and Field Performance; Abst. of talk, Tulsa
Geological Society, Sept. 27, 2005, Tulsa, OK.
__________, 2009a, Quantitative Evaluation of Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs;
In the Middle East and how they Might Relate to Gulf Coast Carbonate
Reservoirs; SIPES Continuing Education Seminar, Houston, Jan. 12,
2009, Slide set of presentation on CD.
__________, 2009b, Fractured Reservoir Approaches in Exploration Strategy and
Reservoir Simulation, Today and in the Future; abst. Assoc. Mex. Geol.
Petrol. Conf, New Trends in Characterization and Exploitation of
Fractured Reservoirs, Villahermosa, Nov. 22-24, 2009.
Nelson, R.A., Chaboudy, L.R. Jr., and McGuire, D. J., 1998, Las Ventanas
Fractured Reservoir Play: A La Paz Field Look-Alike in the Catatumbo
Basin of Colombia:&mbsp; Abst. of Poster, Fracture and In Situ Stress
Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Symposium, Geol. Soc.
London, June 28-29, 1999, London. Poster
Nelson, R.A. and Chacartegui, F., 1994, Fractured Reservoir Analysis with
Examples from the Cretaceous Carbonates of Lake Maracaibo,
Venezuela: Abst., Proc. Vol. 1st Joint AAPG/AMPG Reservoir
Conference on Geological Aspects of Petroleum Systems, Oct 2-6, 1994,
Mexico City.
Nelson, R.A. and Handin, J.W., 1977, An Experimental Study of Fracture
Permeability in Porous Rock: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 61,
no. 2, pp. 227-236.
Nelson, R.A. and Hsu, M.Y., 1993, Fractures in the Ordovician Sandstones of the
Sabria and El Franig Structures, Tunisia: Proc. Tunisian Fractured
Reservoir Symposium (ETAP), Tunis, Sept. 1-2, 1993, pp. 113-119.
Nelson, R.A., Lenox, L.C., and Ward, B.J., Jr., 1987, Oriented Core: Its Use,
Error, and Uncertainty, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Bull., vol. 71, no. 4,
pp. 357-367.
Nelson, R.A., Moldovanyi, E.P., Matcek, C.C., Azpiritxaga, I. and Bueno, E.,
1996, Structurally Controlled Porosity Evolution and Production, La Paz
Field, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela; abst. 1996 AAPG Intl. Conv.,
Caracas, Invited Presentation.
___________, 2000, Structurally Controlled Porosity Evolution and
Production, La Paz Field, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela; AAPG Bull.
November 2000 Issue, vol. 84, no. 11, pp. 1791-1809.
Nelson, R.A., Patton, T.L., and Morley, C.K., 1992, Rift Segment Interaction and
It's Relation to Hydrocarbon Exploration: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.
Bull., vol. 76, no. 8, pp. 1153-1169.
Nelson, R.A., Patton, T.L., and Serra, S., 1999, Exploring for Structural
Traps; Invited Manuscript, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Treatise of
Petroleum Geology, Handbook of Petroleum Geology, Exploring for Oil
and Gas Traps, Beaumont, E.A. and Foster, N.H. eds, Chap. 20, 70p.
Nelson, R.A., Patton, T.L., Serra, S., and Bentham, P.A., 1996, Delineating
Structural Timing; Bull. Houston Geol. Soc. vol 39, no. 1, Sept 1996.
Reprinted in the Bulletins of the South Texas Geol. Soc. Dec. 1996 and
the Corpus Christi Geol. Soc. 1996.
Nelson, R.A. and Serra, S., 1994, Vertical and Lateral Changes in Fracture
Spacing in Several Folded Carbonate Sections and It's Relation to
Locating Horizontal Wells; Keynote Address at Canadian
SPE/CIM/CANMET Symposium on Recent Advances in Horizontal Well
Applications, Calgary, March 20-23, 1994, Proceedings Paper No. HWC
94-41, 10 p.
Nelson, R.A. and Serra, S., 1995, Vertical and Lateral Changes in Fracture
Spacing in Several Folded Carbonate Sections and It's Relation to
Locating Horizontal Wells; Jour. Canadian Petroleum Technology (Re-
publication of Nelson & Serra, 1994)., vol. 34, no. 6, June 1995, pp. 51-
56.
Nelson, R.A., Serra, S., Brock, W.G., and Ward, B.J., Jr., 1993, Vertical and
Lateral Variations in Fracture Spacing in Several Folded Carbonate
Sections: Proc. Tunisian Fractured Reservoir Seminar (ETAP), Tunis,
Sept. 1-2, 1993, pp. 79-89.
Nelson, R.A. and Stearns, D.W., 1977, Interformational Control of Regional
Fracture Orientations, in Exploration Frontiers, Central and Southern
Rockies: Rocky Mnt. Assoc. Geol., 1977 Field Trip Guidebook, pp. 95-
101, reprinted in Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Treatise on Petrol. Geol.
Reprint Series No. 1, Reservoir Properties, 1988, pp. 306-312.
Patton, T.L., Moustafa, A.R., Nelson, R.A., and Abdine, A.S., 1994, Tectonic
Evolution and Structural Setting of the Suez Rift; Amer. Assoc. Petrol.
Geol. Mem. 59, Interior Rift Basins; Landon (ed.), pp. 9-55.
Patton, T.L. and Nelson, R.A., 1988, Rift Offsets, Gulf of Suez Egypt: Abst.,
Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 1988 Ann, Mtg., Houston, TX, Amer. Assoc.
Petrol. Geol. Bull., vol. 72, no. 2, p. 233.
__________, 1988b, Rift Offsets, Gulf of Suez, Egypt: Abst., Houston
Geological Society, Oct. 19, 1988, Houston, TX, Bull. Houston Geol.
Soc., vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 10-11. Oct. 1988.
Patton, T.L., Serra, S., Humphreys, R.J., and Nelson, R.A., 1995, Building
Conceptual Structural Models fro Multiple Modeling Sources: An
Example from Thrust-Ramp Studies; Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 1, pp.
153-162.
Poppelreiter, M., Balzarini, M.A., De Sousa, P., Engel, S., Galarraga, M., Hansen,
B., Marquez, X., Morell, J., Nelson, R., and Rodriguez, F., 2005,
Structural Control on Sweet-spot Distribution in a Carbonate Reservoir:
Concepts and 3-D Models (Cogollo Group, Lower Cretaceous,
Venezuela); AAPG Bulletin, vol. 89, no. 12, December 2005, pp. 1651-
1676.
Poppelreiter, M.C., Balzarini, M.A., Hansen, B.. and Nelson, R.A., 2008,
Realizing Complex Carbonate Facies, Diagenetic and Fracture Properties
with Standard Reservoir Modelling Software; in Robinson, A., Griffiths,
P., Price, S., Hegre, J., and Muggeridge, A., eds, The Future of
Geological Modelling in Hydrocarbon Development, Geol. Soc. London,
Special Pub, 309, pp. 39-49, 2008.
Poppelreiter, M., Nelson, R., Hansen, B., Koci, P., Balzarini, M., and Rodriguez,
F., 2004, Leached and Broken: Static and Dynamic Reservoir Modeling
of Tight, Strike-Slip Faulted Carbonates (lower Cretaceous, Venezuela);
abst. of talk, AAPG Hedberg Conf., Carbonate Reservoir
Characterization and Simulation: from Facies to Flow Units, El Paso,
March 15-18, 2004.
QGPC, Amoco Qatar, 1991, Dukhan Field - Qatar, in Treatise of Petroleum
Geology, Atlas of Giant Fields: Structural Traps IV, Tectonic Fold and
Fault Traps: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., pp. 102-120.
Schollnberger, W.E. and Nelson, R.A., 2001, Role of Technology in Modern
International Oil & Gas Exploration Strategies; In International
Business of Exploration, Kronman & Felio eds., AAPG, pp. 99-116.
Serra, S. and Nelson, R.A., 1988, Clay modeling of Rift Asymmetry and
Associated Structures: Special Issue of Tectonophysics, vol. 153, pp.
307-312.
Stiteler, T.C., Nelson, R.A., and Chacartegui, F.J., 1994, Fractured Reservoir
Analysis with Examples from the Cretaceous Reservoirs of Lake
Maracaibo, Venezuela; Abst., 64th SEG Ann. Mtg., Post-Convention
Workshop #4, Char. & Mapping for Feild Expl. & Devel. of Naturally
Fractured Reservoirs, Oct. 27, 1994, Los Angeles, CA.
Tieh, T.T., Pyle, T.E., Eggler, D.H., and Nelson, R.A., 1973, Chemical Variations
in Sedimentary Facies of an Inner Continental Shelf Environment,
Northern Gulf of Mexico: Sedimentary Geology, vol. 9, pp. 101-105.
Tieh, T.T., Nelson, R.A., and Eggler, D.H., 1974, A Geochemical Study of
Igneous Rocks of the Eagle Mountains, Trans-Pecos, Texas: Texas Jour.
Sci., vol. 25, no. 3, March, 1974, pp. 67-80: Reprinted in Geology of the
Eagle Mountains and Vicinity, Trans-Pecos, Texas, Soc. Econ. Paleontol.
Mineral., Permian Basin Section Guidebook, Publication 75-15, pp. 127-
138.
White, R.R., Alcock, T.J., and Nelson, R.A., 1990, Anschutz Ranch East Field, in
Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Atlas of Giant Fields: Structural Traps
III, Tectonic Fold and Fault Traps: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., pp. 31-
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