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Volume 41, Issue 6
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Abstract

Sand-lithofacies distributions are a vital component of reservoir characterisation and the generation of successful reservoir models, particularly in thin reservoirs thickness. The integration between seismic attributes and conceptual geologic models is important to identify the sand distributions and reservoir geometries. The aim of this work is illustrating the uses of seismic data in revealing the structural and stratigraphic elements of two main reservoir units. It is important to identify and list the attributes, which can be involved in analysing the reservoirs and their degree of involvement in the characterisation of the hydrocarbon accumulation zones. The study was carried out for the reservoirs: Abu Roash C and Abu Roach E in Sitra oil and gas concession, which is located in the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert. Four seismic attributes are used: 1- Coherence (Variance) 2- 3D Curvature attributes were used for resolving mainly the structural features and also the stratigraphic features 3- Instantaneous phase 4- Instantaneous frequency attributes were used mainly for resolving the stratigraphic features. Through the integration of selected seismic attributes with post-stack seismic data, reservoir distributions and architectures are accurately delineated for the Upper Cretaceous reservoir (Abu Roash ‘C’ and ‘E’). Five wells were used to match the results of the seismic attributes and establish the regional trends of reservoir parameters. The integration of wells data, conventional seismic interpretation and extracted the relevant seismic attributes help in reaching a robust geologic model for the reservoirs of interest. Stratigraphic and structural interpretation objectives based on extracting the seismic attributes for reservoir characterisation become more dominant, as they go deeper in seismic data, to derive more subsurface geologic data than traditional interpretation. 3D structure model of the concern area was established by interpreting the available seismic data as both reservoirs implicated by two fault trends: NW-SE and ENE-WSW. By the end a 3D geological model was defined based on the results of the conventional interpretation of the seismic and seismic attributes to reflect all structural and stratigraphic elements of the two reservoir units.

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Geologic Causatives and Seismic Attributes Heterogeneities for Structural and Stratigraphic Interplays, Sitra Area, North Western Desert, Egypt
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