The Value of Outcrop Studies in Reducing Subsurface Uncertainty and Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
Product code: SP436
Print publication date: 03/11/2016
Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, Sedimentology, Structural geology, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786201409
Author/Edited by: Edited by M. Bowman, H.R. Smyth, T.R. Good, S.R. Passey, J.P.P. Hirst and C.J. Jordan
Weight: 0.8kg
Number of pages: 268
Online publication date: 03/11/2016
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/436/1
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Special Publication 436
This volume reviews and reappraises the value and impact of outcrop-based fieldwork in hydrocarbon exploration, appraisal, development and production. There has been a resurgence in the use and need for outcrop-based research as analogues and benchmarks for subsurface overburden and reservoir studies, and digital technologies combined with traditional methods are revolutionizing this area of field-studies.
Acknowledgements
BOWMAN, M. B. J. & SMYTH, H. R. Reducing uncertainty and risk through field-based studies
Health and safety in the field
GILL, C. E. & LYNN, G. J. Keeping safe in the field: what, how and why?
Fieldwork in frontier and mature basins
RACEY, A., FISHER, J., BAILEY, H. & ROY, S. K. The value of fieldwork in making connections between onshore outcrops and offshore models: an example from India
VOSGERAU, H., PASSEY, S. R., SVENNEVIG, K., STRUNCK, M. N. & JOLLEY, D.W. Reservoir architectures of interlava systems: a 3D photogrammetrical study of Eocene cliff sections, Faroe Islands
HURST, A., HUUSE, M., DURANTI, D., VIGORITO, M., JAMESON, E. & SCHWAB, A. Application of outcrop analogues in successful exploration of a sand injection complex, Volund Field, Norwegian North Sea
ROSSI, M. & CRAIG, J. A new perspective on sequence stratigraphy of syn-orogenic basins: insights from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Italy) and implications for play concepts and reservoir heterogeneity
Reservoir and field development
HIRST, J. P. P. Ordovician shallow-marine tidal sandwaves in Algeria – the application of coeval outcrops to constrain the geometry and facies of a discontinuous, high-quality gas reservoir
BOWMAN, A. Outcrop analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Columbus Basin, offshore east Trinidad
DONOVAN, A. D. Making outcrops relevant for an unconventional source rock play: an example from the Eagle Ford Group of Texas
Fieldwork techniques current application and new developments
SANDERSON, D. J. Field-based structural studies as analogues to sub-surface reservoirs
JORDAN, C. J. & NAPIER, B. Developing digital fieldwork technologies at the British Geological Survey
NEWELL, A. J. & SHARIATIPOUR, S. M. Linking outcrop analogue with flow simulation to reduce uncertainty in sub-surface carbon capture and storage: an example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group of the Wessex Basin, UK
Uncertainty characterization
PEEL, F. J. & WHITE, J. Do technical studies reduce subsurface risk in hydrocarbon exploration: and if not, how do they add value?
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