Qantara Oil Company Interview

1- Permeability and porosity. (Define)

(ANSWERED BEFORE)

2- Reverse and Thrust Fault (Differences)

3-Dolomite, Anhydrite, Limestone (How to

differentiate)

4-What is the major structure which separate

between Tertiary and Pre-tertiary in NileDelta?

Syrian Arc system that formed in Cretaceous Age that

have trend from NE to SW direction.

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5-What is Nile Delta stratigraphic Colum?

(ANSWERED BEFORE)

6-What is the difference between Porosity and

Effective Porosity?

Porosity Effective Porosity

It is the percentage of pore volume or
void space to the total volume of rock.
It is the ability of the rock to hold the
fluid.
The percentage of pore volume or void
space, or that volume within rock that can
contain fluids. Porosity can be a relic of
deposition (primary porosity, such as
space between grains that were not
compacted together completely) or can
develop through alteration of the rock
(secondary porosity, such as when
feldspar grains or fossils are
preferentially dissolved from sandstones).
Porosity can be generated by the
development
of fractures, in which case it is called
fracture
porosity
The interconnected pore volume or void
space in a rock that contributes to fluid
flow or permeability in a reservoir
The interconnected pore volume or void
space in a rock that contributes to fluid
flow or permeability in a reservoir.
Effective porosity excludes isolated pores
and pore volume occupied by water
adsorbed on clay minerals or other grains.
Total porosity is the total void space in
the rock whether or not it contributes to
fluid flow. Effective porosity is typically
less than total porosity.
Shale gas reservoirs tend to have
relatively high porosity, but the alignment
of platy grains such as clays makes their
permeability very low.

7-What do you know about miscellaneous

reservoirs and what is the most famous
example in Gulf of Suez?

It is reservoir formed from fragment igneous rocks that

found mainly in GOS province in SUCO Company in Zeit
Bay Field.

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8-What do you know about SP& GR tools?

• Spontaneous Potential:
This tool measures the potential difference naturally
occurring when mud filtrate of certain salinity invades the
formation containing water of a different salinity. It may
be used to estimate the extent of invasion and in some
cases the formation water salinity.
A log of the natural difference in electrical potential, in
millivolts, between an electrode in the borehole and a
fixed reference electrode on the surface. The most useful
component of this difference is the electrochemical
potential since it can cause a significant deflection
opposite permeable beds. The magnitude of the deflection
depends mainly on the salinity contrast between drilling
mud and formation%20water">formation water, and the
clay content of the permeable bed. The spontaneous
potential (SP) log is therefore used to detect permeable
beds and to estimate formation water salinity and
formation clay content. The SP log cannot be recorded in
nonconductive mud. The SP can be affected by several
factors that make interpretation difficult. First, there are
other possible sources of electrical potential not related to
the electrochemical effect, for example, the electrokinetic
potential and bimetallism. Many of these are small and
constant throughout the log, and can be lumped together
in the shale baseline. Second, the SP can measure only
the potential drop in the borehole, and not the full
electrochemical potential. The ideal SP opposite a clean
bed is known as the static spontaneous potential (SSP),
and opposite a shaly bed as the pseudostatic spontaneous
potential (PSP). The SP is always less than the SSP or the
PSP and more rounded at the boundaries between shales
and permeable beds.

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• Gamma Ray Log:
A log of the total natural radioactivity, measured in API
units. The measurement can be made in both open hole
and through casing. The depth of investigation is a few
inches, so that the log normally measures the flushed
zone.
Shales and clays are responsible for most natural
radioactivity, so the gamma ray log often is a good
indicator of such rocks. However, other rocks are also
radioactive, notably some carbonates and feldspar-rich
rocks. The log is also used for correlation between wells,
for depth correlation between open and cased hole, and
for depth correlation between logging runs.

9- Talk about yourself and what did you do from

the morning after the exam till now?

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