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Volume: 65 (1981)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 2403

Last Page: 2416

Title: Structural Evolution of Harmaliyah Oil Field, Eastern Saudi Arabia

Author(s): M. W. Ibrahim (2), M. S. Khan (3), H. Khatib (3)

Abstract:

The history of structural growth of the Harmaliyah oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia was studied by means of a series of paleostructural maps to determine if early entrapment of hydrocarbons played an important role in preserving the high porosity of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) Arab D reservoir. The Arab D has been affected by shallow or preburial diagenesis--a common feature in Arabian Upper Jurassic calcarenitic reservoirs. Closure forming the structural trap in the Arab D at Harmaliyah oil field developed principally during the late Turonian (Late Cretaceous). During Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic)-early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) time, shallow or preburial diagenesis of the calcarenitic Arab D reservoir rocks seems to have played a major part in preservation of por sity before the porosity was filled with hydrocarbons.

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