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Description Reservoir geochemistry can throw light on the origin of petroleum reservoir fluid heterogeneities at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. This information can be used to understand the formation and performance of petroleum accumulations, and is a valuable tool for exploration, development and production strategies. Key topics covered in this book include: analytical methods for the determination of fluid compositional heterogeneity; physical, chemical and numerical models for interpreting compositional differences in terms of basin history and reservoir connectivity; and application case studies. There is now a significant potential for a new wave of development focused on component concentrations and a more evolutionary chemical model of reservoired petroleum. When coupled with integrative utilitarian reservoir charge/mixing/production numerical models, reservoir geochemistry can provide one of the most significant advances in exploration and production during the 21st century.

Contents Understanding petroleum reservoirs: towards an integrated reservoir engineering & geochemical approach. Introduction, W A England, S R Larter • New approaches, analytical and geochemical developments • Interpretation of charging phenomena based on reservoir fluid (PVT) data, K F M Thompson • Shaken but not always stirred. Impact of petroleum charge mixing on reservoir geochemistry, A Wilhelms, S R Larter • An overview of developments related to the characterization and significance of high molecular weight paraffins/hydrocarbons (>C40) in crude oils, R P Philp, M Hsieh, F Tahira • Effects and impact of early-stage anaerobic biodegradation on Kuparuk River Field, Alaska, A G Holba, L Wright, R Levinson, B Huizinga, M Scheihing • HCToolkit/EOS interface: an open source, multi-platform phase equilibria framework for exploring phase behavior of complex mixtures, P Meulbroek, L Cathles, W A Goddard • Physical, chemical and numerical models • Rates of reservoir fluid mixing: implications for interpretation of fluid data, C Smalley, W A England, A Muggeridge, Y Abacioglu, S Cawley • New insights into reservoir filling and mixing processes, J G Stainforth • An integrated basin modelling study applying asphaltene kinetics from reservoired petroleum in the Snorre Area, northern North Sea, J E Skeie, R Di Primio, D A Karlsen • Development of a compositional kinetic model for hydrocarbon generation and phase equilibria modelling: a case study from Snorre Field, Norwegian North Sea, R Di Primio, J E Skeie • Case studies – Water and petroleum fluid compositional variations • A petroleum charge model for the Judy and Joanne Fields, central North Sea: application to exploration and field development, M D Lines, H A Auld • Compositional grading in the oil column: advances from a mass balance and quantitative molecular analysis, D A Wavrek, F Mosca • Application of geochemistry in the evaluation and development of deep Rotliegend dry gas reservoirs, NW Germany, E Mueller, T Scholz • Fluid properties, phase and compartmentalization: Magnolia Field case study, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, USA, K S Weissenburger, T Borbas • High temperature quartz cementation and the timing of hydrocarbon accumulation in the Jurassic Norphlet sandstone, offshore Gulf of Mexico, USA, T Taylor, R Stancliffe, C Macaulay, L Hathon • Evidence of reservoir compartmentalization by calcite cement layers in deepwater sandstones, Bell Canyon Formation, Delaware Basin, Texas, S P Dutton, W A Flanders • Spatial varaiations in the composition of formation waters from the central North Sea: implications for fluid flow in the deep high-pressure high-temperature hydrocarbon play, R A McCartney, P Winefield, P Webb, O Kuhn • Petroleum migration, faults and overpressure - Part II - Case history: The Haltenbanken Petroleum Province, offshore Norway, D A Karlsen, J E Skeie, K Backer-Owe, K Bjorlykke, R Olstad, K Berge, M Cecchi, E Vik, R G Schaefer • A mass balance approach for assessing basin-centered gas prospects: integrating reservoir engineering, geochemistry and petrophysics, J A Rushing, A Chaouche, K E Newsham •

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The book is a very desirable library purchase and at discounted price should appeal to many petroleum geologists.  Despite uneveness it is a significant pointer to the future.



David James

This review appeared in Geological Magazine, Volume 143/3 - 2006

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25 August 2006

.....conforms to the usual high standard of editorial production that typifies this quality publishing.  Several of the papers are excellent and I suspect that Smalley et al. (the 'rates of fluid mixing' paper) will become a long-standing classic that will underpin much further research.  It took me an enjoyable three months to wade through all the papers, and I learnt much from them and will refer to many of them for some time to come.



Stuart Burley



The review was featured in Petroleum Geoscience, Vol 12 2006

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11 January 2006