The Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues (International Association Of Sedimentologists)

The Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues is a collection of 15 selected papers taken from the Symposium of the same name which formed part of the IAS Congress of 1990 held in Nottingham, UK. Recent technological advances and the ever increasing demand for maximising recovery from existing oil and gas fields has led to an upsurge of interest, at both academic and industrial levels, in reservoir characterization and quantitative modelling of physical rock properties in 3-D inter-well space. Synthesizing both industrial and academic research and integrating sedimentology, petroleum geology, geostatistic and geomathematics, this volme is a state-of-the-art presentation of approaches to quantifying geology in order to give better input to 3-D numerical reservoir modelling methods. It is the first IAS volume to highlight the necessary interface with academic and oil industry geology by showing how academic research can significantly support the mathematical modelling work of reservoir engineers in industry and contributions to the volume come from an expert, international team comprised of university, government and international oil industry scientists.** This book focuses on the new but fast developing area of quantitative computer-based modelling of oil and gas reservoirs and the input data required for these procedures. It integrates the quantitative description of rock outcrops with latest generation computer graphics and mathematics modelling procedures. Representing the scientific interface between academic and oil industry geology, this book will show reservoir engineers what geologists can contribute to their mathematical modelling Contains 15 papers from the 1990 IAS Congress. Synthesizing industrial and academic research and integrating sedimentology, petroleum geology, geostatistics and geomathematics, this presents approaches to quantifying geology so as to give better input to 3-D numerical reservoir modelling methods.