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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database

West Texas Geological Society

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Southwest Section AAPG Transaction: GEO-2000: Into the Future, 2000
Pages 29-53

Why Carbonate Reservoirs Are Heterogeneous: Examples From Permian Basin Reservoirs

Robert F. Lindsay

Abstract

Carbonate reservoirs are inherently heterogeneous and challenging to secondary and tertiary recovery, due to: 1) the depositional environment; 2) the diagenesis that modified the sediment/rock; 3) the nature of the enclosing trap; and 4) the properties of the fluids/gases that filled the reservoir.

Utilizing the above criteria gives an operating company opportunities to recover additional mobile oil (Fig. 1). To achieve this requires continuous characterization and management of a reservoir from discovery through primary, secondary and tertiary recovery operations prior to abandonment.


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