scholarly journals FEATURES OF GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF CARBONATE SEDIMENTS ON THE WEST SIBERIAN PLATE TERRITORY

2017 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
M. L. Moroz ◽  
A. B. Tugareva

The article considers the wells that have penetrated the carbonate sediments with the geological and paleontological information. By the late Devonian epoch paleogeographic scheme they are located in certain megazones with their inherent characteristics of sedimentation. Examples of lateral relations of carbonate or shalecarbonate rocks with subordinate volcanic rocks on Lovinsky and Khanty-Mansi areas are given. A variety of types of carbonate rocks is associated with structural features of basins in which there was sedimentation, as well as various secondary processes. Based on new geological information, obtained in recent years on Galyanovsk, South Galyanovsk, Khanty-Mansi and other areas, the areas of distribution of carbonate deposits within the Frolovskaya megadepression are clarified. Their petroleum potential is associated with reef structures is mostly confined to near rim parts of the deep depressions of the basement, a reliable mapping of which is possible with more detailed geophysical work.

Within the West Siberian petroleum basin, more than 60 oil and gas fields have been discovered in the pre-Jurassic basement formations. Reserves of these fields are referred to hard-to-recover ones due to both the complexity of the geological structure and the need to apply non-standard approaches at all stages of their search, exploration and development. Development of the Pre-Jurassic complex is one of the main directions in replenishing the raw material base of hydrocarbons in West Siberia, where production from traditional fields is steadily declining. The article summarizes the data on geological features and petroleum potential of the Pre-Jurassic complex of the West Siberian basin. Based on the analysis of results of exploration and development of accumulations, proposals on various geological and technological parameters are formulated when performing the geological and economic appraisal of promising targets with similar predicted characteristics.


1973 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
G Henderson

During the summer the geological and geophysical work on Cretaceous-Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic rocks of central West Greenland embarked upon in 1971 (see Henderson, 1972), was continued. This programme ran concurrently with offshore geophysical work (see Denham, this report), the object of the combined investigations being to study in detail the sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the entire area. With the interest in the petroleum potential of the West Greenland continental shelf continuing unabated, the only area where the Cretaceous-Tertiary rocks are exposed is clearly of considerable economic as well as academic interest.


1946 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
David E. Owen

The rocks of the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire were originally described by John Cunningham in 1839, as three series, two moderately resistant to the east and the west, separated by a central region of soft sandstones and marls, dipping uniformly eastwards. G. H. Morton noted this in 1872, as a good description of the strata, ignoring faults, and pointed out the significance of the faulting. Since that date the faults have been mapped in great detail, and most of the structural features ascribed to them. G. H. Morton was particularly accurate with his mapping of faults both in Liverpool (1899), and in Storeton (G. H. Morton, 1883, and H. C. Beasley, 1914). The folding finds its first mention in the Geological Survey Memoir of 1923, two elongated synclines being mentioned, one from Heswall northwards and the other from Storeton to Prenton. The former is undoubtedly an important synclinal feature, but the latter is made up of two folds, a north to south anticline at Storeton, and an east to west syncline at Prenton. The only other records of folding in Wirral are by F. T. Maidwell in 1920 and by T. A. Jones in 1937, who mention an anticline at Ellesmere Port. This paper is therefore chiefly devoted to a description of the folding in the area.


Author(s):  
R. R. Gabdullin ◽  
O. N. Biryukova ◽  
R. A. Akhmedov

The analysis of geological and geophysical materials in order to study the peculiarities of the geological structure of the Vikulov Formation within the Vodorazdel license area was carried out. The presented factual material makes it possible to characterize the geological structure of the investigated area more informatively and for interpreting of seismic materials. The analysis of geological information (GIS and test results) confirms the approved water–oil contact (WOC) level in the investigated section of the deposit, which makes it possible to recalculate its reserves.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakov Dzhalatyan ◽  
Mikhail Charupa ◽  
Aydar Galiev ◽  
Yevgeniy Karpekin ◽  
Sergey Egorov ◽  
...  

Abstract In the presented paper, the object of the study are carbonate rocks of the Riphean and clastic-carbonate rocks of Vendian-Cambrian ages, uncovered by the well drilled at Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye field. These reservoirs are characterized by extremely low porosity (1-4%) and determining saturation nature and fluid contacts cannot be reliably solved by conventional wireline petrophysical logging. Solutions to these problems are provided by interval testing using wireline formation evaluation testing tool (WFT). However, to obtain quality results from WFT testing it is important to identify porous intervals first by using advanced wireline logging services which are sensitive to porosity and fractures. In order to select the optimal WFT toolstring combination and to prospective testing intervals, advanced petrophysical wireline logging suit ran first. Porous reservoirs were identified from density, neutron and nuclear magnetic resonance evaluation. Saturation evaluated through dielectric and induction-based resistivity logging. In fracture-vug type reservoir, the main inflow of formation fluid into the well is provided from fractures, so it was very important to allocate conductive fractures to plan test intervals for WFT accordingly. based on imagers evaluation, fractures and faults were visualized; using Stoneley's wave conductive fractures, not clogged with drilling mud solids were identified; borehole acoustic reflection survey was used to segregate large fractures that propagated in the reservoir; During WFT logging, a total of 23 intervals were tested, for 8 of which reservoir fluid inflow was achieved, in all others, mainly with low porosity or single non-conductive fracture, the inflow was not achieved or was insignificant. According to the results of WFT testing, the nature of saturation for clastic-carbonate sediments of Vendian age was determined. Inflow of formation fluid (oil and water) from Riphean fractured reservoirs was achieved from 6 intervals, with identified fractures according to described above advanced logging suit. In addition, pressure transient analysis was performed, to measure the formation pressure, define pressure gradient curves and assess the fluids contact level with high confidence, for the first time for this field.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Deffontaines ◽  
Kuo-Jen Chang ◽  
Samuel Magalhaes ◽  
Gérardo Fortunato

<p>Volcanic areas in the World are often difficult to map especially in a structural point of view as (1) fault planes are generally covered and filled by more recent lava flows and (2) volcanic rocks have very few tectonic striations. Kuei-Shan Tao (11km from Ilan Plain – NE Taiwan) is a volcanic island, located at the soutwestern tip of the South Okinawa trough (SWOT). Two incompatible geological maps had been already published both lacking faults and structural features (Hsu, 1963 and Chiu et al., 2010). We propose herein not only to up-date the Kuei-Shan Tao geological map with our high resolution dataset, but also to create the Kuei-Shan Tao structural scheme in order to better understand its geological and tectonic history.</p><p>Consequently, we first acquired aerial photographs from our UAS survey and get our new UAS high resolution DTM (HR UAS-DTM hereafter) with a ground resolution <10cm processed through classical photogrammetric methods. Taking into account common sense geomorphic and structural interpretation and reasoning deduced form our HR UAS-DTM, and the outcropping lithologies situated all along the shoreline, we have up-dated the Kuei-Shan Tao geological mapping and its major structures. To conclude, the lithologies (andesitic lava flows and pyroclastic falls) and the new structural scheme lead us to propose a scenario for both the construction as well as the dismantling of Kuei-Shan Tao which are keys for both geology and geodynamics of the SWOT.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
D. V. Alexeiev ◽  
Yu. S. Biske ◽  
A. V. Djenchuraeva ◽  
B. Wang ◽  
O. L. Kossovaya ◽  
...  

The field revision of the Carboniferous and Lower Permian stratigraphy of the northern Bogdashan (South Junggar, Northwest China) shows that the Lower to Middle Carboniferous island arc volcanic rocks, widely developed in this region, are overlapped everywhere by carbonate and terrigenous-carbonate sediments, containing occasional lava flows and overlain up the section by thick terrigenous series practically devoid of volcanic rocks. The deposition of limestone occurred at the stage of dying off of a volcanic arc, and the question of their age is of fundamental importance for dating this event. Carbonates are represented by facies of lagoons, shoals, and bioherms that formed on the leveled surface of the arc and on the slopes of the last active volcanoes. Bioherms are Waulsortian mounds and are mainly composed of algal limestones and carbonate mud. There are no framestones composed of corals and sponges (chaetetids) typical of the tropical zone. The facies of shallow crinoid-fusulinid limestones typical of the adjacent territories of the Southern Tien Shan and Tarim are poorly represented. Paleogeographically, the position of bioherms corresponds to the northern boundary of the realm of Pennsylvanian reefs. On the basis of foraminifers, brachiopods, and corals, the age of carbonates is early Moscovian (ca. 315–310 Ma). Cessation of island-arc volcanism, followed by the accumulation of limestone in Bogdashan, occurred sub-synchronously with formation of the West Junggar (Bayingou) suture and may reflect docking of the Bogdashan arc to the Yili active margin of the Kazakhstan continent. Further subsidence of Bogdashan and adjacent regions of the Junggar and Turfan basins, which was somewhat slower at the end of the Carboniferous and more intense in the Early and Middle Permian, may reflect the development of the foreland basin that formed along the northern flank of the Tien Shan orogen. Marine facies were locally preserved in this basin until the Artinskian (ca. 285 Ma), and later the Junggar and Turfan basins lost connection to the ocean and developed in continental environments.


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