3-D Carbonate Seismic Stratigraphy of the Berriasian–Valanginian Minagish Field Region, Kuwait

Much previous exploration in the Minagish Field of Kuwait has concentrated upon prospectivity of the principle structures facilitated by 3-D seismic with much less attention directed toward stratigraphic studies. Therefore, questions concerning the seismic imagery of carbonate reservoir quality and seal potential owing to facies changes accompanying allocyclic (global tectono-eustatic) and autocyclic (depositional) processes with a paragenetic overprint (diagenetic-fracture history) have been only modestly studied. The focus of this investigation is upon the carbonate seismic facies placed within a sequence-stratigraphic framework.