The Bruce Field is a giant gas condensate accumulation which lies on the western side of the Viking Graben at the northern end of the Beryl Embayment. Although discovered in 1974, the Annex B was not approved until 1990 by which time the field had been shown to extend across three exploration licence blocks (9/8a, 9/9b and 9/9a) and to be extremely complex. There are three main elements to the complexity: structure, reservoir distribution and hydrocarbon charge.The major structural elements are the Western Flank (a rotated fault block) and the Eastern High with a central low between, the Central Panel; however, relatively poor seismic data quality makes detailed structural interpretation difficult. Each of these structural elements has a different hydrocarbon–water contact, with a proven range of nearly 500 m. The shallowest contact is found on the Eastern High and though the contact in the central low is nearly 350 m deeper, pressure data indicate that the gas leg is in communication with that in the Eastern High. The distribution of the main reservoir, the Middle Jurassic Beryl Group, and the magnitude of the unconformity that underlies it, appear to be controlled by earlier faults which are cross-cut by the present structure. The result of these complexities is that long hydrocarbon columns can be found in the structural lows, and thick reservoir successions can occur on the structural highs.
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BP's exploration success in deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola, has been driven by conventional narrow-azimuth 3D seismic data coupled with the latest available imaging algorithms. However limitations in these data are now apparent and the data is deemed insufficient for the appraisal and development of the subsalt discoveries in the western part of the block. 3D acoustic finite-difference modelling was applied to Block 31 to evaluate the potential data quality uplift from a wide-azimuth towed streamer (WATS) survey. Results showed that a significant improvement in data quality is possible. The modelling also investigated key acquisition variables (acquisition direction, sail line separation, number of tiles, cable length) to arrive at a solution that optimized both data quality and cost. Acquisition of this survey began in December 2008 and it is expected to complete in August 2009. This is the first WATS seismic survey outside the Gulf of Mexico and the first in Angola.
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