Elk & Antelope Field

Australia-Papua New
Guinea Basin
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1 2 3
Inggrialianthari La Ode M.
Rezkhi Azurachmad Muhammad Haries
Septiyawan
Trinugrahandini 101318025 101318103
101318009
Papua Basin Overview
Today the Papuan Orogen is one of the most active in
the world. This is perhaps best exemplified by Mount
Yule, the top of which Is less than two million years
old, but it is over 3000 m above sea level and only 60
km from the Coast (Rickwood 1992). Denudation and
associated sedimentation in the present day Gulf of
Papua are perhaps the highest in the world, with
rainfall in excess of 10 m per year over much of The
Papuan Orogen. A present day depositional Depocentre
is located within the current Gulf of Papua into which
all the major rivers flow.
Location
The Papuan Basin stretches across
both Papuan New Guinea (PNG)
and Australian territory. The
Australian section lies off the
northeast coast of Queensland and
is poorly explored with only one
well in the 7 000km2 area.
 ELK FIELD
The Elk field in the Elk Reservoir was discovered
in October of 2006. This field is located in the
frontier area within the Eastern Papuan Basin or in
Tertiary reefal, platformal and associated deep
water carbonates in the present day foothills region
of the Fold and Thrust Belt in the Gulf Province of
Papua New Guinea. 
Geoscience Aspect

Elk Field stratigraphy and log

 In 2007, the seismic from a
parameter test was run to get
more information about the
reservoir and the result shows
that the reflector sequences that
can be shown in the figure
below, are aligned with a rapid
shallow water carbonate
deposition in platform/reef
environment similar to features
identified in the offshore Papuan
Gulf and North Eastern
Australian Margin. It is
confirmed that the
recognition of potentially
shallow water deposition in an
area thought be dominated by
deeper water pelagic
Elk field seismic foraminiferal Puri Limestone.
Carbonate Reservoir
The carbonate in this field is consist
of deep-water platform slope and
bathyal deposits with the
approximately resevoir dimension up
to 15 km long from North to South
and by 5 km wide from East to West
with a gas column of of its carbonate
section is >600 m. The core analysis
of these wells shows that the porosity
and permeability of The Elk Reservoir
are approximately 24.7% and 2.4
darcies in sequence.
Antelope Field
Similar to the ELK field, the Antelope gas fields are located
on the tertiary reef platform and deep water carbonate. The
Fields are located at the tip of the New Guinea Orogen
(NGO) region which is a collision zone between the
relatively stable cratonic region of Australia in the southwest
and the islands of the range formed by Cenozoic volcanic
activity in the east. Antelope Fields is located at the
intersection of two dominant folding belt trends with the
Papuan Fold Belt in the west and the Aure Tectonic Belt in
the east
 Geoscience Aspect

This carbonate consist of the Eocene to Lower Oligocene Mendi (Limestone) Group, Oligo-Miocene Darai
Group equivalent (neritic with some reworking) and the Upper Oligocene to Miocene Puri Limestone
Formation (bathyal to outer neritic). The shallow water carbonate has a thickness for at least 960 m. The
whole carbonates are overlain with a thick, clay-rich mudstone from orubadi formation with some abundant
planktonic foraminifera from the latest Miocene to the earliest Pliocene age. There is also a gradational down-
sequence change from mudstones of the Orubadi Formation to marls and then carbonate in the elk field.
 Best-fit wavelets were estimated for the
Antelope-1 calculated impedance log tie to the
E4IOL05 seismic lines were made using RokDoc
software. In a several kilometre zone
surrounding the Antelope-2 well the E04IOL05
seismic lines exhibit a loss of coherent signal
above 15Hz and a significant loss of signal above
20 Hz. An accurate well to seismic tie at
Antelope-2 cannot be made due to poor seismic
resolution surrounding the well and only
preliminary noise affected VSP data was
available for depth conversion. The log
image on the left is the result of the well log and
seismic wells for the antelope-1 well and the
right is the result of the well log and seismic well
for the antelope-2 well. With lithology in the
form of white = porosity%, green = clay, yellow =
quartz, gray = coal, pink = dolomite, blue =
limestone.
Seismic readings on antelope-1 showed that the
depth of the productive zone at antelope-1 was
lower than that of antelope-2, which was about
1200 m. On the other hand, antelope-2 has a
Antelope field seismic productive zone at a depth of 1320 m, only this
cannot be precisely ascertained because the
readings on the logs and also seismic in the area
of antelope-2 tend to be less good than
antelope-1.
Source Rock maturity
 Carbonate Reservoir
 The Antelope-1 and Antelope-2 wells
of Antelope field were drilled with near
Complete coverage of FMI (>2800 m)
and thin sections (>250 from Rotary
sidewall core plugs) across shallow
platform to reefal buildup
 3.6 Tcfe for Antelopr field as a result of
Raptor-1 Exploration
 Matrix porosity: 8.4 to 20% Antelope-1
reef
 Permeability: N/A
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