Geology of Carbonate Reservoirs
The Identification, Description and Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in Carbonate Rocks
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
The goal of this book is to explain in plain language for the nonspecialist how and
where carbonate rocks form, how they do, or do not, become reservoirs, how to
explore for carbonate reservoirs or aquifers in the subsurface, and how to develop
them once they have been found. The book is organized around a genetic classification
of carbonate porosity and ways it can be employed in exploration and development.
The genetic categories include three end members-depositional pores,
diagenetic pores, and fractures. Genetic pore categories are linked with geological
processes that created, reduced, or enlarged pores during lithification and burial. In
the end, a chronology of pore origin and evolution is developed to put in the larger
stratigraphic context for identification of reservoir flow units, baffles, and barriers.
Connectivity can be evaluated by determining the range of porosity and permeability
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