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DOI	10.1306/09181817366
	Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses
	Loucks R.G.; Dutton S.P.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0149-1423
卷号	103 期号:3
英文摘要	In the Paleocene to Eocene Wilcox Group in the northern Gulf of Mexico, exploration targets are reaching into deep to ultradeep burial depths. At these great depths, reservoir quality (porosity and permeability) becomes an important risk factor in determining the chance of encountering an economic reservoir. Major controls on reservoir quality are pore types and abundances, pore-throat sizes, and pore network composition. These factors can be analyzed by integrating petrographic, core plug porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) analyses. The Wilcox sandstones are mostly lithic arkoses and feldspathic litharenites that contain primary interparticle pores, secondary dissolution pores, and micropores. However, these pore types evolve with depth and temperature. As temperature increases, the relative abundance of primary interparticle pores decreases, whereas the relative abundance of secondary dissolution pores and nano- to micropores increases. Associated with this evolution of pore networks with increasing temperature, there is a decrease in reservoir quality. This decrease in reservoir quality is caused by a transition to finer pore-throat sizes that correspond to changes in pore types. Petrographic analysis provides information on pore types, core plug porosity and permeability analysis provides information on volume of pores and effectiveness of flow, and MICP analysis provides information on pore-throat radius distribution. Through forecasting the pore network in the target temperature zone, a realistic porosity versus permeability transform can be selected to estimate permeability from wire-line log porosity. Copyright ©2019. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Capillarity; Capillary tubes; Dissolution; Mercury (metal); Microporosity; Quality control; Sandstone; Thermal logging; Exploration targets; Increasing temperatures; Mercury injection capillary pressures; Northern Gulf of Mexico; Permeability analysis; Petrographic analysis; Relative abundance; Temperature increase; Petroleum reservoir engineering; capillary pressure; Eocene; hydrocarbon exploration; hydrocarbon reservoir; integrated approach; mercury (element); Paleocene; permeability; petrogenesis; petrography; porosity; reservoir; risk factor; sandstone; temperature effect; Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Mexico
来源期刊	AAPG Bulletin
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/125071
作者单位	Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Loucks R.G.,Dutton S.P.. Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses[J],2019,103(3).
APA	Loucks R.G.,&Dutton S.P..(2019).Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses.AAPG Bulletin,103(3).
MLA	Loucks R.G.,et al."Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses".AAPG Bulletin 103.3(2019).