ACTIVITY

MUHAMMAD SOHAIB
FA18-GEO-006
10/24/21
 SOURCE ROCK ASSESSMENT
Both Nayil formation and baraka formation was deposited with some sort of
settings which has not enough biodiversity to get deposited as an organic matter in these
formations and with different temperature and pressure environments to convert this
organic matter into hydrocarbons. Hence the organic matter included at the time of
deposition has poor mg HC ratio per gram of rock but still the organic matter that was
preserved generate very good amount of TOC. It is because of may be the organic matter
depleted into petroleum probably generated from the terrestrial environment. And as
these environments had multicellular organism mostly plant life which probably
preserved in good quantity but generated fair number of HCs.

100

Poor Fair Good Very Excellent

good

Very good
S2 (mg HC/g rock)

10

Good
Fair

Poor

0.1
0.1 1 10

TOC (%)
NAYIL.543
BARAKA.1200
KEROGENE TYPE:
As discussed above it is now clear that both formations have terrestrial origin,
and they dose not got enough organic matter deposits as organic matter to generate
petroleum. That’s why they did not generated enough petroleum and are considered as
good source rock

900
NAYIL.543
BARAKA.1200

600
HI(mg /g TOC)

Ⅱ1

300
Ⅱ2

0
400 440 480
Tmax(°C)
T MAX:
As the TOC is not the only factor to generate petroleum. It is accompanied by
standard pressure and temperature conditions which help to convert this preserved
organic matter into petroleum. But unluckily these conditions were high which
overmature the rock and made the source rock to convert hydrocarbon into coal but not
on economic scale.

.
Tmax
420.0 430.0 440.0 450.0 460.0
0
NAYIL 543
BARAKA 1200
500

1000

1500
Depth(m)

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000
VITRINITE DATA (R0)
The presence of coal window is indicated by the maceral vitrinite whose values
lies between 0.5 – 1.3% which shows us that the coal generated in the source rock is of
good grade.

ABU GABRA.
0.2 Ro 2.0
0

WELL 1
500 WELL 2
WELL 3
1000

1500
Depth(m)

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000