Joint reports
Pliocene "Red Series" Reservoir Characterization and Organic Geochemistry of Hydrocarbons and Source Rocks, Western Turkmenistan Onshore and Offshore Shelf
- The executive companies: GIA / Turkmenistan Polytechnical Institute (TPI) / Energy and Geosceince Institute (EGI)
- The year of publication: February 1996
- Code: # 5-20982-2-98
- Volumes: total 4
volumes with appendixes in same amount: 7

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report presents the results of a study carried out as a colloborative effort by the Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah (EGI), the Balkan Research Petroleum Institute (BalkanNIPINeft) in Nebit-Dag, Turkmenistan and the Geology Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Siences (GIA) in Baku, Azerbaijan. The involvement of BalkanNIPINeft took place under the auspices of the Turkmenistan Polytechnical Institute (TPI) in Nebit-Dag.
The study which commenced on February 1, 1997, was performed by scientists from EGI, BalkanNIPINeft and GIA, using data supplied by BalkanNIPINeft and GIA. Most of the work wsa done in EGIs offices in Salt Lake City. The database which is specified in detailed in individual chapters of the report, consists essentially of core samples, wireline logs, oil samples and seismic lines from both offshore and onshore areas of Turkmenistan (Enclosure 1.1).
The report comprises four volumes. The first covers the regional structure and stratigraphy of western Turkmenistan, and includes a sequence-stratigraphic study of the Red Series. Volume II examines the nature of the reservoirs in the Red Series, based mainly on petrographic observations, and identifies the factors controlling variations in small-scale reservoir quality. Volume III characterizes the pertoleum charge system using both conventional geochemical and thermal-modeling techniques and also a novel statistical method of analyzing oils data. Volume IV presents displays summarizing field geology; information on poduction tests; pressure decline and formation water composition; and core analysis data, including results of mercury capillary pressure analysis, for individual field. In addition this volume contains thin-section photomicrographs for fields from which core samples were available.
CONTENTS
VOLUME I. Regional Structure and Stratigraphy
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendices
List of Enclosures
Chapter 1. Introduction and Databases
Chapter 2. Tectonics of southwestern Turkmenistan
Chapter 3. Regional tectonic setting and structural style
Chapter 4. Stratigraphy of southwest Turkmenistan
Chapter 5. Regional sequence stratigraphy of the Red Series in the Southern Caspian Basin
Chapter 6. Habitat of oil and gas
Figures
Tables
Appendices
Enclosures
VOLUME II. Reservoir Distribution and Quality
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
List of Appendices
Chapter 1. Factors controlling small-scale reservoir quality
Chapter 2. Turkmenistan core samples - mineralogy
Chapter 3. A note on large-scale reservoir quality
Figures
Tables
Plates
Appendices
VOLUME III. Properties and Origin of Oils and Gases
Executive summary
Geochemical summary
Table of contents
List of figures (Appendix 3.1)
List of tables (Appendix 3.2)
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Methods Of Investigation
3.0 Results
4.0 Burial History and Maturity Modeling
5.0 Interpretation
References
VOLUME IV. Oil and Gas Field Data (Text and Enclosures 1.1 - 5.1)
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
List of Appendices
Chapter 1. Cheleken
Chapter 2. Komsomol
Chapter 3. Koturdepe
Chapter 4. Barsa-Gelmes
Chapter 5. Burun
Chapter 6. Nebit-Dag
Chapter 7. Kum-Dag
Chapter 8. Karadepe
Chapter 9. Kyzyl-Kum
Chapter 10. Guydzhik
Chapter 11. Erdekli
Chapter 12. W.Erdekli
Chapter 13. Gograndag
Chapter 14. Ekiz-ak
Chapter 15. Bugdaily
Chapter 16. South Bugdaily - Korpedzhe - East Kamyshldzha
Chapter 17. Kamyshldzha
Chapter 18. South Kamyshldzha
Chapter 19. Okarem
Chapter 20. Keymir
Chapter 21. Ak-Patlaukh
Chapter 22. Chekisler
Chapter 23. Fersman and a general note on the Offshore fields
Chapter 24. Ogurchinskaya
Chapter 25. Zhdanov
Chapter 26. LAM
Chapter 27. Livanov
Enclosures