THE GELAMA MERAH HYDROCARBON DISCOVERY:

OFFSHORE WEST SABAH

Gelama Merah field is located in offshore Sabah
approximately 43km from Labuan and 130km from
Kota Kinabalu.
The Gelama Complex is a series of oil and gas fields
discovered in the Late Miocene Stage IVC sediments
along the footwall of Morris fault.
Two exploration wells GM-1 (vertical profile) and
GM-ST1 (sidetracked) were drilled.
Quicklook petrophysics at rig indicate Gelama
Merah-1 penetrated some 165 m gas column and 45
m oil column. Further Gelama Merah-1 ST-1 nearby
found 60 m of gas and 35 m oil columns.

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The main lithofacies interpreted from Gelama

Merah-1 and Gelama Merah-1 ST-1 wireline logs are
cross-bedded sandstones, planar bedded sandstone,
laminated
sandstone,
massive
sandstone,
fossiliferous sandstone, and shales.

THE GELAMA MERAH HYDROCARBON DISCOVERY:

Production Tests were carried out in Gelama Merah-1
(DST-1);
The Main Flow at 32/64 choke tested 1378 stb/d
23.7 deg API oil, 0.16 mmscf/d gas, no water.
The Maximum Flow at 2 choke tested 2745 stb/d
23.6 deg API oil, 0.73 mmscf/d gas, no water.

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THE PETROLEUM SYSTEM OF GELAMA MERAH

Source Rocks:
The West Sabah Basin hydrocarbons originated from source rock
which are rich in terrigenous organic matter concentrated in
much older, deeper and compacted Middle Miocene Stage IVA/B
sedimentary intervals.
Reservoir Rocks:
The Gelama Merah field reservoirs consists of Late Miocene Stage
IVC interbedded, stacked deltaic fluvio-marine prograding and
retrograding sandstones with thin shales.
Maturation and Migration:
The timing for the maturation varies from late Miocene to
present day. Vertical migration along the faults is probably a
major method of hydrocarbon migration across erosional
unconformity layers.

GELAMA COMPLEX BURIED HILLS ON SEISMIC SECTION

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Traps and Seals:

The Gelama Merah is a structural-stratigraphic combination
buried hill trap, akin to a simple anticlinal feature.
The Stage IVC stacked reservoirs were eroded and incised during
late Miocene Stage IVC/D regional uplift at cessation of South
China Sea oceanic margin rifting. Subsequent basin subsidence
drowned the high relief inner shelf erosional remnant, overlain
and efficiently sealed by younger Stage IVD/E pro-delta shales.
Later wrench tectonics in late Mio-Pliocene along the major N-S
Morris fault positioned the buried hills on the favourable updip
footwall block for hydrocarbon catchment and entrapment.

RESERVOIR GEOLOGY QUESTIONS:

What is the probable GLM Depositional

Environment?

What is the Dominant Reservoir Lithology?

What are the Depositional Elements?

What are the observable Parasequences

Stacking Patterns?
The dominant parasequence stacking
pattern is coarsening upwards, however,
overall the sequence is fining upwards.
Shelfal
to
deltaic
fluvio-marine
sedimentary elements such as inner
shoreface sand bars, fluvial channels,
splays, tidal channels and mud-flats.

RESERVOIR
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The dominant lithology is siliclastics (silica

rich sandstones), pebbly-coarse grained to
mud size particles

The reservoirs were deposited in deltaic

environment.

FDP1 Team key task:

To conduct re-evaluation of the available subsurface reservoir data covering all geological and petrophysics aspects,
derive the reservoir parameters to re-calculate the GIIP and OIIP, and Contingent Resources (CR) per SPE PRMS standards,
using Static Model Volumetrics: both Deterministic and Probabilistic methods, and
determine whether, the Gelama Merah discovery has sufficient oil/gas contingent resources (CR) for potential economical development,
thereafter a comprehensive FDP2.

Some relevant
points to
consider.....
there are
actually much
more..

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