Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales – both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments.
From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water – from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today’s classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth’s deepwater frontier.
This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to deepwater sedimentary systems - p. iii 2. Chapter 2: Source rocks and petroleum systems in deepwater plays - p. iii 3. Chapter 3: Crustal structure and tectonostratigraphy of rifted-passive margins with applications for hydrocarbon exploration - p. iii 4. Chapter 4: Deepwater passive margin foldbelts - p. iii 5. Chapter 5: Salt tectonics in deepwater settings - p. iii 6. Chapter 6: Deepwater sedimentary processes - p. iii 7. Chapter 7: Deepwater sedimentation units - p. iii 8. Chapter 8: Deepwater depositional environments - p. iii 9. Chapter 9: Contourites and mixed depositional systems: A paradigm for deepwater sedimentary environments - p. iii 10. Chapter 10: Mass transport processes, injectites and styles of sediment remobilization - p. iii 11. Chapter 11: Source-to-sink analysis of deepwater systems: Principles, applications and case studies - p. iii 12. Chapter 12: Sequence stratigraphy of deepwater systems - p. iii 13. Chapter 13: Reservoir quality and diagenesis of deepwater sandstones - p. iii 14. Chapter 14: Applied paleontology in exploration and development - p. iii 15. Chapter 15: Deepwater ichnology: New observations on contourites - p. iii 16. Chapter 16: Imaging and interpretation: Seismic, rock physics and image log analysis workflows for deepwater systems - p. iii 17. Chapter 17: Seismic rock physics and machine learning for deepwater stratigraphic intervals - p. iii 18. Chapter 18: Integrating forward stratigraphic modeling with basin and petroleum system modeling - p. iii 19. Chapter 19: Technical (engineering) advancements enabling deepwater exploration and production - p. iii 20. Chapter 20: Economic considerations and market condition effects in deepwater - p. iii 21. Chapter 21: Deepwater sedimentary systems: The next 100years of deepwater - p. iii 22. Glossary - p. iii 23. Index - p. iii
Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales – both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments.
From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water – from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today’s classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth’s deepwater frontier.
This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to deepwater sedimentary systems - p. iii 2. Chapter 2: Source rocks and petroleum systems in deepwater plays - p. iii 3. Chapter 3: Crustal structure and tectonostratigraphy of rifted-passive margins with applications for hydrocarbon exploration - p. iii 4. Chapter 4: Deepwater passive margin foldbelts - p. iii 5. Chapter 5: Salt tectonics in deepwater settings - p. iii 6. Chapter 6: Deepwater sedimentary processes - p. iii 7. Chapter 7: Deepwater sedimentation units - p. iii 8. Chapter 8: Deepwater depositional environments - p. iii 9. Chapter 9: Contourites and mixed depositional systems: A paradigm for deepwater sedimentary environments - p. iii 10. Chapter 10: Mass transport processes, injectites and styles of sediment remobilization - p. iii 11. Chapter 11: Source-to-sink analysis of deepwater systems: Principles, applications and case studies - p. iii 12. Chapter 12: Sequence stratigraphy of deepwater systems - p. iii 13. Chapter 13: Reservoir quality and diagenesis of deepwater sandstones - p. iii 14. Chapter 14: Applied paleontology in exploration and development - p. iii 15. Chapter 15: Deepwater ichnology: New observations on contourites - p. iii 16. Chapter 16: Imaging and interpretation: Seismic, rock physics and image log analysis workflows for deepwater systems - p. iii 17. Chapter 17: Seismic rock physics and machine learning for deepwater stratigraphic intervals - p. iii 18. Chapter 18: Integrating forward stratigraphic modeling with basin and petroleum system modeling - p. iii 19. Chapter 19: Technical (engineering) advancements enabling deepwater exploration and production - p. iii 20. Chapter 20: Economic considerations and market condition effects in deepwater - p. iii 21. Chapter 21: Deepwater sedimentary systems: The next 100years of deepwater - p. iii 22. Glossary - p. iii 23. Index - p. iii
