Petrographic and diagenetic study of siliciclastic Jurassic sediments from the Northeastern Margin of Africa: Implication for reservoir quality

AA Kassem, WS Hussein, AE Radwan, N Anani… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Northeastern Egypt is one of the most important exposures in the Middle East and North
Africa to study Jurassic facies. The present study analyzes 130 thin sections from a …

Controls on compactional behavior and reservoir quality in a Triassic Buntsandstein reservoir, Upper Rhine Graben, SW Germany

B Busch, D Adelmann, R Herrmann… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main reservoir quality controls in Triassic Buntsandstein deposits in the Upper Rhine
Graben and surrounding outcrops in Germany and France are discussed to be authigenic …

[HTML][HTML] Improved reservoir quality assessment by evaluating illite grain coatings, quartz cementation, and compaction–Case study from the Buntsandstein, Upper …

B Busch, J Böcker, C Hilgers - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Reservoir quality (RQ) in the Buntsandstein of the Upper Rhine Graben is in the center of
attention as it is a possible target formation for geothermal energy production and …

Incomplete crack sealing causes localization of fracturing in hydrothermal quartz veins

M Späth, JL Urai, B Nestler - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclic microfracturing and epitaxial crystal growth have long been recognized in crack‐seal
veins, but an understanding of a single crack‐seal cycle is still missing. Here we present a …

Depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir quality of microporous basinal lime mudstones (Aptian), United Arab Emirates

M Alsuwaidi, AAI Mohamed, H Mansurbeg, S Morad… - Sedimentary …, 2021 - Elsevier
This petrographic and petrophysical study constrains parameters controlling porosity-
permeability heterogeneity in unconventional microporous lime mudstones reservoir of the …

The significance of outcrop analog data for reservoir quality assessment: a comparative case study of Lower Triassic Buntsandstein sandstones in the Upper Rhine …

B Busch, AD Spitzner, D Adelmann, C Hilgers - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Subsurface reservoir quality assessments are among the most important workflows in
reservoir geology. The application has been standard practice in the hydrocarbon industry …

The influence of sedimentary facies, mineralogy, and diagenesis on reservoir properties of the coal-bearing Upper Carboniferous of NW Germany

J Greve, B Busch, D Quandt, M Knaak… - Petroleum …, 2024 - earthdoc.org
Former coal mines hosted in Upper Carboniferous silt-and sandstones in the Ruhr Basin,
NW Germany, are currently examined for post-mining applications (eg geothermal energy) …

Compaction control on diagenesis and reservoir quality development in red bed sandstones: a case study of Permian Rotliegend sandstones

AC Monsees, B Busch, C Hilgers - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Authigenic minerals formed during diagenesis in conjunction with compaction by burial have
long been known to lead to porosity-loss of sandstones, and a subsequent deterioration in …

Quantitative phase-field modeling of faceted crystal dissolution processes

N Prajapati, M Spath, L Knecht, M Selzer… - Crystal Growth & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This article showcases a systematic and generalized phase-field modeling approach for
addressing the phenomenon of faceted crystal dissolution in different crystalline solids, in …

Diagenesis and controls on reservoir quality of Lower Triassic red bed sandstones (Buntsandstein) from a marginal basin facies, southwest Germany

D Quandt, B Busch, C Schmidt, C Hilgers - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
After decades of hydrocarbon exploration and production in the Lower Triassic
Buntsandstein from the Central European Basin center, the marginal southern German …