Petroleum Exploration in the French Rhine Graben

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Christiansen, F. G., Boesen, A., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. A., Chalmers, J. A., Dalhoff, F., Dam, G., Ferré Hjortkjær, B., Kristensen, L., Melchior Larsen, L., Marcussen, C., Mathiesen, A., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Pedersen, A. K., Pedersen, G. K., Pulvertaft, T. C. R., Skaarup, N., & Sønderholm, M. (1999). Petroleum geological activities in West Greenland in 1998. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 183, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v183.5204 _______________ In the last few years there has been renewed interest for petroleum exploration in West Greenland and licences have been granted to two groups of companies: the Fylla licence operated by Statoil was awarded late in 1996; the Sisimiut-West licence operated by Phillips Petroleum was awarded in the summer of 1998 (Fig. 1). The first offshore well for more than 20 years will be drilled in the year 2000 on one of the very spectacular structures within the Fylla area. To stimulate further petroleum exploration around Greenland – and in particular in West Greenland – a new licensing policy has been adopted. In July 1998, the administration of mineral and petroleum resources was transferred from the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy to the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum under the Government of Greenland in Nuuk. Shortly after this, the Greenlandic and Danish governments decided to develop a new exploration strategy. A working group consisting of members from the authorities (including the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland – GEUS) made recommendations on the best ways to stimulate exploration in the various regions on- and offshore Greenland. The strategy work included discussions with seismic companies because it was considered important that industry acquires additional seismic data in the seasons 1999 and 2000.

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Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Exploration in Japan: ABSTRACT

AAPG Bulletin ◽

10.1306/bc7437a9-16be-11d7-8645000102c1865d ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

Author(s):

Helen L. Foster

Keyword(s):

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Petroleum Exploration

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Application and development trend of artificial intelligence in petroleum exploration and development

Petroleum Exploration and Development ◽

10.1016/s1876-3804(21)60001-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lichun KUANG ◽

He LIU ◽

Yili REN ◽

Kai LUO ◽

Mingyu SHI ◽

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Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Development Trend ◽

Petroleum Exploration ◽

Exploration And Development

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Estimation of permeability and saturation based on imaginary component of complex resistivity spectra: A laboratory study

Open Geosciences ◽

10.1515/geo-2020-0108 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 299-306

Author(s):

Jiang Jia ◽

Shizhen Ke ◽

Junjian Li ◽

Zhengming Kang ◽

Xuerui Ma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Saturation ◽

Pore Space ◽

Evaluation Model ◽

Low Frequency ◽

Petroleum Exploration ◽

Western China ◽

Imaginary Component ◽

Estimation Model ◽

Complex Resistivity ◽

Linear Relationships

AbstractLow-frequency resistivity logging plays an important role in the field of petroleum exploration, but the complex resistivity spectrum of rock also contains a large amount of information about reservoir parameters. The complex resistivity spectra of 15 natural sandstone cores from western China, with different water saturations, were measured with an impedance analyzer. The pore space of each core was saturated with NaCl solution, and measurements were collected at a frequency range of 40–15 MHz. The results showed a linear relationship between the real resistivity at 1 kHz and the maximum values of imaginary resistivity for each core with different water saturations. The slopes of the linear best-fit lines had good linear relationships with the porosity and the permeability of cores. Based on this, a permeability estimation model was proposed and tested. In addition, the maxima of imaginary resistivity had power exponential relationships with the porosity and the water saturation of the cores. A saturation evaluation model based on the maxima of imaginary resistivity was established by imitating Archie’s formula. The new models were found to be feasible for determining the permeability and saturation of sandstone based on complex resistivity spectrum measurements. These models advance the application of complex resistivity spectrum in petrophysics.

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