Migration and Accumulation

Abstract

The processes of petroleum migration are still under discussion and not very well understood. Reservoir engineering and production modeling, which are usually based on Darcy type separate phase flow and mass conservation, are successfully applied to model petroleum flow, at least in reservoirs (Peaceman, 1977; Aziz and Settari, 1979; Barenblatt et al., 1990; Dake, 2001) Engineering success and the persuasiveness of the approach justify a transfer of the methodology from reservoirs to petroleum systems and from timescales of years to millions of years.