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 …

Stylolites: A review

R Toussaint, E Aharonov, D Koehn, JP Gratier… - Journal of Structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Stylolites are ubiquitous geo-patterns observed in rocks in the upper crust, from geological
reservoirs in sedimentary rocks to deformation zones, in folds, faults, and shear zones …

Multi-scale characterization of unconventional tight carbonate reservoir: Insights from October oil filed, Gulf of Suez rift basin, Egypt

AE Radwan, F Trippetta, AA Kassem… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
The thick Eocene carbonate deposits that are newly ascribed as Radwany Formation
(previously Thebes Formation) in the October basin within the Gulf of Suez region, are of …

The geochemistry of carbonate diagenesis: The past, present and future

PK Swart - Sedimentology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes (δ18O and δ13C values) and trace elements have been
applied to the study of diagenesis of carbonate rocks for over 50 years. As valuable as these …

Absolute ages of multiple generations of brittle structures by U-Pb dating of calcite

RJ Hansman, R Albert, A Gerdes, U Ring - Geology, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Direct dating of brittle structures is challenging, especially absolute dating of diagenesis
followed by a series of superimposed brittle deformation events. We report 22 calcite U-Pb …

The effects of water on the strength of black sandstone in a brittle regime

S Tang - Engineering Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The mechanical behavior of rock is significantly affected by water. To further study the
influence of water on the mechanical behavior of rocks, uniaxial compressive loading …

Natural fractures in ultra-deep reservoirs of China: A review

L Zeng, Y Song, G Liu, X Tan, X Xu, Y Yao… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, China has made significant progress in exploring oil and gas in sandstone
and carbonate rocks with burial depths of more than 6000 m in the Tarim, Sichuan, and …

[HTML][HTML] Synkinematic evolution of stylolite porosity

Z Hou, F Fusseis, M Schöpfer, B Grasemann - Journal of Structural Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Stylolites form by the transportation and precipitation of dissolved materials in pore fluids
due to concentration gradients that develop in rocks under stress. This is a coupled chemical …

A new stylolite classification scheme to estimate compaction and local permeability variations

D Koehn, MP Rood, N Beaudoin, P Chung, PD Bons… - Sedimentary …, 2016 - Elsevier
We modeled the geometrical roughening of bedding-parallel, mainly layer-dominated
stylolites in order to understand their structural evolution, to present an advanced …

The hydrocarbon generation potential and migration in an alkaline evaporite basin: The Early Permian Fengcheng Formation in the Junggar Basin, northwestern …

K Yu, Y Cao, L Qiu, P Sun - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Permian Fengcheng Formation in the Mahu Sag in the Junggar Basin
represents deposition in a rare alkaline saline lake, with hydrologically closed conditions …