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Geohazard Analysis

Geo-hazard analysis involves identifying geological conditions that pose risks for drilling operations. Some key geo-hazards include faults, gas chimneys, shallow gas pockets, slumps, pockmarks, dewatering structures, and shale diapers. Tools used in geo-hazard analysis include high resolution 2D seismic, coherency slices and other attributes from 3D seismic, side scan sonar for site surveys, and drop cores. The conclusion is that geophysical methods can assess offshore geo hazards in the upper portions of the subsurface below the seabed to help reduce drilling risks.

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Geohazard Analysis

Geo-hazard analysis involves identifying geological conditions that pose risks for drilling operations. Some key geo-hazards include faults, gas chimneys, shallow gas pockets, slumps, pockmarks, dewatering structures, and shale diapers. Tools used in geo-hazard analysis include high resolution 2D seismic, coherency slices and other attributes from 3D seismic, side scan sonar for site surveys, and drop cores. The conclusion is that geophysical methods can assess offshore geo hazards in the upper portions of the subsurface below the seabed to help reduce drilling risks.

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Geo-Hazard Analysis

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Geo-hazard analysis Burullus

• Introduction
• Geo-hazard define
• Geo-hazard type
• Tools
• Conclusion

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Introduction
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Introduction Burullus

Drilling hydrocarbon-producing wells is a risky business.

Management of drilling risk is an important facet

Use technology to reduce the chances of a failure.

Use geophysical technology during the planning stage of a drilling program.

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Define
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Define Burullus

• A geo-hazard is defined as "A geological state, which


represents or has the potential to develop further into a
situation leading to damage or uncontrolled risk".

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Geo-hazard Type
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Fault Burullus

• A Fault is a planar fracture or


discontinuity in a volume of
rock, across which there has
been significant displacement
along the fractures as a result
of earth movement.
• A fault is a break in the rocks
that make up the Earth’s crust,
along which rocks on either
side have moved past each
other.

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Gas chimneys Burullus

• A gas chimney is defined as a region


of low-concentration gas escaping
and migrating upward from a
hydrocarbon accumulation.
• The vertical extent of gas chimneys
may range from hundreds of meters
to several kilometers.

Gas chimney

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Shallow gas pockets Burullus

• Seepage of gas from the deeper


structure. Some of this gas
became trapped in small sand
bodies at shallow depths

Shallow Gas

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Slumps Burullus

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Pockmarks Burullus

• Pockmarks are formed by fluid


Escape through the seabed in
shallow section.
• The fluid make sediment move
and fluid out make pockmarks

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Dewatering Structures Burullus

• Form after deposition and dewatering of


sediments as a result of gravitational instability
at the interface between a layer of water
saturated sand and underlying mud. The
weight of the newly deposited overlying
sediment forces out the interstitial water.
• Surfaces exhibiting polygonal fault patterns
indicate areas with the potential for
overpressure. Therefore, recognition of these
fault patterns on coherency slices can be
important in well planning.

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Shale Diapers Burullus

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Tools
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Tools Burullus

• High resolution 2-D single-channel seismic (Historical)

• Coherency and other seismic Attributes on standard 3-D seismic

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Burullus

• Site survey (Side scan sonar)

• Drop Cores

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Conclusion Burullus

• Assessment of offshore geo hazards in the upper tens to hundreds of


meters below the seabed

• Geophysical methods for offshore geo hazards

• Tools in Geo hazard

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Burullus

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Burullus

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