The geological modeling of hydrocarbon reservoirs and outcrop analogues / Геологическое моделирование залежей углеводородов и аналогичных пород

Recent technological advances and the increasing emphasis on maximizing recovery from existing oil and gas fields has led to an upsurge of interest in reservoir characterization and quantitative modelling of physical rock properties in 3-D inter-well space. A variety of research conferences have been convened over the last 5 years to provide a forum for debate of new ideas and directions in this area of interdisciplinary research; these meetings have, in the USA, included NIPER conferences, SPE symposia and specialist sessions within the AAPG Annual Conventions. Within Europe, similar topics have been covered by specialist meetings of the Geological Society of London and the EAPG. However, much of this debate has been driven by reservoir engineers and computer software engineers keen to take advantage of advances in new methods of formation evaluation and information technology, but to a certain extent unfamiliar with sedi-mentological concepts. Over the same time period much academic research in applied sedimentol-ogy seemed to us to be carried out divorced from these industry developments in subsurface modelling. <...>