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SECONDARY:
Through wider pores of more permeable coarse grained
carrier porous rocks
Cause of migration
Less
Organic organic Impermeable Less permeable
matter rich matter
Wider
Narrow pores
pores (more
(porous) permeable) Shale & Sandstone &
Carbonate Coarse grained
Good rocks shale
Permeable
Dismigration
Fig. 7. Depth-porosity relationship as determined for samples from three different basins
Pore diameter and internal surface areas
Primary Migration
Fig. Abundance and extracts across the transition zone source rock-reservoir rock in a Devonian shale-sand series,
(Algeria, after Tissot and Pelet, 1971).
Fig. comparison in terms of gross chemical composition between crude oils and source rock bitumens in a shale/
And carbonate sequence
Secondary migration and
accumulation
Transport of an oil
globule through
pore in a water-wet
sub-surface
environment.
capillary pressure
oppose the buoyant
force
Transport of oil
globule through a
pore in a water-
wet environment
under
hydrodynamic
condition
Upward flow of
water helps
buoyancy to
overcome
opposing capillary
pressure
Horizontal transport of a stringer of oil under
hydrodynamic gradient
Geological and Geochemical implications of secondary migration