| Abstract: | The paper suggests that overpressured and underpressured gas accumulations of this type have a common origin. In basins containing overpressured gas accumulations, rates of thermogenic gas accumulation exceed gas loss, causing fluid (gas) pressure to rise above the regional hydrostatic pressure. Free water in the larger pores is forced out of the gas generation zone into overlying and updip, normally pressured, water-bearing rocks. While other diagenetic processes continue, a pore network with very low permeability develops. As a result, gas accumulates in these low-permeability reservoirs at rates higher than it is lost. In basins containing underpressured gas accumulations, rates of gas generation and accumulation are less than gas loss. The basin-center gas accumulation persists, but because of changes in the basin dynamics, the overpressured accumulation evolves into an underpressured system. |
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| Citation Author: | Law, B. E.; Dickinson, W. W. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR ORIGIN OF ABNORMALLY PRESSURED GAS ACCUMULATIONS IN LOW-PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS.; 1985; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Law, B. E.; Dickinson, W. W. |
| Citation Start Page: | 1295 |
| Citation Volume: | 69 |
| Citation Year: | 1985 |
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| Text: | CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR ORIGIN OF ABNORMALLY PRESSURED GAS ACCUMULATIONS IN LOW-PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS.; 1985; Article; Journal; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin; Law, B. E.; Dickinson, W. W. |
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| Date Other: | Tue, 1 Jan 1985 00:00 -0600 |
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