Carbonate Reservoir Quality : Reference List

Carbonate Reservoir Quality : Reference listFebruary 2012

Stuart Haszeldine, University of Edinburgh

Do NOT use undergraduate texts of Leeder, or Selley, as they are wrong in many places

Allan JR + Wiggins WD 1993 Dolomite reservoirs: Geochemical techniques for evaluating origin and distribution. AAPG Continuing Education Course Notes 36. AAPG Tulsa.

Good on techniques – isotopes, fluid inclusions and trace elements, with case studies

Budd David A, Arthur H. Saller and Paul M. Harris. 1995 Unconformities and porosity in carbonate strata. AAPG Memoir 63. AAPG, Tulsa. Lots of case studies

Dickson JAD 1990 Carbonate mineralogy and Chemistry Chapter 6 In Tucker ME, Wright VP 1990 Carbonate sedimentology. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford. 482p

Kupecz JA, Gluyas JG, Bloch S 1997 Reservoir quality prediction in sandstones and carbonates. AAPG Memoir 69, AAPG, Tulsa Current research papers

* Lucia FJ 1999 Carbonate reservoir characterisation, Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Best crossover between engineering, petrophysics and geology. Very expensive

Lucia 1995 AAPG Bull has most of the same information

** Moore CH 2001 Carbonate Reservoirs, Porosity evolution and diagenesis in a sequence stratigraphic framework. Developments in sedimentology 55, Elsevier, Amsterdam 444p + CD Authoritative Instructional textbook. Lots of reservoir principles and good field examples

Neilson JE, Oxtoby NH, Simmons MD Simpson IR, Fortunatova NK 1998 The relationship between petroleum emplacement and carbonate reservoir quality: examples from Abu Dhabi and the Amu Darya Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology 15 (1998) 57-72

Neilson JE, Oxtoby NH, 2008 The relationship between petroleum, exotic cements and reservoir quality in carbonates – A review. Marine and Petroleum Geology 25 (2008) 778–790

Scoffin TP 1987 An introduction to carbonate sediments and rocks. Blackie/ Chapman + Hall 274p Textbook, authoritative, simple to read, from deposition to diagenesis

Schneidermanm N, + Harris PM 1985 Carbonate cements. SEPM Spec Publ 36, SEPM, Tulsa. Academic and industry research papers of the time, some still very current

** Tucker ME, Wright VP 1990 Carbonate sedimentology. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford. 482p Best textbook on science of carbonate deposition and cementation.

Scholle PA 1978 A color illustrated guide to carbonate rock constituents, textures, cements, and porosities. AAPG Memoir 27, AAPG Tulsa

Best colour pictures of thin sections + SEM

Karst

Alan P. Heward, Supamittra Chuenbunchom, Gerard Mäkel, David Marsland and Laurent Spring 2000 Nang Nuan oil field, B6/27, Gulf of Thailand: karst reservoirs of meteoric or deep-burial origin? Petroleum Geoscience; v. 6; p. 15-27

Hardage Bob A 2002 3-D Seismic Images of the Effects of Carbonate Karst Collapse on Overlying Stratigraphy AAPG Search and Discovery Article #40044

Mara Vernica Castillo MV, Paul Mann P, 2006 Deeply buried, Early Cretaceous paleokarst terrane, southern Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela AAPG Bulletin 90, Pages 567 – 579.

Modelling fluid flow, burial diagenesis and reservoir quality

Jones Gareth D., Xiao Yitian 2006, Geothermal convection in the Tengiz carbonate platform, Kazakhstan: Reactive transport models of diagenesis and reservoir quality AAPG Bulletin V 90, 1251 – 1272.

Vilasi N, Malandain J, Laurie Barrier, Jean-Paul Callot, Khalid Amrouch, Nicole Guilhaumou, Olivier Lacombe, Kristaq Muska, François Roure, Rudy Swennen 2009 From outcrop and petrographic studies to basin-scale fluid flow modelling: The use of the Albanian natural laboratory for carbonate reservoir characterization, Tectonophysics 474 (2009) 367–392

Oil charge and cementation

Joyce E. Neilson, Norman H. Oxtoby, Michael D. Simmons, Ivor R. Simpson, Natalia K. Fortunatova 1998 The relationship between petroleum emplacement and carbonate reservoir quality: examples from Abu Dhabi and the Amu Darya Basin Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 15, Pages 57-72

Web Resources

AAPG Bulletin - main resource – need membership, or university access

Very useful web resource – conference and shorts

Gregg JM Limestone petrography gallery http://web.umr.edu/~greggjay/Carbonate_Page/LSGallery/index.htm

Lots of thin section photos and descriptions

Ulmer Scholle, Dana S Carbonate diagenesis help pages New Mexico Tech http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geol/classes/geol524/Diag/CarbDiag.html

Incomplete, but good so far

* Folk RL petrology of Sedimentary Rocks http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/folkready/entirefolkpdf.pdf

Classic textbook, still authoritative

Mazzullo SJ 2004 Overview of Porosity Evolution in Carbonate Reservoirs eclectic review

Jones GD, Whitaker FF 2004 Predictive Modeling of Sedimentology and Early Diagenesis in an Icehouse Isolated Carbonate Platform Linking chemical and flow models

Cantrell DL and Hagerty RM 2002 Microporosity in Arab Formation Carbonates, Saudi Arabia

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