The oldest crystalline basement rocks beneath kuwait are poorly understood due to the thickness of overlying sedimentary rocks. It is the most susceptible siliciclastic unit in the area to hydrocarbon reservoir. Inspecting the reservoir characteristics of the burgan. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying an area of 780 km2, the cretaceous reservoirs of the great burgan field still account for most of kuwaits oil. The concession was for 75 years and covered the whole 1 of the kuwait oil co. Search and discovery featured articles accessing thin layer carbonates. The oldest and largest of kuwaits oil fields the greater burgan field in southeastern kuwaitproduces about 1.
Geologic and tectonic history of kuwait as inferred from seismic data. After its discovery in february, 1938, the usa and ukowned kuwait oil company began commercial oil production at burgan in 1946. The first oil well was installed in burgan in 1938. Geologic overview and petroleum systems of the greater ghawar. It explains the background to production geology in the context of oil field subsurface operations. Location map of kuwait showing oil fields, jurassic wells and. Journalof elsevier journal of petroleum science and engineering 161996 151 167 geologic and tectonic history of kuwait as inferred from seismic data firyal bourabee department of geology, kuwait university, p. The greater burgan oil field accounts for most of both reserves and production in the country. There are no rising and falling oil derricks at burgan citation needed, as seen at other oil fields. Giant oil field an oilfield with estimated ultimate recoverable oil of more than 500 million barrels 0.
Jul 12, 2011 the onshore burgan field in the desert of southeastern kuwait is one of the worlds largest and richest oil fields. Connan et al, 2005 the subsurface reservoirs of the burgan oil field were discovered in february, 1938. Soroosh oil field, burgan formation, hydraulic flow units, nw persian gulf how to cite this paper. Oil field production geology geoscienceworld books. Six microfacies are defined on quantitative petrographic data in a carbonateclastic sequence from the subsurface, oil producing mauddud formation of early middle cretaceous age. In 1938 burgan well1 was discovered based on surface geology mapping and gravity survey. Major development of the field to increase production to a target rate of 450,000 bopd has been a priority for the last 5 years. Research paper the petroleum geology of the cretaceous. Geological modeling and reservoir characterization greater burgan oil field. Reservoir geology of the burgan formation in the raudhatain and sabiriyah fields, north kuwait. This study uses a new and comprehensive procedure to identify the reservoir characteristics of the burgan formation in soroush oil field nw persian gulf. The burgan formation in northwest of the persian gulf is applied to lower part of albian age kazhdumi formation, where is dominated by coarse to medium terrigenous facies. Much of western and southern kuwait is home to some of the largest oil fields in the world.
The area under study was located in the greater burgan oilfield fig. Burgan field can also refer to the greater burgana group of three closely spaced fields, which includes burgan field itself as well as the much smaller magwa and ahmadi fields. The umm gudair field is located on the southwest flank of the kuwait arch, 30 km from the burgan field. Its current production of nearly 390,000 bopd makes it a giant oil field based on world standards.
The greater burgan oil field lies within the arabian basin in the state of kuwait. In kuwait, the southeast great burgan field possesses the worlds largest sandstone oil reservoirs both in terms of reserves and production. Reservoir simulation to support pressure maintenance. Advanced petroleum geology west virginia university.
New field wildcat wells versus drilling completion year, cumulative number of oil fields versus field discovery year, and cumulative number of gas fields versus field discovery year for central arch horstblock anticlinal oil and gas assessment unit 43. Oil viscosity models for greater burgan oilfieldkuwait. Burgan is widely considered the worlds second largest oil field, surpassed only by saudi arabias ghawar field. Management of water table rise at burgan oil field, kuwait emirates journal for engineering research, vol. A natural surface oil seep above the burgan field was known to humankind since neolithic time, bituminous material from a reed boat discovered in assabiyahnorth kuwait and dated 5000 bc have been traced back to this seep. The onshore burgan field in the desert of southeastern kuwait is one of the worlds largest and richest oil fields. A detailed geological, geotechnical and geochemical.
Burgan oilfield burganoilfield kuwait map, weather and photos. This paper describes recent results from an ongoing geochemical study of the supergiant greater burgan field, kuwait. The dark patch of land in southern kuwait is where the alburqan oil field is located. Oil occurs in a number of vertically separated reservoirs including the jurassic marrat reservoir and cretaceousminagish, third burgan, fourth burgan, mauddud, and wara reservoirs. Burgan formation, reservoir quality, sequence stratigraphy, soroosh oil field, persian gulf 1. Only three exploration wells were drilled to the jurassic sequence. The burgan oil field the greater burgan oil field lies within the arabian basin in the state of kuwait. This reservoir is studied in a well of soroosh oil field with best available data to determine its facies characteristics, sequence. The depositional environment of mauddud limestone, greater.
An integrated appraisal of burgan reservoir in soroosh oil. Greater burgan is the biggest sandstone oil field in the world, and the second biggest oil field overall, after ghawar. Oil and gas seeps are present at bahra, bitumen at burgan, and gas at magwa. Geology of the arabian peninsula usgs publications repository. However, drilling and production operations were suspended due to the eruption of world war ii. Most of kuwaits oil reserves and oil production are concentrated in a few mature oil fields discovered in the 1930s and 1950s.
These are, in descending order of importance and abundance. Greater burgan is the worlds largest sandstone oil field, and the second largest overall, after ghawar. Kabeer burgan is so rich that it is one of the worlds easiest production sites. Introduction terrigenous portion of the albian sediments kazhdumi formation in the northwest persian gulf is called burgan formation burgunmbr, in iran, the name that is derived from kuwait stratigraphic lexicon. The four locations share a similar geologic setting. Purchase of an open document does not constitute license for republication in any form, nor does it allow web posting without prior written permission. Named after first and largest oil field listed on the kuwait stock exchange government of kuwait divested its 61. Relatively little potable water has been discovered within the state, but large. While oil will continue to have a role in africa for the foreseeable future, both in production and consumption, natural gas can and should have a bright future as part of africas cleaner energy mix. Save search save a search to perform it again, and optionally to be alerted when new content matches. It also gives practical guidelines as to how a production geologist can analyze the reservoir geology and fluid flow characteristics of an oil field with the aim of improving hydrocarbon recovery. Alsharhan desert and marine environment research centre, united arab emirates university, po box 17777, al ain, united arab emirates. The greater burgan oil field lies within the arabian. Northwest of persian gulf is the main area in iran invaded by these siliciclastic sediments.
In northern kuwait, sandstone comprises only 30% of the middle creta. In kuwait, extraction of groundwater is from two main aquifers, namely. Reservoir simulation modeling of the worlds largest clastic oil field the greater burgan field, kuwait. The kuwait desert had long stood witness to several strange black patches of a rough bituminous substance. Kuwait oil fields produce mostly from cretaceous reservoirs. Its production costs are by far the lowest of any oil field in the world. Instead, there are electric submersible pumps esps drawing off the oil. Greater burgan is over 750 square kilometers in area with an aspect ratioellipticity of 0. After its discovery in february, 1938, the usa and uk owned kuwait oil company began commercial oil production at burgan in 1946. In the studied field the burgan formation is placed ontop of up per shuaibaclastics. Geology it include three producing subfield burgan 500 km2 magwa 180 km2 ahmadi. A case study of better reservoir management in lower burgan reservoir, raudhatain field, north kuwait.
The kuwaiti oil fields of raudhatain and sabiriyah figure 1 are situated on the western flank and. Burgan is considered to be the worlds secondlargest oil field, surpassed only by saudi arabias ghawar field. In the early 1960s, a,853 foot deep well in the burgan oil field only reached rocks dating to the triassic including clay, marl, limestone, shale and anhydrite. The greater burgan oil field, which comprises the burgan, magwa, and ahmadi reservoirs, makes up the dominant portion of both reserves and production. The petroleum geology of the cretaceous formations in abu dhabi, united arab emirates m. During the following years, eight exploration and appraisal wells were drilled which established burgan as one of the largest producing oil fields in the world.
Location marrat sargelu minagish ratawi zubair burgan mauddud wara ahmadi mishrif tayarat radhuma ghar. The new dead oil viscosity correlation equation was able to successfully predict the viscosity of burgan oil field crudes with an aare of 5. The kuwaiti oil fields of raudhatain and sabiriyah figure 1 are. Upper burgan reservoir description, northern kuwait. It has been well studied in oil fields of north west of the persian. Between 1938, when oil was first discovered in kuwait, and 1975, when the kuwaiti oil industry was nationalized, all oil discoveries were limited to the cretaceous and tertiary reservoirs. Burgan bank underwent major management reshuffle, focusing on its growth strategy p public shareholding company in the state of kuwait. Wikimedia commons has media related to oil fields of kuwait pages in category oil fields of kuwait the following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. Known oil field size and grown oil field size versus field discovery year for horst. On february 22nd, 1938, oil was discovered in the burgan field of kuwait. The greater burgan is comprised of three smaller fields.
Geologic and tectonic history of kuwait as inferred from. As kuwaitborn fahad alrajaan will be well aware, the burgan field also known as greater burgan is an oil field which is situated in the south east of kuwait. New sequence stratigraphic model for the burgan, mauddud. The greater burgan field is the largest clastic oil field in the world covering an area of 838km2, located in south eastern kuwait. Geological and petrophysical evaluation of sandstone cores in the.
During the following years, eight exploration and appraisal wells were drilled which established burgan as one of the largest producing oil fields in the world marking a new era of kuwait prosperity. Burgan in northwest of persian gulf is a distal equivalent of plantbearing deltaic sandstones and shales of the burgan formation in kuwait and the nahrumr formation in iraq 3 19 20. Seapex williston basin russia petroleum geology subscription information. The burgan field has a homogeneous oil column while variations in oil column were recognized between fields.
The greater burgan field in kuwait is the largest clastic oil field in the world. The lithology of the two aquifers is presented in table 1. Burgan oilfield burganoilfield is a oilfield an area containing a subterranean store of petroleum of economic value and has the latitude of 29. Characterizing the greater burgan field with geochemical and. This latter well was the first well in bu hasa onshore giant oil field. The petroleum geology of the precretaceous in abu dhabi is a subject of another. Mar 03, 2018 the courses are in response to recent exploration activities that points to a new exploration cycle in the middle eastern gulf countries. Three separate depthstructural closures occur on the kuwait arch and these correspond to burgan, ahmadi and magwa fields, usually referred to collectively as the greater burgan field. Pdf this study reports reservoir geochemistry findings on the greater burgan field by a multidisciplinary, multiorganizational team.
Dec 06, 2015 as kuwaitborn fahad alrajaan will be well aware, the burgan field also known as greater burgan is an oil field which is situated in the south east of kuwait. Pdf the giant albian upper burgan reservoir in northern kuwait is a major. Oil was discovered in cretaceous minagish reservoirs in 1962, and jurassic reservoirs in 1984 sargelu and 1989 marrat. Gc and gcms of the light and intermediate parts of the oil indicates a similar oil type, with a common oil pool in all of the oil fields. From 1948 through 2016 the burgan complex has produced 32.
Second only to saudi arabias ghawar, the supergiant burgan field in kuwait was discovered by a series of wells drilled during 19381952. Whale oil was the only alternative to kerosene discovery of big oil in the gulf coast titusville, pa, 1859 beaumont, tx, 1901 oil springs, on, 1857 spindletop,tx 1901 a real gusher. The oil field is so rich that it is one of the worlds easiest production sites. Its sheer size, complex geology, intricate surface facility network, 5,000 wellcompletions and 68years of production history represent formidable challenges in reservoir simulation. A new sequencestratigraphic framework is proposed for the burgan and mauddud formations albian of kuwait. It is located about 265 kilometres 165 mi north of the company headquarters in dhahran on the coast of the persian gulf, saudi arabia. Organic geochemical evaluation of hydrocarbons in lower. In late 2016 and following its west bukha discovery offshore oman, dno approached nioc for unitised joint development operation of west bukha with niocs 1999 offshore hengam oil and gas field discovery. Jurassic geology of kuwait geoarabia geoscienceworld. Detailed geotechnical testing together with hydrocarbon analysis using a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer gcms have been carried out on samples from varying depths within the greater burgan oil field. In 1995, the kuwait oil company koc began a program of work aimed at.
Pdf pressure transient testing happens to be a powerful reservoir. Box 5969, safat 60, kuwait received 15 september 1995. Reservoir characterisation case studies publication date. The structure is defined by 100 line kilometers of seismic and 71 wells. Discovery of giant fields field country discovery year ultimate recoverable reserves gb kashagan kazakhstan 2000 79 azadegan iran 1999 69 roncador brazil 1996 2. New sequence stratigraphic model for the burgan, mauddud and. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying an area of 780 sq. A geotechnical and geochemical characterisation of oil fire.
Zone of kuwait and saudi arabia, and the first offshore oil field was. Burgan field can also refer to the greater burgan a group of three closely spaced fields, which includes burgan field itself as well as the much smaller magwa and ahmadi fields. An integrated appraisal of burgan reservoir in soroosh oil field, using petrographic and petrophysical approaches abstract fulltext html xml download as pdf size. The late albian to early cenomanian burgan and wara formations from southeast kuwait constitutes the largest siliciclastic oil reservoir on earth. The albian age burgan formation is one of the most important siliciclastic reservoirs in the arabian plate.
A geotechnical and geochemical characterisation of oil. Burgan field project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Burgan oilfield burganoilfield map, weather and photos. Reservoir simulation modeling of the worlds largest.
This framework is based on the integration of core, welllog, and biostratigraphic data, as well as seismic interpretation from giant oil fields of kuwait. In the third part of our series, we take a look at the burgan oil field. The burgan field is an oil field situated in the desert of southeastern kuwait. Professor ken glennie was a legend in a number of fields, from the petroleum geology of the north sea to modern and ancient desert. The thickest heavy oil column, 46 m, was identified in minagish field. Aug, 2018 2010 chief executive of the kuwait oil company reported that burgan produced half of kuwaits oil. A giant oil field is defined as one containing proved reserves exceeding 500 million bb1.
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