UCAYALI/ENE BASIN, PERU, HYDROCARBON
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UCAYALI/ENE BASIN, PERU, HYDROCARBON
UCAYALI/ENE BASIN, PERU, HYDROCARBON EVALUATION PERUPETRO S.A./PARSEP Perupetro S.A.: Figure 2: Structural Features, Seismic and Wells. PARSEP is a joint technical agreement between Peru and Canada. Teknica Overseas Ltd. and Perupetro S.A. performed the technical work on this Cretaceous/Permian section, within the Camisea Fold Thrust Belt (FTB). Appraisal wells on each of these two fields proved world-class reserves. The Mipaya 1X well was a small gas discovery. Shell made the Pagoreni 1X gas/condensate discovery in the Camisea area in 1998. Perupetro S.A. took over Petroperu former role in exploration contracts negotiations in 1993. Pluspetrol and partners won development of the Camisea gas project in 2000. Petroperu Ucayali PARSEP Ucayali North and Corrientes Marañon Pebas Chambira Pozo Shale Pozo Sand Ipururo Chambira Pozo Shale Pozo Sand Ipururo Chambira Pozo Shale Pozo Sand Lower Red Beds Yahuarango Yahuarango Yahuarango Basal Tertiary Upper Vivian Huchpayacu Cachiyacu Lower Vivian Pona Lupuna Upper Cetico Caliza Casa Blanca Huchpayacu Cachiyacu Vivian Upper Vivian Lower Vivian Chonta Chonta Oxy Q Pozo Shale Pozo Sand Cachiyacu Vivian Chonta shale Chonta Lmst Chonta Sand Cachiyacu PARSEP Ucayali South Yahuarango Upper Vivian Cachiyacu Lower Vivian Chonta Low ChontaSd BasalChontaSd Lower Cetico Agua Caliente Agua Caliente Agua Caliente Agua Caliente Raya Raya Raya Raya Cushabatay Cushabatay Cushabatay Cushabatay Sarayaquillo Sarayaquillo Sarayaquillo Sarayaquillo TERTIARY Upper Red Beds Evaporitic Unit Pucará AGE Marañon CRETACEOUS project. Other evaluations include the onshore Huallaga, Santiago and Marañon Basins and the offshore Trujillo/Salaverry Basin (Figures 1 and 2). 2. SCOPE OF PROJECT This project was intended to be a regional geophysical and geological evaluation to identify new play types through the interpretation of digital seismic and well data, defining the stratigraphic and structural framework of the basin, combined with an analysis of the exploratory drilling since 1990. The project succeeded with the completion of a database to include standardized geological data, quality control of over 15,000 km of 2D SEGY seismic data, synthetic seismograms tied to seismic and wire-line logs from 40 new field wildcats, a well database in Access and technical reports of old and recent exploration activities. A series of stratigraphic and structural cross-sections were strung across the basin to standardize the stratigraphy. SEGY seismic data was interpreted using UNIX based and PC based seismic interpretation softwares. Geological softwares were used for mapping, well log editing and crosssection construction. Supplementing the work was a Tectonic Study by A. Tankard. The Ucayali/Ene study represents a staging point to be continued by a more detailed study. 3. PREVIOUS WORK Well Ganso Azul 1 discovered 43o API oil in the Cretaceous Cushabatay Formation in the Agua Caliente structure in 1937. It was followed by discovery of 37o API oil from Vivian sands in Maquia in 1957 and gas and condensate in Cushabatay reservoirs in Aguaytia by Mobil in 1962. In the 80`s the San Martin 1X and Cashiriari 1X Shell wells tested 41 MMcf/d gas and 1,626 b/d condensate and 56.7 MMcf/d gas and 1,553 b/d condensate from a JURAS Figure 1: Area of investigation of PARSEP. Gary Wine, Senior Geologist, Project Leader Robert Parker, Senior Geophysicist Condorsinga Aramachay Chambara Red Beds Pucará Pucará Pucará Mitu Mitu Mitu Mitu Ene Ene Ene Ene Copacabana Tarma Copacabana Tarma TRIAS Study Area Teknica: ORD DEV CARB PERM Elmer Martinez, Senior Geophysicist Justo Fernandez, Senior Geologist Ysabel Calderon, Geologist Carlos Galdos, Geophysicist 1. INTRODUCTION This presentation is a summary of the Ucayali/Ene Basin Technical Report1 one of five PARSEP evaluations of the hydrocarbon potential of the Peruvian Sub-Andean Basins. Copacabana /Tarma Copacabana /Tarma Green Sandstone Agua Caliente (1) Absent Pucará (Pongo Mainique) Red Upper SS Fm Bed Mid Mudstone Fm Group Lower SS Fm (2) Shinai Member Ene Noipatsite Mbr Ene SS Mbr Copacabana /Tarma Green Sandstone Ambo Ambo Ambo Ambo Ambo Cabanillas Cabanillas Cabanillas Cabanillas Cabanillas Contaya Contaya Contaya Contaya Basement (1) Basal Chonta + Upper Nia Kaatsirinkari (2) Lower Nia Kaatsirinkari Figure 3: Stratigraphic Columns for the Sub Andean Basins of Peru. • Production Three oilfields (Agua Caliente, Maquia and Pacaya) and five gas-condensate fields (Aguaytia, San Martin, Cashiriari, Pagoreni and Mipaya) have been discovered in the Ucayali Basin. Current oil production amounts to approx 600 b/d from A. Caliente, Maquia and Aguaytia. NW CONINCA 2X RASHAYA SUR 1X AGUAYTIA 1X -1000 NESHUYA 5_1 AGUA_CAL_1 RUNUYA 1X SEPA 1X SAN MARTIN 1X V IV IA 2500 1500 2500 N 2000 1500 DATUM MID MU D 2000 STO NE CHONTA 2500 3000 RAYA 2000 -2000 3000 2500 500 AGUA CALIENTE AY BAT SH A CU SH INAI NOI PA TSITE ENE SS TARMA-COPACABANA 3000 PUMAYACU 2000 LOW ER SS 500 -2000 2500 2500 1000 SARAYAQUILLO 2500 M e t e r s CABANILLAS-CONTAYA EVAPORIT ES PUCARA GREEN SS AMBO 1000 3500 3000 1500 BASEMENT -3000 -3000 CU M S O U H N A T B A A I N 3500 T A Y S A Y A T 1500 N O C TARMA-COPACABANA 2000 AMBO Coninca 2X Rashaya Sur 1X Aguaytia 1X Neshuya 1X LD FO DEVONIAN CABANILLAS ? ANANEA ? Agua Caliente 1X Runuya 1X S IN TA UN MO LT BE A IR SH ST RU TH CABANILLAS -4000 -4000 SECT ION 4 S E C TIO N 4 D L O F CONTAYA Sepa 1X T S U R H T Figure 4: Regional distribution of Cretaceous and pre-Cretaceous Formations. SW O X AP A M P A SAN VICENTE AREA OXA 7-1 OXA 7-2 OXA 19-1 DATUM 1000 W ELL S OXA 19-2 500 -2000 RAYA -3000 500 500 1000 1000 N 1000 EAST SHIRA RUNUYA 1X RIO CACO 1X SANUYA 3X PLATANAL 1X (36 2X) LA COLPA 1X 2000 2000 500 1500 3000 2500 2500 1000 2000 1500 2000 3500 GREEN SS 1000 2500 3500 CONDORSINGA 1500 2000 AMBO-CABANILLAS-CONTAYA 2000 EVAPORIT ES IN AREA WITH THIN-SKIN TECTONICS ARAMACHAY 1500 2000 Tamaya 1X San Alejandro 1X Agua Caliente 1X Chio 1X Agua Caliente 31D 1X Chonta 1X CHAMBARA 2500 Platanal 1X 2500 Sanuya 1X Shahuinto Rio Caco 1X 3000 -5000 MITU La Colpa 1X SH SEC TIO N 8 IR IDEALIZED SECTION OU A M West Shira RU ST Oxapampa 7-1 East Shira Oxapampa 1X -5000 -6000 S TH Oxapampa 19-2 AI N LD Oxapampa 17C-1 Oxapampa 19-1 Runuya 1X NT FO TARMA-COPACABANA -6000 -3000 -4000 BASEMENT 2000 M e t e r s -2000 1500 3000 ENE (?) TARMA-COPACABANA 3000 1500 SHAHUINTO 1X 1000 2500 1000 2000 PUCARA San Martin 1X 500 CHONTA AGU A CA L IEN TE C US H AB ATA Y SARAYAQUILLO 1500 Mipaya 1X production in the near future offers encouragement for renewed exploration. SHIRA MOUNTAINS WEST SHIRA A VI VI CAMISEA T L E B 200 KM -4000 SE -1000 1500 TERTIARY 2000 beyond the Brazilian border (Figure 2). A 5,000+m thick sedimentary section of Paleozoic to Recent ages was deposited overlying Basement (Figure 3). The dominant structural form is major basement-involved thrusting, mainly along reactivated Paleozoic normal faults and detached thin-skinned thrusts along its western margin. This study considers the Ene Basin to be a continuation of the Ucayali Basin. 4.2 Regional Geology The sedimentary sequence merges with the greater Marañon, the Madre de Dios, and the Acre and Solimoes (in Brazil) basins NE and pinches out onto the Brazilian and Guiana Shields. PARSEP intends to standardize the stratigraphy to keep it in a consistent digital database to facilitate mapping and interpretation, especially with changes made after the Camisea discoveries. The lesserknown Paleozoic stratigraphy is reviewed and condensed, since it also constitutes a potential play in the basin. The 10 stratigraphic cross-sections (two in Figures 4 and 5) include all NFW`s to show the widespread distribution of all units in the basin. Two regional tectonic systems, the preAndean and Andean Systems control the geological evolution of the sub-Andean basins of Peru. • Pre-Andean System The pre-Andean System with Paleozoic cycles overlying Basement reveals complex tectonics. It includes a preCabanillas rifting (?) and peneplanation and a late Permian uplift and erosional episodes. The Contaya Formation of Ordovician age initiated the pre-Andean cycle. The Silurian cycle merges with the Devonian Cabanillas Group, which can be identified by seismic in thick isolated half grabens (600 msec, Figure 6). The Late Devonian Eo-Hercynian compressional CAMISEA MIPAYA 5X 2000 1500 7-2 BE Mashansha 1X LT -7000 -7000 San Vicente Area 100 KM Figure 5: E-W section shows Cretaceous and pre-Cretaceous Formations. SW NE SEPA AREA Datum Near top Chonta Base Cretaceous Copacabana Tarm a Am bo Top Devonian Basem ent Figure 6: South Ucayali Basin. DevonianOrdovician? Rift Basin, Ambo onlaps the Eohercynian Unconformity and truncation of Paleozoic by Base Cretaceous. The giant Camisea Fields (13 Tcf gas and over 500 MMb liquids) to be on 4. GEOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY 4.1 Basin Description The basin extends 650 km in length from the Marañon to the Madre de Dios Basins and 250 km in width from the FTB to event established the NS structural trend in the basin. A trend affected by Andean structural inversion. The PermoCarboniferous rests unconformable over the Devonian Cycle and/or Basement in uplifted areas. Sedimentation began with the Ambo Group, a continental to shallow marine siliciclastic unit, followed by the clastic-rich transgressive Tarma Formation with its basal Green Sandstone, and overlain by massive shelf carbonates of the Copacabana Group. Copacabana is present in most of the Andean basins conformably overlain by the Ene Formation/Red Bed Group whose deposition was interrupted by a regional uplift and a pronounced unconformity that marks a first order sequence boundary in late Permian. Rashaya Sur 1X system is preserved in the western and NW extremes of the Ucayali Basin, where Late Permian–Triassic syn-rift Mitu continental red beds were deposited in isolated rift segments overlain by a Triassic to Jurassic-aged marine to transitional carbonates and evaporites of the Pucara Group. Aguaytia 1X SW NE Seismic Line G31 Pozo W E Chonta Agua Caliente s retaceou Base C Rashaya Sur 1X TD Sarayaquillo SALT Pucara Copacabana Pozo TD Cabanillas ceous Creta Base SALT illo yaqu Sara a Pucar Copacabana Cabanillas Contaya Chonta Agua Caliente Top Paleozoic Basement Contaya Cabanillas Figure 9: Aguaytia structure with salt (?) within an Andean inverted graben. Figure 8:Rashaya Sur 1X well, salt and 1.0second displacement on the western-most bounding normal fault. Aguaytia 1X related restrictive depocenters, as west of Rashaya (Figure 8) and in the inverted half graben in Aguaytia (Figure 9). With further regression the Pucara and evaporites were overlain by Middle to Late Jurassic continental red beds of the Sarayaquillo Formation. Termination of Sarayaquillo deposition is represented by the regional Nevadan unconformity over which lies sediments of Cretaceous age. The Aramachay Formation represents the maximum flooding event. The Pucara marine sequence of the FTB changes to a continental facies in CUSHABATAY its eastern subsurface occurrence, MTS. except Aramachay which CONTAYA ARCH. maintains its marine character in the San Alejandro 1X and Agua Caliente 31D-1X wells. The eastern Pucara (and Sarayaquillo) 1000 shoreline has a N–S trend from UPPER west of the Contaya Arch to the VIVIAN ABSENT Agua Caliente field north of the Shira Mountains. The Pucara has been observed in a carbonate SHIRA 500 facies in the NW part of the Ene MTS. 300 Basin area. UPPER VIVIAN A less known carbonate/ ABSENT evaporitic sequence is known in CUSHABATAY-RAYA the Oxapampa wells (Figure 5). WEDGE An evaporitic environment as the result of sabkha deposition developed at the transition between Pucara and Sarayaquillo, beginning the continental and shallow marine deposition (Figure Figure 10: Cretaceous Isopach shows 7). Evaporites were drilled by the thinning (onlap) to the southeast. Oxapampa 7-1 and Chio 1X wells in the Cretaceous deposition initiated during Ucayali Basin and they outcrop Neocomian-Aptian times consisted of a extensively in the Huallaga Basin and in major transgression/regression cycle that the FTB for over 700 km. PARSEP left a westerly thickening wedge of fluvial interprets that the basin was segmented to marginal clastics punctuated by marine into a series of smaller Paleozoic wrench La Frontera 1X Santa Lucia 1X Santa Catalina 1X Orellana 1X Santa Clara 1X Rayo 1X 50000 0 50000 m Huaya 4X Insaya 1X Huaya 3X 1194 Maquia 1X Cachiyacu 1X X Amaquiria 1X Pacaya 1XInuya 1X Cashiboya 1A 950 Chio 1X Cashiboya Sur 1X 937 Pisqui 1X Tiruntan 1X 1223 Coninca 2X 1216 970 Tahuaya 1X Rashaya Sur 1X 1113 1064 Aguaytia 1X 1008Zorrillo 1X Aguaytia Sur 4XD 980 1054 Neshuya 1X 1057 San Alejandro 1X Chio 1X Agua Caliente 1A 1009 988Agua Caliente 31D-1X Tamaya 1X Chonta 1X 795 UPPER VIVIAN ABSENT Platanal 1X 558 Shira Mountains Sanuya 1X Shahuinto 1X Rio Caco 1X643 721 CUSHABATAY-RAYA WEDGE 430 La Colpa 1X 439 Runuya 1X 653 UPPER VIVIAN ABSENT Oxapampa 17C 1 Oxapampa 19 2 Oxapampa 19 1 1082 1166 Oxapampa 7 1 Oxapampa 7 2 Mashansha 1X 348 Sepa 1X Panguana 1X 363 Figure 7: Isochron Map of the salt ‘swells’ in the western Ucayali Basin. • The Andean System The Andean System along the Peruvian Eastern Range was initiated with the beginning of subduction along the Pacific margin during the Pangea break up in late Permian to early Triassic times. The PARSEP tectonic study (Tankard, 2001) correlates the Juruá Orogeny identified in the Acre and Solimoes Basins of Brazil with the onset of the Andean System. The Andean tectonic 264 Mipaya 1X 405 Pagoreni 1X 442 San Martin 1X Segakiato 2X 392 399 400 Armihuari 4X Cashiriari 3X 423 407 382 carbonate sedimentation. The Cretaceous section thins from NW to SE as it progressively onlaps Paleozoic (Figures 10 and 4) where Cushabatay and Raya Formations disappear in a NNE/SSW wedge. PARSEP extends the upper Agua Caliente Formation to the Camisea area to include Shell’s Basal Chonta Sandstone and Upper Nia. Chonta represents the end of a regional transgression and the beginning of a regressive episode and it includes the maximum flooding surface with excellent seal character. Vivian represents the end of Cretaceous deposition with quartz arenites complex with good intergranular porosity. The Upper and Lower Vivian are separated by the Cachiyacu cycle that contains discontinuous shales and sands that have remained protected from flushing. The Cretaceous deposition terminated with the arrival of the first pulses of the Andean Orogeny in Late Cretaceous beginning dominant foredeep molasses deposition punctuated by a marine transgression (Pozo Shale) restricted to the northern basins and to the north Ucayali. 4.3 Pre-Cretaceous Stratigraphy • Basement, Ordovician and Silurian Several wells penetrated metamorphic and crystalline Basement to the north and east of the Shira Mountains (Figures 4 and 5). The Ordovician Contaya Formation consists of gray and black laminated hard slates. It was drilled and it is interpreted by seismic in the northern Ucayali Basin. It outcrops in the Contaya Arch and south of the Oxapampa wells underlying Cretaceous sediments. The Silurian cycle is represented by argillites, flysch and tillites possibly drilled in the Panguana and Sepa wells. This cycle ends with tectonic movement during the Caledonian /Taconian Orogeny. • Devonian-Cabanillas Group The Cabanillas Group has a widespread distribution in outcrops and subsurface throughout the basin reaching a thickness of 2000 and 1000m in the south and northern Peru. It is made of dark gray mudstones, shales, siltstones and sandstones deposited in moderately deep water as turbidite and hemi-pelagic deposits. Coarsening upward sequences end in flooding events with organic-rich source rock facies in the upper section. siliciclastic platform from upper offshore facies to dominant delta front. • Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Tarma/ Copacabana Group The Tarma/Copacabana Group drilled in numerous wells is the most widely Sepa 1X Panguana 1X distributed pre-Cretaceous unit in the sub-Andean basins. It thins from San Martin 1X (1000m) towards the east edge of the basin in Panguana 1X CAMISEA Mipaya 1X or by erosion on Paleozoic Possible Ambo aged structures (Coninca 2X) Hingeline or it has been completely stripped by erosion (Cashiboya area). The basal Figure 11: Isochron map of Ambo in the member is the Green Sandstone, fine to southern Ucayali Basin. very coarse grained with good reservoir potential. The thick carbonates SW NE form dark gray micritic and sparite carbonates, crystalline dolomites, wackestones and dark gray shales and anhydrites. The organic-rich mudstones were deposited under Pozo Chonta ceo us flooding or anoxic conditions. Agua Caliente Ba se Creta Ene ic zo leo Dolomite wackestones at various Pa p To Copacabana levels produce strong to faint oil Green Sandstone Cabanillas smell and have TOC of 2.0 wt% and were found mature for oil and Contaya gas generation in the Mainique Basement Gorge. A 60m thick anhydrite associated to porous dolomite/ CP 7398 01 organic rich carbonate constitute a Figure 12: Thick Permian section preserved potential play in the Huaya 3X well area. in the Northern Ucayali Basin. • Late Permian Ene/Red Bed Group • Early Carboniferous-Ambo Group The Ene Formation/Red Bed Group The Ambo Group onlaps the Cabanillas conformable overly the Copacabana Group and/or Basement in the southern Group and unconformable underlie the Ucayali. A thickness of 800m in the south Cretaceous in the Camisea area (Figures 4 diminishes to less than 300m in La Colpa and 13) and in a deep trough south of the well or it is absent over basement highs. Cushabatay Mountains (Figure 12). Much In the PARSEP seismic map in Figure 11 of this section was described as the the Ambo Group thickens dramatically Cretaceous Oriente Group in Camisea. (600msec) past a major hingeline in the o Ene Formation (Figure 13) Camisea area, possibly controlling the The Ene Formation is present south of Camisea FTB in an area where it is one of the Runuya well down to the Mainique the main detachment surfaces. Ambo Gorge and Camisea wells. Thickness consists of coarse and fine-grained (150-220 m) is controlled by depth of sandstones with interbedded siltstones, erosion of the late Permian and Base gray shales, and with organic rich Cretaceous unconformities. In the South interbeds deposited as continental to Ucayali it has three members. The basal shallow marine and fluvial deposits. Ene Sandstone and Noipatsite In the Ene Basin, Elf defines it as a Members are two sandstone bodies similar in rock character resting on a dark gray organic rich mudstone with strong petroleum odor and resting on limestones of Copacabana. In the Huaya 3X and Orellana 1X wells, a 160-200m thick sandstone overlying Copacabana is possibly equivalent to these units. The Shinai Member is an organic-rich carbonate mudstone with algal laminates, preserved south of the Runuya 1X well. In the Ene Basin, Ene has four units more or less identical to Ene in Camisea. NW SEPA 1X MIPAYA 1X PAGORENI 1X SEGAKIATO 1XSAN MARTIN 1X CHONTA -5200 Formation, a sand-to-sand relationship forming a single reservoir. 4.4 Structural Analysis Prominent Devonian to late Tertiary tectonic features influenced sedimentation at various stages of basin development and gave the basin its present geometry. Figure 15 is one of six structural profiles across the basin that shows several of these features. • Devonian Faults Two ages for Devonian faulting can be SAN MARTIN 3 2000 ARMIHUARI 4X CASHIRIARI 1X CASHIRIARI 3 SE 2500 -5200 AGUA CALIENTE DATUM BAS E K MID MDST -5300 -5300 2500 2500 500 -5400 LOWER NIA OR LOWER SS -5400 2500 M. SHINAI 2500 -5500 -5500 NOIPATSITE D L 2500 Sepa 1X T S U R H T -5600 ENE SS 2500 -5600 CAMISEA Mipaya 1X T L E B TARMA-COPACABANA Panguana 1X tin 1X Mar San 3X i 1X SM i 1X ren iriar 1X go to Cash Pa kia i 1X CA 3X ga Se ihuar CA 2X Arm 200 KM -5700 Figure 13: Stratigraphic cross-section shows detailed late Permian stratigraphy. Note excellent log correlation in Shinai. o Red Bed Group/Mainique (Figure 13) Biostratigraphic analyses in the Mainique Gorge/Camisea area by Shell reveal the presence of the Red Bed Group of latest Permian age overlying the Ene Formation. This group is made up of the basal Lower Sandstone or Lower Nia Formation, a massive, medium to coarsegrained arkosic arenites with eolian cross bedding and good porosity. A thickness of 90 to 130m in Mipaya 1X, contrast with the 40m in the San Martin and Cashiriari. The Middle Mudstone Formation is a red mudstone unit. The Upper Sandstone Formation is medium to fine-grained partly eolian moderately to well sorted. The unconformity at the Base of Cretaceous has stripped off much of these units in the fields, leaving the Lower Nia in contact with the Agua Caliente Pongo Mainique -5700 documented in the south Ucayali. The earliest represents a series of extensional faults that created deep half grabens during the Devonian (or earlier) with thick pre-Carboniferous sediments, possibly local source kitchens of Cabanillas Shales (Figure 6). The Devonian to Basement Isochron map shows very significant north-south trending features (Figure 21). The second is a compression faulting in response to the Eohercynian in Late Devonian that produced NS oriented faults. • Late Paleozoic Faults/Structures Almost the entire Ucayali Basin shows remnants of the late Permian extensional event, one of the most significant tectonic events being particularly important from a hydrocarbon exploration perspective. Structural features as the Contaya Arch and Shira Mountains were initiated as significant horst blocks during this extension and their current NW and NNW orientations reflect Andean imprint. Thick sequences of Carboniferous to late Permian sediments containing source rock and reservoir sequences were protected in grabens from later peneplation by early Cretaceous erosion. Low areas and isolated grabens of lower Mesozoic sedimentation and preservation were created, as the thick salt sequences and the Pucara Group. Development of subtle highs and lows influenced deposition environments and reservoir development (Pucara in Shanusi 1X). The late Permian faults have a northerly direction with a tendency to favour a NNE orientation and were locally reactivated during Andean Orogeny as inversion features (Aguaytia). • Late Andean Foreland Faults/ Structures Most wells in the basin drilled Andean aged structures with strong surface expression. In the northern Ucayali Basin, the Pisqui–Coninca–Rashaya Sur and Maquia–Cashiboya trends, represent very distinctive NW Andean structural trends. Production was established only on the latter trend. In the southern Ucayali Basin, the most significant pure Andean aged structure is Sepa, which tested small oil and gas quantities in the Green Sandstone. • Cushabatay Mountains, Contaya Arch and Shira Mountains (Figure 2) The Cushabatay Mountains is a prominent structural feature interpreted by PARSEP as a half graben filled with a very thick succession of Mitu, Pucara and Cretaceous age. It developed concurrently with the NW–SE trending horsts and grabens seen in the SW Marañon Basin in response to the Permo-Triassic extensional event. The thick graben succession was inverted prior to Chazuta thrusting in late Tertiary. Being an old structure, it acted as a buttress to the eastward advancement of the FTB. The Contaya Arch is a NW-SE trending horst of Permo-Triassic and Jurassic age uplifted by compression in the Neogene. Tankard postulated an origin along the NE trending Contaya Shear zone. The Shira Mountains is the most prominent tectonic element in the basin. Its subsurface continuation to the north aligns with the Sarayaquillo and Pucara eastern wedges that divides the Ucayali into a deep western basin with a more Paleozoic. PARSEP structural profile folds with the principal detachment through this FTB segment interprets two surface within the Ambo/Devonian major thrusts with a detachment surface section. Advancement of the thrust front near the base of salt and Mitu levels. A was controlled by a depositional hingeline second profile by Elf in the central Ene within Ambo (Figure 11). Termination of Basin, shows the principal detachment the Camisea FTB against the Shira surface within the Cabanillas Formation. Mountains is through a gradual horizontal Elf divided the Ene Basin into three and vertical diminishing of fault throw regions based on magnetic, gravity and from east to west, roughly coincidental seismicity data. The Northern Ene with the Tambo Fault. This decrease in includes the Cordillera San Matias and the amplitude resulted in the development of Oxapampa wells area and is limited to the much smaller structures to the west south by the Tambo Fault, a deep (Mipaya) relative to the large San Martin, magnetic basement that might have Cashiriari, and additional undrilled influenced the paleogeography of the anticline trends further east (Figure 14). basin. The NE SW SAN MARTIN Central Ene is occupied by a huge Tertiary syncline whose TERTIARY axis crosses the Tambo Fault into the northern subbasin without any CRETACEOUS displacement and DEVONIAN a NW Gravimetric BASEMENT step marks the southern boundary. The SHL UB A22 Southern Ene has continuous structures with less deformation, larger Figure 14: Seismic line shows the San wavelength, shallower basement and the Martin structure, and an un-drilled structure. seismicity reveal a change in decollement complete sedimentary section to the north merging with both the Pachitea sub-basin and the Oxapampa/Ene Fold Thrust Belt. In the shallower eastern and larger basin Cretaceous overlies Paleozoic. The Shira Mountains is a late Permian basementcored horst block with a significant uplift in late Neogene that pre-date the latest deformation. It acted as a buttress to the eastward advancement of the Oxapampa/ Ene FTB and Camisea FTB’s (Figure 2). • Fold Thrust Belt (FTB) of Western Ucayali and Ene Basin o North and Central Areas (Figure 2) The FTB of the northern Ucayali begins with the Chazuta thrust west of the Cushabatay High, and continues south separating the Huallaga from the Ucayali Basin. On the north, the FTB is offset to the east by a northwest trending lateral ramp after which the fold belt trends almost NS to near the Oxapampa Area. PARSEP structural sections show west and east verging thrusts fronts with overturned beds. o Oxapampa and Ene Basin Areas (Figure 2) The northern edge of the Oxapampa/Ene FTB segment is offset to the east by another lateral ramp. The eastward leading edge of the FTB, the San Matias Fault, separates it from the Pachitea subBasin and terminates into the Shira Mountains. South of the Oxapampa wells SW 1 0 0 0m km 0 02 98 73 CP 05 98 73 CP 7 CP 04 98 73 CP 3 80 39 SE CUSHABATAY SE CUSHABATAY MTS. NORTH SANTA CLARA NORTH 06 95 OR 04 95 SC SANTA CLARA NE ORELLANA ORELLANA 1X 1X 3 10 DX 12 95 OR 07 95 OR 0 m 0 m 1 0 0 0m 1000m UPPER RED BEDS CHA MBIRA TERTIARY CHONTA 2 0 0 0m AGUA CALIENTE-RAYA CUSHA BATAY 40 0 0 m P OZO O-V A RANG -YA HU IVIAN CRETACEOUS P UCARA ENE S ARAYAQUILLO 5 EOUS B ASE CRETAC SARAYAQUILLO 400000 6 0 0 0m MITU ENE ENE TARMA –COPACABANA 3000m 4000m TARMA COPACABANA P UCARA P UCARA 50 0 0 m S ARAYAQUILLO MITU S ARAYAQUILLO 2000m AGUA CALIENT E-RAYA CUSHA BATAY PUCARA CHA MBIRA CHO NTA 3 0 0 0m 5000m CABANILLAS CABANILLAS 6000m Sant a C atalina1X CONTAYA 7000m 70 0 0 m Cushabatay High 8 0 0 0m Orellana1X ACABANA TARMA COP Contaya High CONTAYA H uaya3X Insaya 9 0 0 0m 8000m S CABANILLA Sant a C lara1X R ayo 1X H u aya4X 9000m CONTAYA 10 Maq uia 1X 1 00 00 m C achiyacu 1X A m aqu iria1X 1 00 00 m B ASEMENT BASEMENT STRUCTURAL CROSS SECTION A 400000 Pacaya1X Inu ya 1X C ash iboya 1A the FTB collides with these mountains continuing to the south into the historical Ene Basin. The relationship of the eastern boundary of the Ene Basin with the Shira Mountains remains controversial. Diffuse extensional field criteria along the Tambo Fault confirm the seismic interpretation of Tertiary series against non-deformed level. o Camisea Area The Camisea area has been the focus of attention with the discovery of the giant gas fields. The recent acquisition of 3D seismic by Pluspetrol may refine the geology interpreted by Shell. Anticlines of the Camisea area are ramp fault bend Figure 15: Structural section from the North FTB to Santa Clara-Orellana areas. • Structural Profiles The six structural cross-sections prepared use available, seismic, wildcats and surface geologic data. Section A on the north shows a triangle zone developing in the eastern area of the FTB and an unusually thick section of Ene preserved in subsurface (Figure15). The other profiles cross the Pisqui and Cashiboya Sur anticlines, the Aguaytia gas field an inversion feature with the evaporitic unit in the Sarayaquillo/Pucara contact, thick salt swells of lower Mesozoic age drilled by the Chio well, the Agua Caliente oil field with associated Shira Structure and other Andean age anticlines, the highly deformed western FTB structural province with multiple thin-skinned thrust faults, the Camisea thrust and the less deformed eastern foreland province. the edges of grabens and half-grabens. A large Cretaceous channel occupies one of them (Figure 21). LA COLPA 1X CAMISEA CONTAYA ARCH SHIRA MOUNTAINS Figure 16: Base Cretaceous Time Structure, Ucayali North. 5. GEOPHYSICS Seismic interpretation was carried out successfully in two halves–North and South of La Colpa/Runuya wells. No detailed mapping was accomplished, but the overall structural elements are clear in the mapping. 5.1 Maps Plotted Seismic mapping was performed for five structural horizons and three isochron intervals for each the South and North Ucayali. All mapped horizons exhibit a NS trend, with shallow NE/SW trends affected by SE/NW trending faults in the Ucayali North. In the Ucayali South, there are common characters to all the horizons above the Devonian. In the northern part of the Southern Ucayali area high-angle reverse faults with small throw are reactivations of older normal faults marking movement of the main San Martin Thrust. In the northern part of the South Ucayali, the Devonian is faulted by the younger rejuvenated reverse faults over Basement grabens and half grabens. Contaya is a near-Basement pick with depths up to 5300ms TWT restricted to the Eastern part of the basin. Basement becomes steadily shallower to the East until it becomes almost the same as top Devonian (Figure 18). Block faulting of the basement controls much of the overlying structuring and faulting along grabens and half grabens controls younger rejuvenated near-vertical reverse faults. LA COLPA 1X Figure 17: Base Cretaceous Time Structure, Ucayali South. 5.2 Time Structure Maps The Pozo Formation is a regional marker in the Marañon and northern Ucayali Basin and good time equivalent reflectors allow extrapolation further south. It exhibits the same features as the Base Cretaceous. The near Vivian Upper Cretaceous horizon is heavily fault controlled with good rollover into the faults in the Mipaya/San Martin area. It shallows to the east, over an extensive basement high. The Base Cretaceous is an easily recognizable unconformity on seismic data in the whole basin (Figures 16 and 17). It shows two large structures, the Rio Caco and Rashaya Norte (Figures 22 and 23) with closure of 100ms. The map of the South Ucayali (Figure 17) mirrors the Upper Cretaceous except where the surface is eroded and PARSEP interprets a channel feature (Figure 27). This horizon also shows good rollover into the San Martin fault. The Copacabana Group exhibits an important structural closure in the Southern portion of the Rio Caco area. The Tarma reflector has the same characteristics of the younger horizons with rollover into the main San Martin fault. The Top Devonian is the nearest horizon to basement being largely controlled by basement structuring. Along the San Martin thrust belt, it is slightly displaced by the old nearly horizontal thrust or Devonian-Ambo decollement surface that appears to control the CAMISEA Figure 18: Basement Time Structure, Ucayali South. 5.3 Isochron Maps The Pozo to Base Cretaceous and Base Cretaceous to Contaya Isochrones (Figure 19) show thickening dramatically from south to north (400-1000ms TWT in the former). The latter indicates a Paleo structural high in the Rashaya structure (100+ms closure, Figure 22). An ancient depression running through the center of the Aguaytia structure indicates Andean inversion. As this is the only productive anticline in this immediate area a relationship is implied. The Salt Isochron map in Figure 7 shows the distribution of the evaporitic unit. The main feature on the Cretaceous Isochron map is the thickening from North to South along the major channel feature (Figures 20 and 26). Further study of this feature is recommended as a new play type is involved. The Upper Cretaceous to Tarma Isochron map indicates that the interval generally thins to the Northeast, as the Tarma becomes thinner and eventually pinches out, whereas there is a very thick late Permian unit in the Southwest. The DevonianBasement Isochron in Figure 21 is the most significant map of the present interpretation where the following features are identified: the graben system controlling the channel feature, a major half-graben feature in the Eastern part and major thickening of the unit to the South. kitchens. The PARSEP group did not evaluate in detail the geochemistry of the Ucayali Basin. One of the objectives of this study was to identify potential kitchen areas for the known source rocks. LA COLPA 1X CONTAYA ARCH Figure 20: Cretaceous Isochron, Ucayali South. LA COLPA 1X AGUAYTIA SHIRA MOUNTAIN S Figure 19: Base Cretaceous-Contaya Isochron, Ucayali North. • The Cretaceous Channel Play See Prospects/Leads. 6. WELL SUMMARY An evaluation was done of the 10 wells drilled between 1990 and 2002 and for the Cashiriari 1X and San Martin 1X wells. A separate report has been prepared for this evaluation. 7. PETROLEUM GEOLOGY 7.1 Geochemistry Perupetro archives include numerous modern Geochemical studies in the Peruvian sub-Andean basins that evaluate potential source rocks, oil-source rock correlations, genetically classify oils, basin modeling, hydrocarbon generation timing and location of hydrocarbon CAMISEA Figure 21: Lower Paleozoic Isochron, Ucayali South. • Source Rocks The Ucayali Basin has multiple source rocks in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic sequences. Commercial hydrocarbon production and most wildcats with shows point to their presence. The Triassic/ Jurassic Pucara Group is a bituminous carbonate with interbedded organic rich shale sections considered the principal source rock for the oil and gas in the southern Marañon and northern Ucayali Basins (Maquia, Aguaytia and tests). The Late Permian Ene Formation is the source of the oil in the Agua Caliente Field and the oil tested in well La Colpa 1X. Excellent quality source rocks have been found within the Ene in the Ene Basin. The Ambo/Tarma -Copacabana Formations have marine shales and carbonates in the southern portion of the basin. A middle deltaic section has commonly TOC’s of 1.0 and locally over 8.0 wt% mainly humid organic matter with potential gas and oil generation capabilities. Ambo has sourced the giant gas/condensate fields of Camisea. The Devonian Cabanillas Formation has extreme maturity and moderate presentday TOC values in the SE Marañon. • Reservoir and Seals Reservoirs within the basin include the Cretaceous Cushabatay, Chonta, Upper and Lower Vivian and Cachiyacu Formations. The Camisea area has proven reservoirs in the Cretaceous Vivian, Chonta and Agua Caliente (Upper Nia) and in the Permian Lower Nia and Ene (Ene and Noipatsite sands). The widely distributed Cretaceous sandstones have the best petrophysical quality and the Permian sandstones distribution is dependent upon erosional inliers. The Green Sandstone is widespread throughout a large part of the basin and in La Colpa well, it has good SP deflection, a blocky and clean GR, with 19% porosity in 38m pay. Other reservoir targets include deltaic sandstones of Ambo, the intratidal carbonates of the Pucara Group and Karsted Copacabana carbonates. In the Ene Basin, the main reservoir is the Cushabatay and potential reservoirs are within Agua Caliente and Ene sandstones. Regional seals are within the Lower Tertiary, Cretaceous Cachiyacu, Huchpayacu, Chonta and Raya Formations, in the sabkha evaporites and in the Permian Shinai Mudstone. 8. PROSPECTS/LEADS Although the study was intended to investigate new play concepts, two structural prospects and two stratigraphic (new concepts) leads were defined. The Perupetro “Catalogo de Prospectos No Perforados” documents other structures. 8.1 Structural Prospects • Rashaya Norte (Figure 22) PARSEP interprets the structure as a Paleozoic horst block where Cretaceous overlies Cabanillas on the crest. It is a much larger than Rashaya Sur where a well had gas shows, fluorescence in Raya, Cushabatay and Pumayacu and a DST in upper Raya tested SW and 40.6o API oil. E BASE CRETACEOUS 2WT STRUCTURE MAP C.I. 50 ms RASHAYA NORTE PROSPECT Rashaya Sur 1X COMPOSITE SEISMIC LINE z concepts developed for the Pucara in the Shanusi 1X well that found gas/ condensate from W S RASHAYA NORTE N RASHAYA PROSPECT the Pucara on a SUR 1X paleo-horst block believed to have influenced deposition during Pucara Pozo time. Gas TD Chonta charged Cabanillas SW Agua Caliente porous, Base Cretaceous A highCopacabana energy Basement Cabanillas Contaya Figure 22: Rashaya Sur (with 1X well) and Rashaya Norte Structures. A) TWT Base Cretaceous. B) Composite seismic line. • Rio Caco Sur (Figures 23 and 24) The Rio Caco Sur Prospect is a four-way dip closure located along the Runuya/Rio Caco/Tamaya anticline, south of the Rio Caco well. Potential exists within the Cretaceous, and Paleozoic (including Ene). Shows have been encountered in three surrounding wells in the Raya, Cushabatay and Paleozoic. RIO CACO Figure 24 Figure 23: TWT Base of Cretaceous Map, the Runuya/Rio Caco/ Tamaya anticline shows Rio Caco Sur Prospect. • 8.2 Stratigraphic LeadsCushabatay South Pucara Lead (CSPL, Figure 25) The CSPL lead is defined south of the Cushabatay Mountains based on the south and gradually thinning to the north, pinching out to provide closure to channel sands in a major stratigraphic trap. Any hydrocarbons that were present in the area would have leaked into the Channel and migrated elsewhere through porous sands, possibly into a stratigraphic trap somewhere within this Cretaceous sand body. There is evidence of high amplitudes within the channel. NE Base Cretaceous Pucara En Copacabana carbonates or even reef deposits in a porous fairway trend within this paleo Pucara high. The CP 7398 01 Base Cretaceous CSPL lead is located within a low between two NW trending Pucara Andean aged high angle reverse Top faults (Figure 25A). The play is Copacabana set up by an erosional high in the B En Paleozoic over which the Pucara was deposited with presumably Figure 25: Seismic line through the CSPL high-energy carbonates. It is best lead. High-energy Pucara carbonates demonstrated on the Pucara flattening in deposited over a Copacabana erosional high. Figure 25B where the erosional high A) Time section. B) Flattened on Pucara. coincides with the subcrop edges of the 9. CONCLUSIONS Copacabana. The reflectors paralleling the The regional evaluation of the Ucayali/ Pucara within the Paleozoic section may Ene Basin developed a regional represent a karstified zone. Seals would stratigraphic and tectonic framework to be be the tighter, basin carbonates of the used as a building block for future studies. Pucara to the east and the evaporites that The work completed a standardized separate the Pucara from the Sarayaquillo. seismic and well database digital set consisting of tied SEGY data of a large SW NE portion of available seismic, log LAS files Pozo (Equiv.) and Access with wildcats’ data. The Ucayali Basin is one of several Ene Base Cretaceous under-explored Sub Andean Basins with Copacabana mixed exploration success. It is a polyBasement history basin, with elements of both W75-91 extensional and compressional tectonics, with older, major Paleozoic normal faults Figure 24: Seismic line across the Rio Caco being rejuvenated as reverse faults that Prospect. have controlled much of the structuring • Cretaceous Channel Play and hence the trapping mechanisms. A large Cretaceous channel is interpreted The western boundary of the basin is cutting and filling into the Paleozoic dominated by a thin-skinned FTB along tectonic depression. It is most likely part almost its entirety, interrupted by the of a deltaic system, sourced from the Shira Mountains south of which the giant north, depositing into a depocenter to the Camisea fields were discovered. The FTB comprises the most attractive exploration area particularly, the Camisea and the Oxapampa wells area where a significant gas column in one well was discovered. Figure 27 Figure 26: Cretaceous channel Isochron, Ucayali South. W Figure 27: Seismic over a Channel play. The principal reservoirs are in the Cretaceous and the Permian Lower Nia and others in the Late Carboniferous Green Sandstone and the shoreface and fluvial sandstones of the Late Permian Ene have been targeted. The latter is a major contributor to the reserves of the Camisea fields. The basin has multiple, mature source rocks and there has been large quantities of oil migrating through the system as evidenced by the numerous shows in most wells. Stratigraphic traps as the two 1 documented should have an excellent chance of receiving a significant hydrocarbon charge. In the foreland, there are still a large number of undrilled structural closures of which two are documented. AUTHORS GARY WINE ([email protected]) Senior Petroleum Geologist and leader of the Peru Energy Regulatory Assistance Project PARSEP/Perupetro established to re-evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of the Peruvian Sub-Andean and some Offshore Basins and to assist in promotion of exploration areas to industry. Mr. Wine worked as a consultant for American and International projects. From 1978 to 1996 he worked as exploration geologist for Norcen in the USA, Canada, SE Asia and South America. He graduated from the British Columbia University, Canada and he is a registered petroleum geologist in Alberta. E ELMER MARTINEZ GONZALES ([email protected]) Senior Geologist with 23 years of experience in Seismic Interpretation and acquisition. Current work for Perupetro S.A. since (1999), as a Senior Geophysicist and coordinator of Parsep-Project, working in Peruvian Hydrocarbon Basin Evaluations. Previous work for Sismica S.A (Peru and Israel) in data acquisition and for Petroperu S.A. as a Senior Geophysicist –Seismic Interpreter in the Exploration Department. Graduated from the Geology School, Universidad de San Marcos, Peru and Norwegian Technologist University (NTH) –Trondheim-Norway (Diploma course, one year). JUSTO FERNANDEZ C. ([email protected] and [email protected]) Senior Petroleum Geologist with 34 years of experience. Since 2001 in the PARSEPPerupetro Group, a Canadian-Peruvian joint project involved in Peruvian Basin Evaluations for Hydrocarbons. Geological experience includes basin evaluations and selection of new ventures in Peru and Guatemala, exploratory drilling in Peruvian, Colombian and Guatemala/Mexico basins and in Field Development and Production in Peruvian basins. Worked for PanEnergy (Duke Energy), Hispanoil (currently Repsol), Petroleos del Peru (founder), Phillips Petroleum Co, IPC Peruvian Exxon subsidiary, and others. Graduated from San Marcos University, Peru in 1965 and Master’s Degree in Geology from Indiana University, USA, in 1968. YSABEL CALDERON ([email protected]) has worked for Perupetro since November 1999 as a Geologist in the Peru Energy Regulatory Assistance Project (PARSEP) a joint Hydrocarbon Basin Evaluation Project between the Canadian and Peruvian Governments. She worked for Geosurvey S.A. in geodesic and environmental studies and in Occidental in 1997-1998 as a junior geologist. Ms Calderon graduated with a Geology degree from San Marcos University, Peru in 1998. She has been a member of the Peruvian Geological Society since 1999. GALDOS, CARLOS ([email protected]). Geophysicist. From November 1999 to date, works for PERUPETRO S.A. PARSEP team in Evaluations for Hydrocarbons of Onshore and Offshore Peruvian Basins. In 1999 worked for Occidental Peruana Inc. Sucursal Del Peru, participated in the OXY Data Room, digitized well logs and revised well cores in Block 1AB of the Marañon Basin, and worked in offshore Block Z3 Project. Skills with Unix Geoframe IESX and Windows WINPics- platforms for Seismic Interpretation, loading, quality control and Data Base building of SEG-Y and ACSII digital data; and preparing Montages for Final Reports and Presentations. Graduated from San Agustin University, Peru in 1998. Ucayali/Ene Basin Technical Report available at Perupetro S.A. consists of Text with 96 pages and Illustrations in 4 Volumes.