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Reservoirs
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What is a reservoir ?
What types of reservoirs exist ?
Why study petroleum reservoirs ?
Three examples
Siliciclastic
Carbonate
Fractured
Marine embayment
Sabkha/tidal flat
Restricted shelf/lagoon
Open shelf
Nearshore bar/beach
Offshore bar
Platform/ramp margin shoal
High-energy ramp
Pinnacle reef
Patch reef
Reef mound
Barrier reef
Fringing reef
Skeletal bank
Mud-rich reef mound
Mud-rich skeletal bank
Karst-related detrital wedge
Debris flow/turbidite
Pelagic
Coquina bank
C&C reservoirs
Meandering river
Braided river
Straight/anastomosing river
Mixed aeolian/fluvial
Erg
Lacustrine delta
Shoreline/shelf
Estuary
Coastal plain
Tidal flat
Barrier-island/lagoon
Strandplain/chenier
Shoreface-shelf
Delta
Glaciofluvial
Lacustrine river-delta
Lacustrine fan-delta
Fluvial-dominated delta
Wave-dominated delta
Tide-dominated delta
Mixed-influence delta
Marine fan-delta
Fractured reservoirs
Deep-water
Debris flow/turbidite
Pelagic
Sublacustrine fan
Gravel-rich slope/basin
Mud-rich slope/basin
Submarine canyon
Slope apron
Submarine-fan channel
Submarine-fan lobe
Submarine-fan lobe
Submarine-fan channel levee
C&C reservoirs
BASEMENT
BURIAL DOLOMITE
CARBONATE SAND
CHERT AND SILICEOUS SHALE
COAL BED
FORESLOPE CARBONATE
FORESLOPE CHALK
FORESLOPE CHERT
MICROPOROUS CHERT
MICROPOROUS DIATOMITE
MICROPOROUS DOLOMITE
MICROPOROUS LIMESTONE
MUDDY CARBONATE
MUDDY DOLOMITE
ORGANIC BUILDUP
SHALE
SHALE AND SILTSTONE
SHELF CHALK
SILICEOUS SHALE
TIGHT SANDSTONE
VOLCANICS
KARSTIC/ CARBONATE SAND
KARSTIC/ MUDDY CARBONATE
KARSTIC/ MUDDY DOLOMITE
KARSTIC/ ORGANIC BUILDUP
LOW-RESISTIVITY SANDSTONE
TIGHT CONGLOMERATE
TIGHT SANDSTONE
Flow patterns,
drainage efficiency,
vertical and lateral sweep efficiency
k, So/Sw , flow,
formation damage
0.11m
1-10
cm
1- 100
m
0.1-10
mm
http://www.creationresearch.org/vacrc/sem02.html
Hairy Illite
RotliegendesProblem
0.1-10
km
1-100
HC volume,
areal distribution,
play trends
Kaolinite
Low
Moderate
Vertical Heterogeneity
Low
Moderate
High
Wave-dominated delta
Barrier core
Barrier shoreface
Sand-rich shoreface
Meander belt
Fluvially-dominated
delta
Back barrier
Eolian
Wave-modified delta
(distal)
Shelf bars
Alluvial fans
Fan delta
Lacustrine delta
Distal delta front
Wave-modified delta
(proximal)
Braided stream
Tide-domainated delta
Basin-floor turbidites
Back barrier
Fluvially-dom. delta
Fine-grained meander
belt
Submarine fans
High
Lateral Heterogeneity
Depositional Environments
10000
Beach
Barrier Bar
1000
Tidal Flat
Tidal Ridge
100
10
Lagoon
Average and
Limits of
porosity and
permeability
Swamp
Kmax ?
K min ?
max ?
min
0,1
0
10
15
20
25
30
Namib
35
Porosity (%)
http://www.bdrg.esci.keele.ac.uk/Staff/mountney/sedimentary_research/sed_research_frames.htm
Use
Logs
FMS / FMI
SP,GR
Sonic, density, neutron
Basin scale
CoreLab Promotionary
Material
Three samples of
~21 % porosity
Three samples of
~21 % porosity
CoreLab Promotionary
Material
CoreLab Promotionary
Material
Slope
Upper Fan
Channels
Overbanks
Lobes
ChannelMouth Bar
Mid-Fan
Lobes
Lobes
Lobes
Lobe
Fringe
Basin Plain
Lower Fan
Mutti
Facies
Principal
Environment
Proximal
Channel
Distal Channel
Lobe
Lobe Fringe
Overbank
Slope
Basin Plain
Lithology
ms
ss
cgl
Layer
Thickness
Lateral
Continuity
Depositional
Porosity
Reservoir
Potential
Poor good
low
Low
10 100
high
high
Three Examples
http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk
http://www.channel6.dk/native/uk/page214.html
Vertical view
from bridge,
south of
Santa Cruz
Type log
Lithology
Permeability
Porosity
Depositional
Environment
10
Mander
Altwasser (abgeschnittener
Manderarm)
Gleithang
Prallhang
Flussaue
Gleithang
Manderhals (zuknftige
Abkrzung des Flulaufs)
11
12
Fining-upward fluvial
facies
Practica
9:15-10:45
11:30-13:00
Lectura
15:15-16:45
Lu
Lectura 1 / 2 (Introduction;
The petroleum system)
Lab 2 (Internet
resources)
Ma
Lectura 4 (porosidad,
permeabilidad)
Lab 4 (Porosity
calculation)
Mi
Lectura 5 (Reservoir
petrophysics: capillary
pressure, pore-size
distribution, bound water
etc.)
Lab 5 (Bound
water, capillarity
exercise)
Ju
Lectura 9 (Logging
concepts and tools;
quantitative evaluation of
lithology, fluids, and
porosity)
Lab 9 (Logging
exercise)
Lectura 8 (Geophysics in
exploration and reservoir
management)
Vi
Lectura 10 (Exploration:
Hydrocarbon classification
of basins; play types)
Lab 10 (Petro
Mod)
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