Geological and Petrophysical Characterization of the Lower Senonian Matulla Formation in Southern and Central Gulf of Suez, Egypt

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• 作者：Mohamed S. El Sharawy ; Bassem S. Nabawy
• 关键词：Matulla Formation ; Gulf of Suez ; Porosity ; Permeability ; Reservoir characterization ; Flow units
• 刊名：Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：281-300
• 全文大小：12,936 KB
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• 作者单位：Mohamed S. El Sharawy (1)
  Bassem S. Nabawy (1)
  
  1. Department of Geophysical Sciences, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
  
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Engineering, general
  Mathematics
  Science, general
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

文摘

The Lower Senonian Matulla Formation is well developed in the southern and central Gulf of Suez. It can be subdivided into three depositional units (M1–M3). An obvious unconformity separated the middle unit (M2) from the upper unit (M3). The three units are corresponding to a second-order depositional sequence. This sequence consists of two systems tracts; the lower lowstand systems tract consists of slope fan, followed by a prograding complex. An erosion surface separated the lower from the upper transgressive systems tract. The Matulla Formation is mostly composed of sandstones and pelagic sediment intercalations. Such intercalations show obvious facies change throughout the study area, causing further subdivision of the Matulla Formation into seven rock types (RT1–RT7). The petrophysical reservoir evaluation has been achieved via determination of the effective porosity, permeability, shale content, water saturation and net-pay thickness from the environmentally corrected well log data. It indicates that the Matulla Formation can be considered as a good reservoir quality especially in its lower unit and sometimes in its middle unit as well. The available core data indicate a lithological heterogeneity of the studied Matulla Formation. Lithologically, it can be subdivided into four petrophysical and lithological facies; namely, they are sandstones, ferruginous sandstones, argillaceous sandstones and limestones. The best petrophysical properties were assigned for the ferruginous sandstones with good to excellent porosity, very good to excellent permeability, and poor to fair flow zone indicator.