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The Value of Outcrop Studies in Reducing Subsurface Uncertainty and Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
Title
The Value of Outcrop Studies in Reducing Subsurface Uncertainty and Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production / edited by: M. Bowman, Texas A&M University, Qatar, H. R. Smyth, Neftex Exploration Insights, UK, T. R. Good, ExxonMobil, UK, S. R. Passey, CASP, UK, J. P. P. Hirst, Sedimentology Consultant, UK, and C. J. Jordan, British Geological Survey, UK.
ISBN
9781786203090
178620309X
9781786201409
1786201402
9781786203113
1786203111
Publication
London : The Geological Society, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 268 pages) : illustrations.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Lyell Collection, Special Publications, Geological Society of London Web site, viewed February 15, 2017).
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Summary
Field studies over a range of scales have been important in the upstream oil and gas industry for decades. Advances in digital outcrop characterization and data capture, coupled with increased computational capabilities, have resulted in a resurgence in fieldwork; these field studies are required to develop depositional, stratigraphic and structural concepts and provide the data which underpin the current generation of complex, computer generated, 3D subsurface models. These models provide an informed means of benchmarking the subsurface along with a more considered view of subsurface uncertainty and management of the risks identified. The papers in this volume cover safety in the field, frontier basin petroleum system assessment, field appraisal and development including unconventional resources, applications of techniques such as LiDAR and 3D photogrammetry, and uncertainty characterization. The studies were undertaken in diverse locations such as the Faroe Islands, Italy, Algeria, India, the USA and Trinidad; they represent a range of tectonic settings and a wide geological time frame. The spectrum of papers is testament to the value and integral position that fieldwork occupies within the modern hydrocarbon industry.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 29, 2019
Series
Geological Society special publication, no. 436
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Reducing uncertainty and risk through field-based studies
Keeping safe in the field: what, how and why?
The value of fieldwork in making connections between onshore outcrops and offshore models: an example from India
Reservoir architectures of interlava systems: a 3D photogrammetrical study of Eocene cliff sections, Faroe Islands
Application of outcrop analogues in successful exploration of a sand injection complex, Volund Field, Norwegian North Sea
A new perspective on sequence stratigraphy of syn-orogenic basins: insights from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Italy) and implications for play concepts and reservoir heterogeneity
Ordovician shallow-marine tidal sandwaves in Algeria - the application of coeval outcrops to constrain the geometry and facies of a discontinuous, high-quality gas reservoir
Outcrop analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Columbus Basin, offshore east Trinidad
Making outcrops relevant for an unconventional source rock play: an example from the Eagle Ford Group of Texas
Field-based structural studies as analogues to sub-surface reservoirs
Developing digital fieldwork technologies at the British Geological Survey
Linking outcrop analogue with flow simulation to reduce uncertainty in sub-surface carbon capture and storage: an example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group of the Wessex Basin, UK
Do technical studies reduce subsurface risk in hydrocarbon exploration: and if not, how do they add value?
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