scholarly journals Organic Petrographic and Geochemical Evaluation of the Black Shale of the Duwi Formation, El Sebaiya, Nile Valley, Egypt

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1416
Author(s):  
Esmat Abou El-Anwar ◽  
Salman Salman ◽  
Doaa Mousa ◽  
Sami Aita ◽  
Walid Makled ◽  
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This study evaluates the palynologic, organic, inorganic, and petrographic properties of organic-rich black shale (Mahamid Mine) in the El Sebaiya area, Nile Valley, Egypt. Black shale is composed of quartz (50%), calcite (10%), kaolinite (25%) and montmorillonite (15%). Organic and inorganic analyses revealed that this shale was deposited under oxic to anoxic marine conditions during strong chemical weathering. Black shale has poor to very good organic richness, and poor to fair hydrocarbon potential. Organic petrography indicates that the kerogen is mixed types II/III and III and is immature to marginally mature (%VRo is 0.44 and 0.53). Liptinite macerals consist of alginite, cutinite, and bituminite. The hydrocarbon products to be generated at higher maturity are expected to be oil and gas.

Author(s):  
R.S. Khisamov ◽  
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V.G. Bazarevskaya ◽  
T.I. Tarasova ◽  
N.A. Badurtdinova ◽  
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Author(s):  
E. A. Lavrenova ◽  
Yu. V. Shcherbina ◽  
R. A. Mamedov

Background. Three prospective sedimentary complexes — Aptian-Upper Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene — are predicted in the waters of the Eastern Arctic seas. Here, the search for oil and gas is associated with harsh Arctic conditions at sea, as well as with high geological risks and significant expenditures under the conditions of poor knowledge of the region. In this regard, the localisation of prospecting drilling objects and the assessment of the geological risks of deposit discovery should be carried out.Aim. To assess geological risks and to determine the probability of discovering oil and gas fields, as well as to identify prospective areas for licensing and exploration in the water areas of the Eastern Arctic.Materials and methods. Structural and heat flow maps along with the results of geochemical analysis, as well as typical terrestrial sections were used as initial materials. Using the method of basin analysis, the modelling of generation-accumulation hydrocarbon systems (GAHS) and the quantitative assessment of its hydrocarbon potential in the Eastern Arctic water area was carried out. The assessment of geological risks and the probability of field discovery was performed using the conventional methodology widely applied by oil companies.Results. The GAHS modelling using a variation approach showed that, regardless of the kerogen type, with average values of Сorg in sediments, potential oil-and-gas source strata (OGSS) were capable of saturating the prospective objects with hydrocarbons. The “OGSS assessment” factor was determined as “encouraging” (0.7). Active geodynamic regime and the manifestation of several folding phases within the study area provided favourable conditions for the formation of anticlinaltraps in sedimentary basins. However, the cap rock quality rating was assessed as “neutral” (0.5). The overall risk for the “Trap assessment” factor was estimated based on the minimum criterion of 0.5.Conclusion. The most prospective areas recommended for licensing were selected, and the recommendations for further geological exploration work in these areas were given in order to clarify their hydrocarbon potential and reduce geological risks.


1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Lanigan ◽  
Shane Hibbird ◽  
Sandy Menpes ◽  
John Torkington

Exploration over Roper Group outcrop in the McArthur Basin prompted Pacific Oil & Gas to investigate the petroleum potential of the Beetaloo Sub-basin, a 15 000 km2 Proterozoic depression concealed beneath Phanerozoic cover. Since 1989 drilling and seismic has identified a broadly flat-lying sequence with uplifted, eroded margins. A 3 500 m composite Proterozoic section consisting of three sandstone-to-mudstone sequences has been drilled. The lower two sequences comprise conformable units of the Mesoproterozoic upper Roper Group and unconformably overlying them is a previously unknown sequence comprising the informally labelled 'Jamison Sandstone' and 'Hayfield Mudstone', probably of Neoproterozoic age.Organic-rich intervals in the Roper Group mudstones range one to three per cent TOC in the Kyalla Member, and two to seven per cent TOC in the 'Middle' Velkerri Formation. Across most of the sub-basin the oil window lies within the Kyalla Member around 900–1350 m, while the 'Middle' Velkerri Formation is around 2 500 m and well into overmaturity, but may still have potential for gas. Potential reservoirs in the Bessie Creek, Moroak and 'Jamison' Sandstones, and in sandy units within the mudstones, are compromised by diagenesis, but porosities of up to 20 per cent and permeabilities of tens and rarely hundreds of millidarcies have been measured. Encouraging shows were observed in many of these intervals, and small quantities of oil and gas have been recovered in drill stem tests. With only a few targets drilled to date, this frontier area requires more exploration before its hydrocarbon potential can be adequately assessed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
P.N. Prokhorova ◽  
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E.P. Razvozzhaeva ◽  
V.I. Isaev ◽  
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The prospects of oil and gas content of the Cretaceous-Paleogene deposits of the Middle Amur sedimentary basin within the Pereyaslavsky graben are clarified on the basis of updated data on the tectonic-stratigraphic complexes of the basin using the method of one-dimensional paleotemperature modeling. It is established that throughout the history of formation of the studied part of Pereyaslavsky graben hydrocarbon generation could occur in lower Cretaceous sediments of the Assikaevsky and Alchansky/Strelnikovsky suites. The gas generation conditions for the Assykaevsky formation are still maintained.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (K4) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Chuc Dinh Nguyen ◽  
Tu Van Nguyen ◽  
Hung Quang Nguyen ◽  
Cuong Van Bui ◽  
Thanh Quoc Truong ◽  
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As oil and gas production has been going on over a few decades, conventional plays such as pre-Tertiary fractured basement highs and Cenozoic structural traps become more and more exhausted, and the remaining targets of the same type do not have sufficient reserves for development and production. Exploration activities in Cuu Long basin, therefore, are shifting towards more complicating types of plays which are stratigraphic traps and combination traps. Several researches were conducted in southeastern marginal slope and indicated the possibility of stratigraphic pinch-out traps with insufficient petroleum system and low hydrocarbon potential. In spite of many researches, there are still difficulties in defining the distribution and in evaluating hydrocarbon potential of these traps, so seismic stratigraphy analysis in accompanied with interpretation of seismic attribute and well logs is very necessary to support this problem. Seismic stratigraphic analysis on seismic sections, in agreement with seismic attributes’ and log analysis’ findings, show that the stratigraphic/combination traps in Oligocene C and D were formed during lowstand system tract as sigmoid-oblique clinoforms downlapping onto underlying strata in distributary mouths/delta settings. The integration of seismic attribute analysis and well log interpretation has further defined the fan-shaped distribution of these traps. Thus, using various methods, the stratigraphic traps can be better revealed. Further studies, however, need to be carried out to fully evaluate hydrocarbon potential of these stratigraphic/ combination traps, and minimize risks in exploration drilling.


Author(s):  
H. I. Rudko ◽  
V. V. Sobol

Energy independence is an important component of sustainable development and security of the state. Ukraine has a great hydrocarbon potential of the subsoil, which is why the priority objective is a search and exploration of new deposits of hydrocarbon raw materials. One of the important directions for increase of potential resources and reserves of oil and gas is the development of large deep (over 4500–5000 m) deposits, as hydrocarbon reserves at small and medium depths are quite depleted in many regions. For a long time, hydrocarbon reservoirs in basement rocks were underestimated during geological exploration works. Obtained results indicate that new concepts of the formation of hydrocarbon deposits can dramatically change the system of oil production, methods of prospecting and development of deposits. It is important to assess possible oil-and-gas-bearing capacity of sediments and rocks of the basement by identifying prospective areas of hydrocarbon deposits, including in the rocks of the crystalline basement. In Ukraine, main prospects of discovery of oil and gas deposits at great depths are associated nowadays with the Dnieper-Donets Rift (DDR). Deposits with accumulations of hydrocarbons at depths of more than 5000 m are concentrated in the main oil-and-gas-bearing areas of the Rift that coincide with the central paraxial and marginal zones of the graben. It was in the central segment of the DDR that the main regularities of oil-and-gas-bearing capacity of deep-lying geological formations were first discovered: secondary nature of reservoirs, discovery of the phenomenon of supercollectors and associated huge debits. It is relevant and promising to study the process of recovery/replenishment of gas reserves by the example of deposits that are at the final stage of development.


Author(s):  
И.А. Богуш ◽  
Г.В. Рябов ◽  
В.И. Черкашин ◽  
Н.А. Исаева

Объектами исследования являются терригенные породы, входящие в состав Тоханского комплекса (Тоханский покров), расположенные в пределах Передового хребта Северного Кавказа и прослеженные на протяжении более 200 километров. Тоханский комплекс сложен пелитоморфными углеродсодержащими отложениями (черными сланцами) с подчиненными проявлениями вулканогенных, глинистокремнистых, глинистокарбонатных и псаммитовых пород, испытал зеленокаменный метаморфизм. Целью работы был анализ геохимических особенностей углеродсодержащей черносланцевой герцинской толщи Северного Кавказа. Специфическим для черных сланцев является комплекс элементов, типоморфных для ультрамафитовых пород: хром, кобальт, никель, титан, марганец, ванадий, фосфор. Халькофильные элементы гидротермалитов в черных сланцах, такие как медь, цинк, свинец, содержатся обычно в небольших количествах, но локально, в флюидоактивных зонах тектонических нарушений, их содержание резко возрастает. Группа элементов, типоморфных спутников золота мышьяк, висмут, сурьма, в неизмененных сланцах проявлена слабо, концентрируясь в участках наложенной гидротермальной проработки. Установлена значительная возмущающая роль магния в сланцах. Все это говорит о своеобразии черносланцевых отложений и значительном влиянии ультраосновного материала на их петрохимические особенности. Петрохимические модули указывают на установленную невысокую проявленность процессов механической дифференциации, низкую степень вклада процессов химического выветривания и низкий уровень показателя зрелости материала пород области сноса при формировании основной массы отложений. Площадное и точечное опробование черных сланцев на благородные металлы показало повсеместное присутствие золота, платины и палладия в аномальном количестве в сумме трех металлов не менее 1 г/т. Изложенный материал впервые однозначно указывает на ультрабазиты в качестве единого первичного источника благородных металлов в черносланцевом комплексе. Показано, что благородные металлы (Au, Pt, Pd) сингенетичны вмещающим осадочным терригенным толщам и отлагаются в процессе седиментогенеза. Анализ рудоносности черных сланцев Кавказа и установление древнейшего источника благородных металлов стали отправным пунктом для создания авторами металлометрической геологогенетической модели благородных металлов Северного Кавказа, охватывающей весь фанерозойский этап его развития. Черносланцевая зона Северного Кавказа может рассматриваться как новая перспективная провинция благородных металлов Au, Pt, Pd. The objects of the study are terrigenous rocks that are part of the Tokhan complex (Tokhan cover), located within the Advanced ridge of the North Caucasus and traced for more than 200 kilometers. The Tokhan complex is composed of pelitomorphic carbonaceous sediments (black shales) with subordinate manifestations of volcanogenic, claysiliceous, claycarbonate and psammitic rocks, has experienced greenstone metamorphism. The aim of the work was to analyze the geochemical features of the carbonaceous black shale Hercynian strata of the North Caucasus. Specific for black shale is a complex of elements typomorphic to ultramafic rocks: chromium, cobalt, nickel, titanium, manganese, vanadium, phosphorus. Chalcophilic elements of hydrothermalites in black shales, such as copper, zinc, lead, are usually contained in small quantities, but locally, in fluidactive zones of tectonic disturbances, their content increases sharply. A group of elements, typomorphic satellites of gold arsenic, bismuth, antimony, in unmodified shales is weakly manifested, concentrating in the areas of superimposed hydrothermal development. A significant perturbing role of magnesium in shale has been established. All this indicates the originality of black shale deposits and the significant influence of ultrabasic material on their petrochemical characteristics. Petrochemical modules indicate the established low manifestation of mechanical differentiation processes, a low degree of contribution of chemical weathering processes and a low level of maturity of the material in the drift area during the formation of the bulk of the deposits. Areal and point testing of black shale for noble metals showed the ubiquitous presence of gold, platinum and palladium in abnormal amounts in the sum of three metalsnot less than 1 g / t.The presented material for the first time clearly indicates ultrabasites as a single primary source of precious metals in the black shale complex. It is shown that noble metals (Au, Pt, Pd) are syngenetic to the host sedimentary terrigenous strata and are deposited during sedimentogenesis. Analysis of the orebearing black shales of the Caucasus and the establishment of the oldest source of precious metals became the starting point for the creation of the authors metallogenically geologicalgenetic models of noble metals in the North Caucasus spanning the entire Phanerozoic stage of its development. The black shale zone of the North Caucasus can be considered as a new promising province of precious metalsAu, Pt, Pd.


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