Book contents
- A Concise Guide to Geopressure
- A Concise Guide to Geopressure
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Nomenclature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reservoir Pore Pressure
- 3 Mudrock Material Behavior
- 4 The Origins of Geopressure
- 5 Pore Pressure Prediction in Mudrocks
- 6 Pore Pressure Prediction: Unloading, Diagenesis, and Non-Uniaxial Strain
- 7 Pressure and Stress from Seismic Velocity
- 8 Overburden Stress, Least Principal Stress, and Fracture Initiation Pressure
- 9 Trap Integrity
- 10 Flow Focusing and Centroid Prediction
- 11 Flow Focusing, Fluid Expulsion, and the Protected Trap
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2021
Book contents
- A Concise Guide to Geopressure
- A Concise Guide to Geopressure
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Nomenclature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reservoir Pore Pressure
- 3 Mudrock Material Behavior
- 4 The Origins of Geopressure
- 5 Pore Pressure Prediction in Mudrocks
- 6 Pore Pressure Prediction: Unloading, Diagenesis, and Non-Uniaxial Strain
- 7 Pressure and Stress from Seismic Velocity
- 8 Overburden Stress, Least Principal Stress, and Fracture Initiation Pressure
- 9 Trap Integrity
- 10 Flow Focusing and Centroid Prediction
- 11 Flow Focusing, Fluid Expulsion, and the Protected Trap
- References
- Index
Summary
The Deepwater Horizon blowout of the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon block 252 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010 (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2). Eleven people died and approximately four million barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico (Boebert & Blossom, 2016). Through this event, the general public became aware of the enormous pressures encountered in sedimentary basins and of the extraordinary complexity and risk associated with finding and producing hydrocarbons in the deep ocean.
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- A Concise Guide to GeopressureOrigin, Prediction, and Applications, pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021