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carbonate reservoir

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carbonate reservoir [′kär·bə·nət ′rez·əv‚wär]
(geology)
An underground oil or gas trap formed in reefs, clastic limestones, chemical limestones, or dolomite.


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Total heavy oil in place assessed by Chapman on the company's lands for the two most significant potential carbonate reservoir zones in the area, the Elkton and Lower Debolt formations, amounted to 206 million barrels of petroleum initially in place.
Covering more than 6,000 sq km - almost half the surface area of Qatar - the field is a carbonate reservoir with thickness of 1,500 ft, although this varies considerably through the reservoirs.
We will enhance heavy oil production through the use of carbonated water, and it will be the world's first thermally assisted GOGD facility of this size in a fractured carbonate reservoir," says Al-Siyabi.
 
 
 
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