Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990 Casebooks in Earth Sciences Series

Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs presents an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to the geology of sandstone oil and gas reservoirs. Twenty-two case studies involving a variety of depositional settings, tectonic provinces, and burial/diagenetic histories emphasize depositional controls on reservoir architecture, petrophysical properties, and production performance. An introductory section provides perspective to the nature of reservoir characterization and highlights the important questions that future studies need to address. A "reservoir summary" following each case study aids the reader in gaining quick access to the main characteristics of each reservoir. This casebook is heavily illustrated, and most data have not been previously published. The intended audience comprises a broad range of practicing earth scientists, including petroleum geologists, geophysicists, and engineers. Readers will value the integration of geological versus engineering interests provided here, and will be enabled to improve exploration and production results.

Reservoir Description of Sandstones..- Fluvial Environments.- 1. Braidplain and Deltaic Reservoir, Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska..- 2. A Braided Fluvial Reservoir, Peco Field, Alberta, Canada..- 3. Coarse-Grained Meander-Belt Reservoirs, Rocky Ridge Field, North Dakota..- 4. Meander-Belt Reservoir Geology, Mid-Dip Tuscaloosa, Little Creek Field, Mississippi..- 5. Fluviodeltaic Reservoir, South Belridge Field, San Joaquin Valley, California..- Desert Environments.- 6. Reservoir Properties of the Desert Shattuck Member, Caprock Field, New Mexico..- 7. Desert Environments and Petroleum Geology of the Norphlet Formation, Hatter’s Pond Field, Alabama..- 8. A Giant Carbon Dioxide Accumulation in the Norphlet Formation, Pisgah Anticline, Mississippi..- 9. Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Quality, Eolian Norphlet Formation, South State Line Field, Mississippi..- Deltaic Environments.- 10. Wave-Dominated Deltaic Reservoirs of the Brent Group, Northwest Hutton Field, North Sea..- 11. Deltaic Depositional Controls on Clinton Sandstone Reservoirs, Senecaville Gas Field, Guernsey County, Ohio..- 12. Deltaic Reservoirs of the Caño Limón Field, Colombia, South America..- Estuarine/Barrier Environments.- 13. Fluvial-Estuarine Valley Fill at the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity, Main Consolidated Field, Illinois..- 14. Continuity and Performance of an Estuarine Reservoir, Crystal Field, Alberta, Canada..- 15. Wave-Influenced Estuarine Sand Body, Senlac Heavy Oil Pool, Saskatchewan, Canada..- 16. Flood-Tidal Delta Reservoirs, Medora-Dickinson Trend, North Dakota..- Shelf Environments.- 17. Shelf and Shoreface Reservoirs, Tom Walsh-Owen Field, Texas..- 18. Reservoir Characteristics of Nearshore and Shelf Sandstones in the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Thomasville Field,Mississippi..- Turbidite Environments.- 19. Channel-Fill Turbidite Reservoir, Yowlumne Field, California..- 20. Geological Modeling of a Turbidite Reservoir, Forties Field, North Sea..- 21. Reservoir Description of a Miocene Turbidite Sandstone, Midway-Sunset Field, California..- 22. Deep-Sea-Fan Channel-Levee Complexes, Arbuckle Field, Sacramento Basin, California.- Append.- Geologic Time Scale Chart.- Grain Size Scales.- Sandstone Classification.- Reservoir Summary Terminology.- Selected Conversion Factors.- Abbreviations.- Depositional Environment Plate Captions.- Author Index.