Abstract
Six-day fieldwork was conducted in the north-west coast of Sarawak to examine the outcrops along Bintulu- Niah- Miri areas which cover southern part of Balingian Province and Baram Delta Province. The aim of this fieldwork is to synthesize the observations of structure and sedimentology of outcrops along Bintulu-Niah-Miri areas and discuss the implication of reservoir characteristics based on observation. The study was conducted by sketching the main structural elements of outcrops followed by detailed sedimentological analysis which include observation and facies description were conducted on different outcrops along Bintulu-Niah- Miri areas using sedimentary logs. The findings show that Bintulu- Niah- Miri areas outcrops consists of mixed-environment deposited succession with tidal and wave characteristic. This resulted in reservoir architect will be different and result in different in reservoir properties included horizontal and vertical permeability of fluids. Niah Cave is a good place to study the distribution of the types of breccia due to collapsed paleokarst at reservoir scale and also good analog for Central Luconia Platform where large resources of hydrocarbon have been discovered due to the its environment setting or forming process is same as Central Luconia Platform. In addition, Miri Airport Outcrop succession consist of Type 4- Fracture Create Flow Barriers which could lead to potential production problems.
Highlights
Six-day fieldwork was conducted in the north-west coast of Sarawak to examine the outcrops along Bintulu- Niah- Miri areas from 15th to 20th February 2016 guided by Prof
Facies MFA is characterized by light yellow to light grey, well sorted, very fine to fine grained with herringbone cross-stratified/ bipolar crossstratified sandstones
Due to the its environment setting or forming process is same as Central Luconia Platform, Niah Cave can be good analog for Central Luconia Platform where large resources of hydrocarbon have been discovered
Summary
Six-day fieldwork was conducted in the north-west coast of Sarawak to examine the outcrops along Bintulu- Niah- Miri areas from 15th to 20th February 2016 guided by Prof. This fieldwork will cover southern part of Balingian Province and Baram Delta Province. The objective of this fieldwork is to discuss the implication of reservoir characteristics based on synthesize the observations of structure and sedimentology of outcrops along Bintulu-Niah-Miri areas. The importance of this fieldwork is the surface outcrops in studied area can be used as analogue for subsurface reservoir studies of offshore hydrocarbon field especially in Balingian Province and Baram Delta Province. An understanding of the sedimentological characteristics and facies architecture of outcrops may allow us to understand production behavior of hydrocarbon and sweep efficiency in waterfloods to encounter the problems related to compartmentalization of reservoirs and other issues in field development planning
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