The Role and Value of “Biosteering” in Hydrocarbon Reservoir Exploitation

High temperature susceptibility measurements: A potential tool for the identification of oil-water transition zone in petroleum reservoirs

“…It is made up of fine grained clean poorly consolidated sands that are interbedded with grey carbonaceous mudstone (Ahmadi et al, 2003). Overlying the Sele formation is the Horda formation comprising a thick sequence of green to grey hemipelagic mudstones together with the coarse grained poorly consolidated Tay sandstone (Jones et al, 2003). The Tay sandstone was deposited on a Horda formation that was unconformable due to salt induced highs and lows, and the TABLE 1 Reservoir and fluid properties of the fields under study.…”

“…MMbbl, bcf, MMboe and TVDSS stand for million barrels, billion cubic feet, million barrels of oil equivalent and true vertical depth subsea respectively. Compiled using data from literature (Ritchie et al, 2011;Tamannai et al, 2013) Frontiers in Earth Science frontiersin.org presence of Tertiary faults (Stewart, 1996;Jones et al, 2003). This together with the diminished sediment supply to the region resulted in slope deposits that accumulated mainly in areas of tectonically induced lows, e.g., the hanging walls of the Tertiary faults (Robertson et al, 2013).…”

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“…The working lives of industrial palynologists can help tell the story of the discovery and development of major hydrocarbon provinces such as the Gulf of Mexico, the North Slope of Alaska, and the North Sea, or the introduction of innovative techniques such as biosteering and palynofacies analysis (e.g. Parry et al 1981, Batten 1982, Jones et al 2005).…”