3D Geological Modelling and Petroleum Prospectivity Assessment in Offshore Frontier Basins Using GOCAD

3D Geological Modelling and Petroleum Prospectivity Assessment in Offshore Frontier Basins Using GOCAD
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2011
Genre: Geology
ISBN: 9781921781698

"The Capel and Faust basins are located over the northern part of the Lord Howe Rise, a large offshore frontier region containing a number of basins with untested petroleum prospectivity. Recent data acquisition by Geoscience Australia has significantly improved geological knowledge of these basins. Given the diversity of acquired data, comparative sparseness of data coverage, lack of deep drilling control, and complexity of geological structure, effective data integration and analysis methods were essential for a meaningful geological interpretation of the Capel and Faust basins. By using the 3D visualisation and modelling environment provided by GOCAD?, the datasets were captured, processed and interpreted to create an integrated 3D model that enabled key geological and prospectivity questions to be answered. This report summarises the construction methodology and the resulting geological and prospectivity implications of the Capel-Faust 3D geological model."--Executive summary.

Sedimentary Basins and Crustal Processes at Continental Margins

Sedimentary Basins and Crustal Processes at Continental Margins
Author: G.M. Gibson
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1862397201

Continental margins and their fossilized analogues are important repositories of natural resources. With better processing techniques and increased availability of high-resolution seismic and potential field data, imaging of present-day continental margins and their embedded sedimentary basins has reached unprecedented levels of refinement and definition, as illustrated by examples described in this volume. This, in turn, has led to greatly improved geological, geodynamic and numerical models for the crustal and mantle processes involved in continental margin formation from the initial stages of rifting through continental rupture and break-up to development of a new ocean basin. Further informing these models, and contributing to a better understanding of the features imaged in the seismic and potential field data, are observations made on fossilized fragments of exhumed subcontinental mantle lithosphere and ocean–continent transition zones preserved in ophiolites and orogenic belts of both Palaeozoic and Mesozoic age from several different continents, including Europe, South Asia and Australasia.

Re-exploration Programs for Petroleum-Rich Sags in Rift Basins

Re-exploration Programs for Petroleum-Rich Sags in Rift Basins
Author: Xianzheng Zhao
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 012816154X

Re-exploration Programs for Petroleum-Rich Sags in Rift Basins covers the geological characteristics and potential of oil-rich depressions in a rifted basin. It describes up-to-date research and technology, detailing the current status of exploration. The overall aim of the book is to guide a new round of hydrocarbon exploration of petroleum-rich depressions, contributing to breakthroughs in re-exploration and a substantial increase in reserves. Chapters discuss the reservoir forming theory of oil-rich depressions, characters of hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in a weak structure slope, key elements of reservoir forming of deep buried hills and inner curtains, and more. Other topics covered include complex subtle reservoir recognition techniques, deep layer and buried hill high speed drill technology, recognition of buried hill reservoir and hydrocarbon, high efficiency enhanced oil recovery, and finally, methods of secondary exploration of oil-rich depressions and the development of a workflow to guide research and exploration. Provides up-to date knowledge and expertise on the geological characteristics and potential of oil-rich depressions in a rifted basin Based on a decade of experience, program deployment, and geological theory on continental basin exploration Gives practical guidance for exploiting green and brown fields Helps the reader understand how to increase reserves and production Ideal as a guidebook for sustainable large-scale exploration and exploitation of a continental rifted basin

Basin Modeling

Basin Modeling
Author: Kenneth E. Peters
Publisher: AAPG
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0891819037

"This special volume contains a selection of articles presented at the AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on Basin and Petroleum System Modeling (BPSM) held in Napa, California, on May 3-8, 2009."--P. 1.

Offshore Exploration of Oil and Gas in Cuba using Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)

Offshore Exploration of Oil and Gas in Cuba using Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
Author: Manuel Enrique Pardo Echarte
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-03-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319771558

This book provides an overview of the major changes induced by hydrocarbons (HCs) affecting rocks and surface sediments and their implications for non-seismic exploration methods, particularly for marine territories near Cuba. It examines the use of a digital elevation model (DEM) at 90x90m resolution for the detection of subtle, positive geomorphic anomalies related to hydrocarbon microseepage (vertical migration) on possible oil and gas targets. The results support the conclusion that the DEM data provides a low cost and fast offshore oil and gas preliminary exploration strategy. This data is useful serving to focus prospective areas with supplementary unconventional methods such as magnetic-induced polarization (MIP), useful to propose more expensive volumes for detailed 2D–3D seismic surveys.

Fundamentals of Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling

Fundamentals of Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling
Author: Thomas Hantschel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540723188

The first comprehensive presentation of methods and algorithms used in basin modeling, this text provides geoscientists and geophysicists with an in-depth view of the underlying theory and includes advanced topics such as probabilistic risk assessment methods.

New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration

New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration
Author: Congrui Jin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2016-10-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319401246

This contributed volume presents a multi-perspective collection of the latest research findings on oil and gas exploration and imparts insight that can greatly assist in understanding field behavior, design of test programs, and design of field operations. With this book, engineers also gain a powerful guide to the most commonly used numerical simulation methods that aid in reservoir modelling. In addition, the contributors explore development of technologies that allow for cost effective oil and gas exploration while minimizing the impact on our water resources, surface and groundwater aquifers, geological stability of impacted areas, air quality, and infrastructure assets such as roads, pipelines, water, and wastewater networks. Easy to understand, the book identifies equipment and procedural problems inherent to oil and gas operations and provides systematic approaches for solving them.

Technical Guidance for Petroleum Exploration and Production Plans

Technical Guidance for Petroleum Exploration and Production Plans
Author: Tarek Al-Arbi Omar Ganat
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030452506

This book presents detailed explanations of how to formulate field development plans for oil and gas discovery. The data and case studies provided here, obtained from the authors’ field experience in the oil and gas industry around the globe, offer a real-world context for the theories and procedures discussed. The book covers all aspects of field development plan processes, from reserve estimations to economic analyses. It shows readers in both the oil and gas industry and in academia how to prepare field development plans in a straightforward way, and with substantially less uncertainty.

Cross Border Themes in Petroleum Geology I: The North Sea

Cross Border Themes in Petroleum Geology I: The North Sea
Author: S. Patruno
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2022
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1786204576

A cross-border approach to exploration, appraisal and development is important in mature basins such as the North Sea, where the ‘low hanging fruit’ have long gone. This approach emphasizes the need to see the basin as one geological entity, in order to maximize economic recovery and prepare the area for the energy transition. This volume offers an up-to-date, ‘geology-without-borders’ view of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, tectonics and oil-and-gas exploration trends of the entire North Sea basin, along with the challenges associated with differences in data continuity and nomenclature across median lines. This volume includes overviews of cross-border play statistics, lithostratigraphic naming conventions and exploration performance through to new facies models for cross-border areas. As such, this volume will be a valuable reference for every geoscientist working in the North Sea for years to come.