Seismic characteristics of a reef carbonate reservoir and implications for hydrocarbon exploration in deepwater of the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-823

  Wu, Shiguo ^a,d   Yuan, Shengqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Gongcheng ^c   Ma, Yubo ^a,b   Mi, Lijun ^e   Xu, Ning ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CNOOC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^e CNOOC LTD   (China)

^f Development Corp   (China)

Author keywords

Deepwater hydrocarbons; Qiongdongnan Basin (QDNB); Reef carbonate; Seismic attributes; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ANOMALIES; CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; DEEP WATERS; DEEPWATER HYDROCARBONS; GEOPHYSICAL DATUM; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATIONS; INDONESIA; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; MIOCENE; MULTICHANNEL; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEAS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QIONGDONGNAN BASIN (QDNB); SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES; SEISMIC DATUM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SMALL-SCALE PATCHES; SOURCE AREAS; SOUTH CHINA SEAS; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENTS; WATER DEPTHS;

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; HYDROCARBONS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS;

REEFS;

DEEP WATER; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL FIELD; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; QIONGDONGNAN BASIN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 67349084116     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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