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25th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry IMOG 2011

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O-18<br />

Petroleum system analysis South East Abu Dhabi<br />

Peter Nederlof 1 , Özkan Huvaz 1 , Andy Bell 1 , Ahmed Khouri 2 , Abdelfatah El Agrab 2 ,<br />

Raphael Rosell 2 , Artur Stankiewicz 3<br />

1 Shell <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> E&P, Rijswijk, Netherlands, 2 ADCO, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 3 Shell Abu Dhabi,<br />

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (corresp<strong>on</strong>ding author:p.nederlof@shell.com)<br />

The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

(ADCO) is exploring for oil in a c<strong>on</strong>tract area in South<br />

East Abu Dhabi. In order to better understand the<br />

regi<strong>on</strong>al charge variati<strong>on</strong>s and to identify the best oil<br />

prospects, a large scale petroleum system analysis<br />

was carried out.<br />

The petroleum system analysis was carried out<br />

according to Shell‘s standards for Integrated Charge<br />

Evaluati<strong>on</strong> (ICE). This comprises (1) a source rock<br />

evaluati<strong>on</strong>, (2) a regi<strong>on</strong>al oil typing exercise and (3) a<br />

3-D basin modelling study. The results from the oil<br />

analyses indicated that the petroleum systems in<br />

South East Abu Dhabi are different from the main<br />

petroleum system in Central Arabia, as illustrated by<br />

the compound specific isotope analysis of a suite of<br />

Abu Dhabi oils (Figure below).<br />

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The absence of the ‗regular‘ Hanifa hydrocarb<strong>on</strong><br />

family is supported by the results from the source rock<br />

screening, which revealed that the Hanifa has little to<br />

no source potential in the immediate area. However,<br />

several source rock intervals were identified in the<br />

Cretaceous Thamama Group, in agreement with an<br />

earlier study by Taher (1997).<br />

The regi<strong>on</strong>al oil typing suggests that the oils in South<br />

East Abu Dhabi are generated in a separate kitchen<br />

area to the north and migrated up-dip in a southerly<br />

directi<strong>on</strong>. The source rock maturati<strong>on</strong> and<br />

hydrocarb<strong>on</strong> migrati<strong>on</strong> history was then modelled in<br />

3-D Results from this study were used to rank the<br />

prospect portfolio and optimize the drilling sequence.<br />

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