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CUBITT, J. M., ENGLAND, W. A. & LARTER, S. R. (eds) 2004. Understanding Petroleum Reservoirs: Towards an Integrated Reservoir Engineering and Geochemical Approach.

Geological Society Special Publication no. 237. vi + 395 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £95.00, US $171.00; GSL members’ price £47.50, US $86.00; AAPG/SEPM/GSA/RAS/EFG/PESGB members’ price £57.00, US $103.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 168 8.

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Petroleum kitchens, migration routes and traps evolve independently within a PT-depth framework that is constantly changing. There is thus time-variant compositional variation in what is generated at source and retained in the trap; moreover sources may be multiple and phase separation during migration may result in differing fractions moving at different speeds and, where pore-water moves laterally, different directions. To what extent hydrocarbons in the trap mix and/or reach thermodynamic equilibrium under gravitational and thermal forces is a critical quantitative consideration for reservoir engineers who want to constrain modelling scenarios for PVT behaviour and flow properties during production and their impact on the economics of ultimate recovery. Related . . . [Full Text of this Article]