Sandstone Reservoirs

Summary London 11-12-09

 Depositional Environment
• Controls on the size, shape and production characteristics
of reservoir bodies
• Major effects on reservoir quality distribution:
• Porosity
• Permeability
• Net to Gross Ratio
• Connectivity/Compartmentalisation
• Identification in the subsurface, use of well logs, cores and
cuttings

Continental Marine
Eolian Marginal/Paralic
Alluvial fan Shelf
Fluvial Slope
Lacustrine Basin
Glacial
 Reservoirs – Alluvial Fan
Schematic

Modern Example
Reservoirs – Eolian Modern
SANDSTONES

Analogy for Southern North Sea Rotliegend (Permian) Gas Fields

Leman Field
 Reservoirs - FluvialSANDSTONES
Braided Meandering

Outcrop
 Reservoirs - Deltaic
Schematic Delta Components

SANDSTONES
 Reservoirs – Littoral
SANDSTONES
Barrier Island

Galveston Island, Texas, USA

Reservoirs - Littoral
Map of Aux Vases foreshore and
tidal channel sands,
Carboniferous, Illinois, USA

SANDSTONES

Outcrop of Gallup Sandstone, L Cret.,

New Mexico, USA
Reservoirs – Marine Shelf
SANDSTONES

Hummocky Cross Beds

Reservoirs – Marine Slope
Basin
 1 Confined slope channel
complexes

2 Leveed channels

3 Layered Sheets

4 Amalgamated sheets