Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia
23: An Integrated Approach to De-Risking Exploration and Appraisal in Structurally Complex Fold-and-Thrust Belts: Application to the Incahuasi Field (Bolivia)
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Jean-Francois Ballard, Vincenzo Spina*, Francis Clément, Pierre-Emmanuel Lardin, Jean-Marc Moron, Jean-Marc Fleury, Patrick Chaffel, 2018. "An Integrated Approach to De-Risking Exploration and Appraisal in Structurally Complex Fold-and-Thrust Belts: Application to the Incahuasi Field (Bolivia)", Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, G. Zamora, K. R. McClay, V. A. Ramos
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ABSTRACT
The south sub-Andean zone of Bolivia is characterized by east-verging thrusts, detaching within Silurian and Devonian series, and associated to a series of north–south to north-northeast–south-southwest regional anticlines and synclines holding large gas accumulations. This chapter is a case history of the multi-TCF (trillion cubic feet) Incahuasi discovery and how an integrated, multidisciplinary approach allows a progressive improvement in the understanding of the trap geometry, reducing the uncertainty during exploration and field appraisal.
While-drilling structural interpretation and biostratigraphic analyses suggested that the discovery well, prognosed mainly by surface geology and targeting the top of the Huamampampa Formation as a...
- anticlines
- Bolivia
- Devonian
- fold and thrust belts
- folds
- geometry
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- magnetotelluric methods
- oil and gas fields
- oil wells
- Paleozoic
- petroleum
- petroleum accumulation
- petroleum exploration
- reservoir rocks
- resistivity
- risk management
- seismic methods
- seismic profiles
- Silurian
- South America
- surveys
- synclines
- three-dimensional models
- traps
- two-dimensional models
- Huamampampa Formation
- petroleum systems
- Incahuasi Field
- Incahuasi Structure