The tectonic evolution of the Bredasdorp Basin and its implications for oil and gas formation
| dc.contributor.author | Tau, Rethabile | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Enslin, Stephanie | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Manzi, Musa | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Saffou, Eric | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-26T15:16:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-26T15:16:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-10 | |
| dc.description | A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, to the Faculty of Science, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Bredasdorp Basin is an offshore rift basin located in the southernmost tip of Africa, within the larger Outeniqua Basin. Previous studies have indicated the presence of hydrocarbons, as well as structures or evidence that allude to the presence of hydrocarbons, where the basin has not yet been extensively drilled or explored. In this study, seismic attributes applied to high resolution pre-stack time migrated 3D seismic data are analyzed, in conjunction with well logs, specifically the gamma ray logs. By employing these methods, the study aims to delineate the presence of hydrocarbons and their migration, as well as deduce the evolution of the basin based on the structures observed. Using artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the lithologies and analyzing the patterns in the gamma ray logs, the stratigraphic results show that the basin begins with a marine dominated environment from the Valanginian age to Aptian age. From the Aptian to Albian age, there are consistent changes in sea level and sedimentation, caused by thermal sag and uplift. Past the Albian age to present age, the deposition environment is dominated by sandstones and coarse sediments. This is due to the evolving basin moving from a distal to a proximal environment of deposition. Using seismic attributes such as envelope attribute, edge detection and variance attribute, structures such as paleo pockmarks and fluid escape structures are identified. These identified paleo pockmarks have diameters ranging from 400m to 900m. In addition to these structures, erosive features were observed which could be classified as submarine channels or slump structures, with the dominating channel having depths of up to 1585 m. Using variance and ant-tracking, the fault structures observed of the study areas revealed two dominating phases of rifting. The first phase has horsts and grabens bounded by normal faults trending E-W, with implications that the rifting propagated N-S in this phase of rifting. This phase of rifting ends during the Aptian age. The next phase of rifting begins during the Santonian age, with the fault bound horsts and grabens trending N-S, which indicate an E-W rifting direction. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Research Foundation (NRF). | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Centre of Excellence of Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA). | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Wits Seismic Research Centre. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Schlumberger PETREL. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | DUG Insight. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | PetroSA - Bredasdorp Basin seismic data. | |
| dc.description.submitter | MMM2024 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Science | |
| dc.identifier | 0000-0001-8673-0888 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tau, Rethabile. (2023). The tectonic evolution of the Bredasdorp Basin and its implications for oil and gas formation. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/42915 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/42915 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | ©2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Geosciences | |
| dc.subject | Oil and gas | |
| dc.subject | Hydrocarbons | |
| dc.subject | Bredasdorp Basin Sedimentary | |
| dc.subject | Basin seismic interpretation | |
| dc.subject | Volumetric attributes | |
| dc.subject | Rift basins | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-13: Climate action | |
| dc.title | The tectonic evolution of the Bredasdorp Basin and its implications for oil and gas formation | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |