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Article Dans Une Revue Marine and Petroleum Geology Année : 2020

Facies associations, detrital clay grain coats and mineralogical characterization of the Gironde estuary tidal bars: A modern analogue for deeply buried estuarine sandstone reservoirs

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Estuarine tidal bar sandstones are complex reservoir geobodies commonly exploited by the oil and gas industry. In order to better predict the reservoir potential of these geobodies, this study provides a modern-day reservoir analogue, describing tidal bars in the inner and outer Gironde estuary from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale.The originality of this work lies in the multi-scale study of modern estuarine tidal bars based on numerous piston cores extracted in a high-energy environment. This work demonstrates that these tidal bars are composite sedimentary bodies made up of individual reservoir sand units separated by thick muddy layers. Their vertical facies associations and internal architectures are controlled by local hydrodynamic variations and seasonal river influxes. Detrital clay grain coats are notably characterized using a portable and handheld mineral spectrometer from the base to the top of the tidal bars. X-ray diffraction and electron microscopes reveal that these coats are mainly composed of di-octahedral smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite associated with other components such as diatoms or pyrite. The best reservoir geobodies are those with the minimum clay permeability barriers at the macro and mesoscale. An optimum coated grain content and clay fraction volume is also needed for generating authigenic clay coatings and inhibiting quartz overgrowth. These conditions are met within the tidal sand bars of the outer estuary funnel that are expected to be the best reservoir geobodies in deeply buried sandstones.
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Maxime Virolle, Hugues Féniès, Benjamin Brigaud, Raphaël Bourillot, Eric Portier, et al.. Facies associations, detrital clay grain coats and mineralogical characterization of the Gironde estuary tidal bars: A modern analogue for deeply buried estuarine sandstone reservoirs. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, 114, pp.104225 (IF 3,538). ⟨10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104225⟩. ⟨hal-02447126⟩
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