December 2-5, 2002 • Barossa Valley, near Adelaide, South Australia
Sponsored by AAPG Research Committee
Conference Conveners
John Kaldi
NCPGG
Adelaide University
Adelaide, SA 5005
Australia
Tel.: 61-8-8303-4299
Fax: 61-8-8303-4345
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Bill
Almon
Chevron Texaco
4800 Fournace Place
Bellaire, TX 77401
USA
Tel.: 713-432-2553
Fax: 713-432-3657
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Mike Badley
Badleys
North Beck House
North Beck Lane
Hundleby, Lincolnshire PE23 5NB
United Kingdom
Tel: 44-1790-753-472
Fax: 44-1790-753-892
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Peter Boult
Primary Industries & Resources, SA
Petroleum Division, 7th Floor
101 Grenfell Street
Adelaide, SA 5001
Australia
Tel.: 61-8-8463-3200
Fax: 61-8-8463-3202
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Evaluating the Hydrocarbon Sealing Potential of Faults and Caprocks
Review Abstracts
Purpose:
This Hedberg conference brought together workers from various disciplines (geology, geophysics, engineering, petrophysics) to discuss state-of-the-art concepts, methodologies and case histories relating to top, intraformational and fault seals.
Themes:
- Petrophysical Characterization of Seals
- Sedimentology/Sequence Stratigraphy of Seal Rocks
- Seismic Characterization of Top and Fault Seals
- Seals, Migration and Fluid Flow
- Regional Stress/Geomechanics
- Faults: Sealing or Non-sealing?
- Reservoir Compartmentalization: Seals, Baffles or Barriers?
- Reservoir Simulation with Internal Seals
- Paleo Columns and Seals
Specific discussions focused on:
- Determining characteristics of fault zone seals;
- Evaluation of stratigraphic (capillary) traps/lateral seals;
- Geochemical characteristics of seal lithologies;
- Wireline log evaluation of seals and internal reservoir baffles;
- Petrophysical/petrographic properties of seals;
- Seismic detection of seals;
- Effect of seal geometries (thickness, lateral extent) on seal potential;
- "Engineering" aspects of seals; Case histories of expected vs. actual seal capacity;
- Examples of multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary studies of the issues of top, intra-formational and fault seal integrity within key basin systems are especially welcome.