Generation and migration of petroleum from abnormally pressured fluid compartments: Reply

Journal Article · Fri Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)

OSTI ID:5311069

Hunt, J M ^[1]

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1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA (United States)

This paper is a defense to an earlier paper by the same author (Hunt, 1990). The rebuttal by Waples (1991) stated that the author's original paper provided a mechanism by which petroleum compartments formed but did not explain the actual cause of the overpressuring. This paper responds by stating that it was not the intention of the previous paper to discuss the origin of geopressured reservoirs. The primary reason is that the cause of overpressured systems is normally unknown. The author emphasizes that the intent of the paper was to discuss the compartments themselves and only touched on the potential causes of the overpressuring that formed them. These included compaction, thermal expansion of pore fluids, and hydrocarbon generation from kerogen.

• OSTI ID: 5311069
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States), Journal Name: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States) Vol. 75:2; ISSN AABUD; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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