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    This document provides guidance for designing a petroleum systems analysis project. It outlines a 4 step approach: 1) Framing the project objectives and data/resource needs. 2) Conducting an inventory of existing data. 3) Creating a detailed project plan. 4) Executing and reporting on the project. Key aspects that should be considered include defining questions, understanding oil/gas families, characterizing source rocks, sampling needs, contracting reliable labs, and collecting relevant stratigraphic and calibration data. Planning geochemical analyses and managing costs, sample sizes, shipment, and using multiple labs for quality control is also advised. The goal is to create a well-designed plan to efficiently answer geological questions and provide impactful deliverables for

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    Exploration & Production Training Services

    Designing petroleum systems


    work programs

    Wiekert Visser

    Objective of this lecture


    To provide a cook-book for designing a petroleum
    systems analysis project

    Approach Petroleum Systems study


    Step 1
    Framing the project (what are the questions & objectives?)
    Data needed to be complemented, updated, reviewed
    Resources needed
    Cost issues

    Step 2
    Existing data inventory
    Existing sample inventory
    Previous work inventory and digestion

    Step 3
    Create detailed project execution plan
    Secure availability of resources and budget

    Step 4: execute and report

    Exploration Work flow


    Main data
    acquisition
    tools

    Plate tectonic
    framework

    Well data

    Petrophysical
    evaluation

    Create stratigraphic
    charts

    Facies &
    reservoir quality
    layer maps

    Create paleogeographic
    layer maps

    Play maps
    Economics
    &
    Risk Analysis

    Grav/Mag

    Basin
    configuration

    Seismic data

    Horizon mapping

    Well data

    Construct
    Basin cross sections

    Geochemistry
    fluids & source rocks

    Oil family
    mapping

    Determine
    trap style

    Prospect
    ranking

    Prospect
    mapping

    Palinspastic
    reconstruction

    Ranked
    prospect
    portfolio

    Basin filling
    history

    Burial & charge


    history reconstruction

    Kitchen
    mapping

    Basic Check list


    What are the main questions & uncertainties?
    Do you know which oil/gas families you have
    Do you know the characteristics of your source rock
    sequences
    Detail allowing oil source rock correlations.
    Quality data for proper input in charge modelling software

    Do you need more oil/source rock samples to be


    analysed?
    Do you know which contractor labs are reliable?
    Have you properly inventorised & reviewed all data
    present in your company & literature?

    Basic Check list

    Collect stratigraphic data


    BHT/heat flow data. What is the quality?
    Collect relevant cross section/maps
    Collect and quality control calibration data (BHT,
    VR, RFT, Fluid composition)
    Etc, etc, etc, etc, ..

    Planning oil analysis


    Never ask for Full oil analysis. The bill will be
    staggering, and you may still not receive the data you
    need.
    First formulate: what do I need to know?, then
    formulate which analyses may help to answer my
    questions?
    Proceed step-wise.
    Cheap & simple analyses (Bulk properties, GC)
    Then select samples for expensive but standard biomarker
    analyses.
    Then, if needed select special analyses.

    Discuss the geological questions with the contractor


    lab, and ask for advise on analyses options.

    Cost issues exploration project


    Source rock (Rock Eval, + Microscopy)
    ~$400/sample.
    Simple analyses (bulk parameters, GC) will be less
    than $800/sample.
    Biomarker work may easily run at $3000/sample.
    Significant discounts can be negotiated for large
    sample batches.
    Gas analyses are reasonably cheap. Complete
    analyses run at less $1500/sample.
    Turn-around time varies widely. Urgent Rock Eval
    samples can be done overnight. Full biomarker work
    usually takes at least one month.

    Samples size, shipment issues, Labs


    Sample volume requirement is small. A 100 ml oil
    sample is plenty for all analyses.
    Shipment by air of oil samples is allowed if properly
    bottled.
    Shipment by air of gas samples is more problematic,
    but can be arranged. Pressurised cylinders have to be
    very small in volume.
    There are quite a number of competing laboratories.
    Some of these deliver very poor quality.
    Set-up a set of standard samples (source rocks & oils) and have
    these analysed frequently to do quality control.

    Conclusions
    Create a good plan, before you ask for funding
    What will be the deliverable & impact on the companies work?

    Make sure your client (exploration team)


    understands what you can do for him/her.
    Petroleum Systems Analysis is key to exploration
    success and basin evaluation. Geochemical data are
    essential input for such work.
    > 90% of the work must be devoted to data mining
    and quality control.

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