The use of predictive lithostratigraphy to significantly improve the ability to forecast reservoir and source rocks? Final CRADA report.

Doctor, R. D. ; Moore, T. L. ; Energy Systems

关键词: RESERVOIR ROCK;    SOURCE ROCKS;    STRATIGRAPHY;    FORECASTING;    PALEOCLIMATOLOGY;    SEDIMENTARY BASINS;    CORRELATIONS;    CLIMATES;    RUNOFF;    SEDIMENTS;    GLACIERS;   

DOI  :  10.2172/982990
RP-ID  :  ANL/ES-C9701201
PID  :  OSTI ID: 982990
Others  :  TRN: US201014%%713

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this CRADA, which ended in 2003, was to make reservoir and source rock distribution significantly more predictable by quantifying the fundamental controls on stratigraphic heterogeneity. To do this, the relationships among insolation, climate, sediment supply, glacioeustasy, and reservoir and source rock occurrence were investigated in detail. Work current at the inception of the CRADA had uncovered previously unrecognized associations among these processes and properties that produce a phenomenon that, when properly analyzed, will make lithostratigraphic variability (including texture, porosity, and permeability) substantially more understandable. Computer climate simulations of selected time periods, compared with the global distribution of paleoclimatic indicators, documented spatial and temporal climate changes as a function of insolation and provided quantitative changes in runoff, lake level, and glacioeustasy. The effect of elevation and climate on sediment yield was assessed numerically by analyzing digital terrain and climate data. The phase relationships of climate, yield, and glacioeustatic cycles from the Gulf of Mexico and/or other sedimentary basins were assessed by using lacunarity, a statistical technique.