To refine the stratigraphic and depositional model, and to determine the reservoir architecture and heterogeneities.
Evaluation of >120 cored wells at various levels of detail calibrated with wireline logs and integrated with bio/chemostratigraphy and data from 3 partly cored imaged wells.
Definition of three SW/W to NE/E oriented sand-dominated incised valleys cutting into brackish bay deposits.
Upward-fining/muddying composite valley fill is associated with an upward reduction in permeability.
Complex internal make-up, but valley fills typically evolve up from channel-fill to heterolithic channel-fills to rare in-channel sandsheets and abandonment/floodplain deposits.
Successive valley-fills display increased abundance of heterolithic channels and reduction in overall grain size supporting a back step in the overall depositional system.
Permeability anisotropy and complex fluid flow is anticipated within the heterolithic channel-fills and abandonment elements. Also, the intra-valley depositional heterogeneities create risk for unswept reserves.