Simulating Oil Entrapment in Clastic Sequences

Johannes Wendebourg and John W. Harbaugh (Eds.)978-0-08-042431-6, 0080424317

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

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Table of contents :
Content:
Preface
Pages x-xii

Chapter 1 Rationale for simulating migration and entrapment in clastic sequences
Pages 1-9

Chapter 2 Overview of migration and accumulation
Pages 10-26

Chapter 3 Generating clastic sequences
Pages 27-58

Chapter 4 Endowing simulated sequences with petrophysical flow properties
Pages 59-81,i-xvi

Chapter 5 Simulating facies relationships, porosity, and permeability in the woodbine formation of east texas
Pages 82-98

Chapter 6 Methods for simulating migration and entrapment
Pages 99-114

Chapter 7 A simulator for oil migration and entrapment in clastic sequences
Pages 115-144

Chapter 8 Simulating deposition and migration at South Belridge field, California
Pages 145-160

Chapter 9 Summing it up and a look ahead
Pages 161-168

Notation
Pages 169-171

References
Pages 172-189

Index
Pages 190-199