Are stylolites fluid-flow efficient features?

PO Bruna, APC Lavenu, C Matonti, G Bertotti - Journal of Structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
It sounds counter-intuitive to consider contraction features such as stylolites as potential
conduits for flow. However, this idea has grown since 1980, with geoscientists finding many …

Activation of stylolites as conduits for overpressured fluid flow in dolomitized platform carbonates

JD Martín-Martín, E Gomez-Rivas, D Gómez-Gras… - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study investigates the Late Aptian–earliest Albian platform carbonates of the
Benicàssim area (Maestrat Basin, Spain) in order to assess the relationship between bed …

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic Mudador Marble, Passo Feio Complex, Dom Feliciano Belt, southern Brazil

EO de Oliveira, E Koester, CC Porcher… - Journal of South …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mudador Marble, a key Neoproterozoic unit located southwest of Caçapava do
Sul, Brazil, in the Arroio Mudador region, comprises fine-grained, massive dark dolomitic …

Deep-burial dissolution in an Oligocene-Miocene giant carbonate reservoir (Perla Limestone), Gulf of Venezuela Basin: Implications on microporosity development

FL Valencia, JC Laya - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Sedimentary rocks tend to progressively lose porosity with depth due to mechanical and
chemical compaction. In carbonates, this trend is hard to predict since many factors can …

Influence of multistage oil emplacement on carbonate cementation in the eocene Shahejie Formation, dongying sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China

W Yanzhong, X Qiangwang, C Yingchang… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
The influence of multi-stage oil emplacement on carbonate cementation was investigated on
the basis of determining the sequence of oil emplacement and carbonate cementation in the …

The design of an open-source carbonate reservoir model

JC Gomes, S Geiger, D Arnold - Petroleum Geoscience, 2022 - earthdoc.org
This work presents a new open-source carbonate reservoir case study, the COSTA model,
that uniquely considers significant uncertainties inherent to carbonate reservoirs, providing a …

Organic–inorganic rock–fluid interactions in stylolitic micro‐environments of carbonate rocks: a FIB‐TEM study combined with a hydrogeochemical modelling …

HM Schulz, R Wirth, A Schreiber - Geofluids, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stylolites and the interfaces to the host limestone have been investigated by means of a
multidisciplinary analytical approach (thin section microscopy, FIB‐TEM, organic …

Chemical Compaction as the Driving Mechanism for Reservoir Quality Variation in an Early Cretaceous Middle Eastern Carbonate Reservoir.

C Sellar, A Vrsic, D Contreras… - Abu Dhabi International …, 2020 - onepetro.org
Reservoir 2 shows the same vertical facies stacking pattern across Oilfield A. These facies
are observed to be laterally continuous across other oilfields in Abu Dhabi. Multi-scale static …

An open access carbonate reservoir benchmarking study for reservoir characterisation, uncertainty quantification & history matching

J Costa Gomes, S Geiger, D P. Arnold - … Reservoir Characterisation and …, 2019 - onepetro.org
This work presents a new open access carbonate reservoir case study that uniquely
considers the major uncertainties inherent to carbonate reservoirs using one of the most …

Fault core process and clay content derived from XRF analysis: Salina Creek Fault, Utah

AA Brown, RK Davies, AC Treverton - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The distribution of fault rocks interpreted across a modelled fault in oil or gas reservoirs is
most often described by its clay content derived from standard industry algorithms such as …