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Digital Geology

Multi-scale analysis of depositional systems and their subsurface workflows

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This volume documents part of the Shell Digital Geology project that has demonstrated how you can use digitalisation and its many flavours to your benefit for subsurface characterisation. Conveying complex geological concepts, business workflows used in Exploration, Development and Production and their links to decision-making has never been more transparent and easier to explain than via the Digital Geology exhibition and its associated learning nuggets. The novel set-up allows communicating to a wide range of audiences in an interactive and exciting way how geoscientists and engineers are dealing with developing an understanding of the subsurface and how such knowledge is used in the life cycle of subsurface projects. Therefore, the concepts behind Digital Geology can be applied in many ways, be it for hydrocarbon exploration and development, carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal energy or water resource management.

A deep knowledge of the subsurface geology is key for the success of our societies. To communicate this within them and within the geoscience and engineering communities will be equally important when it comes to providing future solutions for the energy transition. This transition will only work if we manage to translate workflows initially developed for hydrocarbons, and presented in this book, seamlessly into next-generation, decentralized energy solutions. Such will involve hydrogen storage, sequestration of green house gases as well as shallow and deep geothermal resources – our next challenge.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Harry Brekelmans
Editors’ Note
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Digital Geology: Multi-scale Analysis of Depositional Systems and their Subsurface Workflows – J. Grötsch, M.C. Pöppelreiter and H.J. Kloosterman

SECTION 1. BASIN SCALE
Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the South-Central Pyrenean Foreland Basins: A Natural Laboratory for Play-Based Exploration – J.A. Muñoz, P. Arbués and B. van Hoorn

SECTION 2. PLAY SCALE
Play-Based Exploration of the Petroleum Potential of the Tremp-Graus, Aínsa and Eastern Jaca Sub-Basins in the Southern Pyrenees – J. de Jager and M. van Winden
Stratigraphic Forward Models of the Sobrarbe Deltaic Complex (Ainsa Basin, NE Spain): Controls on Stratigraphic Architecture – P. Rodriguez-Salgado, O. Falivene, A. Frascati, P. Arbués, O. Monleon, M. Butille, P. Cabello, M. Lopez-Blanco and M.C. Pöppelreiter

SECTION 3. ENVIRONMENT SCALE
Lesson from Integrated Reservoir Modelling of Deltaic Deposits from Outcrops, Ainsa Basin, Spain – M. Kleemeyer, T. Wehinger and M. Smit
Synthetic Seismic Profile of Lateral Variations in the Sobrarbe Deltaic Complex (Spanish Pyrenees) – J.J.G. Reijmer, S. Worms, K. de Jong, L.M. Kleipool, C. Nooitgedacht and P. Arbués

SECTION 4. FACIES SCALE
Behind-the-Outcrop Research Drilling in the Sobrarbe Delta, Ainsa Basin: Core Description and Sedimentation Processes in a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Delta Complex – L. Becker and C. Heubeck

SECTION 5. GRAIN SCALE
Understanding Small-Scale Petrophysical Heterogeneities in Sedimentary Rocks: The Key to Unravelling Pore Geometry Variations and to Predicting Lithofacies-Dependent Reservoir Properties – J. Hornung, A. Linsel, D. Schröder, J. Gumbert, J.A. Ölmez, M. Scheid and M.C. Pöppelreiter

SECTION 6. CARBONATES (ALL SCALES)
Multiscale Analysis of Carbonate Depositional Systems: Using the Upper Muschelkalk Basin as a Subsurface Reservoir Analogue – M. Warnecke, T. Aigner and J. Grötsch

OUTLOOK
Virtual Geological Fieldtrips: The Next Step in Digital Geology – H.J. Kloosterman, Y.K. Yong, E. van Zeeland, J. Grötsch and M. Smit

INDEX

References

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