Sedimentology
Hamed Hazariyan; Masoumeh Kordi; Mansour Ziaii; Mehrdad Soleimani Monfared; َAhmad Yahyaei
Abstract
The sequence stratigraphic studies provide information regarding the distribution of different facies within sedimentary basins. With determining relationship between reservoir or non-reservoir facies and sequence stratigraphy, dissemination of reservoir zones can be achieved within sequence stratigraphic ...
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The sequence stratigraphic studies provide information regarding the distribution of different facies within sedimentary basins. With determining relationship between reservoir or non-reservoir facies and sequence stratigraphy, dissemination of reservoir zones can be achieved within sequence stratigraphic framework. In this paper, using petrographic studies correlated with Gamma-Ray deviation logs, the sedimentary environment, sequences and systems tracts of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation were revealed in one of the Iranian oil fields. Moreover, based on the wireline logs and petrophysical analyses, the factors controlling reservoir quality including porosity, water saturation and shale volume were invistigated within sequences and their systems tracts. The study showed that in general, the highstand systems tracts have higher reservoir quality than the trangressive systems tracts. Distribution of grain-suported and nearshore facies and also absence of anhydrite facies in the upper parts of transgressive systems tracts and the lower parts of highstand systems tracts resulted in development of the best reservoir quality zones within each sequence. This type of studies is very helpful in analysing the sedimentary basins and discovering distribution of the hydrocarbon reserves, and thus it could assist in management of risk reduction in exploration and development activities.
Tectonics
Mahnaz Sabahi; Ramazan Ramazani Omali; Masoumeh Kordi; Mohsen Dourandish
Abstract
In the past decade, several geophysical, geological and reservoir studies have been done on the Qom formation in the Yortesha field for injection and gas storage purposes. Qom formation in this field has a poor reservoir characteristic (low porosity and permeability); therefore the role of fractures ...
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In the past decade, several geophysical, geological and reservoir studies have been done on the Qom formation in the Yortesha field for injection and gas storage purposes. Qom formation in this field has a poor reservoir characteristic (low porosity and permeability); therefore the role of fractures for increasing permeability and improving reservoir quality is very important. In the current study, fractures’ concentration and strike patterns of the Qom and Upper Red formations as the carbonate reservoir and cap rock, respectively, have been investigated and compared in the Yortesha anticline and its adjacent anticlines (Davazdah Emam and Morreh) using surface and subsurface investigations. In order to achieve this goal, desert data gathering methods, remote sensing, and image log analysis have been used. Subsurface studies and interpretation of FMS and EMI image logs determined that fractures have also a secondary strike of NE-SW in addition to strike of NW-SE. Based on the FMS image log interpretation of well No. 2, three subsurface fracture sets have been identified with the strikes of N55E, N65E, and N15W as well as using the EMI log of well No. 4 shows the two dominant strike of N10E and S45E. The total 1852 specified fractures in the out crops of the Morreh and Davazdah Emam surface anticlines can lead to rose diagrams that show four fracture sets with the strikes of N10E, N45E, N80E, and S45E.
