Quartz Cementation in Sandstones

R. Worden, Sadoon Morad, R. Worden, Sadoon Morad

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780632054824
• eBook ISBN: 9781444304244
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Quartz is the major porosity-reducing cement in many sandstone sequences. Therefore, Quartz cements represent a key source of petrographic and geochemical information about diagenetic history. They are also the major determinant of sandstone reservoir quality.

While the ultimate goal of research in this area is to make robust predictions about the amount and distribution of quartz cements in a wide variety of depositional and burial settings, there are nevertheless large areas of the subject that are poorly understood and remain the subject of controversy.

The aim of this Volume, which is based partly on papers submitted to a 1996 workshop in Belfast, and partly on invited contributions, is to bring together some of the main strands of research into quartz cements and provide a focus for debate and direction for future research.

This book will be welcomed by sedimentologists, petrographers and geochemists involved in sandstone digenesis, as well as by petroleum geologists seeking a deeper understanding of the factors influencing reservoir porosity and permeability.

• Contributors from 11 countries and 4 continents.
  
• Represents the benchmark in quartz cement research.

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Quartz cementation in oil field sandstones: a review of the key controversies
• R. H. WORDEN and S. MORAD
• The origin of large-scale quartz cementation: evidence from large data sets and coupled heat–fluid mass transport modelling
• M. R. GILES, S. L. INDRELID, G. V. BEYNON and J. AMTHOR
• Modelling quartz cementation and porosity in reservoir sandstones: examples from the Norwegian continental shelf
• O. WALDERHAUG , R. H. LANDER , P. A. BJØRKUM , E. H. OELKERS , K. BJØRLYKKE and P. H. NADEAU
• Related quartz and illite cementation in the Brent sandstones: a modelling approach
• É. BROSSE , J . MATTHEWS , B. BAZIN , Y. LE GALLO and F. SOMMER
• The different processes involved in the mechanism of pressure solution in quartz-rich rocks and their interactions
• F. RENARD, É. BROSSE and J. P. GRATIER
• A test of hypotheses regarding quartz cementation in sandstones: a quantitative image analysis approach
• C. M. PRINCE and R. EHRLICH
• Quantification of detrital, authigenic and porosity components of the Fontainebleau Sandstone: a comparison of conventional optical and combined scanning electron microscope-based methods of modal analyses
• M. R. COOPER, J . EVANS, S. S. FLINT, A. J. C. HOGG and R. H. HUNTER
• Effects of reservoir wettability on quartz cementation in oil fields
• S. A. BARCLAY and R. H. WORDEN*
• Experimental and field constraints on the role of silica–organic complexation and silica–microbial interactions during sediment diagenesis
• J. B. FEIN
• Microstructures of deformed and non-deformed sandstones from the North Sea: implications for the origins of quartz cement in sandstones
• Q. J. FISHER, R. J. KNIPE and R. H. WORDEN
• Petrophysical and petrographical analysis of quartz cement volumes across oil–water contacts in the Magnus Field, northern North Sea
• S. A. BARCLAY and R. H. WORDEN
• Quartz cementation in Cretaceous and Jurassic reservoir sandstones from the Salam oil field, Western Desert, Egypt: constraints on temperature and timing of formation from fluid inclusions
• R. MARFIL, C. ROSSI , R. P. LOZANO, A. PERMANYER and K. RAMSEYER
• Regional loss of SiO 2 and CaCO 3 , and gain of K 2 O during burial diagenesis of Gulf Coast mudrocks, USA
• L. S. LAND and K. L. MILLIKEN
• Quartz cement: the Miller’s Tale
• J. GLUYAS, C. GARLAND, N. H. OXTOBY and A. J. C. HOGG
• Quartz cement origins and budget in the Tumblagooda Sandstone, Western Australia
• N. H. TREWIN and A. E. FALLICK
• Influence of uplift and magmatism on distribution of quartz and illite cementation: evidence from Siluro-Devonian sandstones of the Paraná Basin, Brazil
• L. F. DE ROS, S. MORAD, C. BROMAN, P. DE CÉSERO and D. GOMEZ-GRAS
• Polyphased quartz cementation and its sources: a case study from the Upper Palaeozoic Haushi Group sandstones, Sultanate of Oman
• B. H. HARTMANN, K. JUHÁSZ-BODNÁR, K. RAMSEYER and A. MATTER
• The porosity-preserving effects of microcrystalline quartz coatings in arenitic sandstones: examples from the Norwegian continental shelf
• J. JAHREN 1 and M. RAMM
• High-temperature quartz cement and the role of stylolites in a deep gas reservoir, Spiro Sandstone, Arkoma Basin, USA
• C. SPÖTL, D. W. HOUSEKNECHT and L. R. RICIPUTI
• Oxygen isotope analysis of authigenic quartz in sandstones: a comparison of ion microprobe and conventional analytical techniques
• I . C. LYON , S. D. BURLEY, P. J. McKEEVER, J. M. SAXTON and C. MACAULAY
• Significance of trace element composition of quartz cement as a key to reveal the origin of silica in sandstones: an example from the Cretaceous of the Barrow Sub-basin, Western Australia
• G. M. KRAISHAN, M. R. REZAEE and R. H. WORDEN
• Index