Application of Seismic Attributes and Its Contribution in Identifying

New Prospects in ISIS Field

WALID MAHMOUDI
Exploration Geophysicist
win-win partnership ETAP

54, Avenue Mohamed V

1073 Tunis, Tunisie

54, Avenue Mohamed V - 1002 Tunis, Tunisie

Tél. : (+216) 71 28 53 00 - Fax : (+216) 71 90 22 82
 Presentation Outline
Introduction
Geological setting
Seismic Data
Well Data and Production History
Reservoir data
Total Reserve
ISIS NE structure
Seismic response of the reef
Schematics reef seismic shape
Variance attributes
Application of Variance attributes on NE Prospect
NE Prospcet evaluation
Conclusion and recommendation

win-win partnership
 Introduction

The field is located 150 km offshore Tunisia to the SE of the

city of Sfax and lies under 75m of water

ISIS structure was discovered in 1974 by TOTAL following

the drilling of ISIS-1

A concession status was awarded to TOTAL in 1980 for a period

of validity of 30 years, Since that many Oil Companies have been
interested in the concession

win-win partnership
 Geological Setting

ISIS West ISIS East

Isis Structure :Shallow marine carbonates (Cenomanian).

Lateral compressional forces associated with a wrench faults.

Isis field consists of two main accumulations separated by a NW-SE trending faults.

win-win partnership
 Seismic Data

3D PSTM seismic data: 102Km²

win-win partnership
 Well Data and Production history

Well production Performance 2001-2006

Well Crude Oil Gas (bcf)

(mmbbl)
ISIS-7 3,5 12,29
ISIS-8 1,48 17,29
ISIS-9 2,52 21,75
Total Production 7,5 51,33

win-win partnership
 Reservoir data

Reservoir thickness :Cenomanian / reef 70m

Net Pay: 35m

Porosity: 14-18 %

Permeability: 100-180 md

OWC: -2500mss
GOC: -2460mss

win-win partnership
 Total Reserve
Western area:
- Presence of extensive gas cap
- Producing from its SE flank by wells Isis 8 and 9.

Eastern Area:
- Small gas capproducing through well
ISIS-7
- It is separated from the western area by
OWC=2500mss a faulted structure trending NW-SE

Produced Oil: 7.4 million barrels of Oil

Produced Gas: 51 bcf
Estimated remaining recoverable reserves 16
million barrels of Oil

GOC=2460mss

win-win partnership
 ISIS NE Structure

NE Prospect

4 way dip closure

Sructural closure = 50m
Total Ara: 2,8 km²

win-win partnership
 Seismic response of the reef

Inline=1755

Reef

Xline = 1165

Reef Build up

win-win partnership
 Schematics reef seismic shape

Mound shape

Xline 1165

Reef Build up

Dimming

Velocity push down

win-win partnership
 Variance attributes

Variance: is a measure of how well each trace fits the mean trace so that It calculates Trace
to trace variability and Therefore detect lateral change in acoustic impedance

win-win partnership
 Seismic attribute over ISIS NE Prospect

T=1900ms T=1920ms

T=1940ms T=1960ms T=1980ms

win-win partnership
 NE Prospect Evaluation

NENE
Prospect
Prospect

Gross Prospective Resources

Case Volumes
Low 1,5 mmbbl
Mean 3 mmbbl
High 5,3 mmbbl

win-win partnership
 Conclusion and recommendation

Re-start production from suspended producer wells is necessary in order

to recover the remaining reserves.

Reservoir modeling study resulted in the delineation of large area in ISIS

structure which have not been drained during the initial production

Additional Oil recovery from ISIS reservoir can be achieved by drilling

several additional wells

Well identified up-side Prospect exist in the North-Eastern part of the field
need to be explored at least by an exploration well to get a valuable
information about the reservoir characterstic and the existing volume

win-win partnership
 Thank you for your attention

54, Avenue Mohamed V

1073 Tunis, Tunisie

54, Avenue Mohamed V - 1002 Tunis, Tunisie

Tél. : (+216) 71 28 53 00 - Fax : (+216) 71 90 22 82

win-win partnership