Petroleum Science >2018, Issue 1: 1-27 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-017-0206-x
Reservoir quality of fluvial sandstone reservoirs in salt-walled minibasins: an example from the Seagull field, Central Graben, North Sea, UK Open Access
文章信息
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作者单位:
Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK,Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK,RedRock Associates International Limited, 38 Queens Drive, Prenton, Wirral CH43 0RP, UK and Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
投稿时间:2017-07-25
引用方式:Stricker, S., Jones, S.J., Meadows, N. et al. Pet. Sci. (2018) 15: 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12182-017-0206-x
文章摘要
The Triassic fluvial sandstones of the Skagerrak Formation were deposited in a series of salt-walled mini-basins and act as important hydrocarbon reservoirs for several high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) fields in the Central Graben, North Sea. The HPHT reservoirs exhibit excellent reservoir quality considering their depth of burial and hence have been of high interest for hydrocarbon exploration. This research uses a multidisciplinary approach to assess the Skagerrak Formation fluvial reservoir quality from the Seagull field incorporating core analysis, petrography, electron microscopy, XRD analysis, fluid inclusion appraisal and burial history modelling. Halokinesis and salt withdrawal at the margin of the saltwalled mini-basin induced early disaggregation bands and fractures at shallow burial and led to increased influx of meteoric water and clay mineral infiltration from overlying sedimentation. The density of disaggregation bands correlates with the occurrence and magnitude of pore-filling authigenic clay minerals, concentrated along the margin of the saltwalled mini-basin. The fluvial channel sandstones of the Skagerrak Formation are subject to strong intra-basinal spatial reservoir quality variations despite diagenesis and low vertical effective stress having played a favourable role in arresting porosity loss.
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Reservoir quality, Halokinesis, Diagenesis, Clay minerals, Porosity, Disaggregation bands, Salt-walled mini-basin