Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LECTURE 14
- HYDROCARBON TRAPS
- a trap consists of volume of
porous and permeable reservoir
rock which is
partially/completely enclosed by
sealing rocks/pressure barriers
- Types
- Stratigraphic traps
- Channel traps
- Pinchout traps
- Change in rock type
- high risk (difficult identify rock types
- Turbidite mound traps
- Onlap traps
- Reef traps
- Unconformity traps
- Structural traps
- created by deformation of rocks.
Concave-down pockets hold reservoir.
- Salt dome
- antiforms+other traps
assoiciated with salt domes
- deformation caused by salt
movement-form many traps
surround and overlying
- Combination
of fault and
fold trap
- common, higher risk (fault leak)
- Deformations
- Folding
- antiformal trap
- represent by closed
contour,4-way dip closure
(pericline)
- most common, easy to
find, low risk
- bed of reservoir rock (overlain by
seal rock) is folded into
antiform-beds dip away from crest on
both side-form antiform traps
- Faulting
- fault trap
- shale gouge-shale
smeared along fault
plane by displacement
- rare, higher risk (fault seal/leak)
- Combination of
structural+stratigraphic traps
- GEOMETRIC ELEMENT
- Crest
- highest(shallowest)
inside closed
contour
- Lowest closing contour (LCC)
- deepest contour that still close. max.
depth hcarbon can accmulation
- Vertical Closure
- Crest-LCC: max.
gross vertical
column of
hydrocarbon
trap can hold
- Area closure
- Area of LCC: max. area of
an accumulation in a trap
- Spill point
- trap filled to LCC then
further hydrocarbon
will migrate through
spill point
- lie on LCC where contour
start open
- Stacked reservoirs
- alternating reservoirs+seals in trap-multiple accumulation