{"title":"Pressure, Seals and Traps: the Bases for the Petroleum System to Work Efficiently","authors":"J. Biteau","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900497","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrocarbon trapping is the result of a contrast of a reservoir having a low entry pressure and a seal having a highest entry pressure. If there is an important overpressure or if the HC column is high the pressure can be close to the hydraulic fracturation criterion and there is a possible leakage.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"40 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121173641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Markham, S. O'Connor, P. Milstead, H. Rasmussen
{"title":"Reducing Uncertainty in Overpressure Prediction in the Norwegian Barents Sea","authors":"G. Markham, S. O'Connor, P. Milstead, H. Rasmussen","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900505","url":null,"abstract":"Pore pressure prediction in the Barents Sea is challenging for a variety of reasons including a complicated and variable burial history (leading to varying magnitudes and timings of burial, hiatus and uplift from well to well), variation in mudrock lithology and depositional environments. These factors can all create uncertainty when predicting pore pressure. Here are introduced two independent methodologies for present day shale pressure prediction across the Barents Sea, focussing in particular in the Southwestern Barents Sea where high overpressure is often recorded. Independent velocity log based and geological modelling based shale pressure prediction methods are used. Comparison of the two models generally shows good consistency in results, helping to validate the predictions and models and reduce uncertainty. This reinforces the need to integrate multiple techniques in order to reduce uncertainty in what is a challenging area for pore pressure prediction. The results also show that understanding the complex and variable burial history in each well is vital for pore pressure prediction, as this history defines the present day pressures. The models developed have clear implications for design of wells in the Barents Sea, and are also important for understanding reservoir overpressure variation (and potential reservoir fluid flow).","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114565367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Well to Basin Scale Pore Pressure Prediction - Using the Full Potential of Seismic Velocities","authors":"A. Isiakpere, M. Juilla, L. Sirgue, B. Benazet","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900519","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This paper aims at demonstrating how we may account for variability of the spatial distribution of sediment loading rates to establish a continuum between offset wells and the prediction area. We will show how this information may be used, along with seismic velocities, either in 2D or 3D, to provide beyond the desired to-be-drilled location, an understanding of the spatial evolution of pressure at the basin scale accounting for spatial variation of burial history.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114895800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D Pore Pressure and Geomechanics: Work Smarter and Faster Integrating Geoscience with Machine Learning","authors":"S. Green, E. Naeini","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900520","url":null,"abstract":"In unconventional plays, given the comparatively short drilling times and the likelihood that operators have multiple active rigs, wells are drilled and data are acquired at an unprecedented rate whereby a new well is completed every 1-2 days at a cost of $6-9M per well. Therefore, performing manual workflows for petrophysics, pore pressure and geomechanics prediction can be impractical due to turnaround considerations and the multiple personnel required. This, together with technical challenges of complex stratigraphy, multiple facies, variable rock properties, and the interaction of pore pressure and geomechanics, calls for more consistent, sophisticated, and faster analytical tools. A supervised deep neural network approach is presented as an innovative tool to devise solutions which simultaneously integrate myriad data types. Furthermore, an algorithm was developed to predict a certain number of attributes solely from a facies-based seismic inversion, namely Vp, Vs, and Rho. The application of these algorithms on various blind wells from a Permian Basin case study, both within and outside the seismic survey, shows a reasonable accuracy when compared to manually interpreted counterparts but were obtained in a fraction of the time, hence, provide a promising outlook for the application of deep learning in integrated studies.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125636660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overpressure Mechanisms and Lateral Fluid Flow in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand","authors":"S. O’Neill, S. Jones, P. Kamp","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900494","url":null,"abstract":"Summary All wells in the Taranaki Basin drilled in excess of 4500 mTVD experienced relatively rapid increases in pore pressure. Hydrocarbon generation and in particular cracking to gas at high maturities, has been interpreted to be contributing to the overpressures encountered, alongside an increase in mudrock volume (reduced permeability). Lateral drainage of overpressures has been demonstrated across the Western Platform and Southern Taranaki Inversion Zone, while lateral transfer is suggested to be occurring in the Tarata Thrust Zone. The poor prediction of both lateral transfer and lateral drainage in wells from across the basin has resulted in numerous well control issues that could have been avoided if knowledge from offset wells was included in the pore pressure prediction and well design.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"113 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130406337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pore Pressure Prediction in HPHT Wells","authors":"Y. Gorbunov","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900514","url":null,"abstract":"Pore pressure prediction has been a vital concern to the oil and gas industry for many decades. Most petroleum provinces exhibit overpressures, and as the industry explores for deeper targets, encountering substantial overpressures are becoming more common. As deeper, hotter and more complex geology is drilled, the technical difficulties in predicting pressure, designing a well and safely drilling through complex overpressures. This specially caused by multiple mechanisms in “wildcat” settings have become extremely challenging and require innovative technique to be utilized. Several of the recently drilled wells encountered strongly over-pressured intervals which caused operational challenges and required finetuning of the pre-drill models based on the real time data.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130906631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Pore Pressure Prediction with 3D Basin Modeling","authors":"Z. Nagy, M. K. Baracza, N. Szabó","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900513","url":null,"abstract":"Basin scale examination of pressure conditions is important from many aspects. On one hand well planning requires the understanding of the pressure regime, on the other hand abnormal pressure conditions could affect the behavior of the petroleum system. The upper boundary of the overpressured zone was identified on wireline logs. Comparison of the pressure trends with the lithology sensitive logs suggested that the overpressure generation relates to shaly strata. Two sedimentary environments were formed during the Late Miocene sedimentation cycle where shale rich sediments were deposited: delta slope and foreground of turbidite systems. As the formation of abnormal pressure regime relates to low permeability sediments the main overpressure generation mechanism might be the non-equilibrium compaction. This theory is confirmed by the well log signatures of these sections. Beside the non-equilibrium compaction at least two other mechanisms could improve the overpressure, i.e., clay mineral transformation and lateral transfer. The basin modeling is an alternative methodology for the pressure regime investigation. A 3D basin model was built to test the technique. This approach allowed to investigate the effect of the lateral transfer and the hydrocarbon generation too. Furthermore, information about the timeframe of the overpressure emergence was gained.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131067976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Cuartas, Ana A.L. Barbosa, H. Carvajal, A. Nascimento, Flavio Lemos de Santana
{"title":"Pore Pressure Predictions in Ultra-Deepwaters of Sergipe Sub-Basin, NE Brazil","authors":"C. Cuartas, Ana A.L. Barbosa, H. Carvajal, A. Nascimento, Flavio Lemos de Santana","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900493","url":null,"abstract":"Prediction of pore pressures in large parts of a basin is very important to assure advancement of exploration, within safety limits, and to avoid risks related to anomalous pressures found in deep water frontiers. In Brazil, the Sergipe Sub-basin is located in the northeast of the country, corresponds to an Atlantic-type rifted basin with deep grabens controlled by large distensive rotational faults. The sub-basin represents one of pioneer and important areas of oil and gas production in this country with a renewed interest in the last decade for deep and ultra-deepwater opportunities. Despite that, the pore pressure in that area still little known. Thus, in these research we estimate the pore pressures throughout the stratigraphic units drilled by the P978-11 well, hoping in that way to contribute for future models of pore pressure in the basins of NE Brazil. For that, we applied on the sonic log of the P978-11 well the traditional Gardner and Eaton equations, but with own parameters values for the area, and then smoothed and calibrated the final results by loess regression. Four pore pressures zones were found ranging from 28 MPa to 89.4, suggesting an overpressure behavior in the Zonas 3 and 4.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121208003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. G. Carvalho, M. Araújo, Francisco J. G. Silva, M. Silka, Heberto Perez, Marilia Tavares, N. K. Azambuja, R.D.S. Moura, J. Moura, J. Freitas, M. Domingues, A. Moraes
{"title":"Pore Pressure at the Post-Salt Albian Carbonates in Santos and Campos Basins","authors":"J. G. Carvalho, M. Araújo, Francisco J. G. Silva, M. Silka, Heberto Perez, Marilia Tavares, N. K. Azambuja, R.D.S. Moura, J. Moura, J. Freitas, M. Domingues, A. Moraes","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900512","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This work analyzes the pore pressure regimes in the Albian carbonates deposited above the salt layer at the Southeast Atlantic margin in Brazil. The study area consists in Santos Basin shallow waters and in Campos Basin deep waters. The settings are carbonate layers folded over anticlinal salt dome structures. An effort has been done to associate the wells pore pressure data with the carbonate layers structures interpreted from seismic sections. At each dome the Albian carbonate reservoirs are found at a local pore pressure regime either at normal or slight overpressure or at high overpressure. One possible way for a high pore pressure increase is lateral and vertical pore pressure transfer from a deeper interval down the flanks of the anticlinal dome structures. The pressure connection may be restricted just to the Albian or it may involve the pre-salt Aptian interval through salt windows around the domes. Another possible scenario for overpressure mechanism consists on oil or gas generation in the Albian. The prediction of the Albian carbonates pore pressure is necessary for well drilling design to both exploratory targets the post-salt and the pre-salt.","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121598715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) — A Help or Hindrance for Real-time Pressure Detection in Exploration Wells?","authors":"T. In 't Veld-Brown, S. Petmecky, B. Wagner","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201900508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201900508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":295902,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Workshop on Pore Pressure Prediction","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129496795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}