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Title: Low resistivity, low contrast pays: Part II-comparison of examples from Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Mexico

Conference · · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)
OSTI ID:6811495

The Gulf of Mexico Basin (GOM) is the world's leading oil and gas producer from low resistivity, low contrast (LRLC) clastic intervals. Many GOM fields have had production from LRLC pays for more than 15 years and some for over 40 yrs. LRLC pay zones are being recognized more frequently now in other basins in the world, including southeast Asia. LRLC pays in southeast Asia have many similarities and some differences with the LRLC producing zones in the Gulf of Mexico Basin. The depositional environments containing LRLC pays in southeast Asia are (1) major regional and local marine transgressive sands, (2) deep-water sands, including levee-channel complexes, (3) deltaic channel and bar-front sands, and (4) shingled turbidites. LRLC pays in marine transgressive sands are more abundant in southeast Asia.

OSTI ID:
6811495
Report Number(s):
CONF-940803-; CODEN: AABUD2
Journal Information:
AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States), Vol. 78:7; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) international conference and exhibition, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 21-24 Aug 1994; ISSN 0149-1423
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English