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- Title: Carbonate Reservoirs – Development in Sedimentology
- Author: Clyde H. Moore
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Pages: 461
In the decade since the publication of Carbonates Diagenesis and Porosity, I have given numerous public and in-house innduxtry seminar under the auspices of Oil and Gas Consultants International (OGCI). These seminars were based on the carbonate diagenesis and porosity theme, using the first volume for course notes. During this period the emphasis of the seminars began to shift with the interests of the participants, guided by the needs of the industry and by new research directions being developed and applied by the carbonate community.
As a result, the major theme of my seminars shifted from carbonate diagenesis to porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs in a sea level-based stratigraphic framework. The title of the seminar was shortened to Carbonate Reservoirs and I began to consider a revision of the first
The 2nd Edition of Carbonate Reservoirs aims to educate graduate students and industry professionals on the complexities of porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs. In the intervening 12 years since the first edition, there have been numerous studies of value published that need to be recognized and incorporated in the topics discussed. A chapter on the impact of global tectonics and biological evolution on the carbonate system has been added to emphasize the effects of global earth processes and the changing nature of life on earth through Phanerozoic time on all aspects of the carbonate system.
The centerpiece of this chapter―and easily the most important synthesis of carbonate concepts developed since the 2001 edition―is the discussion of the CATT hypothesis, an integrated global database bringing together stratigraphy, tectonics, global climate, oceanic geochemistry, carbonate platform characteristics, and biologic evolution in a common time framework. Another new chapter concerns naturally fractured carbonates, a subject of increasing importance, given recent technological developments in 3D seismic, reservoir modeling, and reservoir production techniques.