Title: Reservoir description for exploration and development: What is needed and when
Abstract: The biggest challenge for geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers now and in the decades ahead is to significantly improve hydrocarbon recovery from all new and previously discovered reservoirs. Keystone of the methodology required to improve oil and gas production, as well as to evaluate and delineate new reserves, is a detailed reservoir description. This is a characterization of the reservoir and nonreservoir rock-fluid system that is appropriate in content and detail for the particular stage of exploration and production. The type and amount of data required for a proper reservoir description are diverse, from several disciplines, and depend upon the stage of the reservoir's exploration and production cycle. The cycle is viewed as a continuous series of overlapping stages from discovery, through appraisal, planning, development, and reservoir management. The concepts and data needed to define and exploit reservoirs become more complex and quantitative as the production becomes more mature. Concepts, data, and models developed during the production phases, when reapplied to exploration, provide important guides to the explorationists for evaluating trapping elements, seals, reservoir quality, and risks in basin and wildcat evaluation.
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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