Giant Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of the World

From Rocks to Reservoir Characterization and Modeling

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This volume assembles information on giant (>500 MOEB recoverable reserves) hydrocarbon reservoirs that will be of value to a wide audience. Although far from exhaustive, this compilation includes a wide range of reservoirs when examined from any perspective, such as location, geology, and production history. Reservoirs described in this volume are located in the Middle East, Asia, West Africa, North America, and South America. The authors explore historical and alternative approaches to reservoir description, characterization, and management, as well as examining appropriate levels and timing of data gathering, technology applications, evaluation techniques, and management practices in various stages in the life of individual development projects. Enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons requires a critical understanding of reservoir heterogeneity by both geoscientists and engineers. The giant fields discussed in this Memoir address issues important to reservoir description, characterization, and management from both geologic and engineering perspectives.

Content

1-6Introduction Giant hydrocarbon reservoirs of the world : from rocks to reservoir characterization and modeling
7-54Late Visean to Bashkirian platform cyclicity in the central Tengiz buildup, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan : depositional evolution and reservoir development
55-96Facies and reservoir-quality variations in the Late Visean to Bashkirian outer platform, rim, and flank of the Tengiz buildup, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan
97-138Ghawar Arab-D Reservoir : widespread porosity in shoaling-upward carbonate cycles, Saudi Arabia
139-172High resolution sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization of upper Thamama (Lower Cretaceous) Reservoirs of a giant Abu Dhabi oil field, United Arab Emirates
173-212Three dimensional characterization of a heterogeneous carbonate reservoir, Lower Cretaceous, Abu Dhabi, (United Arab Emirates)
213-246Sequence stratigraphy and reservoir architecture of the Burgan and Mauddud formations (Lower Cretaceous), Kuwait
247-280Sequence stratigraphy of the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) reservoir at Wafra field, Partitioned Neutral Zone, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait : key to reservoir modeling and assessment
281-306Stratigraphic organization and predictability of mixed coarse- and fine-grained lithofacies successions in a lower Miocene deep-water slope-channel system, Angola Block 15
307-354Multiscale geologic and petrophysical modeling of the giant Hugoton gas field (Permian), Kansas and Oklahoma, U.S.A.
355-394Key role of outcrops and cores in carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling, Lower Permian Fullerton Field, Permian Basin, United States
395-432Carbonate sequence stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the Jurassic deep Panuke field, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
433-469Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir architecture of the Eocene Mirador Formation, Cupiagua field, Llanos Foothills, Colombia