Integration of Well logging and Biostratigraphic Analysis in the Delineating of Depositional Models in Baltim Area.

Abstract

Four missing times were identified intra-Pleistocene, Late Pliocene, Late Pliocene-Early Pliocene and Messinian. It has concluded that, the depositional environments ranged from shallow marine to middle nerritic and may reach upper bathyal toward the northern part of the study area. The top of Abu Madi Formation dated with the calcareous nannofossils zone NN12a, while the base dated with NN11c, and its age varied from 5.2 Ma to 5.7 Ma. The maximum flooding surface is dated with the calcareous nannofossils zone NN13 and the planktonic foraminiferal zone SN18 at 5 Ma (the acme presence of the Sphaeroidinellopsis sp.). From the utility of wireline logs for sequence stratigraphy using the different log tools for lithological interpretation and their impact upon the reflection characteristics and sequence stratigraphic interpretation, it is concluded the parasequence sets, system tracts, surface boundaries and their distribution within each well and their control on the sand distribution within each formation. In the present work, the Late Miocene (Messinian) and the Early Pliocene (Zanclian) pay-zones are the only rock units, that have integrated wireline logs approach, so it can be divided into 4 sequences; UM-1, UM-2A, UM-2B and LZ-1.