Low resistivity, low contrast pays: Part I - concepts and methodology for identification and evaluation
Conference
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· AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)
OSTI ID:6749899
- Robert M. Sneider Exploration Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
- Loren and Associates Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
Major hydrocarbon accumulations have been found and produced in low resistivity, low contrast (LRLC) sands in the Gulf of Mexico Basin (GOM). In the past in the GOM, LRLC reservoirs were commonly considered wet, tight, misidentified as a shale, or overlooked. Examples of many offshore GOM producing wells are documented now in a joint publication of the Houston and New Orleans geological societies. These examples provide models for identification and evaluation of wells with similar geologic-petrophysical occurrence in the world, including southeast Asia. LRLC pays in the GOM are caused by one or more of the following: (1) thin beds or laminae of clean sands alternating with shales, silts, or shaly sands, (2) clay-coated sands, (3) glauconite-rich sands, (4) sands with interstitial dispersed clay, (5) sands with disseminated pyrite or other conductive minerals, (6) clay-lined burrows, (7) clay clasts in clean sand, (8) altered volcanic/feldspathic framework grains, and (9) very fine-grained sand with very saline water. Similar types of LRLC pay and potential pay sands are being recognized in Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines, and Korea. Common depositional systems containing LRLC production in the GOM are (1) deep-water fans, including levee-channel complexes, (2) delta front and toe deposits, (3) shingle turbidites, and (4) alluvial and deltaic channel fills. Similar depositional systems are found in southeast Asia.
- OSTI ID:
- 6749899
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940803--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States) Journal Volume: 78:7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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· AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)
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