Wan Ismail
Malaysia
Research Article
Conceptual Fracture Modelling For Carbonate Reservoir in Bai Hassan Oil Field Northern Iraq
Author(s): Qays Mohammed Sadeq *,Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya ,Wan Ismail
Qays Mohammed Sadeq *,Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya ,Wan Ismail
The Bai Hassan field is fold structure in the foreland area of the Zagros Mountains of north-eastern Iraq. The structure have hydrocarbon accumulations in Tertiary and cretaceous reservoir strata. Fractures are thought to provide the most important permeability in the field, and the lack of oriented fracture data hampers the ability to model fracture permeability within the reservoirs. To west of Bai Hassan is the Qara Chauq structure. There are strong similarities between Qara Chauq and Bai Hassan, including
(i) The exposed strata at Qara Chauq are thought to be the same as the reservoir units at Bai Hassan, (ii) Both are elongate sigmoidal anticlines.
The lack of available subsurface data to constrain the fracture patterns at Bai Hassan led to the idea that analysis of the surface exposure of reservoir analog strata at Qara Chauq.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9546.1000397