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Fractured Weathered Basement Reservoirs: Best Practices for Exploration Production - ExamplesUSA, Venezuela, and Brazil*
Tako Koning 1
Search and Discovery Article #41250 (2013)**Posted December 9, 2013
*Adapted from poster presentation given at AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 19-22, 2013**AAPG©2013 Serial rights given by author. For all other rights contact author directly.
1Gaffney, Cline & Associates, Luanda, Angola, West Africa ( [email protected] )
Abstract
Fractured and weathered basement rocks are important oil and gas reservoirs in various basins in the worldwide. This author has
followed this subject very closely for 30 years and hereby shares his knowledge and experience. This paper focuses on relevant fields inthe USA including the Kansas fractured quartzite "buried hill" oil fields and basement oil fields in California including the El Segundoand Edison oil-bearing schist reservoirs. Also reviewed are the La Paz and Mara basement oil fields in Venezuela and basementreservoirs in the Carmopolis oil field, onshore Brazil.
Best practices include the following: production wells should be drilled near perpendicular to the dominant fracture system. Explorationwells should also be drilled highly deviated rather than vertical in order to optimally intersect the dominant fracture systems. Highlyfocused 3-D seismic such as CBM (Controlled Beam Migration) is needed to define the fracture systems in basement. Extensive corecoverage is necessary to provide critically important information on the lithologies and reservoir parameters. Some of the cores shouldalso be radiometrically age dated in order for the geologists to understand the complexities of the basement reservoirs they are dealing
with. Development wells must be sufficiently deep to fully drain the reservoir. Wells should not just "tag" into the top of basement. Forexample, wells in the La Paz field, Venezuela were typically drilled 500 meters into the basement.
In a general sense, fractured granites and quartzites are the optimum reservoirs. Weathered "rotten" granites can also be excellentreservoirs as can be observed in outcrop in tropical areas. Rocks such as schists and gneisses are less attractive since they are ductileand tend to "smear" and not fracture when subjected to tectonic stress. The high mafic content of schists also negates the creation ofsecondary porosity by weathering. Likewise, granites and quartzites are more likely to provide attractive, highly porous "granite wash"sands whereas eroded schists do not produce such good reservoirs.
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Selected References
Landes, K.K., J.J. Amoruso, L.J. Charlesworth, F. Heany, and J-P. Lesperance, 1960, Petroleum resources in basement rocks: AAPGBulletin, v. 44/10, p. 1682-1691.
Beglinger, S.E., J-D. van Wees, S. Cloetingh, and H. Doust, 2012, Tectonic subsidence history and source-rock maturation in theCampos Basin, Brazil: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 18/2, p. 153-172.
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AbstractFractured & Weathered Basement Reservoirs – Best Practices for Exploration and
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Cline & Associates, Luanda, AngolaFractured and weathered basement rocks are important oil and gas reservoirs in various basins in theworldwide. This author has followed this subject very closely for 30 years and hereby shares his
.fractured quartzite “buried hill” oil fields and basement oil fields in California including the El Segundoand Edison oil-bearing Jurassic schist reservoirs. Also reviewed are the La Paz and Mara oil fields in
Venezuela and also basement reservoirs in the Carmopolis oil field, onshore Brazil.
Best practices include the following: production wells should be drilled near-perpendicular to thedominant fracture system. Exploration wells should also be drilled highly deviated rather than verticalin order to optimally intersect the dominant fracture systems. Highly focused 3D seismic such as CBM
(Controlled Beam Migration) is needed to define the fracture systems in basement. Extensive corecoverage is necessary to provide critically important information on the lithologies and reservoirparameters. Some of the cores should also be radiometrically age dated in order for the geologists tounderstand the complexities of the basement reservoirs they are dealing with. Development wells mustbe sufficiently deep to fully drain the reservoir. Wells should not just tag” into the top of basement.For example wells in the La Paz field, Venezuela which produces from basement were typically drilled
500 meters into the basement.
In a general sense, fractured granites and quartzites are the optimum reservoirs. Weathered “rotten” granites can also be excellent reservoirs as can be observed in outcrop in tropical areas. Rocks such asschists and gneisses are less attractive since they are ductile and tend to “smear” and not fracture
.secondary porosity by weathering. Likewise, granites and quartzites are more likely to provideattractive, highly porous “granite wash” sands whereas eroded schists to not produce such goodreservoirs.
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il in B m n •
basement reservoirs by K.K. Landes et al (1960
“Commercial oil deposits in basement rocks are not ‘ ’
which obey all the rules of oil sourcing, migration
basement, oil deposits within basement should beas accumulations in the overlying sediments ”.
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Basic Requirements for Oil or
Gas in Basement• Reservoir – need fractured or weathered
• Source – need hydrocarbon source rockse ow, a acent or a ove t e asement
reservoir
•Closure – need structural closure
– nee cap roc s a ove ebasement reservoir
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Tako’s Preferance Scale for
in Basement
•Fractured quartzites……. Most preferred
• Fractured carbonates• • Weathered granites• Fractured gneisses
• Fractured schists• Weathered schists……….. Least preferred
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Potential of Gneisses & Schists as
Basically Bad! • Gneisses: a foliated metamorphic rocks
corresponding in composition to granite ore spat c p uton c roc sProblem: can be massive or dense or slabby with
open ractures para e to t e rect on ofoliatiation; fracturing is too planar
• Schist: a fissile metamorphic rock with closelyo a e s ruc ure cons s ng o para e p anesProblem: are generally too micaceous, thinly
e e , ss e an uc e o e prone o mega-scale fracturing
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KANSAS, USA – Precambrian Fractured QuartziteBuried Hill Basement Oil PoolsKANSAS US - Precambrian Fractured QuartziteBuried Hill Basement Oil Is
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KANSAS, USA – Precambrian FracturedKANSAS, USA - Precambrian Fractured...,-te Buried Hill Basement Oil Pools
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Kansas basement oil production.Oil is produced from Precambrian basement(in section) mostImmonly fractt/red quartzites. Oil is sourced from fl anking Cambro·Ordovician or overl ying Pennsylvanianks . (Landes e l 01 196
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KANSAS, USA: Summary of
Basement Oil Fields
Small oil pools, approximately 150,000 barrels oilr w . r x , r ubarrels produced from 15 wells.
rv r: r - r r ur u r z• Source rocks: Pennsylvanian shales• Oil is recovered from the top of Pre-Cambrian
buried hills, depth of about 1,000 meters• Best practices: more oil could be produced bydrilling horizontal drain holes, also should be
system; 3D seismic is necessary
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CALIFORNIA: Basement Oil Fields All of California’s oil production is from Tertiary
which produce from basement:
• , ,Jurassic schists
• ,• Santa Maria , Santa Barbara area, fractured
• Wilmington , Long Beach area, 22 million• Edison , Bakersfield area, 20 million barrels
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CALIFORNIA: El SegundoCALIFOR IA: I Seg ndoBase e t Sch-st) Oil Field
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CALIFORNIA: El Segundo
asemen e• Reservoir is a Jurassic fractured schist in
the east half
• teste up to , o eggravity crude• Average depth 2,100 – 2,180 meters
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VENEZUELA: La Paz Basement
La Paz Oil Field, Venezuela
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VENEZUELA: La Paz Basement
La Paz Oil Field, Venezuela
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VENEZUELA: La Paz Oil Field
• The main La Paz oil field was discovered in,
basement oil field was discovered in 1953which was 30 years later and has produced325 million bls oil these numbers need to beupdated; this author is seeking more reliable
La Paz and Mara basement oil fields • eservo r s racture gran tes anmetamorphics
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VENEZUELA: La Paz Oil Field
• Maximum IP (initial productivity) from, ,
IP is 3,600 BOPD• In the initial development of the basement,
into basement• ara e was scovere n ,
has produced 27 million barrels of oil frombasement (numbers need to be updated),
meters and wells has IP’s of 2,200 BOPD
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BRAZIL: Carmopolis Basement
Oil Field, Sergipe Sub-Basin-map from Beglinger et al, 2012
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BRAZIL: Carmopolis Basement
, - X-section from Berlinger et al, 2012
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Embasamento (Crosta Continental)
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BRAZIL C li B t
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BRAZIL: Carmopolis Basement
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Sergipe Sub-Basine ro eum sys ems: armopo s mem er
reservoirs and fractured basement
r g na o - n-p ace m on cu c me er(1.7 billion barrels); approx 55 million cubic
approx 10 -15% is from basement or 5.5These production numbers are very
,more specific & reliable production data
BRAZIL: Carmopolis Basement
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BRAZIL: Carmopolis Basement ,
Oil is of a mixed base ranging from 24.
Depth range of all reservoirs is ashallow 400 – 800 meters de th
on this field about the basement reservoirs in
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SUMMARY: Best Practices for Exploring
an ro uc ng asemen eservo rs1.) Look for oil in basement beneath existing oilfields, e.g. La Paz basement was found 30 years afterdiscovery of oil in overlying Cretaceous sediments.
2.) Wells should not just “tag” into the top of
meters.
3.) Basement should be targetted using 3D seismiclike CGGVeritas’ CBM (controlled beam migration).
4.) Wells should not be drilled vertical but rathershould be high angle wells drilled perpendicular tothe dominant fracture patterns.
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SUMMARY: Best Practices for Exploring
an ro uc ng asemen eservo rs5.) Basement needs to be cored to providecritically important reservoir data; with mostbasement reservoirs the oil is stored only in the
,weathered zones at the top of basement can beexcellent oil and gas reservoirs.
6.) Initial wells need to be extensively tested to besure that there is not a situation of very high IP but
then followed by a rapid decline; testing may also - bearing fracture systems.
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SUMMARY: Best Practices for Exploring
an ro uc ng asemen eservo rs7.) Some of these fields can be complicated. They may have
early water breakthrough, rapid production decline, very’ . ,
experience was in 1982 with the Beruk NE basement oil fieldin Sumatra which watered out after producing only 2 million
.fracture analysis based on well data and seismic. Forexample, differentiate between fractures which conduct oil or
- .may need to out-source this work to “experts” to get second
opinions about your basement field.
8.) BUT, highly prolific basement oil and gas fieldsworldwide such as Bach Ho Viet Nam Suban Indonesia LaPaz (Venezuela) and such fields in Libya, Egypt, Russia, andChina serve as a reminder: do not forget your basement!
Select Sources of Information
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Select Sources of Information
Landes, K.K. et al, 1960, “Petroleum resources in basementrocks ” , AAPG Bulletin, 44, pp 1682-1691.
Nelson, R.A. et al, 2000, “Production characteristics of the
fractured reservoirs of the La Paz Field, Maracaibo basin,” , , , - .
Talukdar et al, 1994, “ The petroleum systems of the Maracaibo , , , – .
Koning, T. & Darmono, F.X., 1984, “The Geology of the Beruk North ,
basement rocks ” , Proceedings of the 13th Annual Convention of theIndonesia Petroleum Association, Jakarta.
Koning, T., 2003, “ Oil and gas production from basementreservoirs: examples from Indonesia, USA and Venezuela” , SpecialPublication 214 – Hydrocarbons in Crystalline Rocks, Geological Society of
London.