L Amirbahador; H Rahimpour-Bonab; M Arian
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This study is focused on the microfacies and facies associations in the 540 meter-thick interval of the Late Permian Upper Dalan reservoirs in the South Pars Gas Field using the petrographic studies, image analysis techniques and quantitative analysis of the constituting components. The petrographic ...
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This study is focused on the microfacies and facies associations in the 540 meter-thick interval of the Late Permian Upper Dalan reservoirs in the South Pars Gas Field using the petrographic studies, image analysis techniques and quantitative analysis of the constituting components. The petrographic studies led to the recognition of 15 microfacies that formed in four facies associations: peritidal, lagoon, shoal and off shoal. Due to the high frequency of the shoal facies in the Upper Dalan, those have been investigated in details. The relative sea-level changes during deposition of the Upper Dalan member were examined using the vertical microfacies and facies association’s variations. The main focus of this study is to investigate the microfacies variations and depositional environment evolutions in the Upper Dalan member in response to the relative sea-level changes. The frequency analysis of the facies revealed that during the Late Permian, a major fall has been occurred in relative sea-level recorded in the lower (K4 unit) and upper (K3 unit) parts of the Upper Dalan member. In these intervals, the facies change from ooid-bioclastic shoals to the alternative layers of shoal-lagoon-peritidal facies. As well, anhydrite precipitation and dolomitization are prominent diagenetic features, which are indications of climate change. The facies variations were used to reconstruct the relative sea-level changes during deposition of the Upper Dalan member in the South Pars Gas Field. As a result, two and a half third-order and 12 fourth-order cycles have been distinguished.
N. Khodaei; M. H. Adabi; S. A. Moallemi; M. Moradpour
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The Kangan Formation is a carbonate-evaporate sequence that is considered as a part of the largest carbonate reservoir in the South Pars Field at Persian Gulf. Petrography analysis led to the recognition of 5 different dolomite types: such as dolomicrite, dolomicrospar, dolospar, dolomite cement and ...
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The Kangan Formation is a carbonate-evaporate sequence that is considered as a part of the largest carbonate reservoir in the South Pars Field at Persian Gulf. Petrography analysis led to the recognition of 5 different dolomite types: such as dolomicrite, dolomicrospar, dolospar, dolomite cement and saddle dolomite. Elemental studies on dolomicrite and dolomicrospar samples show a relative increase of Sr and Na and relative decrease of Fe and Mn in comparison with the dolomicrosparite samples. It is notable that the oxygen-carbon isotope trend in dolomite samples are due to slight influence of meteoric diagenesis (about dolomites type I, II and III) and burial diagenesis (about dolomites type IV and V). The dolomicrites have been undergone slight meteoric diagenesis, although they have formed in sabkha environment. The source of Mg for dolomicrites is the magnesium of seawater and interstitial waters equilibrium with seawater and on the other hand probably for the coarser grain dolomites in the Kangan Formation is connate waters and basinal brines. Based on the heaviest oxygen isotope in dolomicrite samples, paleotemperature of depositional environment of the Kangan Formation was around 44.5°C.