Characterization of Fluvial and Aeolian Reservoirs
Product code: SP073
Print publication date: 15/08/1993
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology, Hydrogeology
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780903317900
Author/Edited by: Edited by C P North and D J Prosser
Weight: 1.05kg
Number of pages: 450
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/73/1
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Special Publication 73
Sedimentological research has traditionally produced geological models primarily relevant to hydrocarbon exploration, focusing predominantly on location and external geometry of sediment bodies and underplaying the importance of the internal reservoir framework. This failure severly inhibits the application of new and sophisticated technologies to improve recovery efficiencies. It is reservoir architecture, the internal fabric and structure of a reservoir, that ultimately controls the paths of fluid migration during oil and gas emplacement and subsequent extraction. This architecture is, in turn, the product of the depositional and diagenetic processes that created the reservoir. If an understanding of the origin of the reservoir is developed, reservoir architecture, and hence fluid-flow paths, becomes predictable.
This volume assesses the current position of predictive geoscience for fluvial and Aeolian systems, documents recent advances in methods and understanding and highlights outstanding problems. The authors form a wide spectrum of geoscientists from industry and academia, with leaders in the science providing review papers in their field of specialization.
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Foreword
NORTH, C. P. & PROSSER, D. J. Characterization of fluvial and aeolian reservoirs: problems and approaches
Fluvial Reservoirs
LEEDER, M. R. Tectonic controls upon drainage basin development, river channel migration and alluvial architecture: implications for hydrocarbon reservoir development and characterization
KRAUS, M. J. & BOWN, T. M. Palaeosols and sandbody prediction in alluvial sequences
SALTER, T. Fluvial scour and incision: models for their influence on the development of realistic reservoir geometries
MAIZELS, J. K. Quantitative regime modelling of fluvial depositional sequences: application to Holocene stratigraphy of humid-glacial braid-plains (Icelandic sandurs)
CUEVAS GOZALO, M. C. & MARTINIUS, A. W. Outcrop data-base for the geological characterization of fluvial reservoirs: an example from distal fluvial fan deposits in the Loranca Basin, Spain
DAVIES, D. K., WILLIAMS, B. P. J. & VESSELL, R. K. Dimensions and quality of reservoirs originating in low and high sinuosity channel systems, Lower Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas, USA
ALEXANDER, J. & GAWTHORPE, R. L. The complex nature of a Jurassic multistorey, alluvial sandstone body, Whitby, North Yorkshire
JONES, J. A. & HARTLEY, A. J. Reservoir characteristics of a braid-plain depositional system: the Upper Carboniferous Pennant Sandstone of South Wales
KELLY, S. B. Cyclical discharge variation recorded in alluvial sediments: an example from the Devonian of southwest Ireland
Aeolian Reservoirs
FRYBERGER, S. G. A review of aeolian bounding surfaces, with examples from the Permian Minnelusa Formation, USA
HERRIES, R. D. Contrasting styles of fluvial-aeolian interaction at a downwind erg margin: Jurassic Kayenta-Navajo transition, northeastern Arizona, USA
TREWAN, N. H. Mixed aeolian sandsheet and fluvial deposits in the Tumblagooda Sandstone, Western Australia
COWAN, G. Identification and significance of aeolian deposits within, the dominantly fluvial Sherwood Sandstone Group of the East Irish Sea Basin, UK
MEADOWS, N. S. & BEACH, A. Structural and climatic controls on facies distribution in a mixed fluvial and aeolian reservoir: the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone in the Irish Sea
ELLIS, D. The Rough Gas Field: distribution of Permian aeolian and non-aeolian reservoir facies and their impact on field development
STRONG, G. E. Diagenesis of Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group rocks, Preston, Lancashire,
UK: a possible evaporite cement precursor to secondary porosity?
GEORGE, G. T. & BERRY, J. K. A new lithostratigraphy and depositional model for the Upper Rotliegend of the UK sector of the southern North Sea
Structure
LEWIS, H. & COUPLES, G. D. Production evidence for geological heterogeneities in the Anschutz Ranch East Field, western USA
EDWARDS, H. E., BECKER, A. D. & HOWELL, J. A. Comparmentalization of an aeolian sandstone by structural heterogeneities: Permo-Triassic Hopeman Sandstone, Moray Firth, Scotland
Methods
LAKE, L. W. & MALIK, M. A. Modelling fluid flow through geologically realistic media
PROSSER, D. J. & MASKALL, R. Permeability variation within aeolian sandstones: a case study using core cut sub-parallel to slipface bedding, The Auk Field, Central North Sea, UK
REV, D., TURNER, P. & YALIZ, A. Palaeomagnetic study and magnetostratigraphy of the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Crawford Field, UK North Sea
GAWTHORPE, R. L., COLLIER, R. E. LI., ALEXANDER, J., BRIDGE, J. S. 8s LEEDER, M. R. Ground penetrating radar: application to sandbody geometry and heterogeneity studies
CORBETT, P. W. M. & JENSEN, J. L. Quantification of variability in laminated sediments: a role for the probe permeameter in improved reservoir characterization
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