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December 27, 2011

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December 24, 2011

SEDIMENTARY BASINS and THEIR TECTONIC SETTINGS

We now recognize that the origin of sedimentary basins is related in some way to
crustal movements and plate-tectonics processes.

Tectonic Settings

Divergent Settings



Terrestrial rift valleys : Rifts within continental crust commonly associated with
bimodal volcanism.
Modern example: Rio Grand Rift (New Mexico).

Proto-oceanic rift troughs : Incipient oceanic basins floored by new oceanic crust and flanked by young rifted continental margins.
Modern example: Red Sea.


Intraplate Settings

Continental rises and terraces : Mature rifted continental margins in intraplate settings
at continental-oceanic interfaces.
Modern example: East coast of USA.

Continental embankments : Progradational sediment wedges constructed off edges
of rifted continental margins.
Modern example: Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Intracratonic basins : Broad cratonic basins floored by fossil rifts in axial zones.
Modern example: Chad Basin (Africa).

Continental platforms : Stable cratons covered with thin and laterally extensive sedimentary strata.
Modern example: Barents Sea (Asia)
.
Active ocean basins: Basins floored by oceanic crust formed at divergent plate
boundaries unrelated to arc-trench systems (spreading still active).
Modern example: Pacific Ocean.

Oceanic islands, aseismic ridges and plateaus: Sedimentary aprons and platforms formed in
intraoceanic settings other than magmatic arcs.
Modem example: Emperor-Hawaii seamounts

Dormant ocean basins: Basins floored b y oceanic crust, which i s neither spreading nor subducting (no active plate boundaries within or adjoining basin).
Modem example: Gulf of Mexico.


Convergent Settings

Trenches: Deep troughs formed by subduction of oceanic lithosphere.
Modem example: Chile Trench.

Trench-slope basins: Local structural depressions developed on subduction complexes.
Modem example: Central America Trench.

Fore-arc basins: Basins within arc-trench gaps.
Modern example: Sumatra.

 Intra-arc basins : Basins along arc platform, which includes superposed
and overlapping volcanoes.
Modern example: Lago de Nicaragua.

Back-arc basins: Oceanic basins behind intraoceanic magmatic arcs
(including interarc basins between active and remnant
arcs), and continental basins behind continental-margin
magmatic arcs without foreland fold-thrust belts.
Modern example: Marianas.

Retro-arc foreland basins: Foreland basins on continental sides of continental-margin arc-trench systems (formed by subduction-generated compression and/ or collision).
Modern example: Andes foothills.

Remnant ocean basins: Shrinking ocean basins caught between colliding continental margins and/ or arc-trench systems, and ultimately subducted or deformed within suture belts.
Modern example: Bay of Bengal.

Peripheral foreland basins: Foreland basins above rifted continental margins that have been pulled into subduction zones during crustal collisions (primary type of collision-related forelands).
Modern example: Persian Gulf.

Piggyback basins: Basins formed and carried atop moving thrust sheets.
Modern example: Peshawar Basin (Pakistan).

 Foreland intermontane basins : (broken forelands): Basins formed among basement-cored uplifts in foreland settings. Modern example: Sierras Pampeanas basins (Argentina).



Transform Settings


Transtensional basins: Basins formed by extension along strike-slip fault systems.
Modern example: Salton Sea (California).

Transpressional basins: Basins formed by compression along strike-slip fault systems.
Modern example: Santa Barbara Basin (California) (foreland).

Transrotational basins: Basins formed by rotation of crustal blocks about vertical axes within strike-slip fault systems.
Modern example: Western Aleutian fore-arc (?).


Hybrid Settings

Intracontinental wrench basins: Diverse basins formed within and on continental crust owing to distant collisional processes.
Modern example: Quaidam Basin (China).

Aulacogens: Former failed rifts at high angles to continental margins, which have been reactivated during convergent tectonics, so that they are at high angles to orogenic belts.
Modern example: Mississippi Embayment.



Impactogens: Rifts formed at high angles to orogenic belts, without preorogenic history (in contrast with aulacogens).
Modern example: Baikal Rift (Siberia) (distal).

Successor basins: Basins formed in intermontane following cessation of local orogenic or taphrogenic activity.
Modern example: Southern Basin and Range (Arizona).




Keywords : basins, sedimentary basins, basin classification, tectonic basin, rift, compressional basin



Refference : Boggs Jr, Sam. 2006. Principles Of Sedimentology And Stratigraphy 4th Edition. Pearson Education, Inc. New Jersey.

December 23, 2011

Neutron Log & Density Log

Neutron Log & Density Log


Neutron logs are logs that are used to measure the hydrogen index contained in the rock formation. Hydrogen index is the ratio of the concentration of hydrogen atoms / cm cubic of rock on the content of pure water at 75 F. Neutron log is not really measure the porosity, but measure the hydrogen index in the pores of rocks.

The more porous rock, the more higher the hydrogen content and hydrogen index. Thus, rocks that contain lots of hydrogen can be interpreted to have high porosity as well. In practice the interpretation of porosity can be done with collaboration of neutron log with density log.

Density logging was conducted to measure the density of the rock along the borehole. Density is measured  the overall density of the rock matrix and the fluid contained in the pore. The working principle of the tool is the emission of radioactive sources. The more dense rocks the more harder radioactive rays and fewer emissions of radioactive emissions are calculated by the receiver (counter).

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Merging neutron porosity log and density porosity log are very useful for detecting gas in the reservoir zone. Gas zones are indicated by 'cross-over' between the neutron and density logs.

 In the picture above looks at the reservoir zone (low gamma ray), there is a 'cross-over' between the density and neutron. , in this case the neutron porosity lower than the density porosity.

Keywords: neutron log, density log, density log, well log, log, Neutron Log & Density Log

Reference:
John T. Dewan, "Open-Hole Nuclear Logging - State of the Art" - SPWLA Twenty-Seventh Annual Logging Symposium, June 9-13 1986.
http://ensiklopediseismik.blogspot.com/2009/02/neutron-porosity-dan-density-logging.html
Surjono, S.S., Sarju Winardi., D.H.Amijaya.2010. Analisis Sedimentologi, Pustaka Geo, Yogyakarta
Harsono, Adi. 1994. Pengantar Evaluasi Log. Schlumberger. Jakarta

December 22, 2011

Log Neutron & Log Densitas

Log Neutron adalah log yang digunakan untuk mengukur indeks hidrogen yang terdapat pada formasi batuan.  Indeks hidrogen adalah rasio dari konsentrasi atom hydrogen/cm kubik batuan terhadap kandungan air murni pada suhu 75 F. Log Neutron sebenarnya bukan mengukur porositas, tapi mengukur indeks hidrogen pada pori-pori batuan.

Semakin berpori batuan maka semakin banyak kandungan hidrogen dan semakin tinggi indeks hidrogen. Sehingga, batuan yang banyak mengandung hidrogen dapat ditafsirkan memiliki porositas yang tinggi pula.  Pada praktiknya interpretasi porositas dapat dilakukan dengan mengolaborasikan log neutron dengan log densitas.

Density logging sendiri dilakukan untuk mengukur densitas batuan disepanjang lubang bor,. Densitas yang diukur adalah densitas keseluruhan dari matriks batuan dan fluida yang terdapat pada pori. Prinsip kerja alatnya adalah dengan emisi sumber radioaktif. Semakin padat batuan semakin sulit sinar radioaktif tersebut ter-emisi dan semakin sedikit emisi radioaktif yang terhitung oleh penerima (counter).

Penggabungan neutron porosity dan density porosity log sangat bermanfaat untuk mendeteksi zona gas dalam reservoir. Zona gas ditunjukkan dengan ‘cross-over’ antara log neutron dan density.

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Pada gambar di atas terlihat pada zona reservoir (low gamma ray), terdapat ‘cross-over’ antara density dan neutron., dalam hal ini neutron porosity lebih rendah dari density porosity.


Keywords : Log neutron, Log densitas, Log density, Log sumur, log

Reference:
John T. Dewan, "Open-Hole Nuclear Logging - State of the Art" - SPWLA Twenty-Seventh Annual Logging Symposium, June 9-13 1986.
http://ensiklopediseismik.blogspot.com/2009/02/neutron-porosity-dan-density-logging.html
Surjono, S.S., Sarju Winardi., D.H.Amijaya.2010. Analisis Sedimentologi, Pustaka Geo, Yogyakarta
Harsono, Adi. 1994. Pengantar Evaluasi Log. Schlumberger. Jakarta

December 18, 2011

Log Resistivitas (Resistivity log)

Log Resistivitas (Resistivity Log) adalah log yang digunakan untuk mengukur sifat batuan dan fluida pori  (minyak, gas, air)  disepanjang lubang bor dengan mengukur sifat tahanan kelistrikannya. Resistivitas berbanding terbalik dengan konduktivitas.

Besaran pada log resistivitas batuan menggunakan satuan Ohm. Jika batuan mengandung fluida seperti air formasi yang sifatnya salin, maka  kurva resistivitasnya akan menunjukkan angka yang sangat rendah karena sifat air yang salin cenderung bersifat konduktif (kebalikan dari resistif). Dan pada minyak atau gas, kurva resistivitas akan menunjukkan angka yang sangat tinggi karena minyak atau gas cenderung memiliki hambatan yang sangat tinggi.

 Log resistivitas bermanfaat sekali dalam evaluasi formasi khususnya untuk menganalisa apakah suatu reservoir mengandung air garam (wet) atau mengandung hidrokarbon, sehingga log ini digunakan untuk menganalisis Hidrocarbon-Water Contact.

Contoh Gambar ilustrasi Log Resistivitas (kontak hidrokarbon-air)



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Didalam pengukuran resistivity log, biasanya terdapat tiga jenis ‘penetrasi’ resistivity, yakni shallow (borehole), medium (invaded zone) dan deep (virgin) penetration. Perbedaan kedalaman penetrasi ini dimaksudkan untuk menghindari salah tafsir pada pembacaan log resistivity karena mud invasion (efek lumpur pengeboran) dan bahkan dapat mempelajari sifat mobilitas minyak.

Resistivity log memiliki kegunaan lain yakni untuk mendeterminasi tingkat saturasi air (Water Saturation). Semakin tinggi saturasi air maka resistivity akan semakin rendah. Prediksi Water Saturation dari Resistivity log dapat dilakukan dengan berbagai algoritma diantaranya dengan Persamaan Archie


Sumber : Surjono, S.S., Sarju Winardi., D.H.Amijaya.2010. Analisis Sedimentologi, Pustaka Geo, Yogyakarta
 http://ensiklopediseismik.blogspot.com

December 17, 2011

Log Sinar Gamma (Gamma Ray Log)

Log Sinar Gamma atau Gamma Ray Log adalah log yang digunakan untuk mengukur tingkat radioaktivitas suatu batuan. Radioaktivitas tersebut disebabkan karena adanya unsur Uraniun, Thorium, Kalium pada batuan. Log ini biasa dipakai di industri perminyakan pada saat eksplorasi migas.

Unsur radioaktif biasanya banyak terdapat dalam shale karena shale merupakan batuan yang terendapkan paling akhir. Selain itu kadar radioaktif juga tinggi pada abu vulkanik (volcanic ash), tuff, hasil pelapukan granit, dan garam radioaktif yang terlarut dalam air formasi yang mengisi pori-pori batuan.. Selain itu, batuan beku umumnya mempunyai radioaktif yang tinggi. Pada batupasir / sandstone juga ditemui unsur radioaktif, namun sangat sedikit sekali jumlahnya.

Fungsi Log gamma ray yaitu untuk mendeteksi adanya lapisan shale dibawah permukaan bumi, dan juga lapisan batupasir berdasarkan kandungan radioaktif unsur-unsur K,U,Th,dan lain-lain. Log Gamma ray ini perlu dilengkapi dengan log lainnya seperti log SP, log resistivity, log neutron-density, dll agar tidak terjadi kesalahan interpretasi batuan. Contohnya intrusi batuan beku dengan shale.

Jika kita berekerja di sebuah cekungan dengan lingkungan pengendapan fluvio-deltaic atau channel system dimana biasanya sistem perlapisannya terdiri dari sandstone atau shale (sand-shale interbeds), maka log gamma ray ini akan sangat membantu didalam evaluasi formasi (Formation Evaluation- FE).

Seperti halnya logging yang lainnya, pengukuran gamma ray log dilakukan dengan menurunkan instrument gamma ray log kedalam lubang bor dan merekam radiasi sinar gamma untuk setiap interval tertentu. Biasanya interval perekaman gamma ray (baca: resolusi vertikal) sebesar 0.5 feet.

Dikarenakan sinar gamma dapat menembus logam dan semen, maka logging gamma ray dapat dilakukan pada lubang bor yang telah dipasang casing ataupun telah dilakukan cementing. Walaupun terjadi atenuasi sinar gamma karena casing dan semen, akan tetapi energinya masih cukup kuat untuk mengukur sifat radiasi gamma pada formasi batuan disampingnya.

Seperti yang disebutkan diatas bahwa gammar ray log mengukur radiasi gamma yang dihasilkan oleh unsur-unsur radio aktif seperti Uranium, Thorium, Potassium dan Radium. Dengan demikian besaran gamma ray log yang terdapat didalam rekaman merupakan jumlah total dari radiasi yang dihasilkan oleh semua unsur radioaktif yang ada di dalam batuan. Untuk memisahkan jenis-jenis bahan radioaktif yang berpengaruh pada bacaan gamma ray dilakukan gamma ray spectroscopy. Karena pada hakikatnya besarnya energy dan intensitas setiap material radioaktif tersebut berbeda-beda.

Spectroscopy ini penting dilakukan ketika kita berhadapan dengan batuan non-shale yang memungkinkan untuk memiliki unsur radioaktif, seperti mineralisasi uranium pada sandstone, potassium feldsfar atau uranium yang mungkin terdapat pada coal dan dolomite.

Gamma ray log memiliki satuan API (American Petroleum Institute), dimana tipikal kisaran API biasanya berkisar antara 0 s/d 150. Walaupun terdapat juga suatu kasus dengan nilai gamma ray sampai 200 API untuk jenis organic rich shale.

Gambar Log Gamma Ray (warna Merah)


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Sumber : Surjono, S.S., Sarju Winardi., D.H.Amijaya.2010. Analisis Sedimentologi, Pustaka Geo, Yogyakarta
http://ensiklopediseismik.blogspot.com/2009/01/gamma-ray-log.html

December 7, 2011

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December 5, 2011

Sedimentary Structure

Sedimentary Structures

Sediment is a dynamic data structure that is very useful to identify the deposition environment. The structure of the sediment by physical processes before, during and after sedimentation.
The process is caused among others by:
a. Fluid Flow
b. The mass flow
c. Transportation by agents of erosion (wind, snow)
d. The process of biogenic
e. The process of chemical
f. The process of physics
Sedimentary structures reflect environmental conditions during sedimentation and control changes, and since that's sedimentary structures have many uses, among others, namely:
a. Interpretation of the deposition environment (transport mechanism, the direction of flow, depth, wind power & speed relative currents, tectonic sedimentation, and the condition of environment itself.)
b. Determine the top and bottom layers deported.
c. Determine paleogeography and early flows of an area.

Structural Classification of Sediments
1. Structure of erosion: is a structure formed by erosion caused by fluid flow and stream sediments prior to deposition above the plane of the layers. This type of erosion structures such as sole marks (flute casts, groove casts) and channels and scours.
a. Sole Mark: The structure of the sediment found on the top or bottom of a layer (Boggs, 1992)
Positive mold shaped sandstone or more kasaryang rocks rest on a more subtle. Sole marks are usually found in sedimentary rocks that have undergone reversal

Figure 1: Sole marks are experiencing a reversal

Source : http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/images/sole_marks.html

b. Flute cast: shaped like the sole mark the end like wildfire. Usually found in  turbiditic sandstones (Tucker, 1991)



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c. groove cast: appears as a bulge rectilinear, rounded up sharply peaked, and lies in the field below the sandstone bedding. Some groove cast in groups and shows a set of protrusions and indentations that can be viewed as order-2 groove cast. Most of the set of order-2 groove cast showed divergent patterns and spread symmetrically on both sides of the main cast groove. The structure is thought to form due to the filling indentations formed in the mud hard by a moving object. The structure of such a structure also called shuffle ("drag mark"; "drag cast") (Kuenen, 1957). Groove casts generally appear in groups. More than one set of grooves cast is usually seen in the same plane, where the second set of cutting the first set with a taper angle cuts. Most of the set groove casts are usually eliminated by a second set of groove cast. In one set of groove cast, there would be little or perhaps no azimuth deviation. Groove cast rarely appear together with flute casts; both structures seem to be exclusive to one another. Individuals groove cast reliefs show only about 1 or 2 mm, very straight, and in most outcrops showed no starting point or end point. Therefore, we rarely find the "tools" are responsible for the formation of a groove cast. Groove cast should be distinguished from the structure of shear (slide mark; slide cast) formed by the movement of a large object or a mass of relatively large-sized objects, such as shale raft (shale raft). Mass tends to rotate shifts in both vertical and lateral direction so that the resultant curved traces and reflects the turn. Groove cast did not show such properties; groove marks are associated with other tools such as prod cast and skip casts. As flute casts, groove casts most commonly found in the field below turbidity bedding. Groove cast may be the type of structure under the bedding areas are most often found in Flysch facies.





The origins of groove cast has been a puzzle for some time. Groove cast is produced by the current structure. Cast groove orientation correlates very well with the current direction as indicated by other structures. In addition, evidence that the groove cast is a proven tool marks from the fact that very rarely found, namely the existence of particles of sand or fragments of the framework of the animals at the downstream end of the groove casts. However, the details of the dynamics of the formation of groove cast is still unclear. Most of the objects are transported by currents moving in a way rolling or bounced, as indicated by various types of collisions trail. Groove cast formation, on the other hand, requires a continuous contact between the "tool" with basic, even require the existence of pressure. In addition, as indicated by the groove ornate, "tool" that does not perform rotational movements. Eddy produces flute, not the groove. Thus, the mechanism of groove formation has not been fully understood. The existence of the sets intersecting groove cast is also a problem in itself. Assumed groove formed by turbid currents that move as a stream of concentrated toward the bottom of the slope. However, if a set of groove recording the movement to the bottom of the slope, then another set that will not record the movement toward the bottom of the slope. Because it is often found, the groove is one indicator of ancient currents that are very useful. However, the groove should be used in conjunction with other structures, groove only provide information about the azimuth, but did not provide information about the direction of flow.



d. Channels and scours: there are almost in all the environments of deposition. Appear as surface erosion at the base layer, and easily recognizable because it cuts the field of bedding. Rock is more rough than the surrounding rock. In a cross-channel structure found confusing possibilities.

2. Structure Deposition : syndepositional sedimentary structures, structures that are often encountered the bedding-lamination, cross maze, ripple waves, graded layer, a layer of massive, dune, antidune, etc.. To be described is the first structure 4.

a. bedding and lamination: by the horizontalitybedsets. Bedsets there are 2 that planar bedsets and composite bedsets.


Figure 3: sedimentary bedding



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b. The cross-bedding: bedding that indicates apparent angle between the layer =- internal boundary layer bedding. If the cross is a layer, called cross-bedding. When laminates, called cross lamination (Lewis and McConchie, 1994). There are two types of cross-bedding, which is planar and trough.


figure 4. Cross-bedding



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c. The gradation bedding: bedding that changing grain size gradation. If it is become fine upward, then it is called Normal grading. In contrast, when so-called inverse coarsening upward grading.



Figure 5: grade bedding


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d. massive bedding: the bedding that does not indicate the presence of structures in the body is due to the massive bedding .deposition is so fast, debris result of high density sludge, or sediment gravity results


3. Structure of Post-Deposition
This structure is formed after the precipitation occurs, the result of the deformation process before it occurs compacting perfectly. Structures that formed were: slide and slump, convolute bedding, load casts, stylolite, sandstone dikes, dish and pillar and sheet dewatering.

a. Slide and slump : mass movements above the plane skidded along the slopes that cause little deformation on the sediment's body  (Tucker, 1991). Folds, faults and brecciation of the overall rise could occur in the slump. Slides will result in synsedimentary folds (Potter and Pettijohn, 1977). Movement slump will result in folds and faults.




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Folds are irregularly shaped and spread in all directions is called convolute. This structure is located just above the plane bedding (Tucker, 1991). the genesis is uncertain, but may occur due to differences in vertical and lateral flow. crease yield and anticline Syncline, anticline usually used to detect hydrocarbon prospects.




b. Load cast : sole mark structures that occur as a result of loading and the difference between the density contrast. It usually occurs in the sandstone below the mudstone. Sandstone some will infiltrate into the mudstone due to loading.


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c. Dish and pillar: sedimentary structures are often found together. Dish (bowl) looks like a laminated thin and concave when viewed vertically. Pillar nearly equal to the dish, but this structure vertically cut sandstone layers (Boggs, 1992). Formed by the escape of water from the body of rock due to rapid deposition.


4. Structure of biogenic
Biogenic structures actually enter into the realm of ichnology (Collinson & Thompson, 1982). This structure can show the environment of deposition, sedimentation rates and processes (Compton, 1985)
Animals can leave traces in a way to touch, tread, move across, feeding on surface sediments, member / vent deposition of sediment in search of food, dig a hole to live and creates a shape after getting out of the hole sediments (Compton, 1985).

There are three aspects of the classification of trace fossils (Collinson & Thompson, 1982), namely:
a. Aspects of morphology: identification based on morphological and biological nomenclature according naming (ichnogenus and ichnospecies), reference is the size, way of life and preservation.
b. Aspects of preservation-Sedimentologists: morphological identification, model, positioning, and the preservation process.
c. Aspect-environmental way of life: by the way of life (cubichnia, repichnia, etc.)

Fossils can show the environment of deposition in addition it can be used to determine sedimentation whether or not to proceed. Fossils can also document the behavior of living things that have been extinct and also organisms that have no hard body parts. Moreover, it can indicate a direction of a layer.

5. Interpretation of the Ancient Flow
Sedimentary structures may show indications of an ancient stream, the paleoslope, direction / sediment dispersal patterns, full-circuit with the geometry of rock units and the location of sediment sources. The interpretation may also have economic significance, for example, to determine the spread of placer deposits (Graham, 1988)
Before performing the interpretation of an ancient stream, should be examined first supporting structure and the genesis of such structures. Besides the 3D cross-sectional layer of sediment must be known to be measured plunge, dip, strike, etc..
If the slope is less than 15 degrees and the rocks have not been deformed, it can be measured with a compass. If the slope is more than 15 degrees, may have been exposed to the geological structure, the structure must be identified first. Ancient flows can be determined through dip-strike, dip or plunge anyway.

6. Current Ripple Interpretation
Ripple and dune sand is coarse in appearance undulates-being. Usually generated by wind / water-offs. Ripple is less than 50cm in length and height from 0.5 to 3 cm, while the dune more than that (Collinson and Thompson, 1982)


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Petroleum System

Preface

Petroleum system consist of source rock, reservoir, seal/cap rock, trap, migration, and maturity.

a. Source rock : Source of the oil, usually limestone and shale. Source rock has many organic material from reefs, planctonic, etc.
b. Reservoir : porous and permeable lithological unit or set of units that holds the hydrocarbon reserves. Analysis of reservoirs at the simplest level requires an assessment of their porosity (to calculate the volume of in situ hydrocarbons) and their permeability (to calculate how easily hydrocarbons will flow out of them).
c. Cap Rock : unit with low permeability that impedes the escape of hydrocarbons from the reservoir rock. Common seals include evaporites, chalks and shales. Analysis of seals involves assessment of their thickness and extent, such that their effectiveness can be quantified
d. Trap : trap is the stratigraphic or structural feature that ensures the juxtaposition of reservoir and seal such that hydrocarbons remain trapped in the subsurface, rather than escaping (due to their natural buoyancy) and being lost.
e. Migration : oil moves from source rock, then fill in reservoir pore and trapped
f. maturity : to make predictions of the amount and timing of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion

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Mechanism (of the figure)

Source rock which has organic material (planctonic, algae, etc) produce the oil because the temperature make it mature. Then the oil moves into reservoir through the fault and fill the pore (migration). Then after the migration happens, it will be trapped and accumulated. The density of oil < density of water, accordingly oil always on the top of the water. When the oil reach the specific point, it will be gas.

Why the oil/gas not leak to the surface?
Because the top of reservoir rock, there are seals rock. Seal consist of impermeable rock, usually claystone. and the top of seal named overburden rock.

Trap
There are kinds of oil/gas trap

Structural Trap : formed by a deformation in the rock layer that contains the hydrocarbons. There are salt dome, fold, and fault trap. Structural traps are the easiest to locate by surface and subsurface geological and geophysical studies. They are the most numerous among traps and have received a greater amount of attention in the search for oil than all other types of traps.
  1.   Salt Dome Trap : Intrusion of salt because of differential density of rock layer and salt. Salt will tends cut the top layer on it. Then, it makes a trap for oil accumulation.                                                                http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/local/cache-vignettes/L300xH232/Salt_dome_trap-42877.jpg
  2. Fold Trap : Compression of tectonics make rock layers folded and forms sincline and anticline. Anticline is the best trap, because the drilling process is relatively easy. The oil and gas move to the top because pressure, and drilling started on the topper of anticline because of eficiency height.                                                                            

         3. Fault Trap : Trap formed by fault (look at the figure on top), and the oil could not to moves because                 there was impermeable layer

Stratigraphic Trap : formed when other beds seal a reservoir bed or when the permeability changes (facies change) within the reservoir bed itself. Stratigraphic traps can form against either younger or older time surfaces.

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_geology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_reservoir

keywords : Petroleum system, trap, reservoir, source rock, structural trap, seal rock, petroleum geology, migration, fault

December 3, 2011

Sedimentology in sedimentary basin : Fore-arc Basin

Along destructive margins, fore-arc refers to linear areas seaward of continental or oceanic volcanic arcs and landwards of any accretionary prism or trench .


A subsiding forearc referred to as a fore-arc basin, rooted in either modified continental or oceanic crust. Bathymetrically, fore-arcs are rather variable. Most are shelf-like, with gentle slopes up to 100 km or more wide. Some are much more complex, with a plethora of sub-basins and local uplifted highs associated  with both thrust and normal faulting. They act as sediment traps for the often prodigious sediment fluxes issuing from adjacent volcanic arcs. Volcanic airfalls, submarine slumps and eruption-driven  turbidity currents transfer sediment downlope. Floating pumice rafts disperse more widely over the destructive margin. The efficiency of the fore-arc trap increases as ridge-like barriers form by accretionary offscrapping at the trench-slope break. The tendency with time is for the initially  shallow fore-arc, with its coarse-grained basal deposits, to deepen quickly and then to infill gradually with a coarsening-upwards, predominantly turbiditic facies of arc volcanic provenance.

With time, the fore arc broadens and shallow by sediment onlap both oceanwards and landwards. The end result is an increasingly inefficient trap configuration. Basin fills from cainozoic and mesozoic example may reach up to 10km in thickness. The grat basin of california is perhaps the best exposed and investigated example of an ancient fore arc, whilst amongst active examples the sumatera-java fore-arc shows many classic features.

In order to understand how many fore arc basin originate as residual features superimposed upon older oceanic or continental-margin basement, it is necessary to conduct a thought experiment by imagining the likely sequence of events when subduction is initiated along a passive continental margin. During such a process, oceanic slab failure and reversely buoyant descent will occur oceanwards  of the last thinned  or modified continental crust. Fore-arcs are thus underlain by oceanic, modified oceanic or thinned continental crust, and bounded oceanwards by the first offscraped sediment of the nascent accretionary prism. Water depth are initially deep, liable to rapid infill by copious sediment flux from the adjacent arc.
Sediment loading induces extra flexural subsidence around the basin margin, causing forebulges, then waves of subsidence to migrate outwards towards both the trench-slope break and the volcanic arc, causing progressive onlap on those features. Fore-arc terrains along periodically extensional destructional margins undergo alternating uplift due to shortenng and subsidence as the area of the whole trench-arc gap episodically increases due to stretching.

Source : Leeder, Mike.1999.Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins (From Turbulence to Tectonics). Blackwell Publishing. Malden (USA). page 520

keywords : Fore-arc basin, sedimentary basin, arc, sedimentology fore-arc

December 2, 2011

ANALYSIS OF TSUNAMI HAZARD POTENTIAL USING TSUNAMI SIMULATION AT SUNDA STRAIT REGION

ANALYSIS OF TSUNAMI HAZARD POTENTIAL USING TSUNAMI SIMULATION AT SUNDA STRAIT REGION

Robiana, Rahayu * **
* Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation
** 2007, JICA Training Course, Nagoya University
e-mail : robiana_geo104@yahoo.com , rahayu@vsi.esdm.go.id


ABSTRACT

As a region in the line of trench, Sunda strait region have a very high probability to be attacked by earthquake and tsunami. To anticipate geological hazard were will occure in the future, especially by tsunami, we need to learn about hazard in this region. To determine tsunami hazard in this region, we use tsunami simulation for three tsunami source which have most high tsunami run up potential. Two tsunami sources parameters taken from the last tsunami occured at western and eastern part of sunda trench. One source placed along seismic gap for biggest earthquake which have possibility occured. Tsunami wave distribution from tsunami simulation in observation point, will be the discussion materials to decide tsunami hazard level along coastal in both provinces at sunda strait.

INTRODUCTION
Sunda strait region including Lampung and Banten province is located at western part of Indonesia. Lampung province is most southern part of Sumatera Island and Banten province is most western part of Java Island, connected by Sunda strait . Tsunami is unpredicted event which almost always forgoten by people because its has long event period, but always cause disastrous social and environment effect. Because of that, analysis of tsunami hazard is very important, especially for regions which never or after long period not happen but have potential of being attacked. Since tsunami Sumatera 2004 happened, tsunami prepardness and mitigation system become a big concern. For the purpose of preparing and improving tsunami awareness and mitigation system, this paper try studying about tsunami hazard potential at sunda strait region by using modelling tsunami generated by earthquake at seismic gap along Sunda trench around sunda strait with three different scenarios. Simulation result will be used to identify tsunami hazard level according to tsunami wave height attacking coastal areas........



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