Understanding Oil and Gas Shows and Seals in the Search for Hydrocarbons
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| Summary: | XIX, 486 p. 341 illus., 315 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29710-1 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the oil industry and oil show evaluation: a personal retrospective
- The basics of traps, seals, reservoirs and shows
- Drilling, mud logging, wireline logs and cores
- Understanding seals, pressures and hydrodynamics
- Quantifying seals and saturations—capillary pressure, pseudo-capillary pressure and quantitative show assessment
- Basic well log analysis, quick look techniques, pitfalls and volumetrics
- Using fluid inclusion data in exploration
- Shows and geochemistry: extracting more information from source rocks and hydrocarbons
- Building and testing migration models
- Appendices
- Common conversion equations and fluid classifications
- Constructing Winland pore throat graphs in Excel
- Equations in Excel to convert mercury-injection capillary pressure data to height above free water
- Equations in Excel to make pseudo-capillary pressure curves
- Converting paleogeographic maps or shapefiles in ARCGIS to grids.