Hydrocarbon Seals (eBook)

Importance for Exploration and Production

A.G. Koestler, P. Moller-Pedersen (Herausgeber)

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1997 | 1. Auflage
249 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-053428-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In January 1996 a total of 270 conference participants gathered for 3 days in Trondheim, Norway, to focus on and to discuss the complex topic of hydrocarbon seals particularly related to deformation zones and to caprocks.
The conference was the first in Norway and one of the first in Europe to exclusively address this very important subject. The purpose of the conference was to present some of the most recent research results, to establish state-of-the-art with respect to understanding hydrocarbon seals and to discuss where to go from here to find some of the keys to successful future exploration and enhanced oil and gas recovery. Out of the presented papers and posters, 17 are compiled and published in this volume. These provide a good overview of and an introduction to the numerous aspects covered during the fruitful days in Trondheim.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 12
Preface 6
List of Contributors 8
Chapter 1. A historical overview of the efforts to predict and quantify hydrocarbon trapping features in the exploration phase and in field development planning 14
Part I: Fault Seals 28
Chapter 2. Fault seal analysis: successful methodologies, application and future directions 28
Chapter 3. The emplacement of clay smears in synsedimentary normal faults: inferences from field observations near Frechen, Germany 52
Chapter 4. Fault seal processes: systematic analysis of fault seals over geological and production time 64
Chapter 5. Complexity in fault zone structure and implications for fault seal prediction 74
Chapter 6. Late Jurassic–early Cretaceous caprocks of the southwestern Barents Sea: fracture systems and rock mechanical properties 86
Chapter 7. Fault properties and the development of cemented fault zones in sedimentary basins: field examples and predictive models 104
Chapter 8. Quantitative fault seal prediction: a case study from Oseberg Syd 120
Chapter 9. Fault seal analysis in hydrocarbon exploration and appraisal: examples from offshore mid- Norway 138
Chapter 10. Fracture flow and fracture cross flow experiments 152
Chapter 11. Fault seal analysis: reducing our dependence on empiricism 162
Part II: Migration and Top Seal Integrity 178
Chapter 12. Sealing processes and top seal assessment 178
Chapter 13. The dynamics of gas flow through rock salt in the scope of time 188
Chapter 14. Pressure prediction from seismic data: implications for seal distribution and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in the deepwater Gulf Of Mexico 200
Chapter 15. Pore water flow and petroleum migration in the Smørbukk field area, offshore mid-Norway 214
Chapter 16. The Njord Field: a dynamic hydrocarbon trap 230
Chapter 17. Pre-cretaceous top-seal integrity in the greater Ekofisk area 244
References index 256
Subject index 262

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.1997
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bergbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-053428-7 / 0080534287
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-053428-2 / 9780080534282