SOURCE ROCK EVALUATION OF SOME INTERVALS IN THE GULF OF SUEZ AREA, EGYPT

SOURCE ROCK EVALUATION OF SOME INTERVALS
IN THE GULF OF SUEZ AREA, EGYPT
ABOU SHAGAR, S.
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
Keywords: Source Rock, Gulf of Suez
ABSTRACT
In order to identify and evaluate the source rocks combination between resistivity,
sonic, density and level of organic metamorphism (LOM) from three wells distributed in
the central and southern part of the Gulf of Suez-Egypt is performed. Two analytical steps
were carried out. The first one is represented by identification of source/non-source
intervals using the method described by Meyer and Nederlof (1984) for calculation of
discriminant score function (D). The second step is represented by calculation of TOC%
using two methods, the first, which based on using the density information and the second
was described through the ΔlogR and the overlay between the resistivity curve from one
hand and sonic, density from the other. Data from three wells were collected and analyzed
using the above-mentioned techniques. The results revealed that the central onshore part is
richer in total organic carbon (TOC%) when compared with the other two localities, where
it is classified as good source rock.