MICROSTRAT
Middle East biostratigraphy....
For over 25 years, MicroStrat has been engaged in the biostratigraphic evaluation of Middle East, carbonate-dominant sequences ranging in age from Late Permian to Pliocene and has recently worked with BP on a detailed reservoir field evaluation of the mid-Cretaceous, Mishrif Formation. Over this time specialist expertise has been acquired in the following areas:
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Permo-Triassic, southern Arabia: based on regional evaluation of wells in Oman, U.A.E., Qatar and Abu Dhabi with detailed analysis of the Khuff - Sudair formations: also single well analyses offshore Yemen.
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Jurassic - Cretaceous , southern Arabia: numerous wells have been analysed offshore Abu Dhabi, U.A.E, Oman and Yemen, and review of onshore wells Yemen (Block 9).
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Cretaceous, northern Arabia: onshore wells have been analysed in Kuwait and Iraq involving the detailed biostratigraphic analysis of the Yamama, Mishrif /Rumaila and Hartha formations. Field evaluation of the Mishrif reservoir involved the analysis of over thirty wells leading to the erection of a high resolution biozonation/biofacies scheme which became fully integrated into the field's chrono/sequence stratigraphic and depositional models.
Working in these regions has involved both conventional and thin-section identification of smaller and larger foraminifera, ostracods, calpionellids and calcareous algae.
Rudist reef - Hippurites, Santonian, Abu Dhabi
Thin-section of Cisalveolina fallax, foraminifera - Cenomanian, Mishrif Formation.