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- Title
Electromagnetic Surveys for Petroleum Exploration: Challenges and Prospects.
- Authors
Buddo, Igor; Shelokhov, Ivan; Misyurkeeva, Natalya; Sharlov, Maxim; Agafonov, Yury
- Abstract
Transient electromagnetic (TEM) surveys constitute an important element in exploration projects and can be successfully used in the search for oil and gas. Different modifications of the method include shallow (sTEM), 2D, 3D, and 4D (time-lapse) soundings. TEM data allow for solving a large scope of problems for estimating resources and reserves of hydrocarbons, discriminating reservoir rocks, detecting tectonic features, and characterizing drilling conditions. TEM surveys are applicable at all stages, from initial prospecting to production, and are especially efficient when combined with seismic surveys. Each stage has its specific objectives: estimation of net pay thickness, porosity, and fluid type during prospecting, optimization of well placement and prediction of drilling conditions in exploration, and monitoring of flooding during production. Electromagnetic soundings resolve permafrost features well and thus have a high potentiality for exploration in the Arctic petroleum province. At the first reconnaissance stage of regional prospecting in East Siberia, electromagnetic and seismic data were used jointly to map the junction of the Aldan basin (part of the Aldan-Maya foredeep) with the eastern slope of the Aldan uplift and to constrain the limits of Neoproterozoic sediments. The TEM-based images revealed reservoir rocks in the Upper and Middle Neoproterozoic strata. TEM data have implications for the amount of in-place oil and gas resources in prospects, leads, and plays (Russian categories D1–3) at the prospecting and exploration stages and contingent recoverable reserves (C2) during exploration (latest stage). The contribution of the TEM survey to oil and gas evaluation is quantified via economic variables, such as the value of information (VOI) and expected monetary value (EMV).
- Subjects
SIBERIA (Russia); PETROLEUM prospecting; PROSPECTING; NATURAL gas prospecting; PETROLEUM reserves; SEISMIC surveys; ELECTRIC transients; RESERVOIR rocks; TRICLOCARBAN
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2022, Vol 15, Issue 24, p9646
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en15249646