Improving Performance Prediction in Deep-Water Reservoirs: Learning From Outcrop Analogues, Conceptual Models and Flow Simulation

Stewart, Jonathan; Dunn, P.; Lyttle, Colin; Campion, K. M.; Oyerinde, Adedayo; Fischer, B.

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“…We illustrate the incising-to-aggrading trajectory of a channel system in a 3D surface-based stratigraphic forward model. The model records the 3D stacking patterns of a channel system, which is a principal control on fluid flow behavior during hydrocarbon production (e.g., Larue and Hovadik, 2006;Stright, 2006;Labourdette, 2007;Stewart et al, 2008;Funk et al, 2012;Alpak et al, 2013). We review the implications of channel-system stratigraphic evolution for channelized reservoir heterogeneity, connectivity, and performance.…”

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The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution

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Sylvester²,

Hubbard³

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The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution

Covault¹,

Sylvester²,

Hubbard³

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“…Thick shales occurring in the log in association with these surfaces may represent clay drapes similar to those documented in studies of the Capistrano Formation, western California (Stewart et al, 2008) Figure 26. Channel morphology varies along dip.…”

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“…Later flows erode them away in the axis of the channel, but the drapes remain preserved in the margins (Stewart et al 2008). Flow modeling based on the two key heterogeneous deposits (gravel lags and shale drapes) within the Capistrano Formation significantly negatively impacted recovery efficiency compared to models where these deposit types are not present.…”

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“…Outcrop work in the Cretaceous Cerro Torro formation of Chile highlight the extreme variation in grain size within a small geographic area in a channel complex (Beaubouef 2004 (Stewart et al 2008). The Miocene nested channels exposed here are on the order of less than a hundred to several hundred meters thick and exhibit abundant high-angle (10-16°) mud drapes (30 cm to 2 m) (Walker 1975).…”

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“…Even when authors attempt to establish such criteria (Stewart et al 2008), often the two-dimensional nature of outcrops and lack of spatial density of observations render such criteria of very limited use.…”

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Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of a Confined Channel Complex, Southern Atwater Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Morgan¹,

Wood²

2010

Seismic Imaging of Depositional and Geomorphic Systems: 30th Annual

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The largest valley formed in five main stages: initiating from narrow channel incision, widening through lateral incision and sidewall slumping, straightening, and finally flooding and infilling. The valley system is ~20,000 feet across and ~ 1,400 feet deep, with what look like well-developed levees ranging from 700 to 1300 feet at their thickest point extending ~19000 feet away from the channel. This system is underlain by a ~700 foot thick mass transport complex and overlain by younger, low sinuosity leveed channel systems. Both of these systems appear to have been sourced by large submarine drainages, originating from a shelf edge sediment source system to feed the rugose slope with deep-water channel pathways uninhibited by salt wall inflation at the time of valley deposition.Major phases of salt thrusting along the southern edge of the Atwater were contemporaneous with the formation of these large, through-going valley system, which appear to be associated with the period of sheet thickening and development of monoclinal basinward dip related to rafted mini-basin docking.Well log signatures show evidence for armored clay drapes along the valley margins as well as a flattening of lateral accretion packages toward the distal end of the system. The flattening of these packages seems to signal proximity to the fan terminus, which would serve as an important indicator of spatial extent of plays in deep-water.vii

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Improving Performance Prediction in Deep-Water Reservoirs: Learning From Outcrop Analogues, Conceptual Models and Flow Simulation

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The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution

The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of a Confined Channel Complex, Southern Atwater Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Geologic and Engineering Modeling

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