Hydrocarbon Systems, Basin Analyses, Field & Subsurface Data: Bristol Bay - Alaska Peninsula Frontier Basin

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1 Hydrocarbon Systems, Basin Analyses, Field & Subsurface Data: Bristol Bay - Alaska Peninsula Frontier Basin Rocky Reifenstuhl AKDGGS Paul Decker * & Ken Helmold * Bob Gillis & Andrea Loveland *AKDOG Robert Blodgett

2 Alaska Oil and Gas Basins Bristol Bay Alaska Peninsula Oil Production Oil & Gas Basin

3 Bear Lake Fm. Summary Points RESERVOIRS - good Tertiary strata SEALS ,500 feet hydrocarbon column; intra-reservoir seals (Cook Inlet-like) STRUCTURES & TRAPS - numerous; structural, strat. SOURCES - THERMOGENIC Port Moller hot springs Mz source in SW basin & Oil seep TOC: 5.3; HI 756 Tert. / K coals; Carb-shales MATURITY Tertiary strat./ Bear Lake Fm. Ro = Mz Puale Bay (Ro= ) GAS RESOURCES (assume Cook Inlet-like system) =?? TCF

4 Collaborators AKDGGS AKDOG UAF Anchorage Purdue University Rocky Reifenstuhl, Project Lead Bob Gillis Andrea Strauch Paul Decker Ken Helmold Paul McCarthy Robert Blodgett Ken Ridgway Emily Finzel

5 Overview Introduction/overview New Public Data Regional Elements Stratigraphy, Reservoir char. Maturity, Seals Hydrocarbon Typing Thermogenic gas & Oil Seep Mapping / X-section X & Seismic Summary

6 Alaska DNR Bristol Bay Products: All Web-accessible Field program results : Surface-subsurface interpretations Field program results Field program results AKDOG Reservoir quality report 3 CD-ROM Data compilation: Digital seismic & well logs/mud logs Quad. maps: Geology, Gravity, & Magnetics; Regional info. Biostratigraphy Study: 10 of 11 wells in sale area + North Aleutian COST 1

7 Drilling Show Summary No shows Trace gas shows Gas shows Gas, trace oil shows Oil & gas shows 325 miles Puale Bay Port Moller Area Alaska Peninsula Areawide Sale

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9 Google Earth Moller-Puale High-grade Mz rocks Bruin Bay Fault COST well (approx.?? Puale Bay Port Moller??? OIL-window Mz rocks

10 Bristol Bay Basin Regional Tectonic Elements Existing 2-D seismic defines structure in OCS Existing onshore aeromag Is BBF BBF Cs Cs Black Hills Uplift DRZ Cs Cs Cs

11 AK Pen. Milky River Fm Strat. Bear Lake Fm. Tolstoi Fm Chigik Fm Coal Naknek Fm Chisik Mbr cglm (Tuxedni Grp. of Cook Inlet) Kamishak Fm. biohermal limestone Kialagvik Fm TOC 2.4%

12 Drilling Show Summary No shows Trace gas shows Gas shows Gas, trace oil shows Oil & gas shows 325 miles Puale Bay Port Moller Area Alaska Peninsula Areawide Sale

13 Bear Lake Fm. Chronostratigraphy

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15 Bristol Bay Basin: selected wells, by P &P Wells by formation formation Tolstoi Milky River (md) Bear Lake Bear Lake ss Bear Lake oc Tachilni Permeability Stepovak + Unga Belkofski Stepovak Tolstoi Chignik Herendeen Naknek Shelikof Kialagvik Kaguyak Ugashik

16 Phi-K Trend Unconventional Reservoirs Permeability (md) Milky River Bear Lk ss Bear Lk oc Tachilni Unga Belkofski Stepovak Tolstoi Chignik Herendeen Naknek Shelikof Kialagvik Kaguyak Ugashik Porosity (%) Sandstone Reservoirs

17 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Images COST Well Samples

18 BL5-92 Feldspars 141μ 20x Wt % CaO SiO 2 Al 2 O 3 MgO FeO K 2 O Na 2 O TiO 2 MnO Total K-Feldspar x Plagioclase z Plagioclase y Plagioclase r Albite n

19 Rock-Carbon Maturity Rock Carbon Maturity

20 Drilling Show Summary No shows Trace gas shows Gas shows Gas, trace oil shows Oil & gas shows 325 miles Puale Bay Port Moller Area Alaska Peninsula Areawide Sale

21 Organic Geochemistry Puale Bay

22 Kamishak Limestone Kamishak Limestone ~reef, TOC=5.28% ~reef

23 Hydrogen/Oxygen Index Outcrop Samples Puale Bay Kialagvik Fm- Lower Jurassic Kamishak Fm- Triassic

24 Hydrogen versus TOC Outcrop samples Puale Bay Kialagvik Fm- Lower Jurassic Kamishak Fm- Triassic

25 Thermal Maturity Kialagvik Formation- Lower Jurassic

26 Hydrogen Index (mg HC/g TOC) Type I COST Well HI vs. OI Type II Kerogen Stepovak Formation Tolstoi Formation COST well Hydrogen vs. Oxygen Indices 200 Type III Kerogen Oxygen Index (mg CO2/g TOC)

27 HYDROGEN INDEX (HI) Triassic, Jurassic, Tertiary Rock Samples l I 2.4 TOC I I II 1.1 TOC 2.2 TOC Bear Lake Stepovak Naknek* Shelikof Kialagvik Kamishak Kialagvik Formation, Mid. Jurassic OXYGEN INDEX (OI) (Types I & II will generate oil, type III gas; type IV little or no hydrocarbons) I I II II V III IV I Kamishak Formation, Triassic

28 Oil Creek oil seep Asphalt mat from oil seep Oil Creek oil seep Geologist Oil is heavily biodegraded normal crude w/ heavy hydrocarbons API gravity : 15.7º & 21.4º Oil seep ½ BOPD Gas: 91% methane 7% nitrogen 2% carbon dioxide

29 Alaska Peninsula Petroleum System? Photograph courtesy of Robert Blodgett

30 Drilling Show Summary No shows Trace gas shows Gas shows Gas, trace oil shows Oil & gas shows 325 miles Puale Bay Port Moller Area Alaska Peninsula Areawide Sale

31 Gas sample:thermogenic

32 Coal: Mine Harbor, Herendeen Bay

33 Field-generated geologic map B A A B

34 A A a B B b

35 Transverse Cross Section #1 South North Pan American Hoodoo Lake #2 Chignik Naknek Shelikof Bidarka Kialagvik Kamishak Paleozoic Basement

36 Longitudinal Cross Section West East Chignik Hoodoo Chignik Naknek Shelikof Kialagvik Bidarka Kamishak Paleozoic Basement

37 3-D View of Sapsuk Lake Anticline top of Kamishak Formation

38 Seal Capacity: Hydrocarbon

39 Bering Sea Bristol Bay Pacific Ocean BBF The Gas Rocks Ukinrek Maars Peulik volcano QTc Ugashik Narrows Tbl ULFS ULFS Tbl 25 km 15 mi

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41 300 Tm A A 15 km 10 mi negative 0 negative negative

42 Public seismic available A B A A

43 25 km 15 mi

44 A A Ugashik sub-basin (Quaternary cover) Ugashik Narrows mountains, uplands (abundant outcrop) largely negative, local positive anomalies pos neg positive? Tbl Js Tbl & other Tertiary sedimentary sub-basin fill? Ji? or Js/Jn? Jn Js and older sedimentary units Ji? Ji? B A basement???

45 07PD151 Naknek Fm 07PD154 Bear Lake Fm 07PD161 Naknek Fm 07PD168 Shelikof Fm 07PD173 Bear Lake Fm

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47 BBF transpression Becharof discontinuity ULFS transtension Eo-Oligocene Meshik extrusive complex σ h σ H Ugashik sub-basin Gas Rocks & Ukinrek Maars Mt. Peulik volcano

48 Seismic Cross Section Locations No shows Trace Gas shows Gas shows Gas, tr Oil shows Oil & Gas shows A B B A

49 Bristol Bay Seismic Interpretation A A Quaternary Bear Lake Fm Milky River Fm 50 mi Seismic A B Stepovak Fm Unga equiv N Aleutian COST #1 Mz? MMS (~52 mi long) Mz? Tolstoi Fm Mz? Tolstoi Fm? B A B Quaternary B Bear Lake Fm Milky River Fm Mz?? A T Mz? N Aleutian/ Bristol Bay Basin Bear Lake Fm Unga equiv Stepovak Fm Mz? Black Hills Uplift Mz? Tolstoi Fm? Mz? Tolstoi Fm? Mz? A T A T MMS

50 Well log cross section

51 Bear Lake Fm. Recapitulation RESERVOIRS - good Tertiary strata SEALS ,500 feet hydrocarbon column; intra-reservoir seals (Cook Inlet-like) STRUCTURES & TRAPS - numerous; structural, strat. SOURCES - THERMOGENIC Port Moller hot springs Mz source in SW basin & Oil seep TOC: 5.3; HI 756 Tert. / K coals; Carb-shales MATURITY Tertiary strat./ Bear Lake Fm. Ro = Mz Puale Bay (Ro= ) GAS RESOURCES (assume Cook Inlet-like system) =?? TCF

52 The end Helix field work

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