Petroleum migration

W. A. England and A. J. Eleet, Petroleum Migration, Special Publication No. 59, Geological Society, London, 1991, 280 pp. 

Baker, E.G. (1967) A geochemical evaluation of petroleum migration and accumulation. In Fundamental Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry. Nagy, B., Colombo, V. Eds., pp. 299-330, Elsevier, New York, New York. 

BURST (J.F.), 1969. Diagenesis of Gulf Coast clayey sediments and its possible relation to petroleum migration. Bull. Amer. Assoc. Pet Geol. 53, 73-93. 

PameU J., Carey P. F., and Monson B. (1996) Fluid inclusion constraints on temperatures of petroleum migration from authigenic quartz in bitumen veins. Chem. Geol. 129, 217-226. 

A recent study by Volk et al. (2000) in the Prague Basin characterized fluid inclusions, and was able to show that the dominant processes during petroleum migration in this basin were gas... 

Hedberg H. D. (1980) Methane generation and petroleum migration. In Problems of Petroleum Migration, AAPG Studies in Geology 10 (eds. W. H. Roberts, 111 and R. J. Cordell). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, pp. 79—206. 

Volk H., Mann U., Burde O., Horsfield B., and Suchy V. (2000) Petroleum inclusions and residual oils constraints for deciphering petroleum migration. J. Geochem. Explor. 71, 307-311. 

An important aspect of the formation of petroleum accumulations is timing. The reservoir must have been deposited prior to petroleum migrating from the source rock to the reservoir rock. The seal and trap must have been developed prior to petroleum accumulating in the reservoir, or else the petroleum would have migrated farther. The source rock must have been exposed to the appropriate temperature and pressure conditions over long periods of time to change the organic matter to petroleum. The necessary coincidence of several conditions is difficult to achieve in nature. 

Barker, C., 1980. Primary migration The importance of water-mineral-organic matter interactions in the source rock. In Roberts III,W.H. and R.J. Cordell, (eds.), 1980. Problems of petroleum migration. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, no. 10, pp. 19-31... 

Barnard, P.C. and M.A. Bastow, 1991. Hydrocarbon generation, migration, alteration, entrapment and mixing in the Central and Northern North Sea. In England, W.A. and Fleet, A.J. (eds.). Petroleum migration. Geological Society Special Publication, no. 59, pp. 167-190... 

Bethke, C.M., Harrison, W.J., Upson, C. and S.P. Altaner, 1988. Supercomputer analysis of sedimentary basins. Science, Vol. 239, pp. 233-324 Bethke, C.M. and S. Marshak, 1990. Brine migrations across North America - The plate tectonics of groundwater. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 18, pp. 287-315 Bethke, C.M., Reed, J.D. and D.F. Oltz, 1991. Long-range petroleum migration in the Illinois Basin. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 925-945... 

Darcy, H., 1856. Les fontaines publiques de la ville de Dijon. Dalmont, Paris Davis, J.C., 1986. Statistics and data analysis in geology. John Wiley, New York, 646 pp. Davis, R.W., 1987. Analysis of hydrodynamic factors in petroleum migration and entrapment. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 643-649... 

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 723-760 Schowalter, T.T., 1991. Secondary petroleum migration in basin modelling. Paper presented at the Norwegian Petroleum Society International Conference on Basin modelling Advances and applications, Stavanger, Norway, March 13-15, 1991 Selley, R.C., 1985. Elements of petroleum geology. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 449 pp. 

Horvitz, L., 1980. Near-surface evidence of hydrocarbon movement from depth. In W.H. Roberts and R.J. Cordell (eds.). Problems of Petroleum Migration. Amer. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Studies in Geology, 10 241-263. 

Pore water flow and petroleum migration in the Smorbukk field... 

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