Petroleum reservoir quality prediction: overview and contrasting approaches from sandstone and carbonate communities

RH Worden, PJ Armitage, AR Butcher, JM Churchill… - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The porosity and permeability of sandstone and carbonate reservoirs (known as reservoir
quality) are essential inputs for successful oil and gas resource exploration and exploitation …

Impact of carbonate mineral heterogeneity on wettability alteration potential of surfactants

A AlZaabi, M Arif, M Ali, A Adila, Y Abbas, RS Kumar… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactants have been widely used for enhanced oil recovery. However, the wettability
alteration potential of surfactants as a function of carbonate rock mineralogy remains broadly …

An overview of structurally-controlled dolostone-limestone transitions in the stratigraphic record

A Koeshidayatullah, H Corlett, C Hollis - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
In structurally-controlled dolomitization systems, there is a general consensus that the
formation of dolostone-limestone transitions, termed here as “dolomitization fronts”, is …

[HTML][HTML] Petrological, petrophysical and petrothermal study of a folded sedimentary succession: the Oliana anticline (Southern Pyrenees), outcrop analogue of a …

P Ramirez-Perez, I Cantarero, G Cofrade… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Oliana anticline (Southern Pyrenees) has been characterized as an outcrop
analogue of a geothermal reservoir using field data (stratigraphy and fracturing) and …

[PDF][PDF] 川中地区中二叠统茅口组白云岩特征及成因机理

刘建强, 郑浩夫, 刘波, 刘红光, 石开波, 郭荣涛… - 石油学报, 2017 - researchgate.net
川中地区茅口组白云岩主要位于茅口组二段中, 上部和茅口组三段下部, 根据岩石学特征可分为
含灰质细—中晶白云岩, 细—中晶白云岩, 角砾白云岩, 且以后两者为主. 对比泥晶灰岩与不同 …

Origin of calcite cements in the Permian Lucaogou Formation tight reservoirs, Jimsar sag, Junggar basin, NW China: Constraints from geochemistry

Q Fan, D Liu, M Xu, S Zhao, Z Tang, D Xiao, Y Li… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the diagenetic evolution of carbonate cementation in hydrocarbon reservoirs
is critical to better reconstruct the history of fluid flow during petroleum accumulation. The …

Magma-driven thermal convection dolomitization of the Lower-Middle Ordovician strata caused by Mg sourced from underlying Cambrian dolomites in the Tarim Basin …

H Zheng, F Lu, Y Dong, B Liu, X Zhang, K Shi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal convection arises due to a density gradient between geothermally heated formation
water within the underlying strata and the water in the overlying strata. The thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Stylolites and stylolite networks as primary controls on the geometry and distribution of carbonate diagenetic alterations

E Gomez-Rivas, JD Martín-Martín, PD Bons… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is ongoing debate on whether stylolites act as barriers, conduits, or play no role in
fluid transport. This problem can be tackled by examining the spatial and temporal …

Stylolites and porosity in a Lower Cretaceous limestone reservoir, onshore Abu Dhabi, UAE

SN Ehrenberg, S Morad, L Yaxin… - Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract: The vertical distribution of bedding-parallel stylolites in cores from the
approximately 50-m-thick Thamama-B reservoir zone of the Lower Cretaceous Kharaib …

Diagenetic controls on the elastic velocity of the early Triassic Upper Khartam Member (Khuff Formation, central Saudi Arabia)

M Salih, JJG Reijmer, A El-Husseiny - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Permo-Triassic intervals of the Arabian Plate host the most important gas
reservoirs in the world, the Khuff Formation and its equivalents. Understanding the main …