Khabaz Oil Field is located in Kirkuk, about 20 Km southwest of Kirkuk City between Jambour and Bai Hassan oil fields. Tectonically, it is located on the Unstable Shelf within the Low Folded Zone (Zagros Fold Belt). Six wells in Khabaz oil field with two seismic lines (Line K8 and KK54) are used to conduct the geometric analysis, which include the description of fold and fault systems for the purpose of understanding the structural setting of Jeribe (Early Miocene) and Azkand (Late Oligocene) formations in this field. Khabaz structure is a double plunging positively inverted subsurface asymmetrical anticline influence the whole pre-Holocene sedimentary sequence. The interlimb angle of this structure ranges between 137º to 151º which is classified as a gentle anticline. The dip values of the axial surface range between 82 – 84º, so it can be classified as an upright fold with a general trend NW-SE. The core of the anticline is bounded by two high angle dipping reverse fault splay dipping toward each other. These faults pushed the core of the anticline upward with respect to the limbs of the structure. The Southwestern limb is affected by several high angle inverted faults that were possibly bifurcated from one or two major faults. The Northeastern limb is also influenced by a series of high angle reverse, some are dipping toward the core of the structure and few others are dipping toward the limbs. Some of these faults especially those influenced the southwestern limb of the anticline were inherited from the original normal faults that bounding the graben structure developed during the deposition of the Shiranish Formation. During the Late Plio-Plistocene contraction phase, the sense of slip on these faults were inverted and the faults migrated upward into the Tertiary sequence resulting in the formation of the positively inverted structure.
The Jeribe and Azkand formations, which were deposited during Late Oligocene-Early Miocene are a major reservoir interval in the Khabaz oilfield where it is, for the most part, a carbonate reservoir. The study area is located in the north of Iraq within the Foothill Zone. Through the thin-section examination for Azkand/Anah carbonates in the Khabaz oil field (Kz-3, Kz-4, Kz-10, and Kz-43), the petrographic and microfacies have been studied, which show six major carbonate microfacies, each of them is representing a distinctive deposition environment, and these are: restricted and semi-restricted for the Jeribe Formation, and semi-restricted, back reef, reef, fore reef, shallow open marine and slope for Azkand and Anah formations. There are several types of diagenetic processes; some of these processes enhance the porosity and the other reduces it. Porosity reduction by: Cementation (Isopachous, meniscus, syntaxial calcite, Drusy calcite, botryoidal, blocky calcite), Recrystallization; Compaction and late stage of dolomitization. This appeared near the upper and lower contact of the Jeribe Formation and in the lower part of the Azkand Formation. While the porosity enhancement which represented by depositional process (primary porosity) and dissolution (secondary porosity), in addition to the early and middle stage of dolomitization. This appeared in the middle part of the Jeribe Formation and the upper part of Azkand.
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