Hydrocarbon seals : importance for exploration and production / / edited by P. Mller-Pedersen and A.G. Koestler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911004762403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier Science, 1997
• ISBN: 1-281-07264-8; 9786611072643; 0-08-053428-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Collana: Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) special publication ; ; no. 7
• Altri autori (Persone): Mller-PedersenP; KoestlerA. G
• Disciplina: 622/.1828
• Soggetti: Traps (Petroleum geology); Petroleum - Geology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. A historical overview of the efforts to predict and quantify hydrocarbon trapping features in the exploration phase and in field development planning; Part I: Fault Seals; Chapter 2. Fault seal analysis: successful methodologies, application and future directions; Chapter 3. The emplacement of clay smears in synsedimentary normal faults: inferences from field observations near Frechen, Germany; Chapter 4. Fault seal processes: systematic analysis of fault seals over geological and production time; Chapter 5. Complexity in fault zone structure and implications for fault seal predictionChapter 6. Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous caprocks of the southwestern Barents Sea: fracture systems and rock mechanical properties; Chapter 7. Fault properties and the development of cemented fault zones in sedimentary basins: field examples and predictive models; Chapter 8. Quantitative fault seal prediction: a case study from Oseberg Syd; Chapter 9. Fault seal analysis in hydrocarbon exploration and appraisal: examples from offshore mid- Norway; Chapter 10. Fracture flow and fracture cross flow experimentsChapter 11. Fault seal analysis: reducing our dependence on empiricism; Part II: ; Migration and Top Seal Integrity; Chapter 12. Sealing processes and top seal assessment; Chapter 13. The dynamics of gas flow through rock salt in the scope of time; Chapter 14. Pressure prediction from seismic data: implications for seal distribution and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in the deepwater Gulf Of Mexico; Chapter 15. Pore water flow and petroleum migration in the Smørbukk field area, offshore mid-Norway; Chapter 16. The Njord Field: a dynamic hydrocarbon trapChapter 17. Pre-cretaceous top-seal integrity in the greater Ekofisk area; References index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 exp