Carbonate Cementation in Sandstones

Dr. Sadoon Morad is the ADOC Chaired Professor at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Morad has given courses and performed consultant work and research collaboration with numerous oil companies around the world. His previous achievements include the development of conceptual models to predict the impact of diagenetic alterations on distribution of reservoir quality within sequence stratigraphy. He has published about 70 papers in international journals, currently serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Sedimentary Research and has edited three Special Publications in total.

• Carbonate cementation in sandstones: controls on distribution patterns and geochemical evolution. Origin and spatial distribution of early vadose and phreatic calcite cements in the Zia Formation, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA.Carbonate diagenesis and porosity evolution in sheet-flood sandstones: evidence from the Middle and Lower Lunde Members (Triassic) in the Snorre Field, Norwegian North Sea.Carbonate diagenesis in non-marine foreland sandstones at the western edge of the Alleghanian Overthrust Belt, southern Appalachians.Paleogeographic, paleoclimatic and burial-history controls on the diagenetic evolution of reservoir sandstones: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous Serraria sandstones in Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil.Carbonate cements in the Tertiary sandstones of the Swiss Molasse Basin: their petrography, isotope geochemistry and relevance to paleohydrodynamic reconstruction.Carbonate cement in the Triassic Chaunoy Formation of the Paris Basin: distribution and effect on flow properties.Calcite cement in shallow marine sandstones-growth mechanisms and geometry.Origin of low-permeability calcite-cemented lenses in shallow-marine sandstones and CaCO3 cementation mechanisms: an example from the Lower Jurassic Luxemburg Sandstone Formation, Luxemburg.Geochemical history of calcite precipitation in Tertiary sandstones, Northern Apennines, Italy.Diagenetic evolution of synorogenic hybrid and lithic arenites (Miocene), northern Apennines, Italy.Carbonate cementation in Tertiary sandstones, San Joaquin Basin, California.Carbonate cementation in the Middle Jurassic Oseberg reservoir sandstones, Oseberg field: a case study of late diagenetic-high temperature poikilotopic calcite.Origin and timing of carbonate cementation of the Namorado Sandstone (Cretaceous), Albacora Field, Brazil: implications for oil recovery.Structural controls on seismic-scale carbonate cementation in hydrocarbon-bearing Jurassic fluvial and marine sandstones from Australia: a comparison.Carbonate cementation - key to reservoir properties of four sandstone level (Cretaceous) in Hibernia Oilfield, Jeane d'Arc Basin, Newfoundland, Canada.The significance of d13C of carbonate cements in reservoir sandstones: a regional perspective from the Jurassic of the Northern North Sea.Origin and significance of fracture-related dolomite in porous sandstones: an example from the Carboniferous of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Saddle (baroque) dolomite in carbonates and sandstones: a reappraisal of a burial-diagenetic concept.Application of quantitative back-scattered electron image analysis in isotopic interpretation of siderite cement: Tirrawarra Sandstone, Cooper Basin (Australia).Carbonate cement dissolution during a cyclic CO2 enhanced oil recovery treatment.

"This volume gives a good overview of the "state of the art" in sandstone diagenesis. It should be a useful text for researchers dealing with sandstone diagenesis." (Journal of Sedimentary Research)