Hydrocarbon Seals: Importance for Exploration and Production

Content: 
Preface
Pages v-vi
Per Møller-Pedersen, Andreas G. Koestler

List of contributors
Pages vii-ix

A historical overview of the efforts to predict and quantify hydrocarbon trapping features in the exploration phase and in field development planning Original Research Article
Pages 1-13
K.J. Weber

Fault seal analysis: successful methodologies, application and future directions Original Research Article
Pages 15-38
R.J. Knipe, Q.J. Fisher, G. Jones, M.R. Clennell, A.B. Farmer, A. Harrison, B. Kidd, E. Mcallister, J.R. Porter, E.A. White

The emplacement of clay smears in synsedimentary normal faults: inferences from field observations near Frechen, Germany Original Research Article
Pages 39-50
F.K. Lehner, W.F. Pilaar

Fault seal processes: systematic analysis of fault seals over geological and production time scales Original Research Article
Pages 51-59
J.R. Fulljames, L.J.J. Zijerveld, R.C.M.W. Franssen

Complexity in fault zone structure and implications for fault seal prediction Original Research Article
Pages 61-72
C. Childs, J.J. Walsh, J. Watterson

Late Jurassic—early Cretaceous caprocks of the southwestern Barents Sea: fracture systems and rock mechanical properties Original Research Article
Pages 73-89
R.H. Gabrielsen, O.S. Kløvjan

Fault properties and the development of cemented fault zones in sedimentary basins: field examples and predictive models Original Research Article
Pages 91-106
E. Sverdrup, K. Bjørlykke

Quantitative fault seal prediction: a case study from Oseberg Syd Original Research Article
Pages 107-124
T. Fristad, A. Groth, G. Yielding, B. Freeman

Fault seal analysis in hydrocarbon exploration and appraisal: examples from offshore mid-Norway Original Research Article
Pages 125-138
A.I. Welbon, A. Beach, P.J. Brockbank, O. Fjeld, S.D. Knott, T. Pedersen, S. Thomas

Fracture flow and fracture cross flow experiments Original Research Article
Pages 139-148
A. Makurat, M. Gutierrez, L. Backer

Fault seal analysis: reducing our dependence on empiricism Original Research Article
Pages 149-164
T.R. Harper, E.R. Lundin

Sealing processes and top seal assessment Original Research Article
Pages 165-174
G.M. Ingram, J.L. Urai, M.A. Naylor

The dynamics of gas flow through rock salt in the scope of time Original Research Article
Pages 175-185
D. Kettel

Pressure prediction from seismic data: implications for seal distribution and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in the deepwater Gulf Of Mexico Original Research Article
Pages 187-199
N.C. Dutta

Pore water flow and petroleum migration in the Smørbukk field area, offshore mid-Norway Original Research Article
Pages 201-216
R. Olstad, K. Bjørlykke, D.A. Karlsen

The Njord Field: a dynamic hydrocarbon trap Original Research Article
Pages 217-229
T. Lilleng, R. Gundesø

Pre-cretaceous top-seal integrity in the greater Ekofisk area Original Research Article
Pages 231-242
D.M. Hall, B.A. Duff, M. Elias, S.R. Gytri

References index
Pages 243-248

Subject index
Pages 249-250