IJOG : Indonesian Journal on Geoscience
Vol 7, No 3 (2012)

Remote Sensing Analysis of Recent Carbonate Platforms, East of Sabah: Potential Analogues for Miocene Carbonate Platforms of the South China Sea

Chalabi, Aicha ( Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Department Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)
Pierson, B. ( Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Department Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)
Talib, Jasmi Ab ( Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Department Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2014

Abstract

DOI: 10.17014/ijog.v7i3.141Recent carbonate platforms may provide useful analogues for fossil platforms and reefs, and could allow the generation of quantitative tools for the prediction of facies distribution, reservoir volumes, and reservoir quality. Data from these modern analogues would greatly enhance our ability to construct more reliable and calibrated reservoir models for carbonate fossil fields, such as the Miocene carbonate platforms of Central Luconia Province, Sarawak. In this study, carbonate facies maps and quantitative reservoir data will be generated by using remote sensing techniques. Satellite imageries over the carbonate platforms east of Sabah have been acquired and processed for generating facies maps. In order to produce a reliable facies map, the composition and grain size distribution of the sediments that make up individual facies must be known in order to determine the classes that have been identified on the initial facies maps. Samples collected from the Gaya and Selekan platforms were analyzed and the results of grain size analysis are illustrated.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJOG

Publisher

Subject

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Description

The spirit to improve the journal to be more credible is increasing, and in 2012 it invited earth scientists in East and Southeast Asia as well as some western countries to join the journal for the editor positions in the Indonesia Journal of Geology. This is also to realize our present goal to ...