BrasilBrasil RoundRound 99 ParnaíbaParnaíba BasinBasin

Eliane Petersohn , M.Sc Geologist ANP Bid Areas Department LocationLocation

Total Area = 668,858 km 2

Paleozoic Intracratonic basin Sedimentary infill – Tertiary cover InfrastructureInfrastructure

 The Parnaíba Basin is located in an attractive geopolitical context near the following state capitals : Belém, São Luís, Teresina and Palmas  It is located near the largest brazilian mineral complex (Carajás) and the railroad that connects this complex to the coast  Near important ports such as Parna íba and São Lu ís InfrastructureInfrastructure ofof thethe brazilianbrazilian northeasternnortheastern regionregion

offered area BR-222-CEBR-222-CE –– Pecém Pecém PortPort AcessAcess NovaNova TransnordestinaTransnordestina Itaqui Port Itaqui Port RailroadRailroad

BR 101 BR-135BR-135 -- MA MA –– Itaqui Itaqui PortPort AcessAcess BR 101 NordesteNordeste

BR-135-PI-BA-MGBR-135-PI-BA-MG SuapeSuape Port Port AcessAcess

Total investment : R$ 7.3 bilhões 2007 - 2010 CharacteristicsCharacteristics ofof BrazilianBrazilian northeasternnortheastern regionregion

 It has a territorial area of 1.5 million km²; population of 51 million inhabitants (28% of brazilian population ) and GNP of USD 93.6 billions (2004)  Climate : tropical, tropical half -barren and wet equatorial  There are three raining periods very well defined: February to May in northern region; October to March in the southern portion and from April to August in east of northeaster n region ( Zona da Mata and Agreste )  Besides the infrastructure , the Northeastern has supporting programs to the productives activities and fiscal enducements with high capacity work force for training ExplorationExploration HistoryHistory

The interest in Parnaíba Basin began in 1909 by geologic activities directioned to mineral water and coal prospection

In the 50’s the National Petroleum Council performed Phase 1 surface mapping and drilled 2 wells in Maranhão State

Creation of Petrobras Phase 2 27 exploration wells were drilled; Gravimetric and 1953 - 1966 seismic surveys and geologic surface mapping was done

Phase 3 Seismic refletion; Risk Contracts; 5 wells were drilled 1975 - 1988

Phase 4 Reprocessing of seismic data and surface geochemistry 1988 - 1993 survey ExplorationExploration HistoryHistory

34 wells

22 wildcats 12 stratigraphic wells 7 special wells

13,194 km 2D seismic

163,690 km ² of magnetometry data Seismic 2D post -stack 116,360 km ² of gravimetry Seismic 2D pre -stack data AerogeophysicAerogeophysic surveysurvey ANP/2006ANP/2006 Bacia do Parnaíba

Grav /Mag Area : 748,612,4 km² (183,877.03 linear km)

Gama/ Mag Area : 240,000 km² (544,446 linear km) ParnaíbaParnaíba BasinBasin BouguerBouguer MapMap mGal

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Parnaiba Basin Stratigraphic chart The stratigraphic framework of the Parna íba Basin is comprised by four depositional sequences

Urucuia , Areado, Itapecuru , Codó , CRETACEOUS Grajaú and Sardinha formations

Corda, Pastos Bons and Mosquito formations

TRIASSIC Sambaíba , Motuca , Pedra de Fogo and Piauí formations

DEVONIAN Poti , Longá , Cabeças, Pimenteiras and Itaim formations

SILURIAN Jaicós , Tianguá and Ipu formations

ORDOVICIAN Mirador Formation LATE PROTEROZOIC Riachão Formation SurfaceSurface GeologicGeologic MapMap

PROTEROZOIC (Basement )

SILURIAN (Serra Grande Group )

DEVONIAN (Canindé Group )

PERMIAN (Balsas Group )

JURASSIC (Mearim Group )

CRETACEOUS (Itapecuru Formation ) StructuralStructural FrameworkFramework

Geologic section

Source : Milani e Zalan , 1998 SchematicSchematic GeologicGeologic CrossCross --SectionSection

Parnaíba Basin Schematic Geologic Cross -Section

Permian Devonian

Silurian

Proterozoic PetroleumPetroleum SystemSystem SourceSource rocksrocks

Poti Formation DEVONIAN (FAMENNIAN) Longá Formation secondary source rocks Cabeças Formation (Longá Formation ) Pimenteiras Formation DEVONIAN SOURCE ROCKS

DEVONIAN Itaim Formation

DEVONIAN Itaim Formation (Pimenteiras Formation ) It is the main source rock radioactive shale TOC ranges between 2,0 and 2,5%, with 6% peaks Jaicos Formation kerogen are type II and III

Tianguá Formation SILURIAN Ipu Formation secondary source rocks SILURIAN SILURIAN (Tinguá Formation ) schematic stratigraphic chart SourceSource rocksrocks

Well 9 – PAF – 7 – MA drilled in 1964

Raios gama Lito- Folhelhos COT (%) R0 (%) Fm 40API 300 logia radioativos 4 3 2 1 0,5 0,4 0,6 0,8

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Isolith map of the radioactive shale “C” TOC Distribution map of the radioactive shale “C” Source : Rodriguês , 1995 ReservoirsReservoirs

DEVONIAN RESERVOIR

Poti Formation (Cabeças Formation ) Longá Formation main reservoir Cabeças Formation

Pimenteiras Formation sands with excellent permo - porous characteristics ;

DEVONIAN Itaim Formation DEVONIAN Itaim Formation thickness of up to 300 m and direct contact with the main source rock

SECONDARY DEVONIAN RESERVOIR Jaicos Formation (Itaim Formation )

Tianguá Formation

Ipu Formation SILURIAN RESERVOIR SILURIAN SILURIAN RESERVOIR SILURIAN (Ipu Formation ) schematic stratigraphic chart ReservoirsReservoirs

contour Interval = 3 meters contour Interval = 50 meters contourcontour Interval Interval= 3 meters= 3 meters

Isopach map Porosity distribuition map Devonian Reservoir (Cabeças Formation ) Devonian Reservoir (Cabeças Formation ) TrapsTraps

The northern domain is characterized by regional arches and abundant normal fault attributed to the tectonic processes that northern domain resulted in the Equatorial Atlantic opening

In the central domain occurs structures central domain related to the igneous intrusions

southern domain In the southern domain occurs structures related to the strike slip tectonics

Source: Milani and Zalán, 1998 SealsSeals

Poti Formation seal for the main reservoir DEVONIAN Longá Formation (Cabe ças Formation ) Cabeças Formation

Pimenteiras Formation seal for secondary reservoir

DEVONIAN Itaim Formation DEVONIAN Itaim Formation DEVONIAN (Itaim Formation )

Jaicos Formation

Tianguá Formation seal for secondary reservoir SILURIAN Ipu Formation (Ipu Formation ) SILURIAN SILURIAN

schematic stratigraphic chart MaturationMaturation Thermal effect of basic igneous rocks intruded in source rocks had contributed to the maturation of organic matter

thickness in meters

Thermal influence of igneous intrusions in Isolith map of the igneous rocks (basalt + diabase ) Devonian rocks Thermal evolution map of radioactive shale

Favorable area for gas generation Favorable area for oil generation EventsEvents chartchart MainMain petroleumpetroleum occurrencesoccurrences

Surface geochemical anomalies (C2+) Hydrocarbon occurrences in DST’s Gas Oil Wells with shows in cuttings Wells without shows

GAS SEEPS

(Source : Milani and Zalán , 1998) OfferedOffered AreaArea OfferedOffered AreaArea

Total bid area 30,664 km ²

10 blocks ~ 3,000 km ²

Drilled wells :  2 CP 0001 MA (1987) 3,423 meters – Basement

 2 BAC 0001 MA (1988) (3,252 meters – Basement )

 1 PD 0001 MA (1960) (2,843 meters – Silurian ) Main attraction for the area : Capinzal Well – 2 CP 0001 MA

 it is located in the depocentre of the basin , where the thickness of the sedimentary column is in excess of 3,000 m, favoring the hydrocarbon generation  the main source rock ( Devonian – Pimenteiras Formation ) has thickness in the order of 400 meters  total organic carbon is around 2.0%  the main reservoir (Cabe ças Formation ) reaches thicknesses of up to 250 m  intrusions affecting the main source rocks acted as a catalyst for the hydrocarbons generation in the basin  the termogenic gas recovered at surface proves that the basin has an active petroleum system Seismic section showing the Capinzal Well

059-RL-048 LEGENDA

2-CP-1-MA

Cretaceous Anidrite (Motuca Formation) Anidrite (Pedra de Fogo Formation) Cabeças Formation top Pimenteiras Formation base Diabase sills Source: PETROBRAS CapinzalCapinzal wellwell compositecomposite loglog 0 GR 400 1500(m )

1600 Cabeças Formation 1700 Possible gas 1800 occurrence 1900

Pimenteiras Formation 2000

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2300 Gas occurrence

2400 Itaim Formation 2500 Gas occurrence Jaicós Formation 2600 Source: PETROBRAS 2700 2,472.2 – 2,490.0 m Itaim Formation

Pimenteiras Formation

Itaim Formation

2nd flare of gas up to 4 meters GasGas occurrenceoccurrence wellwell :: 22 CPCP –– 00010001 –– MAMA

0GR 300 135DT 35 6 CAL 16 0,2 Rild 2000 2 RHOB 3 BS 8 ½” 0,2 SFLU 2000 45 NPHI -15 2200 Pimenteiras Formation

TF-2

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DST-1 and DST-2 nd Source: PETROBRAS 2 flare of gas 1 to 2 meters DataData packagepackage

wells : 5 Seismic : 566 km 2D post stack EXPLORATORYEXPLORATORY INFORMATIONINFORMATION

SECTOR S - PN - NORTE

Exploratory Class New Frontier Number of blocks 10 Area of block 30,664 km ² Total Bid Area ~ 3,000 km ² Exploration Phase 6 years Exploratory Period 4 + 2 years Operator Technical Qualification C Minimum Bonus R$ 20,000.00 to R$ 32,000.00 Minimum Target Cabe ças Formation (Devonian ) SpeculativeSpeculative resourcesresources

66,874.466,874.4 kmkm 2

Based on a structure with :  area = 50 km 2  netpay = 10 m

Appraised volume 20 BCM of gas

Possibility of 10 structures within the area boundary Favorable area for gas generation Favorable area for oil generation 200 BCM of gas ConclusionsConclusions

 New Frontier Basin still less explored , but atractive when compared with other similar basins world - wide  Basin situated in an area with great need for gas . To supply this resource from other places could be otherwise to much expensive  Sediments with adequate quality and quantity of source rock to commercial petroleum generation  Favorable conditions for generation , migration , reservoirs , trapping and seal Eliane Petersohn epetersohn @anp. gov .br www. brasil -rounds .gov .br /english