Reservoir potential of thin-bedded sandstone in continental mudrock successions - The search for hidden treasures

The subsurface of the West European gas province contains up to several hundred meters thick continuous Upper Rotliegend and Lower Triassic mud rock sequences which have to date been labelled as nonreservoir ‘waste zone’. The mud rock formed as fluvial floodplain deposits in a semi-arid climate. The sequences contain thin-bedded porous and...

Reservoir architecture and tough gas reservoir potential of fluvial crevasse-splay deposits

Unconventional tough gas reservoirs in low-net-to-gross fluvial stratigraphic intervals may constitute a secondary source of fossil energy to prolong the gas supply in the future. To date, however, production from these thin-bedded, fine-grained reservoirs has been hampered by the economic risks associated with the uncertainties in their...

Reservoir modelling of Lower Cretaceous West Netherland Basin aquifers for geothermal energy production