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This peper wee prepered for gwsentetbn ●l tho LUrd Annual Teohnlcd Conference and Exhibition of the Sodety of Petrobwm Englnem held in
Woueton, TX, Ootober 2-s, 1sss.
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by●nSPEPrqun Commlltee fdowlng review of Information contained in en ebetraot @rmMod by Ihe
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Uterefore cmetitut~a the prima cbjective for oil & Miss S1.
e%pkratim and S%p’’itationo
FaciesS1 is interpreted
as bsirq formedin a
l%K!ies S3 sbwe tw dif ferult facies 1- delta plain probabbly by switohixq lower
onsooiatims,rntiase it is over and ~lain by distributary
channels
or by orevaseeSplay~ese.
Rziee S,cxky Esciee~aId S2. l’he~
Miosoaslallyeh cuabruptlp per S@lamr F@iee Sll Fim to *= graimd—aadeam
mtaots. RXoeity range frcm 10-15% ad Witluut dUlo ktarbde
PMmeabilityfrm 20 m S2 S&
Is texturallyd Ccqxx#iticnally
similarto
~ticsl FW%S S1; t- ~ differentiate~ the pre~
of tie interbsdein E%cies S1. It is usually
~ quartroee, ahmet mommineralicattributeof asecciatedwi’. Facies S3 and SL. PtWosityis
the sad Imdies, We mderately to W&l eorted -btely la Wile Pem=bility values range
propertiesof these sediments,- the ~ frcnl3 .7to 20 S&
&m4me of shaleintarbede, irxlicates
thatFaciess3
me dqweitedby moderateto highmergydagmeiticsstl ~tial
-~~ ~~ ~ ~e aineralm,
-ted ~ition of ~i~ -e int~, lhe quartzoee dlaracteri8tic & tlmee
mndprcWidsdoanditicne for* deWqsmt Ofgcod eanddmsa, -abesnca of shale interbedesml the
sorting. ‘h tm differentfacies aeeociati~ - Srxting Obeervsd, suggest -retS-to
~,andtha abllptmntacts of tlh -ice high+mrgy dqmeitimal proceaeseat * tise of
Su99eSt that Miss S3 we forasd in an envlr~t Clapaitial of fecies S1l. Its associatim Wim
raqiq frcm a lwar delta plain to dd- fruit FaciesS3er@Sl euggeettlustFdee SllvRSkssd
Endramsnt of dspwitia. in a lwar delta plain probably as distributary
channeldeposits.
Fades S1 F- to ti~mxl ~
withCbntinwue-e Mterbede. miss S2 very FirxrtO Silty+aimd smdatam.
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iwoflcua msrgyofd apoeiticstsua aecanbs interdistributary
area * a slwllw bay djacent to
omdintidsl flatcringoneraltuder subtidalto a diatrhkary dhamsl.
ntertidalanvi~ of depoeitial. Therefore
kies S2 ia interpreted as being deposited as miss St GrmslMlGrqy to Grsy Siltatoln.
oming gtsrtof a tidal flat omplex of a microtidal
o ~idal slxmscms prokehlyasscciatsdwith Facies St ameiats of a graeniah gray to gray
@Xlarineaxxiitions. locally fossiliferous
amf bioturkatadsiltsttxm
_ ~ 9~titi =~ are usuallypresent.
hot- H very Firmly Iadrnlted Grq to
Sraeiish
e was. IntqKwatiat
Shalesof FaciesH are branifi gray to grey, The pr~ of till fragmentsitiioatesa
w firdy laminated,witi silty layers. These da ..= of Dlarim influencein Facies St. The
.ay8irsshow wticular structures and ahwt qimr ccxurrencc of bi~~ti~ st=ur~ et
@ 1- axltacts. hxally burrcxstructures
are estuarim cxmiitione.FaciesSt is interpreted
as
~. ‘It-a? mmlctl oaurence of lenticwlar bsb formedin an estuarineS&tidal-to-intertidal
Itrwtws dwacteriza FaciemH. snvi~ of dspoaition.
btemmatiai
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nterwll threfore, & first appuame of facies D~~
)1is Usd as amther Correlating horiam. TIW *
ulcer txxiis ti first ocurrence of faoiesH. ‘llIe The first anf probably essentialstep in
)re~ of “fleeer”.bedding,mm fJU=tues# and reeermir deecriptiafoz productionad sinulaticm
~ lenticular bsddirqare beirq int~rete3 as p- in W ~iw of ~jetive criteria
representinginterdeltaickay to tidal flat with whi~ to place boundariesbetween me
Xrxlitials.This”interpretaticm assumes amther stratigraphicunit ml another. After boundaries
mjor changein Ens processof sedimentation Wm have been prqerly establish remgniticn of
Ul turn Wxld be reflectedin a dwge in the pxoeity ard permeabilityantrests can be dealt
pometry aml qualityof the associatedeandetcme Witi, Sr.d in m ~ a =r=t re==~ir
mdies. Iv2terogeneity
descriptiacanbe atteaq?ted.
k DICXEY,P.A. , 196.I
petrole~ Mnalogetent-Ogy. ~11 Pub.
co.,up.
b ~, H. H., ti I.WE,L.W.,1964
ANew A&proad to Shale Mans_t in
Field-scale~la. Sot. Pet. ~. J., p.
447-457.