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1 Division of Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
2 Trask Geoscience Ltd, Aberdeen Offshore Technology Park, Exploration Drive, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen AB23 8GX, UK
3 Statoil, Forusbeen 50, N-4035, Stavanger, Norway
The present volume represents a series of papers arising from a conference on ‘The Geometry and Petrogenesis of Dolomite Hydrocarbon Reservoirs’ held at the Geological Society of London on 3–4 December 2002. More than 70 dolomite enthusiasts gathered in the largest specialist meeting since the bicentennial conference, in Ortisei in 1991, honouring the first description of the mineral by the French Engineer Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801). The proceedings of the latter meeting, sponsored jointly by the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) and the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), were subsequently published in IAS Special Publication 21 edited by Purser et al. (1994).
As the title indicates, the focus of the meeting reported here was on the implications of the various processes and products of dolomitization for hydrocarbon exploration. This is by no means a trivial issue, where an estimated 80% of North American and many Middle and Far Eastern reservoirs are in rocks affected by dolomitization.
As in any meeting of this kind, the weight of emphasis lies with the contributors. Sessions were devoted to Early Dolomites, Burial Dolomitization, Fractures and Reservoir Quality, the Geometry of Dolomite Bodies, Petrophysics and a variety of case histories. Although a polite accord was maintained throughout the conference discussion raised the blood pressures of at least some delegates. In keeping with the diversity of views on the origins of dolomites, there was a schizoid disconnection between those driven by curiosity; ‘art for arts sake’, and those with clear economic objectives, with fanatics and
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