Deepwater Sedimentary Systems

Science, Discovery, and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-323-91918-0
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 806 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 273 mm, Gewicht: 2096 g

Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales - both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments.

From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water - from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today's classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth's deepwater frontier.

This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book.

Zielgruppe

Oil and Gas Industry; Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, oceanographers; Energy industry; Emerging offshore industries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yeilding, Cindy A.

Rotzien, Jon R.

Hernandez-Molina, F. Javier

Sears, Richard A.

Hernández-Molina, F. Javier

Catuneanu, Octavian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Öl- und Gasindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Bergbau
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Erdölenergietechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to deepwater sedimentary systems 2. Source Rocks and Fluid Systems in Deep-water Plays 3. Tectonic and Crustal Models for Rifted-Passive and Transform-Passive Margins and their Remaining, Unsolved Problems 4. Deepwater Passive Margin Fold Belts 5. Salt Tectonics in Deepwater Settings 6. Deepwater Sedimentary Processes 7. Deepwater Sedimentation Units 8. Deepwater Depositional Environments 9. Contourites and mixed depositional systems: A paradigm for deep-marine sedimentary environments 10. Mass-Transport, Injections and Other Forms of Sediment Mobility 11. Source-to-Sink Analysis of Deepwater Systems: Principles, Applications, and Case Studies 12. Sequence Stratigraphy of Deepwater Systems 13. Reservoir Quality and Diagenesis of Deepwater Sandstones 14. Applied Paleontology in Oil and Gas Exploration and Development 15. Ichnology of Deepwater Contourite Systems 16. Subsurface Imaging and Interpretation 17. Seismic Rock Physics and Machine Learning for Deepwater Stratigraphic Intervals 18. The Intersection Between Basin and Petroleum System Modeling and Forward Stratigraphic Modeling 19. Technical (Engineering) Advancements Enabling Deep-water Exploration and Production 20. Economic Considerations and Market Condition Effects in Deep Water 21. The Next 100 Years of Deepwater

Über Autor(innen)

Rotzien, Jon R.
Jon Rotzien is President of Basin Dynamics and Adjunct Professor at University of Houston. He specializes in reservoir presence and quality forecasting in conventional and unconventional drilling programs on all oil-producing continents. Prior to his present posts, he served BP and other supermajor and independent operators in a variety of basins and petroleum reservoir technical training programs. As a business owner and scientist, Rotzien has participated in oil and gas exploratory to development drilling, mapping expeditions, technical competency training and consulting and has served as lead geologist in about one-third of those ventures. He is currently serving as Chair of the Houston Explorers Club. Rotzien received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Stanford University and a B.A. degree in Geology from Colorado College.

Hernández-Molina, F. Javier
Dr. Hernández-Molina is currently Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). He is a specialist in sedimentary processes, seismic stratigraphy and basin analysis, and is experienced in core description and sediment structures identification. His research focuses on deep-marine sedimentation and the influence of bottom-current circulation along continental margins as well as the study of contourites and hybrid depositional systems in both low latitude (e.g. Gulf of Cadiz) and high latitude (e.g. Antarctica). He has participated in 67 national and international research projects in marine geology and geophysics. He has worked on different continental margins, and has particular expertise on the continental margin of the Gulf of Cadiz, South Atlantic and Antarctica, where he has been involved in many oceanographic national and international cruises and research projects.

Sears, Richard A.
Richard A. Sears is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University. He began his career as a geophysicist with Shell Oil Company in 1976. During his 33 years with Shell Oil Co. and Royal Dutch Shell, he held technical and managerial positions including exploration geophysicist, technical instructor, economist, strategic advisor and planner, and general management. He spent seven years as Vice President, Global Subsurface Deepwater Technical Services. He was Chief Scientist of the National Oil Spill Commission and is a co-author of the Commission's Chief Counsel's Report which details the technical and managerial failures leading to the Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill, and has served on several committees through the National Academy of Engineering, advising the US Government on safety in offshore energy operations. He received his BS in physics and MS in geophysics from Stanford University, is a licensed Professional Geoscientist, and is a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.