The Petroleum System
The Petroleum System

Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Investigations about porosity in petroleum reservoir rocks are discussed by Schmoker and Gautier. Pollastro discusses the uses of clay minerals as exploration tools that help to elucidate basin, source-rock, and reservoir history. The status of fission-track analysis, which is useful for determining the thermal and depositional history of deeply buried sedimentary rocks, is outlined by Naeser. The various ways workers have attempted to determine accurate ancient and present-day subsurface temperatures are summarized with numerous references by Barker. Clayton covers three topics: (1) the role of kinetic modeling in petroleum exploration, (2) biological markers as an indicator of depositional environment of source rocks and composition of crude oils, and (3) geochemistry of sulfur in source rocks and petroleum. Anders and Hite evaluate the current status of evaporite deposits as a source for crude oil.

Crustal Heat Flow
Crustal Heat Flow

Author: G. R. Beardsmore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-06

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521797030

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A handbook for geologists and geophysicists who manipulate thermal data; professionals researchers, and advanced students.

Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir Characterization

Author: Larry Lake

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 0323143512

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Reservoir Characterization is a collection of papers presented at the Reservoir Characterization Technical Conference, held at the Westin Hotel-Galleria in Dallas on April 29-May 1, 1985. Conference held April 29-May 1, 1985, at the Westin Hotel—Galleria in Dallas. The conference was sponsored by the National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Reservoir characterization is a process for quantitatively assigning reservoir properties, recognizing geologic information and uncertainties in spatial variability. This book contains 19 chapters, and begins with the geological characterization of sandstone reservoir, followed by the geological prediction of shale distribution within the Prudhoe Bay field. The subsequent chapters are devoted to determination of reservoir properties, such as porosity, mineral occurrence, and permeability variation estimation. The discussion then shifts to the utility of a Bayesian-type formalism to delineate qualitative ""soft"" information and expert interpretation of reservoir description data. This topic is followed by papers concerning reservoir simulation, parameter assignment, and method of calculation of wetting phase relative permeability. This text also deals with the role of discontinuous vertical flow barriers in reservoir engineering. The last chapters focus on the effect of reservoir heterogeneity on oil reservoir. Petroleum engineers, scientists, and researchers will find this book of great value.

Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins
Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins

Author: Nancy D. Naeser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 1461234921

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The collection of papers in this volume is a direct result of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Research Symposium on "Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Methods and Case Histories" held as part of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention in New Orleans in March 1985. The original goal of the sym posium was to provide a forum where specialists from a variety of dis ciplines could present their views of methods that can be used to study the thermal history of a sedimentary basin or an important portion of a basin. An explicit part of that goal was to illustrate each method by presentation of a case history application. The original goal is addressed by the chapters in this volume, each of which emphasizes a somewhat different approach and gives field data in one way or another to illustrate the practical useful ness ofthe method. The significance of our relative ignorance of the thermal conductivities of sedimentary rocks, especially shales, in efforts to understand or model sedimentary basin thermal histories and maturation levels is a major thrust of the chapter by Blackwell and Steele. Creaney focuses on variations in kerogen composition in source rocks of different depositional environments and the degree to which these chem- . ically distinct kerogens respond differently to progressive burial heating.

Exploration with Deep Transient Electromagnetics
Exploration with Deep Transient Electromagnetics

Author: K. M. Strack

Publisher: Elsevier Science Limited

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9780444503978

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Paperback. This is a comprehensive description of deep transient electromagnetics which allows the geophysicist to learn about the technique from the beginning of instrument design to the final interpretation. It covers the application of deep transient electromagnetics to oil exploration, geothermal exploration and deep crustal studies. Case histories are used to explain the concepts shown. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. Also, demonstration software is enclosed. The book may be used as a textbook as well as for design and development of a field system. In particular it will be of interest to research and exploration geophysicists and students.