Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Science & Technology Edition) ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 43-53.DOI: 10.11885/j.issn.1674-5086.2020.10.15.01

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The Reason of Limestone Formation Thickering and Its Effect to Reservoir in the North of Oriente Basin

CHEN Jie1,2, TONG Mingsheng1, CHEN Guo1   

  1. 1. Geological Exploration and Development Research Institute, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Co. Ltd., CNPC, Chengdu, Sichuan 610051, China;
    2. International Natural Gas Technology Support Center, CNPC, Chengdu, Sichuan 610051, China
  • Received:2020-10-15 Online:2022-12-10 Published:2023-01-16

Abstract: The Oriente Basin is one of the most important basin with hydrocarbon source rocks in South American. The major petroleum system is Creatures Napo sandstone. The Napo Formation developed in tide sediment environment with the complex lithology including quartz sandtone, glauconite sandstone, limestone and shale. There are 3 sets of limestone formation in the Napo named as A, B, C limestone from lower to upper which are the marker formation. The A limestone in the north of Oriente Basin develops stably with average thick 40 ft. However several abnormal bodies of A limestone had been found in the northern of Oriente Basin which show the high seismic amplitude. It had been proved that some good sand bodies of A limestone thickened, which makes it difficult to predict the reservoir accurately by seismic data. The regional geology, petrophysics and geophysics data had been used to analysis the reason of A limestone formation thickening. By the seismic forward modeling based on the seismic response character analysis of good sandbody in the normal sedimentation, the seismic response character of sand below the different A limestone had been study. According to the seismic inversion result, many technology had been comparatively analyzed and stack bond seismic data analysis technology based on CRP and spectrum decomposition technology based on tuning body thickness had been used to get off the effect of A limestone thickening. Drilling results have proved the effectiveness of the technologies.

Key words: formation thicker, sand body predicting, seismic forward, A limestone, Oriente Basin

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