Cel Objectives The project seeks to understand how petroleum migrates through mudrock sequences in petroleum basins on both the basin and reservoir seal scales. It will attempt to distinguish whether petroleum migration through mudstones takes place primarily through fracture systems or via mudstone capillary systems. The project will attempt to incorporate petroleum compositional data into basin modelling petroleum migration software and attempt quantitatively to constrain petroleum migration scenarios in the North Sea using a case history where vertical migration of petroleum through mudstones can be seen to occur. Technical Approach In this study of petroleum migration through fine grained rock sequences and caprocks we expect to be able to link, in a case history from the Jurassic through the Tertiary of the North Sea with supporting studies elsewhere: - structural geology and fracture definition, - mudrock fabric definition, -geochemical compositional variation and mechanism dependent numerical models of petroleum migration, with -fluid dynamic models to provide a self consistent evaluation of petroleum flow mechanisms in fine-grained rock sequences such as seals and on spill-fill-spill migration systems. Expected Achievements and Exploitation Substantial technical deliverables of the project will include:- 1. An assessment of potential new methods and approaches to secondary migration modelling at reservoir and basin scale dealing with capillary and fracture flow through mudstones. 2. A coupled dynamic flow and geochemical compositional model of petroleum transport through mudrocks capable of defining the transport process (capillary versus fracture transport) involved. 3. Development of new or revised concepts of migration into and leakage from reservoirs. 4. Software or algorithms which may be applied to migration models to assist exploration and production of reserves. 5. An integrated structural, rock fabric, geochemical and modelled synthesis of petroleum migration and remigration in a North Sea case history. Within 4 years we hope to provide the industry with the first commercially available migration simulator with chemical compositional constraint on the actual path taken by the petroleum. Dziedzina nauki nauki przyrodniczeinformatykaoprogramowanienauki humanistycznehistoria i archeologiahistorianauki przyrodniczenauki fizycznemechanika klasycznamechanika płynówdynamika płynówinżynieria i technologiainżynieria śodowiskaenergetyka i paliwaenergia ze źródeł kopalnychropa naftowanauki przyrodniczenauki o Ziemi i pokrewne nauki o środowiskugeologia Program(-y) FP4-NNE-JOULE C - Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998 Temat(-y) 0404 - Hydrocarbons Zaproszenie do składania wniosków Data not available System finansowania CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Koordynator UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Adres Drummond building NE1 7RU Newcastle upon tyne Zjednoczone Królestwo Zobacz na mapie Wkład UE € 0,00 Uczestnicy (6) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko BG PLC Zjednoczone Królestwo Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres Ashby road LE11 3GR Loughborough - leicestershire Zobacz na mapie HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Zjednoczone Królestwo Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres Riccarton EH14 4AS Edinburgh Zobacz na mapie IKU Petroleumsforskning AS Norwegia Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres 15 b,s.p. andersens vei 7034 Trondheim Zobacz na mapie NORSK HYDRO ASA Norwegia Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres 90,sandsliveien 90 5020 Bergen Zobacz na mapie University of Liverpool Zjednoczone Królestwo Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres L69 3BX Liverpool Zobacz na mapie Universität Köln Niemcy Wkład UE € 0,00 Adres Zülpicher straße 49 a 50674 Köln Zobacz na mapie
