Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
5 - Petroleum geology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter deals with petroleum geology. Readers interested in further details are referred to Selley (1998), Gluyas and Swarbrick (2004), Tabak (2009) and Bjorlykke (2010). Those interested in further details of the environmental impact of petroleum geology are referred to Chapter 9.
In petroleum geology, the principal application of palaeontology is in the description and prediction of source-, reservoir- and cap-rock distributions, in time and in space, in a sequence stratigraphic framework, through the biostratigraphic age-dating and the palaeobiological, palaeoecological or palaeoenvironmental interpretation of samples acquired during field geological mapping and drilling; and thereby in the reduction of risk and of uncertainty, all along the value chain from regional exploration (see Section 5.2, below) to reservoir exploitation (see Section 5.3, below). It also has important applications in well-site operations (see Section 5.4, below).
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- Applications of PalaeontologyTechniques and Case Studies, pp. 213 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011