UPPER PALEOZOIC CARBONATES ON THE NCS: AN EMERGING PLAY FUELLED BY RECENT DISCOVERIES
IN COOPERATION WITH GEO-MOSKI AS
While carbonate rocks constitute approximately 15 percent of the sedimentary rocks worldwide, as much as 50 percent of the oil and gas production come from limestones and dolomites. On the NCS, carbonate production has been successful from fractured chalk in the Central Graben, while two discoveries have so far been made in Carboniferous and Permian carbonates in the Barents Sea. In the Timan-Pechora and adjacent offshore areas in Russia, carbonates analogue to the Carboniferous and Permian carbonates of the Norwegian Barents Sea are prolific hydrocarbon producers. In this seminar we will investigate the oil and gas potential of the upper Palaeozoic carbonates as both source and reservoir rocks in the Barents Sea.
So far, main reservoirs are dolomitized grainy lithologies of the warm water Gipsdalen Group carbonates. Meteoric leaching, karstification and dolomitization are the main reservoirs generating processes and carbonate reservoirs are regarded as medium risk in prospect evaluation. However, the Gohta discovery in spiculitic chersts, dolomitized cool-water carbonates and karstified carbonates of the Røye Formation, Tempelfjorden Group was a great surprise.
The main source rocks in carbonate plays have thus far been confined to the onlapping marine source rocks of the Klappmyss and Kobbe Formation, marine mudrocks of the Ørret Formation and coaly mudrocks of the Billefjorden Group. Recent studies performed by UNIS, København University and Det norske oljeselskap centered on the Billefjorden Trough in Central Spitsbergen, have proven that the carbonates and associated siliciclastic mudrocks of the Minkinfjellet, Wordiekammen and Gipshuken formations have generated commercial amounts of hydrocarbons. No wells have so far penetrated analogue basinal sediments in the Barents Sea, and the Spitsbergen analogue data may represent a door opener in hydrocarbon exploration of the warm-water carbonates of the Barents Sea.
25. October 2016 – Stavanger in cooperation with PGS & Geo-Moski AS
27. Oktober 2016 – Oslo in cooperation with Geo-Moski AS
PROGRAM
OSLO: Start at 11am
STAVANGER: Start at 12noon
OSLO | SVG | TOPIC | SPEAKER/AUTHORS | COMPANY |
10:00 | 11:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
11:00 | 12:00 | LUNCH | ||
11:35 | 12:55 | Welcome | Geir Elvebakk | Nord Universitet |
11:45 | 13:00 | Facies and tectonics of the Upper Palaeozoic carbonate platforms of Spitsbergen and the Barents Sea | Lars Stemmerik | UNIS / Københavns Universitet |
12:15 | 13:30 | “Spiculites – Should we care?” | Arndt Peterhänsel1, Matthieu Angeli2, Egil Bergsager2 | LUKOIL International UK Limited1, LUKOIL Overseas North Shelf AS2 |
12:35 | 13:50 | A new technique for rock type classification from wells and seismic data: application to a carbonate field | Kamal Hami-Eddine | Paradigm |
12:55 | 14:10 | COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS | ||
13:25 | 14:40 | The Barents Sea carbonate play and lessons learned from Iranian reservoirs. | Tore Amund Svånå | Afraz Advisers / Aurelia Geo AS |
13:45 | 15:00 | Mapping and analysis of the petroleum potential of Paleozoic Source rocks from outcrops on Svalbard. General observations and implications for possible new plays in the Barents Sea. | Jacob Bruun Kristensen1, Snorre Olaussen2, Geir Elvebakk3, Jon Erik4 Skeie, Lars Stemmerik1 | Københavns Universitet1, UNIS2, Det norske/Nord Universitet3, Det norske4 |
14:15 | 15:30 | COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS | ||
14:45 | 16:00 | Re-deposition of shallow marine carbonates in Kurdistan, a potential analogue to the Loppa High fringe in the Barents Sea?’ | Ståle Monstad1, Mirco Looser2 | Point Resources1, DNO2 |
15:05 | 16:20 | Production from future carbonate fields in the Barents Sea – use of world-wide analogues as a predictive tool in prospectivity assessment | Tommy Samuelsberg | BOW GEO ANS |
15:25 | 16:40 | Neiden – the Oberlix discovery finally appraised | Geir Elvebakk | Nord Universitet |
16:00 | 17:00 | WE MEET FOR DRINKS! Stavanger: Cardinal Oslo: Thanksgiving Party with PSS-Geo og Exploro, Solligata 2, 0254 Oslo from 18:00 |
Thanksgiving party by PSS-Geo and Exploro
All delegates to the Hydrocarbon Habitats-seminar in Oslo on October 27th are invited to PSS-Geo and Exploro’s Thanksgiving Tapasevening in PSS-Geo’s offices in Oslo.