New tools and approaches in carbonate reservoir quality prediction: a case history from the Shu'aiba Formation, Saudi Arabia

2014 ◽  
Vol 406 (1) ◽  
pp. 401-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Cantrell ◽  
C. M. Griffiths ◽  
G. W. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Case History ◽  
Carbonate Reservoir ◽  
Reservoir Quality ◽  
Quality Prediction

Identifying Deep Sweetspots: Seismically Constrained Reservoir Quality Prediction Offshore Brunei

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Gelinsky ◽  
Sze-Fong Kho ◽  
Irene Espejo ◽  
Matthias Keym ◽  
Jochen Näth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reservoir Quality ◽  
Quality Prediction

Factors Controlling Reservoir Quality of a Paleozoic Tight Sandstone, Rub’ al Khali Basin, Saudi Arabia

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 6489-6507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Alqubalee ◽  
Lameed Babalola ◽  
Osman Abdullatif ◽  
Mohammed Makkawi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Reservoir Quality ◽  
Tight Sandstone

Formation Evaluation While Drilling Of a Complex Khuff-C Carbonate Reservoir in Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Abdulrahman Al-Fawwaz ◽  
Nedhal Mohamed Al-Musharfi ◽  
Parvez Jamil Butt ◽  
Abdul Fareed
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Carbonate Reservoir ◽  
Formation Evaluation ◽  
Ghawar Field

scholarly journals Characterization and significance of dedolomite in Wadi Nisah, central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave L. Cantrell ◽  
Abdullah Al-Khammash ◽  
Peter D. Jenden
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Carbon Isotopes ◽  
Reservoir Quality ◽  
Meteoric Diagenesis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Lower Oxygen ◽  
Lower Carbon

ABSTRACT Two different types of calcified dolomite, or dedolomite, occur as stratiform and non-stratiform bodies within the Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) upper Jubaila Formation in the Wadi Nisah area of central Saudi Arabia. In the stratigraphically-equivalent subsurface Arab-D reservoir in eastern Saudi Arabia, two types of dolomite, stratiform and non-stratiform, occur which appear to be similar in architecture to the dedolomites examined in this study. However, Wadi Nisah dedolomites exhibit systematic changes in texture and isotopic composition from their precursor dolomites. Non-stratiform dedolomite contains lower oxygen isotope (average δ18O = -10.99‰) and much lower carbon isotope (average δ13C = -7.51‰) values and is much more coarsely crystalline than typical subsurface Arab-D non-stratiform dolomite; in contrast, Wadi Nisah stratiform dedolomite contains similar oxygen isotope values (δ18O = -2.89‰) and only slightly lower carbon isotopes (δ13C = 0.98‰) relative to subsurface Arab-D stratiform dolomites. We suggest that non-stratiform dolomite was more susceptible to late meteoric diagenesis than the horizontally bedded stratiform dolomite intervals. Such differences in character highlight the importance of structural and diagenetic architecture in determining later, post-dolomitization diagenesis and ultimately final reservoir quality.

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