A Review of Carbonate Reservoirs

James Lee Wilson

CSPG Special Publications

... and permeability. Much study of the cause of porosity preservation in specific reservoirs has been accomplished but many examples are still being...

Shale Facies Variability and Sequence Stratigraphy: Application to Top Seal Prediction in Deepwater Depositional Systems

William C. Dawson, William R. Almon

GCAGS Transactions

... pressures. Increased percentages of silt-sized detrital grains inhibit mechanical compaction and allow preservation of relatively large-diameter pore...

Chapter 1: The Importance of and Challenges in Studying Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks—Introduction and Overview

Kevin Bohacs, Remus Lazar

AAPG Special Volumes

...–1067. Bentley, S. J., and C. A. Nittrouer, 2003, Emplacement, modification, and preservation of event strata on a flood-dominated continental shelf...

Characterization of the Source Horizons Within the Late Cretaceous Transgressive Sequence of Egypt: Chapter 7

Vaughn D. Robison, Michael H. Engel

AAPG Special Volumes

... and predicting the geochemical attributes of the source system away from control can be important to resource assessment. Even though a general increase...

De-risking the Barents Sea

Kim Gunn Maver, Anongporn Intawong, Howard Nicholls, Andrea Klubicka, Spectrum, ORG Geophysical

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the acquired data and assess the reliability of IP measurements in predicting the possible presence of underlying hydrocarbon accumulations. The IP...

Reducing Exploration Risk and Uncertainty in the Gulf of Thailand and on the Khorat Plateau … The Role of Tectonics, Palaeodrainage and Earth System Modelling (Poster 1)

John M. Jacques, Kerri L. Wilson, Paul J. Markwick, David G. Wright, Claudia Fintina

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., such as 'Earth System Modelling' (e.g., palaeoclimate and ocean modelling), a very powerful exploration tool is created for predicting the contemporary...

Predicting the distribution of the tight sandstone gas in the Hechuan play, Sichuan Basin, China

Qiulin Guo, Xiaodi Li, Caineng Zou, Junwen Hu, Ningsheng Chen

CSPG Bulletin

... in predicting tight gas accumulations, namely the analog and statistical methods (e.g. NOGA Assessment Team, 1995; Curtis et al., 2001; Schmoker, 2002...

Insights Into Marls From Optical and Back-Scattered Electron Petrography: An Example From the Outer Carpathians (Poland)

Katarzyna Górniak

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for predicting unconventional reservoir attributes of mudstones: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 98, p. 587– 603. Mancin, N., 2001...

2010 AAPG Annual Convention "Unmasking the Potential of Exploration & Productio", April 11-14, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, #90104 (2010)

Search and Discovery.com

Geologic Description of the San Andres Reservoir Facies in the Mabee Field, Andrews and Martin Counties, Texas: (Reprinted from WTGS Bulletin Vol 33, No. 7)

Edward A. Horvath, Krista D. Miller

West Texas Geological Society

... of reservoir performance. Three dimensional modeling of the reservoir has been useful as a tool for predicting the behavior of the CO2 flood. Bebout...

Origin and Geological Controls on Subsurface CO2 Distribution with Examples from Western Indonesia

B. A. Cooper, M. J. Raven, L. Samuel, Hardjono, W. Satoto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on organic geochemistry, Donosits-San Sebastian, 4-8th September 1995, 1073-1074. Dai, J., Song Y., Dai, C. and Wang, D., 1996, Geochemistry and accumulations...

Timing of Gas and Overpressure Generation in the Sable Basin Offshore Nova Scotia: Implications for Gas Migration Dynamics

Mark A. Williamson, Carolyn Smyth

CSPG Bulletin

..., Carolyn Smyth 1992 151 169 Vol. 40 (1992) No. 2. (June) Gas accumulations at the Glenelg and Venture locations offshore Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, occur...

Integrated Petrophysical and High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Characterization of an Unconventional Carbonate Mudrock Reservoir; #51147 (2015)

Beth Vanden Berg, Stephanie LeBlanc, G. Michael Grammer

Search and Discovery.com

... Destruction in Carbonate Platforms: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 29, p. 41-52. Harris, S.A., 1975, Hydrocarbon Accumulation in "Meramec-Osage...

Glossary of Terms Applicable to Petroleum Geochemistry

Frederick W. Vlierboom

AAPG Special Volumes

... accumulations because much leakage is diffusional. DISPARITY COEFFICIENT: A mathematical quantity, based on the composition of selected C6 and C7 hydrocarbons...

A Predictive Approach for Tight Oil and Gas Exploration; #42028 (2017)

Fujian Ma

Search and Discovery.com

... as large lateral continuous oil accumulations with low water saturation, no gas cap or downdip water contact (Pedersen et al., 2013), without...

Summary and Conclusions

J. D. Edwards, P. A. Santogrossi

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the Niger delta can be used as a type example for predicting the expected facies distribution and structural style in little-explored deltas...

Sand Trends and Paleoslope in Illinois Basin and Mississippi Embayment

Wayne Arthur Pryor

AAPG Special Volumes

... and the Gulfian Mississippi embayment. This conceptual framework then serves as the basis of a depositional model for predicting various trends...

Deposition, Diagenesis, and Hydrocarbon Potential of "Deeper-Water" Limestones

Peter A. Scholle

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and dolomitization. As in untransported shallow-water limestones, the forms of porosity preservation, reduction, or creation may be complex and difficult to predict...

Possible Future Petroleum Resources of Great Basin--Nevada and Western Utah: Region 3

John C. Osmond , David W. Elias

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The rest of Nevada and western Utah were deformed intensely. Resulting uplift and erosion may have destroyed previous accumulations of oil...

Numerical Forward Modeling of Carbonate Platform Dynamics: An Evaluation of Complexity and Completeness in Carbonate Strata

Peter M. Burgess, V. Paul Wright

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... 33-45. PERRY, C.T., 2000, Factors controlling sediment preservation on a north Jamaican fringing reef: a process-based approach to microfacies analysis...

Unconformities and Porosity Development in Carbonate Strata: Ideas from a Hedberg Conference

A. H. Saller , D. A. Budd , P. M. Harris

AAPG Bulletin

.... A., and H. L. Vacher, 1991, Predicting the thickness of fresh-water lenses in carbonate paleo-islands: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 61, p...

Depositional facies and platform architecture of microbialite-dominated carbonate reservoirs, Ediacaran–Cambrian Ara Group, Sultanate of Oman

John Grotzinger and Zuwaina Al-Rawahi

AAPG Bulletin

... of understanding environmental history as well as reservoir properties, and that help in predicting the location of reservoir fairways. Microbially influenced...

Thermal Anomalies Near Salt: A Porosity Preservation Window

Thomas R. Taylor, Melvyn R. Giles, Lori A. Hathon, Gino V. Birbiglia, Mark G. Kittridge, Neil R. Braunsdorf

GCAGS Transactions

...Thermal Anomalies Near Salt: A Porosity Preservation Window Thomas R. Taylor, Melvyn R. Giles, Lori A. Hathon, Gino V. Birbiglia, Mark G. Kittridge...

Understanding Organic Facies: A Key to Improved Quantitative Petroleum Evaluation of Sedimentary Basins: Chapter 1

A. Y. Huc

AAPG Special Volumes

...-sediment interface, total sediment flux rate, and degree of preservation) is expected to provide a possible quantitative approach to predicting organic...

The Influence of Rock Fabric and Mineralogy on Thermochemical Sulfate Reduction: Khuff Formation, Abu Dhabi

R.H. Worden , P.C. Smalley , M.M. Cross

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Petroleum Geology, v. 10, p. 153-161. HEYDARI, E., 1997, The role of burial diagenesis in hydrocarbon destruction and H2S accumulation, Upper Jurassic...