Geology of marine evaporites favorable for oil, gas exploration
- King Saud Univ., Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
Significant petroleum production related to carbonate-evaporite sequences has been found in many areas such as the Delaware, Paradox, and Michigan basins of North America and the Phanerozoic oil-bearing sediments of the Middle East and the North Sea. The regular association of petroleum and evaporites long has been recognized in almost all major oil-producing chemical and biochemical reservoir rocks of the world. A geologic approach to an exploration strategy may illustrate the facies relationships and hydrocarbon occurrences that provide a model for discovering the physical and chemical aspects of petroleum generation, migration, and accumulation, as well as the stratigraphic-tectonic relations necessary for entrapping oil and gas. This article endeavors to review exploration to date on the productive potential of evaporite basins, to appraise basic requirements for evaporitic environments to contain potential hydrocarbons, and to assess the significance of marine evaporites in petroleum geology.
- OSTI ID:
- 186914
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 94, Issue 6; Other Information: PBD: 5 Feb 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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