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 …

Facies and diagenesis distribution in an Aptian pre-salt carbonate reservoir of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil: a comprehensive quantitative approach

AMA Carvalho, Y Hamon, OG De Souza Jr… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aptian carbonate rocks of Santos Basin in the Brazilian southeastern continental margin
show a highly heterogeneous reservoir quality conditioned by many controlling factors. This …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Facies classification and patterns of lacustrine carbonate deposition of the Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin, Brazilian Pre-salt

JP Gomes, RB Bunevich, LR Tedeschi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
The lacustrine carbonate rocks of the giant Pre-salt oil-fields in the Santos and Campos
Basins differ in a number of important aspects from classic lake deposits. Prior work has …

Deposition, diagenetic and hydrothermal processes in the Aptian Pre-Salt lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of the northern Campos Basin, offshore Brazil

BEM Lima, LF De Ros - Sedimentary Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
The discovery of large oil accumulations in the rift and sag Pre-Salt sections of the Campos
and Santos Basins has revived interest in the exploration of the lacustrine carbonate …

Reverse weathering as a long-term stabilizer of marine pH and planetary climate

TT Isson, NJ Planavsky - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
For the first four billion years of Earth's history, climate was marked by apparent stability and
warmth despite the Sun having lower luminosity. Proposed mechanisms for maintaining an …

Influence of diagenesis on the quality of Lower Cretaceous pre-salt lacustrine carbonate reservoirs from northern Campos Basin, offshore Brazil

R Herlinger Jr, EE Zambonato… - Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The genesis and evolution of lacustrine pre-salt carbonate reservoirs, which contain giant
hydrocarbon accumulations along the South Atlantic margins, has attracted major research …

Presalt stratigraphy and depositional systems in the Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola

A Saller, S Rushton, L Buambua, K Inman… - Aapg …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Lower Cretaceous presalt section in the Kwanza Basin contains an
excellent petroleum system that includes “synrift” strata (Barremian) overlain by a “sag” …

Utilizing integrated artificial intelligence for characterizing mineralogy and facies in a pre-salt carbonate reservoir, Santos Basin, Brazil, using cores, wireline logs, and …

JCR Gavidia, GF Chinelatto, M Basso… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In complex carbonate reservoirs, it is crucial to understand the connections between
reservoir compositions (minerals, facies, and properties). Conventionally, core samples …

The mantle, CO2 and the giant Aptian chemogenic lacustrine carbonate factory of the South Atlantic: Some carbonates are made, not born

VP Wright - Sedimentology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the Aptian (Cretaceous), in what is now the South Atlantic, the largest
chemogenic (abiotic) carbonate factory so far identified in the Phanerozoic geological record …