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What is best traps of petroleum?

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Question added by mohamed motasim , Geologist , GTC
Date Posted: 2017/04/11
Mahmoud Ahmed Ali Abdelrazik
by Mahmoud Ahmed Ali Abdelrazik , Senior Drilling Supervisor , ADNOC Offshore

Good reservoir with good permeability and sealing cap (cap rock) with low permeability is very good trap. In all traps are classified into: structural traps, strati graphictraps and may be combined from both. other trap may be from as fractured traps like i basement rocks.

Jose Antonio Rodriguez Pimentel
by Jose Antonio Rodriguez Pimentel , Sr. Petroleum Production and tecnical sales , Schlumberger

Geologicaly speaking I would say it is an anticline with good grain quality (sandstone) and good seals and water aquifer in the bottom. 

ABERRAHMANE METALI
by ABERRAHMANE METALI , Stagiaire , SONATRACH

The best traps of petroleum is the Structural traps:

The anticline traps. These are preferential sites of oil and gas. And the fault trap.

 

muneeb khan
by muneeb khan , Trainee Engineer , Halliburton Worldwide Limited

Anticline Fold Trap. this type of trap is by far the most significant to the hydrocarbon industry.

Muhammad Luqman
by Muhammad Luqman , Material specialist/ Engineer , BECHTEL PETROFAC JV - BPJV - EPCM [EPIC Recruitment Services]

Structural trap.

the amount of haydrocarbon in any trap depend on different propery and chaerteristics so in some cases it also depend on trap to taps.

Rizwan Minhas
by Rizwan Minhas , Production Engineer , Oil and Gas Development Company Limited Islamabad

Structural Traps having an Anticline is acting as a best trap

an anticlinal is the best trap of petroleum

Salihu Usman
by Salihu Usman , Energy Analyst , ENERGY COMMISSION OF NIGERIA

anticlinal trap A fold structure with an arch of non-porous rock overlying porous strata (reservoir rock), providing a trap in which oil, gas, or water may accumulate

Irfan Ullah
by Irfan Ullah , Petroleum Engineer , TDS Total Dynamics System Pvt. Limited

Structural Traps are the best traps with no permability.

Mohammed Abdulwadood Mohammed Al-sanhani
by Mohammed Abdulwadood Mohammed Al-sanhani , Petroleum Engineer , SEP

Structural traps  such as Anticline with sandstone reservoir rock ,good sealing rocks and water drive mechanism

David Somerville
by David Somerville , Master Science Teacher--Biology , Tri-city College Prep High School

A good trap for petroleum is a swamp full of reeds and petroleum digesting bacteria and other organisms which break down the complex chemical chain of organic molecules.

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