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Fifteenth Annual Convention. October 1986
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MIOCENE CARBONATE SHELF MARGIN, BALI-FLORES SEA, INDONESIA
ABSTRACT:
The Central Lombok Block (CLB) is located in the Bali-
Flores Sea about 90 kilometers north of Lombok and Sum-
bawa Islands which are part of the Indonesian volcanic
arc east of Java. It lies in a back arc setting and has water
depths ranging from 300 to 600 meters. A series of shallow
water carbonate banks rim the eastern boundary of the
CLB.
Recent drilling within the CLB supports Hamilton's
(1979) conclusion that this area is underlain by Cretaceous
melange and/or oceanic crust. After early Tertiary block
faulting and nonmarine basin-filling sedimentation, the area
underwent rapid subsidence. During most of the upper
Paleogene and Neogene, the CLB was the site of deep wa-
ter sedimentation except along its eastern and northern
margins where 'the shallow water carbonate banks were
progressively drowned.
A local reversal of this trend occurred during the Mio-
cene dogg ,&northern part of the CLB where a "text-
book" example of a shelf margin carbonate complex is
well displayed on seismic. The carbonate complex pro-
graded approximately 9 kilometers over deep water basinal
deposits during the Miocene and possibly early Pliocene.
This was followed by rapid subsidence causing "drowning"
of this northern shelf margin after which the depositional
slope was onlapped and covered by deep water Plio-Pleisto-
cene mudstone.
INTRODUCTION
In 1982, AMOCO (Indonesia) Lombok Petroleum Com-
pany was awarded a Production Sharing Contract for the
26,640 square kilometer Central Lombok Block (Figures
1 and 2), located in the western Flores Sea, Indonesia. This
block lies just east of the 200 meter bathymetric contour
which forms the approximate eastern boundary of the Java
Sea. For the most part, the water depth in the block is
between 300 and 600 meters. It lies in a back-arc position
about 90 kilometers north of Lombok and Sumbawa
Islands, which are part of the Indonesian Volcanic arc.
A series of shallow water carbonate banks with small islands
rim the Central Lombok Block along its eastern boundary.
A good seismic example of a Miocene prograding car-
bonate shelf margin within the Block is the subject of this
paper. Interpretation of this undrilled shelf margin complex
is based on stratigraphic analysis of the seismic data as well
as the regional geologic relationships summarized below.
* Amoco Production Company, Houston, Texas
W.W. Tyrrel*
R.G. Davis*
H.G. McDoweU*
GEOLOGIC BACKGROUND
Well control in and near the Central Lombok Block is
shown on Figure 3. During the early 1970's, AMOSEAS
drilled four exploratory wells on shallow-water carbonate
banks northeast, east and southeast of the block. Three of
these wells 'penetrated Tertiary shallow-water platform
carbonates and thin basal clastics overlying the Pre-Ter-
tiary igneous-metamorphic basement complex (PERTA-
MINA, 1982). The southernmost well (Paternoster-1) also
penetrated Pleistocene to Eocene shallow-water carbonates
but these strata overlie thick non-marine clastics and vol-
canic~of probable Eocene and Paleocene age.
During the late 1970's Cities Service drilled a series of
Java wells. Five of these were located east of Kangean
Island and near the west boundary of the Central Lombok
Block. For the most part, these wells found Lower Mioc-
cene, Oligocene and Upper Eocene deep-water strata over-
lying Eocene shallow-water carbonate and basal clastics
above Cretaceous(?) basement complex. The JS-53A-1 well
tested 1522 BOPD from the Eocene carbonate section.
More recently, ARCO and AGIP drilled several other
wells in the Kangean Island area. The ARCO Pagerungan
gas-condensate discovery located east of Kangean Island
and southeast of the JS-53A-1 well may prove to be'the
first commercial field in this area.
AMOCO conducted a reconnaissance seismic survey in
1981 and more detailed seismic surveys in 1982, 1983,
and 1984, and drilled four wells in the southeastern part of
the Central Lombok Block. One of these wells tested oil
but was non-commercial in this deep-water setting.
The regional plate tectonic setting of Indonesia has been
summarized by Hamilton (1979) and numerous other
workers. PERTAMINA (1982) analyzed the regional petro-
leum geology in eastern Indonesia.
Barber (1985) has discussed the relationship between
the tectonic evolution of Indonesia and hydrocarbon occur-
rence. Kohar (1985) outlined structural trends in-the Kan-
gean Island area and discussed the seismic stratigraphy of
the Eocene carbonate section in the JS-25-1 well.
Major tectonic events i the Central Lombok Block area
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summarized on Figure 4. A retion onto the east marginof
the Sunda craton during the Cretaceous resulted in forma-
tion of a "basement comple~" which includes possible
melange overlying transitional to\oceanic (?) crust.
During the Late Cretaceous \?) and Early Paleocene,
back-arc rifting and possible wrenqh faulting created half-
grabens which were filled with Eqrly Paleogene, mostly