Vertical Movements and Petroleum System Modelling in the Southern Chotts Basin, Central Tunisia

Bruna, Pierre-Olivier; Bertotti, Giovanni; Amor, Salma Ben; Nasri, Ahmed; Ouahchi, Sondes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_137

Advances in Science, Technology &Amp; Innovation

2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_137

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Vertical Movements and Petroleum System Modelling in the Southern Chotts Basin, Central Tunisia

Pierre-Olivier Bruna¹,

Giovanni Bertotti²,

Salma Ben Amor³

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Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs

Smith,

Bruna,

Nasri

et al. 2023

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Fracture networks play a critical role in fluid flow within reservoirs, and it is therefore important to understand the interactions and influences of these networks. Our study focuses on the Southern Chotts–Jeffara Basin, which hosts reservoirs within Triassic, Permian and Ordovician units containing significant hydrocarbon accumulations. Recent developments on the structural understanding of the basin have proved that a regional shortening phase occurred between the Permian and Jurassic, forming open folds and a distributed fracture network. Analysis of late Paleozoic and Mesozoic outcrops within the basin has identified several sets of fractures (with dip directions and dip angles of 150/80 and 212/86) and compressional structural features that support this shortening hypothesis. We have integrated fracture data from surface analogues and subsurface analysis of advanced seismic attributes and well data through structural linking to form a 2D hybrid fracture model of the reservoirs in the region. Through analytical aperture modelling and numerical simulation, we found that the fractures orientated 212° in combination with large-scale fractures contribute significantly to the fluid-flow orientation and potential reservoir permeability. Our presented fracture workflow and framework provide an insight into network characterization within naturally fractured reservoirs of Tunisia, and how certain structures form fluid pathways that influence flow and production. Supplementary material: Data and figures detailing fracture characterisation and modelling along open folds in southern Tunisia are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6904499

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Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs

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Nasri

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Vertical Movements and Petroleum System Modelling in the Southern Chotts Basin, Central Tunisia

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Fracture distribution along open folds in southern Tunisia: implications for naturally fractured reservoirs

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