Subregional and local pressure compartments

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Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps
Series Treatise in Petroleum Geology
Part Critical elements of the petroleum system
Chapter Formation fluid pressure and its application
Author Edward A. Beaumont, Forrest Fiedler
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Subregional or local (second- and third-order) pressure compartments can be found within normal pressure regimes or regional pressure compartments.

Subregional pressure compartments

Figure 1 is an example of a subregional compartment contained within the regional pressure compartment of the Anadarko basin of Figure 2.

Local pressure compartments

Figure 3 Porous bioherm completely encased in shale.

The fluids in a porous bioherm completely encased in shale (as shown in Figure 3) are virtually isolated from the nearby fluid systems outside the bioherm. The bioherm, then, is a pressure compartment that may or may not be abnormally pressured. Other geological features that may form local pressure compartments are fault blocks, sand lenses, and sand wedges developed in growth faults.

See also

References

  1. Al-Shaieb, Z., J. O. Puckette, A. A. Abdalla, and P. B. Ely, 1995b, Three levels of compartmentation within the overpressured interval of the Anadarko basin, in P. J. Ortoleva, ed., Basin Compartments and Seals: AAPG Memoir 61, p. 69–83.
  2. Al-Shaieb, Z., J. O. Puckette, A. A. Abdalla, and P. B. Ely, 1995a, Megacompartment complex in the Anadarko basin, in P. J. Ortoleva, ed., Basin Compartments and Seals: AAPG Memoir 61, p. 55–68.

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