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AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 90 (2006), Program Abstracts (Digital)

7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition
Manama, Bahrain
March 27-29, 2006

ABSTRACT: Tilt-Derivative Filtered Potential Fields Data Unravel the Paleozoic Previous HitStructureNext Hit Image in Tinat Previous HitFieldNext Hit, Saudi Arabia

Emad Al-Muzaiyen1, Mesbah Khalil2, and Maher Al Marhoon3
1 Exploration, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, 31311, Saudi Arabia, phone: 873-4595, [email protected]
2 Area Exploration, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
3 Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

The 3D seismic Previous HitstructureNext Hit image of the Paleozoic reservoir in Tinat Gas Previous HitFieldNext Hit southeast of Ghawar Previous HitFieldNext Hit is enhanced to match with the basement shape map driven from the tilt derivative mathematic filtered gravity data that will guide future exploration and development of the Previous HitfieldNext Hit. The objective of this study is to enhance the Paleozoic reservoir Previous HitstructureNext Hit image over Tinat Previous HitFieldNext Hit to guide its future exploration and delineation. The study depended on integrating new seismic Previous HitstructureNext Hit maps with the tilt filtered gravity data and the well data. The tilt filter technique tends to enhance mapping of the subtle magnetic and gravity anomalies, and maximizes characterizing the geometrical contrast of the internal basement Previous HitstructureNext Hit that supports the seismic Previous HitstructureNext Hit image. Results of the study indicated strong penetrative basement Previous HitstructureNext Hit fabric at the Paleozoic reservoir level that might cause future semi-compartmentalization along the Previous HitfieldNext Hit. The Previous HitstructureNext Hit Previous HitsettingNext Hit of the Previous HitfieldNext Hit indicates set of north- south oriented push-up fault closures over a series of basement micro-blocks. Several east-west stress-partitioning faults dissect the Previous HitfieldNext Hit into different domains with a strike-slip transpression sense of motion. The basement shape map driven from tilt gravity filtered data of the Tint Previous HitfieldNext Hit, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, mimics to a great extent, the seismic Previous HitstructureTop image at the top of the Late Paleozoic Unaiyza reservoir

 

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