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WILSON, MD (Ed) (1994) Reservoir quality assessment and prediction in clastic rocks SEPM
short course 30. SEPM Tulsa, OK, 432pp. An excellent compilation of and applied work on
sandstone cementation. Nearest thing to a bible.
Chapter 5 http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rsh/ReservoirQuality.html
Beaumont EA and Foster NH 2000 Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps, AAPG Treatise of Petroleum
Geology, Handbook of Petroleum Geology
Burley SD & Worden R 2003 Sandstone diagenesis : recent and ancient. Reprint series volume 4
of the International Association of Sedimentologists
Worden RH and Morad S 2003 Clay mineral cements in sandstones. Special publication of the
International Association of Sedimentologists ; no. 34 Blackwell
Hartmann Beaumont and Coalson Predicting sandstone reservoir system quality Search and
Discovery article 40005 http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/beaumont
J. R. Boles & S. G. Franks (1979) Clay diagenesis in Wilcox Sandstones of southwest Texas:
implications of smectite diagenesis on sandstone cementation Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
49, 55-70 Clear explanation of consequences of smectite change
Pittman, E D (1979) Porosity, diagenesis and productive capability of sandstone reservoirs Soc
Econ Palaeontol Mineral Spec Publ 26 159-173. Clay effects on capillary pressures
Bloch S, Lander RH, and Bonnell L 2002 Anomalously high porosity and permeability in deeply
buried sandstone reservoirs: Origin and predictability. AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, pp. 301–328
Ehrenberg SN 1995 Measuring sandstone compaction from modal analyses of thin sections; how
to do it and what the results mean Journal of Sedimentary Research v. 65 p. 369-379
Beaumont & Foster 1988 Reservoirs III Carbonates AAPG Treatise of Petroleum geology 4.
Harris and Kendall 1985 Carbonate Cementation a review;
Longman 1980 Carbonate diagenetic textures from nearsurface diagenetic environments.
Jardine et al 1977 J Pet Tech 29 Distribution and quality carbonate reservoirs;
McIlreath and Morrow 1990 Diagenesis Geoscience Canada 338pp (needs confirmed)
Cementation processes
HASZELDINE, R.S., BRINT, J.F., FALLICK, A.E., HAMILTON, P.J. & BROWN, S. (1992) Open and
restricted hydrologies in Brent Group diagenesis: North Sea. In: Morton, A.C., Haszeldine, R.S.,
Giles, M.R. & Brown, S. (Eds) Geology of the Brent Group. Geological Society, London, 401-419.
MACAULAY, C. I., HASZELDINE, R. S. & FALLICK, A. E. (1992) Diagenetic pore waters stratified
for at least 35 million years: Magnus oil field, North Sea. Bulletin American Association Petroleum
Geologists, 76, 1625-1634
Taylor TR, Giles MR, Hathon LA, Diggs TN, Braunsdorf NR, Birbiglia GV, Kittridge MG, Macaulay CI,
and Espejo IS 2010 Sandstone diagenesis and reservoir quality prediction: Models, myths, and
reality. AAPG Bulletin, v. 94, p. 1093-1132, doi:10.1306/04211009123
Unconformity
Emery D. K. J. Myers and R. Young 1990; Ancient subaerial exposure and freshwater leaching in
sandstones Geology 18;1178-1181
Giles MR, Marshall JD 1986 Constraints on the development of secondary porosity in the subsurface: Re-
evaluation of processes Marine and Petroleum Geology, 3, Pages 243-255
Esteban M, Taberner C 2003 Secondary porosity development during late burial in carbonate
reservoirs as a result of mixing and/or cooling of brine. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v78,
Practical applications
Emery, D & Robinson A (1993) Inorganic geochemistry, applications to petroleum geology. Blackwell ISBN 0
632 03433 5 Compilation of BP case studies, and illustrative of the problems solved but mostly unsolved
Almon, W. R.& Davies, D.K (1981) Formation damage and the crystal chemistry of clays In Mineralogical
Assoc Canada. Short course in clays and the resource geologist Ed F J Longstaffe 7, 81-103 Best description
summary of clays and physical/chemical bad effects
Ehrenberg SN and Nadeau PH 2005 Sandstone vs. carbonate petroleum reservoirs: A global
perspective on porosity-depth relationships AAPG Bulletin. 89: 435-445
Makowitz A, Lander R. H., and Milliken K. L. 2006 Diagenetic modeling to assess the relative
timing of quartz cementation and brittle grain processes during compaction. AAPG Bulletin, 90,
pp. 873–885.
Lander RH and Bonnell LM 2010 A model for fibrous illite nucleation and growth in sandstones AAPG
Bulletin v. 94 p. 1161-1187 doi: 10.1306/ 04211009121
Quartz cement Water volumes, hot or cold water circulation + fluid inclusions
Osborne and Haszeldine 1993 Evidence for resetting of fluid inclusion temperatures from quartz
cements in oilfields. Marine Petrol Geol, 10, 271 – 278
Burley SD, Mullis j, and Matter A 1989 Timing diagenesis in the Tartan reservoir (UK North Sea)
constraints from combined cathodoluminescence microscopy and fluid inclusion studies. Marine
and Petroleum Geology, 6, 98 – 120
Goldstein RH and Rossi C 2002 J Sediment Research 72, 432 -440.
Blatt H 1979 Diagenetic processes in sandstones SEPM Spec Publication 26, 141 -158
Bjørkum PA, Oelkers EH, Nadeau PH, Olav Walderhaug O, and Murphy WM 1998 Porosity Prediction
in Quartzose Sandstones as a Function of Time, Temperature, Depth, Stylolite Frequency, and
Hydrocarbon Saturation AAPG Bulletin 82 637 - 648
Lander RH & Walderhaug O (1999) Predicting porosity through simulating sandstone compaction and
quartz cementation. AAPG Bull 83, 433-449. First predictive model for quartz cementation
Worden RH 2000 Quartz cementation in oilfield sandstones; a review of the key controversies.
Internat Assoc Sedimentol Spec Publ 29, 1 - 20
Ehrenberg SN 1993 Preservation of anomalously high porosity in deeply buried sandstones by grain-
coating chlorite; examples from the Norwegian continental shelf. AAPG Bulletin, 77, 1260-1286
EMERY, D. SMALLEY, P.C. & OXTOBY, N.H. (1993) Synchronous oil migration and cementation in
sandstone reservoirs demonstrated by quantitative description of diagenesis. Phil Trans Roy Soc
London, A344 115-125.
Marchand AME, Smalley PC, Haszeldine RS and Fallick AE 2002 Note on the Importance of
Hydrocarbon-fill for Reservoir Quality Prediction. American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bulletin. 86, 1561-1571.
Wilkinson M & Haszeldine RS 2011 Oil charge preserves exceptional porosity in deeply buried,
overpressured, sandstones: Central North Sea, UK. Journal of the Geological Society, 168; p. 1285-
1295 doi: 10.1144/0016-76492011-007