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Simulating Oil Entrapment in Clastic Sequences

Wendebourg, J.; Harbaugh, J.W.

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Table of contents
  • CONTENTSv
  • PREFACEx
  • CHAPTER 1. RATIONALE FOR SIMULATING OIL MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT IN CLASTIC SEQUENCES1
  • THE CONTINUUM OF PROCESSES IN THE REAL WORLD3
  • REPRESENTING SPACE AND TIME4
  • CHAPTER 2. OVERVIEW OF MIGRATION AND ACCUMULATION10
  • SOURCE ROCKS10
  • EXPULSION FROM SOURCE ROCKS13
  • SECONDARY MIGRATION16
  • SEGREGATION AND CHANGE DURING MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT22
  • CLOSING STATEMENT24
  • CHAPTER 3. GENERATING CLASTIC SEQUENCES27
  • TYPES OF NUMERICAL SEDIMENTARY SIMULATORS28
  • UTILIZING PROCESS SIMULATORS31
  • BOUNDARY AND INITIAL CONDITIONS35
  • DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS40
  • RECORDING SEQUENCES GENERATED BY PROCESS SIMULATORS46
  • INTEGRATING DEPOSITIONAL AND BURIAL HISTORY51
  • LIMITATIONS IN SEDIMENTARY PROCESS SIMULATION53
  • CLOSING STATEMENT57
  • CHAPTER 4. ENDOWING SIMULATED SEQUENCES WITH PETROPHYSICAL FLOW PROPERTIES59
  • POROSITY AND COMPACTION59
  • PERMEABILITY65
  • CAPILLARY PRESSURE69
  • RELATIVE PERMEABILITY75
  • CLOSING STATEMENT79
  • CHAPTER 5. SIMULATING FACIES RELATIONSHIPS, POROSITY, AND PERMEABILITY IN THE WOODBINE FORMATION OF82
  • GEOLOGY OF THE WOODBINE FORMATION82
  • SIMULATING DEPOSITION OF THE WOODBINE SANDSTONES89
  • TRANSFORMING PROPORTIONS OF GRAIN SIZES TO POROSITIES AND PERMEABILITIES91
  • CLOSING STATEMENT98
  • CHAPTER 6. METHODS FOR SIMULATING MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT99
  • MASS BALANCE102
  • PORE-SCALE PROCEDURES102
  • HYDROSTATIC MIGRATION PROCEDURES104
  • HYDRODYNAMIC PROCEDURES109
  • BASIN-SCALE PROCEDURES111
  • CLOSING STATEMENT114
  • CHAPTER 7. A SIMULATOR FOR OIL MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT IN CLASTIC SEQUENCES115
  • FLUID CONTINUITY AND MOMENTUM EQUATIONS116
  • SOLVING THE TWO-PHASE FLOW EQUATIONS124
  • DISCRETIZING THE TWO-PHASE FLOW EQUATIONS127
  • BOUNDARY CONDITIONS134
  • SOLVING THE SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS135
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM MIGRAT137
  • EXPERIMENTS WITH MIGRAT137
  • CLOSING STATEMENT142
  • CHAPTER 8. SIMULATING DEPOSITION AND MIGRATION AT SOUTH BELRIDGE FIELD, CALIFORNIA145
  • SOUTH BELRIDGE'S GEOLOGY146
  • SIMULATING SOUTH BELRIDGE'S PROGRADING DELTA151
  • TRANSFORMING THE DEPOSITIONAL SIMULATION FOR MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT155
  • SIMULATING MIGRATION AND ENTRAPMENT157
  • CHAPTER 9. SUMMING IT UP AND A LOOK AHEAD161
  • GENERATING CLASTIC SEQUENCES161
  • TRANSFORMING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF GRAIN SIZES TO PETROPHYSICAL FLOW PROPERTIES163
  • SIMULATING OIL MIGRATION164
  • A LOOK AHEAD166
  • NOTATION169
  • REFERENCES172
  • INDEX190
  • Color Plate SectionColor Plate-1
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780080424316
  • ISBN-13 9780080541242
  • Author Wendebourg, J.; Harbaugh, J.W.
  • Category Nature
  • Subject Natural Resources

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The book introduces procedures for simulating migration and entrapment of oil in three dimensions in sequences of sandstones and shales.

A principal purpose is to show how simulation experiments can represent oil migration routes and predict places where oil may be trapped in sandstones and intercalated shales.

The book derives the differential equations used to represent three-dimensional motions of porewater and oil in sedimentary sequences, and shows how the equations may be transformed into finite form for numerical solution with computers. There is emphasis on the graphic display of solutions, and results of example theoretical and actual applications are presented.

The book is directed to geologists who have backgrounds in mathematics and computing and who are engaged in oil exploration and production.