Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones

Oye, Olakunle J.; Aplin, Andrew C.; Jones, Stuart J.; Gluyas, Jon G.; Bowen, Leon; Orland, Ian J.; Valley, John W.

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.09.017

Title: Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones

Abstract

Temperature-controlled precipitation kinetics has become the overwhelmingly dominant hypothesis for the control of quartz cementation in sandstones. Here, we integrate quantitative petrographic data, high spatial resolution oxygen isotope analyses of quartz cement, basin modelling and a kinetic model for quartz precipitation to suggest that the supply of silica from stress-sensitive intergranular pressure dissolution at grain contacts is in fact a key control on quartz cementation in sandstones. We present data from highly overpressured sandstones in which, despite the current burial temperature of 190 °C, quartz cement occurs in low amounts (4.6 ± 1.2% of bulk volume). In situ oxygen isotope data across quartz overgrowths suggest that cementation occurred over 100 Ma and a temperature range of 80-150 °C, during which time high fluid overpressures resulted in consistently low vertical effective stress. In conclusion, we argue that the very low amounts of quartz cement can only be explained by the low vertical effective stress which occurred throughout the burial history and which restricted silica supply as a result of a low rate of intergranular pressure dissolution at grain contacts.

Authors:

Oye, Olakunle J. ^[1]; Aplin, Andrew C. ^[1]; Jones, Stuart J. ^[1]; Gluyas, Jon G. ^[1]; Bowen, Leon ^[1]; Orland, Ian J. ^[2]; Valley, John W. ^[2]

Durham University (United Kingdom)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

OSTI Identifier:: 1668748

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-93ER14389

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Marine and Petroleum Geology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 98; Journal ID: ISSN 0264-8172

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES; Sandstone; Diagenesis; Quartz cement; Effective stress; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; Oxygen isotopes

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                    Oye, Olakunle J., Aplin, Andrew C., Jones, Stuart J., Gluyas, Jon G., Bowen, Leon, Orland, Ian J., and Valley, John W. Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Oye, Olakunle J., Aplin, Andrew C., Jones, Stuart J., Gluyas, Jon G., Bowen, Leon, Orland, Ian J., & Valley, John W. Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.09.017

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                    Oye, Olakunle J., Aplin, Andrew C., Jones, Stuart J., Gluyas, Jon G., Bowen, Leon, Orland, Ian J., and Valley, John W. Mon .  
"Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.09.017.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1668748.

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  title        = {Vertical effective stress as a control on quartz cementation in sandstones},

  author       = {Oye, Olakunle J. and Aplin, Andrew C. and Jones, Stuart J. and Gluyas, Jon G. and Bowen, Leon and Orland, Ian J. and Valley, John W.},

  abstractNote = {Temperature-controlled precipitation kinetics has become the overwhelmingly dominant hypothesis for the control of quartz cementation in sandstones. Here, we integrate quantitative petrographic data, high spatial resolution oxygen isotope analyses of quartz cement, basin modelling and a kinetic model for quartz precipitation to suggest that the supply of silica from stress-sensitive intergranular pressure dissolution at grain contacts is in fact a key control on quartz cementation in sandstones. We present data from highly overpressured sandstones in which, despite the current burial temperature of 190 °C, quartz cement occurs in low amounts (4.6 ± 1.2% of bulk volume). In situ oxygen isotope data across quartz overgrowths suggest that cementation occurred over 100 Ma and a temperature range of 80-150 °C, during which time high fluid overpressures resulted in consistently low vertical effective stress. In conclusion, we argue that the very low amounts of quartz cement can only be explained by the low vertical effective stress which occurred throughout the burial history and which restricted silica supply as a result of a low rate of intergranular pressure dissolution at grain contacts.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.09.017},

  journal      = {Marine and Petroleum Geology},

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  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

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Evolution of quartz cementation during burial of the Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin: In situ microanalysis of δ18O journal, December 2011

Deep pore pressures and seafloor venting in the Auger Basin, Gulf of Mexico: Pore pressures and venting in the Auger Basin journal, April 2010

An integrated model for transitional pressure solution in sandstones journal, November 1999

Pressure solution at grain-to-grain contacts journal, September 1978

The Kinetics of Rock Deformation by Pressure Solution [and Discussion] journal, October 1976

The Effect of Oil Saturation On the Mechanism of Compaction In Granular Materials: Higher Oil Saturations Lead To More Grain Fracturing and Less Pressure Solution journal, August 2012

An Analysis of the Roles of Stress, Temperature, and pH in Chemical Compaction of Sandstones journal, January 2003

Kinetics of pressure solution creep in quartz: theoretical considerations journal, May 1995

Diagenesis of the shallow marine Fulmar Formation in the Central North Sea journal, October 1986

Porosity preservation in reservoir sandstones due to grain-coating illite: a study of the Jurassic Garn Formation from the Kristin and Lavrans fields, offshore Mid-Norway journal, June 2002

Importance of vertical effective stress for reservoir quality in the Skagerrak Formation, Central Graben, North Sea journal, December 2016

Exceptional reservoir quality in HPHT reservoir settings: Examples from the Skagerrak Formation of the Heron Cluster, North Sea, UK journal, November 2016

Integrated study of the Judy Field (Block 30/7a) — an overpressured Central North Sea oil/gas field journal, November 2000

A new mechanism for pressure solution in porous quartzose sandstone journal, September 1987

Pressure Solution During Diagenesis journal, May 1989

Reservoir quality and rock properties modeling – Triassic and Jurassic sandstones, greater Shearwater area, UK Central North Sea journal, August 2015

Compaction of granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions: Controlling mechanisms and grain boundary processes journal, January 2008

Precipitation rates for quartz cement in sandstones determined by fluid-inclusion microthermometry and temperature-history modeling journal, April 1994

Pressure solution and the force of crystallization: a phenomenological theory journal, November 1959

Aluminium loss during sandstone diagenesis journal, September 1996

Oil charge preserves exceptional porosity in deeply buried, overpressured, sandstones: Central North Sea, UK journal, December 2011

Petroleum reservoir quality prediction: overview and contrasting approaches from sandstone and carbonate communities journal, January 2018

Amorphous silica nanofilms result in growth of misoriented microcrystalline quartz cement maintaining porosity in deeply buried sandstones journal, February 2012

Can oil emplacement prevent quartz cementation in sandstones? journal, May 1998

Lateral transfer: a source of additional overpressure? journal, April 2000

A Diagenesis Model for Geomechanical Simulations: Formulation and Implications for Pore Pressure and Development of Geological Structures journal, May 2019

The effect of hydrocarbons on quartz cementation: diagenesis in the Upper Jurassic sandstones of the Miller Field, North Sea, revisited
journal, March 2005

Oxygen isotopic indications of the mechanisms of silica transport and quartz cementation in deeply buried sandstones
journal, January 1994

Oxygen isotope exchange between quartz and water
journal, June 1972

Pressure cells and pressure seals in the UK Central Graben
journal, December 1996

Pressure solution experiments on quartz sand
journal, February 1977

A coupled reaction/transport/mechanical model for intergranular pressure solution, stylolites, and differential compaction and cementation in clean sandstones
journal, June 1990

Influences of clay minerals on sandstone cementation and pressure solution
journal, January 1991

Pre-requisites, processes, and prediction of chlorite grain coatings in petroleum reservoirs: A review of subsurface examples
journal, April 2012

Diagenetic controls on evolution of porosity and permeability in lower Tertiary Wilcox sandstones from shallow to ultradeep (200–6700m) burial, Gulf of Mexico Basin, U.S.A.
journal, January 2010

Using 3D seismic to understand the structural evolution of the UK central North Sea
journal, February 1996

Changes in quartz solubility and porosity due to effective stress: An experimental investigation of pressure solution
journal, January 1992

Orientation of microcrystalline quartz in the Fontainebleau Formation, Paris Basin and why it preserves porosity
journal, February 2013

Microcrystalline Quartz Generation and the Preservation of Porosity In Sandstones: Evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of the Subhercynian Basin, Germany
journal, June 2012

Mass transfer and problems of secondary porosity creation in deeply buried hydrocarbon reservoirs
journal, August 1987

The reservoir properties and diagenesis of the Brent Group: a regional perspective
journal, January 1992

Experimental microstylolites in quartz and modeled application to natural stylolitic structures
journal, January 2005

Low-Porosity Haloes at Stylolites in the Feldspathic Upper Jurassic Ula Sandstone, Norwegian North Sea: An Integrated Petrographic and Chemical Mass-Balance Approach
journal, March 2006

Quartz Cementation History of Sandstones Revealed By High-Resolution Sims Oxygen Isotope Analysis
journal, July 2013

Effects of oil charge on illite dates and stopping quartz cement:calibration of basin models
journal, May 2003

Ankerite Cementation in Deeply Buried Jurassic Sandstone Reservoirs of the Central North Sea
journal, January 2000

Clay diagenesis, overpressure and reservoir quality: an introduction
journal, October 1994

Optically continuous silcrete quartz cements of the St. Peter Sandstone: High precision oxygen isotope analysis by ion microprobe
journal, August 2007

High precision SIMS oxygen isotope analysis and the effect of sample topography
journal, June 2009

Quartz cementation inhibited by crestal oil charge: Miller deep water sandstone, UK North Sea
journal, March 2000

Evidence for reduced quartz-cementation rates in oil-filled sandstones
journal, January 2001

Quartz cement in sandstones: a review
journal, January 1989

Lack of inhibiting effect of oil emplacement on quartz cementation: Evidence from Cambrian reservoir sandstones, Paleozoic Baltic Basin
journal, September 2008

The formation and growth of pressure solution seams in clastic rocks: A field and analytical study
journal, April 2011

Compaction creep of quartz sand at 400–600°C: experimental evidence for dissolution-controlled pressure solution
journal, February 2002

A petrographic and computational investigation of quartz cementation and porosity reduction in North Sea sandstones
journal, April 1996

Diagenesis in North Sea HPHT clastic reservoirs — consequences for porosity and overpressure prediction
journal, June 1999

High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of picogram samples reveals 2 m gradients and slow diffusion in zircon
journal, October 2007

Evolution of quartz cementation during burial of the Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin: In situ microanalysis of δ18O
journal, December 2011

Deep pore pressures and seafloor venting in the Auger Basin, Gulf of Mexico: Pore pressures and venting in the Auger Basin
journal, April 2010

An integrated model for transitional pressure solution in sandstones
journal, November 1999

Pressure solution at grain-to-grain contacts
journal, September 1978

The Kinetics of Rock Deformation by Pressure Solution [and Discussion]
journal, October 1976

The Effect of Oil Saturation On the Mechanism of Compaction In Granular Materials: Higher Oil Saturations Lead To More Grain Fracturing and Less Pressure Solution
journal, August 2012

An Analysis of the Roles of Stress, Temperature, and pH in Chemical Compaction of Sandstones
journal, January 2003

Kinetics of pressure solution creep in quartz: theoretical considerations
journal, May 1995

Diagenesis of the shallow marine Fulmar Formation in the Central North Sea
journal, October 1986

Porosity preservation in reservoir sandstones due to grain-coating illite: a study of the Jurassic Garn Formation from the Kristin and Lavrans fields, offshore Mid-Norway
journal, June 2002

Importance of vertical effective stress for reservoir quality in the Skagerrak Formation, Central Graben, North Sea
journal, December 2016

Exceptional reservoir quality in HPHT reservoir settings: Examples from the Skagerrak Formation of the Heron Cluster, North Sea, UK
journal, November 2016

Integrated study of the Judy Field (Block 30/7a) — an overpressured Central North Sea oil/gas field
journal, November 2000

A new mechanism for pressure solution in porous quartzose sandstone
journal, September 1987

Pressure Solution During Diagenesis
journal, May 1989

Reservoir quality and rock properties modeling – Triassic and Jurassic sandstones, greater Shearwater area, UK Central North Sea
journal, August 2015

Compaction of granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions: Controlling mechanisms and grain boundary processes
journal, January 2008

Precipitation rates for quartz cement in sandstones determined by fluid-inclusion microthermometry and temperature-history modeling
journal, April 1994

Pressure solution and the force of crystallization: a phenomenological theory
journal, November 1959

Aluminium loss during sandstone diagenesis
journal, September 1996

Oil charge preserves exceptional porosity in deeply buried, overpressured, sandstones: Central North Sea, UK
journal, December 2011

Petroleum reservoir quality prediction: overview and contrasting approaches from sandstone and carbonate communities
journal, January 2018

Amorphous silica nanofilms result in growth of misoriented microcrystalline quartz cement maintaining porosity in deeply buried sandstones
journal, February 2012

Can oil emplacement prevent quartz cementation in sandstones?
journal, May 1998

Lateral transfer: a source of additional overpressure?
journal, April 2000

A Diagenesis Model for Geomechanical Simulations: Formulation and Implications for Pore Pressure and Development of Geological Structures
journal, May 2019