RE: RE: RE: RE: Aurelian Update yes JennybWell actually, I got the double whammy on you there, stocky!
I got it from Wiki, while staying at a Holiday Inn Express...trump that will ya?
I would think shattering, shearing, brecciation, porosity and just possibly some of that stockworking thrown in for effect, might be a heck of a lot more important than "Listric Faulting".
Just think, if a high angle fault didn't go all 'listric' at depth, why then, gosh, Mr. Wizard, it would come right out the other side of the earth now, wouldn't it?
The poor old world would be cut in half, or at least pieces, by all those faults that didn't stop until they day-lighted on the other side of the planet...kinda like a "hinge Fault".
A "hinge fault" would encircle the world if it didn't start and stop somewhere....you really wanna go there with me, Mr. Oil Wizard?
ALL a Listric Fault is known for is flattening out at depth!
Noting more, nothing less. Some host range front mineral deposition, many host range front hot springs...locally, some fine water storage dams are built on the scarps of range front listric faults...some may play a part in the deposition of crude, but I doubt it is an important function as it comes to me that vertical structures generally allow hydrocarbons to 'bleed' upwards...and not always into the underside of salt domes.
Admit it, these guys are putting this crap out to make the mediocrity of the hole as drilled to date sound more promising than it is...after all, don't you remember the press release telling of how much oil/gas was found in the Louisiana Delhi Belly hole?
An error factor of 10 - 100 at the Delhi Belly couldn't be a big confidence booster in these guys, for you, could it?