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Petroleum Systems VII: Source Over Reservoir I

This document discusses how faulting can create a petroleum system by juxtaposing a source rock above a reservoir rock, even when they were initially separated. It uses sketches to illustrate a scenario where a potential source rock is above a reservoir, with no migration pathway. However, faulting brings the source and reservoir into contact, but the timing is critical - the migration pathway must have existed when the source rock was maturing to allow petroleum to migrate from the source into the reservoir below.

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Petroleum Systems VII: Source Over Reservoir I

This document discusses how faulting can create a petroleum system by juxtaposing a source rock above a reservoir rock, even when they were initially separated. It uses sketches to illustrate a scenario where a potential source rock is above a reservoir, with no migration pathway. However, faulting brings the source and reservoir into contact, but the timing is critical - the migration pathway must have existed when the source rock was maturing to allow petroleum to migrate from the source into the reservoir below.

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Petroleum systems VII: Source over reservoir I

This page uses sketches of a possible fault trap


to illustrate the concept of the petroleum system.
Note that, as in Source
over reservoir II, the
scenario begins with
the potential source bed
above and sealed from
the potential reservoir.
The source bed thus
seemingly begins in a
situation from which it
could not source the
reservoir. However,
faulting can juxtapose
reservoir and source but timing is critical
to the existence of a
migration pathway for
any petroleum.

Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

Potential source rock

No migration pathway

Potential siliciclastic reservoir

Migration pathway existed before


but not during maturation of source.

These sketches are


not a time series.

Oil in sandstone reservoir

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