Climate Change, Carbon Capture, Storage and CO2 Mineralisation Technologies
Climate Change, Carbon Capture, Storage and CO2 Mineralisation Technologies

Author: Nikolaos Koukouzas

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3039436414

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This Special Issue delivered 16 scientific papers, with the aim of exploring the application of carbon capture and storage technologies for mitigating the effects of climate change. Special emphasis has been placed on mineral carbonation techniques that combine innovative applications to emerging problems and needs. The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to improved knowledge of the ongoing research regarding climate change and CCS technological applications, focusing on carbon capture and storage practices. Climate change is a global issue that is interrelated with the energy and petroleum industry.

Structural Evolution of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil
Structural Evolution of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil

Author: Augusto Canellas Monteiro de Castro Junior

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 366

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The evolution of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin started during the Early Cretaceous, as part of the rift system that initiated the separation between the South American and African plates. The direction of propagation of the rift was controlled by preexisting basement fabric, and the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin developed as a rift bounded by N-S oriented normal faults, formed by crustal extension oriented obliquely to the direction of propagation of the rift. Different rates of crustal attenuation along the basin, due to the heterogeneous nature of the continental crust, were accommodated by transfer faults which divided the basin in three separate Domains. Crustal extension was substantially less in the Northern Domain than in the Central and Southern Domains. The first marine incursions in the basin occurred during the Aptian, after the end of the rifting phase, and the period is marked by the deposition of large amounts of evaporites. From the Albian to the Santonian, the basin was covered by a shallow but permanent sea, and great thickness of carbonates were stacked on high proximal areas, whereas in the distal portions of the basin only a thin, condensed section was deposited. Open oceanic conditions were installed towards the end of the Cretaceous, during the Campanian, and a prograding clastic wedge started to be deposited. The distribution of the post-rift sediments, as evidenced by isopach maps, indicates that the Northern Domain remained essentially stable throughout the post-rift evolution of the basin, and that the post-rift subsidence was mostly concentrated in the Southern and Central Domains. Structures formed after the rifting phase are restricted to those associated with sediment mobilization (especially evaporites), but the distribution of both structures and sediments in the post-rift phase was strongly controlled by the tectonic framework created during the rifting phase.

ExxonMobil Geoscience Research
ExxonMobil Geoscience Research

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Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 688

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"This volume includes a collection of selected papers from the past half-century representing major contributions made by ExxonMobil geoscientists. This history spans a number of organizations and a broad range of topics including seismic theory, geochemistry, strucural geology, plate tectonics, assessment, well log analysis and sequence stratigraphy. We have selected papers that have had a significant impact on their field, that introduced new paradigms, and that are recognized outside of ExxonMobil as classic contributions. This collection reflects a strong tradition of excellence in geoscience research that is both a source of pride and a legacy for the generations of ExxonMobil geoscientists that follow. The advances made through this work have enabled the development of numerous technologies used today in petroleum exploration, development, and production." -- Introduction by S. Anne Reeckmann.

The Brazilian Equatorial Margin from Rift to Drift
The Brazilian Equatorial Margin from Rift to Drift

Author: Ana Krueger

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Published: 2012

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The Equatorial South Atlantic contains elements of an oblique-rifted margin and a sheared margin. The Barreirinhas Basin is a basin on the Brazilian coast located north of the shoreward limit of the Romanche Fracture Zone and south of the shoreward limit of the Saint Paul0́9s Fracture Zone. The main characteristic of the Barreirinhas Basin is an abrupt transition zone between oceanic and continental crust as a result of being located on a transform margin with, consequently, a very narrow and steep continental slope. This study focuses on the rift to drift evolution of the Barreirinhas Basin and the Barreirinhas Basin deep-water fold-belt, and is the first detailed published local study of the tectonic evolution of the Brazilian Equatorial margin. Complementary structural work over most of the Brazilian Equatorial margin provided a framework in which to place the tectonic history of the Barreirinhas Basin. Regional seismic reflection profiles across the Barreirinhas Basin on the Brazilian Equatorial margin reveal two major deep-water fold and thrust belts linked landward to extensional fault systems. Thrust faults are interpreted to be products of shortening caused by gravity-driven extension on the continental margin that involve rocks at both the shelf and the slope. Two main deformation events during the Cretaceous (99.6 to 83.5 Ma) and the Cenozoic (65.5 to 0 Ma) were distinguished. The Cretaceous deformation affected only a one kilometer thick section but the Cenozoic structural episodes involved a thicker (over 4 km) sedimentary sequence of Turonian to Miocene age, and cross-cut the pre-existing Cretaceous deformed sequence. Normal faults connect to the thrust faults at depth, forming two discrete bowl-shaped fault systems, linked at depth at different stratigraphic levels. Plots of displacement versus time show normal and thrust fault movements at the same time intervals, indicating close linkage between extension on the continental shelf and shortening on the slope. Deformation has increased dramatically during the past ten million years, with movement on all earlier and some newly formed faults. The increased deformation coincided with regional paleogeographic changes in northern South America in the Late Miocene that led to an increase in the sediment supply to the Barreirinhas Basin.

Depositional Systems in the Lower Cretaceous Morro Do Chaves and Coqueiro Seco Formations, and Their Relationship to Petroleum Accumulations, Middle Rift Sequence, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil
Depositional Systems in the Lower Cretaceous Morro Do Chaves and Coqueiro Seco Formations, and Their Relationship to Petroleum Accumulations, Middle Rift Sequence, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil

Author: Antonio Manuel Ferreira de Figueiredo

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Published: 1981

Total Pages: 550

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"Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil is located in Sergipe and Alagoas States along the northeast coast of Brazil ... The onshore and offshore basin covers 26,000 km2 ... This investigation deals with the Morro do Chaves and Coqueiro Seco Formations. It is intended to define the depositional systems that operated during the middle rift evolution and resulted in deposition of a thick clastic-carbonate stratigraphic section contained between the Penedo and Muribeca Formations ... Additionally, the petroleum potential of this section was evaluated by establishing the several types of plays that can be expected from the structural and stratigraphic style exhibited by the Morro do Chaves and Coqueiro Seco Formations in each sub-basin, as well as the nature of probable reservoirs and source rocks."--Introduction, leaf 1.

A Geological and Geophysical Study of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin
A Geological and Geophysical Study of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin

Author: Bradley Douglas Melton

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Published: 2008

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Extensional stresses caused Africa and South America to break up about 130 Million Years. When Africa rifted away from South America, a large onshore triple junction began at about 13° S and propagated northward. This triple junction failed and created the Reconcavo-Tucano-Jupato rift (R-T-J), located in northeastern Brazil (north of Salvador). The extensional stress that created this rift was caused by a change in the force acting on the plate during the Aptian. A series of offshore rifts also opened at this time, adjacent to the R-T-J rift; this series of basins are referred to as Jacuipe, Sergipe, and Alagoas (J-S-A). The basins are separated by bathymetric highs to the north and the south of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin. The Sergipe-Alagoas basin has a Bouguer gravity anomalies more negative than -35 mGal, and the other two basins have values more negative than -100 mGal; the total magnetic intensity is also about 60-80 nT higher in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin than the surrounding basins. The gravity and magnetic values in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, when compared to the Jacuipe and the Sergipe-Alagoas basins, indicate that the depositional history and/or the formation of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin is different from the other two basins. This study was done by analyzing the gravity and magnetic anolamies in the region, and comparing these anomalies to the stratigraphy of the basin. This research has allowed the stratigraphy and structures of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin to be better understood - the location of the Sergipe fracture zone will also be outlined. This study provides a comprehensive view of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin and outlines a method for using Gravity and Magnetics to better understand the stratigraphy and structure of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.